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Daniel Cremers

Daniel Cremers

Daniel Cremers received Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Physics (1994) and a Master’s in Theoretical Physics (1997) from the University of Heidelberg, followed by a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim (2002). He was a postdoc at UCLA (2002–2004), a researcher at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton (2004–2005), and Associate Professor at the University of Bonn (2005–2009). Since 2009 he has held the Chair of Computer Vision and AI at the Technical University of Munich.

His publications have received numerous awards, including Best Paper of the Year 2003 (Int. Pattern Recognition Society), the Olympus Award 2004 (German Pattern Recognition Award), the UCLA Chancellor’s Award 2005, and the ECCV 2024 Koenderink Test of Time Award. He has won multiple ERC grants (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, and Proof of Concept). He has served as associate editor for leading journals, area chair for major conferences (ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, etc.), and program chair for ACCV 2014. In 2018 he organized the largest-ever ECCV in Munich with 3300 participants.

Prof. Cremers is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, a former honorary member of the Dagstuhl Scientific Directorate, and recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (2016). He spent 2022/23 on sabbatical at Oxford University. According to Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 126 with 82,500+ citations, and is ranked among the most influential computer scientists in Germany and top 10 scholars in robotics (2020–2023). Since 2023, he serves as President of the European Computer Vision Association and engages as co-founder, advisor, and business angel in several startups.

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