About the authors
Jürgen Beyerer has been a full professor for informatics at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since March 2004 and director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Ettlingen, Karlsruhe, Ilmenau, Lemgo. Görlitz. He is Spokesman of the Fraunhofer Group for Defense and Security VVS and he is member of acatech, National Academy of Science and Engineering. Furthermore, he is Head of team 7 of the platform “Lernende Systeme” and Spokesman of the Competence Center Robotic Systems for Decontamination in Hazardous Environments (ROBDEKON). Research interests include automated visual inspection, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, metrology, information theory, machine learning, system theory security, autonomous systems and automation.
Georg Bretthauer obtained the Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing., and Dr.-Ing. habil. degrees in Automatic Control at the University of Technology, Dresden in 1970, 1977, and 1983, respectively. From 1997 to 2015 he was a full professor for Applied Computer Sciences and Automatic Control and the Head of the Institute of Applied Computer Sciences and Automatic Control (AIA) at the University of Karlsruhe and the Head of the Institute of Applied Computer Sciences (IAI) at the Karlsruhe Research Center (now KIT). From 2002 to 2018 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Automatisierungstechnik – at”. His research interests include identification, automatic control, mechatronics, and artificial intelligence.
Thomas Laengle studied Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he received his master of science for a work on the localization of robot systems. After that, he worked as a researcher in the field of robotics and received his PhD in computer science. In the following period, he was the leader of a research group at the Institute for Process Control and Robotics and finished his habilitation with a work on distributed diagnosis systems. Since 2005, he has been the head of the business unit “Visual Inspection Systems” at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Karlsruhe. Since April 2011, he has been also associate professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), offers lectures in computer science and initiates many possibilities for students to work on applied research. His research interests include different aspects of image processing and real time algorithms for inspection systems.
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