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Christoph Lampert
Name: Christoph Lampert
Date of Birth: 23. April 1974
Place of Birth: Konstanz, Germany
Nationality: German
Academic Positions
  • since  04/2010    Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Techology Austria, Klosterneuburg.
  • 02/2007-03/2010 (Senior) Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.
  • 10/2006-12/2006 Research Intern, Google Inc, Mountain View, USA.
  • 02/2004-01/2007 Senior Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  • 10/2001-09/2003 Research Assistant, University of Bonn, Germany.
  • Education
  • 03/2003 Dr. rer. nat. Mathematics, University of Bonn, Germany (summa cum laude)
                    Thesis title: "The Neumann Operator in strictly pseudoconvex domains with a weighted Bergman metric" (in German).
                    Advisor: Prof. Ingo Lieb.
  • 10/2000-09/2001 Research Stay, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Host: Prof. Mats Andersson.
  • 03/2000 Diplom Mathematics, University of Bonn, Germany.
                    Thesis title: "Canonical Solution Operators for δu=f in strictly pseudoconvex domains with weighted
                    Bergman norm" (in German). Advisor: Prof. Ingo Lieb.
  • 06/1993 Abitur, Internatsgymnasium Schloß Plön, Germany.
  • Awards
  • 10/2008 Best Student Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), France,
                    for the paper "Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression" with M. Blaschko.
  • 06/2008 Best Paper Award, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference, USA,
                    for the paper "Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search" with M. Blaschko and T. Hofmann.
  • 06/2008 DAGM Main Prize, German Society for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Germany,
                    for the paper "A multiple kernel learning approach to joint multi-class object detection" with M. Blaschko.
  • Scholarships
  • 2002         Fellowship, Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
  • 2000-2002 PhD scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutsches Volkes.
  • 2001         Foreign exchange scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.
  • Teaching Activities Scientific Events
  • 07/2012 (in prep.) Invited Lecture "Learning with Structured Inputs and Outputs" INRIA CVML Summer School, Grenoble, France
  • 06/2012 (in prep.) Short course "Structured Prediction and Learning" with S. Nowozin, CVPR Conference, Providence, RI, USA.
  • 08/2011 Invited Lecture "iLearning with Structured Inputs and Outputs" INRIA CVML Summer School, Paris, France
  • 07/2011 Invited Lecture "Maximum Margin Learning in Computer Vision", Microsoft Summer School on Computer Vision,                Moscow, Russia.
  • 06/2011 Short course "Structured Prediction and Learning" with S. Nowozin, CVPR Conference, Colorado Springs, USA.
  • 08/2010 Lecture "Kernel Method in Computer Vision", Vision and Sports Summer School, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 07/2010 Lecture "Learning with Structured Inputs and Outputs", Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School,
                    Grenoble, France.
  • 06/2010 Lecture "Learning with Structured Inputs and Outputs", Pattern Recognition and Learning in Multimedia Systems
                    Summer School, Benicassim, Spain.
  • 08/2009 Lecture "Kernel Method in Computer Vision", Vision and Sports Summer School, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 06/2009 Short course, "Kernel Methods in Computer Vision" with M. Blaschko, CVPR Conference, Miami, FL, USA.
  • 07/2008 Tutorial "Kernel Methods", University of Oxford, England.
  • 06/2008 Tutorial "Kernel Methods for Object Recognition", DAGM Conference, Munich, Germany.

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  • 12/2011-02/2012 "Linear Algebra (from a data analysis point of view)
  • 02/2011 Block course "Statistical Machine Learning"
  • 10/2010 Lecture "Computer Vision and Machine Learning" in lecture series "Science at IST Austria"

    Technical University of Kaiserslautern
  • 04/2006-09/2006 Master Course "Image and Video Processing" with D. Keysers.
  • 10/2005-03/2006 Seminar "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition".
  • 04/2005-09/2005 Seminar "Computer Gaming".

    University of Bonn
  • 1998-2003 Exercise courses and assistance to courses and seminars.
  • Scientific Services and Peer Reviewing
  • 02/2012-10/2012 Area Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • since 01/2011 Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
  • since 10/2009 Guest Editor for International Journal for Computer Vision (IJCV), Special Issue on
                     "Structured Prediction and Inference" (to appear in 2011)
  • 10/2010 Organizer "First IST Symposium on Computer Vision and Machine Learning", at IST Austria.
  • 09/2010 Co-organizer "First International Workshop on Parts and Attributes" with T. Caetano, R. Feris
                     and D. Forsyth at ECCV 2010.
  • 06/2010 Co-organizer "Structured Models in Computer Vision" with P. Gehler and V. Ferrari at CVPR 2010.
  • 02/2009 Referee, German-Israeli Foundation (GIF).
  • since 2004 Reviewer for several conferences and scientific journal.
              Current list of conferences/workshops: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, OAGM, IBPRIA, CVWW.
              Current list of journals: IJCV, T-PAMI, ML, PRL, AURO.

  • Last updated in December 2010.