Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage

Welcome to this webpage. I am a professor of media informatics at the B-IT institute of the University of Bonn. At Fraunhofer IAIS, I am the lead scientists for multimedia pattern recognition. Below, you'll find more information about my interests and background.

 

Expertise

  • efficient image and video analysis and retrieval
  • user modeling and behavior recognition
  • online communities and social media
  • web intelligence and web mining
  • game AI and game mining
 

10 Recent Publications

C. Bauckhage, K. Kersting, and A. Schmit. Agriculture's Technological Makeover. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 11(2), 2012

B. Krausz and C. Bauckhage. Loveparade 2010: Automatic video analysis of a crowd disaster. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 116(3), 2012

C. Thurau and K. Kersting and  M. Wahabzada and  C. Bauckhage. Descriptive Matrix Factorization for Sustainability: Adopting the Principle of Opposites. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 24(2), 2012

C. Bauckhage. Insights into Internet Memes. Proc. AAAI Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

C. Thurau, K. Kersting, M. Wahabzada, and C. Bauckhage. Convex Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Massive Datasets. Knowledge and Information Systems, 29(2), 2011

F. Metze, C. Bauckhage, and T. Alpcan. Social and Expert Search in Online Communities. In P. Sheu, H. Yu, C.V. Ramamoorthy, A.K. Joshi, and L. A. Zadeh, editors, Semantic Computing. Wiley, 2010

R. Wetzker, C. Zimmermann, C. Bauckhage, and S. Albayrak. I Tag, You Tag: Translating Tags for Advanced User Models. Proc. ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining, 2010

R. Wetzker, C. Zimmermann, and C. Bauckhage. Detecting Trends in Social Bookmarking Systems: A del.icio.us Endeavor. Int. J. on Data Warehousing and Mining, 6(1), 2010

C. Thurau and C. Bauckhage. Analyzing the Evolution of Social Groups in World of Warcraft. Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2010

J. Kunegis, A. Lommatzsch, and C. Bauckhage. The Slashdot Zoo: Mining a Social Network with Negative Edges. Proc. ACM Int. Conf. World Wide Web, 2009


 

Extended List of Publications

Most of my publications are listed at DBLP, the ACM Digital Library, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, or Arnetminer.

 

Short Bio

Oct 2008 - today:
professor of media informatics at B-IT / University of Bonn
head of the visual & social media group at Fraunhofer IAIS

Dec 2005 - Oct 2008:
senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
head of CC-IRML at Dai-Labor/TU-Berlin in Berlin

May 2004 - Dec 2005:
postdoc with John Tsotsos in Toronto

Jun 2002 - May 2004:
postdoc with Gerhard Sagerer in Bielefeld

Jan 1998 - Jun 2002:
Ph.D. student (computer science) at Bielefeld University

Oct 1995 - Apr 1996:
student fellow in the group of Cordelia Schmid at INRIA Grenoble

Oct 1992 - Dec 1997:
(under)grad student (computer science) at Bielefeld University

 

Latest blog entries

Integrating pervasive computing, sensing, and HCI with data-mining, computervision, and robotics offers the potential for new solutions in sustainable agriculture.

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Our paper on "Automatic Detection of Dangerous Motion Behavior in Human Crowds" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance.

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Our paper on efficient and robust alignment of related video sequences has been accepted at DAGM 2011. The mastermind behind this work is Georgios Evangelidis, who was working with us as an ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" postdoctoral fellow.

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