Technical University of Munich

Christoph Mayer studied Computer Science at the Technische Universität München from 2000 to 2007 and received his doctoral degree in 2012. While he was working on his Ph.D, he has been working in the German Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems” in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. His research interests were in the field of face model fitting, facial expression recognition and emotion recognition. He has been first author of the paper “Adjusted Pixel Features for Facial Component Classification” that appeared in the Vision and Image Computing Journal in 2009 and has been awarded with the best paper award in 2009 for the paper “Facial Expression Recognition with 3D Deformable Models” that has been presented at the conference “Advances in Computer-Human Interaction”. His current research interest is in the automatic analysis of soccer games from optical camera data.