Prof. Dr. Bernd Radig received his diploma degree in Physics in 1972 from the University of Bonn and the doctor degree in Computer Science in 1978 from the University of Hamburg. There he got his venia legendi and finished his habilitation dissertation in 1982. He was Assistant and Associate Professor in Hamburg (1982-1986) and full professor, chair of Image Understanding and Knowledge Based Systems, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität Müunchen (1986-2009). He is a member of the Emeriti of Excellence programme. He was chairman and founder of the Association of Bavarian Research Cooperations (1993-2007), a unique network of scientists, specialising in challenging disciplines in accordance with Bavarian enterprises. 1988 he founded the Bavarian Research Centre for Knowledge Based Systems (FOR-WISS), an institute common to the three universities TU München, Erlangen and Passau. He was general chairman of the annual symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition in 1981, 1991, 2001 as well as of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 1988. He is active as organizer and programme committee member of the German-Russian Workshop on Pattern Recognition. He holds the German Order of Merit (1992) and the award Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum of the State of Bavaria for outstanding contributions to science and art (2002). His current research activities are in real-time image sequence understanding for applications in robotics, sports or driver assistance systems.

• Model-Based Image Interpretation
• Objective Functions, Learning Objective Functions
• Face Detection, Face Model Fitting, Head Tracking
• Facial Expression Recognition, Emotion Recognition
• Person Localization, Person Tracking
• Driver Assistant Systems
• Multi-Robot Coordination