Oliver Bimber

Oliver Bimber (* 1973 in Bad Marienberg ) is a German computer scientist and professor. He is a professor for computer graphics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU ) Linz and directs the Institute for Computer Graphics.

Life

Oliver Bimber received in 1998 his diploma in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen -Friedberg and the same year his B.Sc. degree in Commercial Computing at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. After that, he conducted research as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Rostock and as a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Providence, United States.

Bimber earned his Dr.-Ing. at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2007 and qualified as a professor in the Department of computer science at the Technical University of Munich. Before taking up his post in Linz, he worked as an assistant professor of Augmented Reality at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus- University Weimar and as a visiting professor for computer graphics at the Institute of computer science of the Technical University of Cottbus active.

Work and research priorities

Future displays and cameras will no longer be limited to the pixels of a two-dimensional surface. The close links between areas such as computer graphics, computer vision, image analysis and processing, visualization, visual perception and Applied Optics enable the development of new display and recording techniques used in the context of many interdisciplinary applications effective use. In the study of such techniques, the focus of the scientific work of Oliver Bimber is. The coupling of computer graphics and computer vision today is called " Visual Computing".

Prices

• IENA Gold Medal for " superimposing Dynamic Range " (with D. Iwai, Osaka University, 2008)