Niels Haering
School of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL. 32816
Tel. (407) 497 1094
Email: haering@cs.ucf.edu
Web: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~haering
Birth Date: June 30, 1966
Birth Place: Darmstadt, Germany
Education
1993 - 1999 Ph.D. in Computer Science (defense in summer 1999),
University of Central Florida,
Thesis topic: Semantic Event Detection in Video Data.
1989 - 1993 Joint Honours B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.
Edinburgh University, Scotland,
Thesis topic: Map Building with an Autonomous Robot.
Employment
1998
Designed and implemented a framework for the detection of semantic
events in video data, with Richard Qian and Ibrahim Sezan at
Sharp Labs of America, Camas, WA 98607.
1993
Parallelized a Self-Organizing Map (Kohonen Neural Network), at
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1992
Wrote device drivers handling the communication between
controllers and remote sensors (pressure/flow/voltage/current) for
utility companies, at ProSys GmbH, Mainhausen, Germany.
1985 - 1988 Apprenticeship and work as Electric/Electronic Control technician, at
E. Merck Co. (Pharmaceutical Company, Darmstadt, Germany).
Technical Qualifications
Research
Interests
Image and video processing/understanding, artificial intelligence,
neural networks, computer vision, pattern recognition, parallel
programming, texture and color measures, probability and random
processes, machine learning.
Computer
Languages
C, C++, Matlab, Prolog, Pascal, ML (SML), Lisp (Scheme, Elk)
Natural
Languages
German, English, some Mandarin Chinese and some Arabic
Publications and Patent
Niels Haering, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Richard Qian, and Ibrahim Sezan
"A Framework for the Design of Event Detectors"
Submitted to Asia Conference on Computer Vision, 2000.
Niels Haering, Richard Qian, and Ibrahim Sezan
"A Semantic Event Detection Approach and Its Application to Detecting Hunts in Wildlife
Video"
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology , 1999.
Richard Qian, Niels Haering, and Ibrahim Sezan
"A Computational Approach to Semantic Event Detection"
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1999.
Niels Haering and Niels da Vitoria Lobo
"Features and Classification Methods to Annotate Images with their Deciduous Tree Content"
Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 1999.
Niels Haering, Richard Qian, and Ibrahim Sezan
"Detecting Hunts in Wildlife Videos"
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999.
Niels Haering, Zarina Myles, and Niels da Vitoria Lobo
"Locating Deciduous Trees"
IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries, 1997.
PATENT
Method for Automatic Extraction of Semantic Events from Video
US Patent is being filed
Interests
Rock climbing, paragliding, hiking, mountain biking, windsurfing, volleyball, skiing, kayaking,
diving, snorkeling, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, and travel.
References
Niels da Vitoria Lobo,
University of Central Florida,
School of Computer Science,
Orlando, FL 32816,
Tel. (407) 823 2873,
Email: niels@cs.ucf.edu
Mubarak Shah,
University of Central Florida,
School of Computer Science,
Orlando, FL 32816,
Tel. (407) 823 5077,
Email: shah@cs.ucf.edu
Richard Qian,
Sharp Labs of America,
Camas, WA 98706,
Tel. (360) 817 8494,
Email:
qian@sharplabs.com