Mario Fritz
Contact:
International Computer
Science Institute
1947 Center Street, Suite 600
Berkeley CA 94704
USA
email: mfritz@eecs.berkeley.edu
Telephone: +1 (510) 332 6773
Fax: +1 (510) 666 2956
About Me
I moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, where I lead a research group in the department for Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing. I'm currently looking for motivated PhD students who are interested in computer vision and machine learning. To apply please send your application material to mfritz@mpi-inf.mpg.de .
Previously, I was a postdoc in Professor Trevor Darrell's vision group at the Internation Computer Science Institue (ICSI) as well as at UC Berkeley. I was awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Before finishing my Phd in computer science in August 2008 under the supervision of Professor Bernt Schiele at TU Darmstadt, I was visiting the group of Professor Jan-Olof Eklundh at KTH.
Research
I have been working in diverse areas of computer vision. My main focus during my Ph.D. was on recognition, detection and tracking of visual object categories. In particular, I was investigating different ways of providing supervision, combining different feature characteristics and modeling visual categories. Currently, I am very excited about addressing challenges in computer vision and machine learning that enable us to build computer vision systems that combine multiple modalities in order to address problems relevant to applications in robotics.
Teaching & Theses
I was fortuned to meet many excellent students during the courses I TA'ed at Darmstadt:
- Exercises to Machine Learning 2007
- Exercises to Machine Learning 2005/2006
- Seminar: Computer Vison and Machine Learning 2005
- Seminar: Machine Learning and Data Mining in Practice 2004/2005
- Exercises to Statistical Pattern Recognition 2004/2005
- Paul Schnitzspan: Application of Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision
- Nikodem Majer: Pictorial Structure based Spatial Models for Object Categorization
- Sandra Ebert: Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Object Categorization
Recent Events
- Bay Area Vision Meeting 2010 (BAVM'10) - organizer
- Internation Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'09) - program chair
Miscellaneous
- Preliminary results of a project on robotic manipulation of clothes together with Ping Chuan (Ted) Wang, Stephen Miller, Trevor Darrell and Pieter Abbeel won first place in the PR2 Quick Start Contest.
