Rainer Lienhart

Rainer Lienhart is a full professor in the computer science department of the University of Augsburg where he heads the Multimedia Computing Lab (MMC Lab). His group is focusing on all aspects of very large-scale image, video, and audio mining algorithms including feature extraction, image/video search and retrieval, object detection and human pose estimation. The applied algorithm are also analyzed and ported to modern application accelerator cards such as GPUs, MIC, and FPGAs.

Currently, he is also the executive director of the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Augsburg.