Curriculum Vitae

Karl Rohr studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and received his Ph.D. degree (1994) as well as his Habilitation degree (1999) in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Since 2004 he is Head of the Biomedical Computer Vision Group (BMCV) and Associate Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Faculty of BioScience, IPMB, BIOQUANT Center, Dept. Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, and the DKFZ Heidelberg (German Cancer Research Center), Dept. Theoretical Bioinformatics. He is also Guest Professor at the International University in Germany, Bruchsal.

From 2000 to 2004 he was Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Information Technology at the International University in Germany, Bruchsal, and Head of the Computer Vision & Graphics Group. From 1992-2000 he was with the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, in the Cognitive Systems Group, where he was project leader of the IMAGINE project during 1994-2000 (funded by Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg). Previous to that, he was a Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe. In summer 1999 he spent a research stay at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, in Boston/MA, USA.

In 1990 Dr. Rohr was awarded a DAGM prize for his paper on model-based recognition of grey-value corners. In 1995 he was a co-recipient of the Springer Best Paper Award KI-95 for his joint work on model-based recognition and natural language description of human movements. In 2000 he received a Honorable Mention for the 26th Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award for an outstanding contribution to the journal Pattern Recognition for his contribution on the extraction of 3D anatomical landmarks.

He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and serves the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition. He is member of the program and review committees of WBIR'99, BVM'01, WVR'01, BVM'02, Growth and Motion in 3D Medical Images'02, MICCAI'02, WMVC'02, BVM'03, WBIR'03, ICMLC'2003, MICCAI'03, BVM'04, ICCOMP'04, ICMLC'2004, MICCAI'04, BVM'05, CVPR'05, IPMI’05, ICCV'05, MICCAI'05, EMMCVPR’05, BVM'06, ISBI'06, CVAMIA’06, WBIR'06, SoftwAss’06, MICCAI'06, WMVC’07, BVM'07, ISBI'07, CVPR Workshop on Image Registration and Fusion’07, IPMI’07, DAGM’07, MICCAI'07

His research and teaching interests are in biomedical image analysis, computer vision, and computer graphics. He has written one book on Landmark-Based Image Analysis (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) covering both landmark extraction and elastic image registration, and has published more than 100 refereed scientific articles.

Dr. Rohr is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.