Organizers
Laura Leal-Taixé
Laura Leal-Taixé is a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) leading the Dynamic Vision and Learning group. She studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), did her Master Thesis in Boston, and pursued a PhD at the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany. She was also at the University of Michigan for 10 months as a visiting scholar. She worked as a postdoc at ETH Zurich also at the Computer Vision Group at TUM. In 2017 she won the prestigious 1.65 million euro Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Humboldt Foundation. Her research interests include dynamic scene understanding, in particular multiple people tracking and video object segmentation.
Laura has (co-)organized tutorials and workshops at CVPR (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), ECCV (2016, 2018), ICCV (2019), ECCV (2014), and WACV (2015), was volunteer chair at ECCV 2014, workshop chair for ECCV 2018, and has been / is an area chair for CVPR (2020, 2021), ICCV (2019), GCPR (2016,2017,2018,2019), WACV (2017), ACCV (2018, 2020), and ECCV (2018, 2020) and Program Chair for WACV 2021.
Torsten Sattler
Torsten Sattler received a PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2014. From December 2013 to December 2018, he was a post-doctoral and senior researcher in the Computer Vision and Geometry (CVG) Group of Prof.~Marc Pollefeys at ETH Zurich, working on 3D scene perception for mobile devices, e.g., Google Tango, and autonomous vehicles. From July 2016 to June 2018, he was Prof. Pollefeys' deputy and tasked with leading the day-to-day operation of CVG while Prof. Pollefeys was on a sabbatical at Microsoft (USA). Since 2019, Torsten is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at Chalmers University of Technology. His research interests include (mobile, real-time) visual localization, place recognition, Structure-from-Motion, SLAM, as well as feature detection and description. His current work focuses on making algorithms for localization and mapping ``smarter" by incorporating higher-level scene understanding.
Torsten has (co-)organized tutorials and workshops at CVPR (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), ECCV (2018), and ICCV (2017, 2019) and has been / is an area chair for CVPR (2018), 3DV (2018, 2019), GCPR (2018, 2019), ICRA (2019, 2020), and ECCV (2020), and a program chair for GCPR 2020. He has been recognized as an outstanding reviewer at ICCV 2015, CVPR 2015, ECCV 2016, CVPR 2017, CVPR 2019, and ICCV 2019.