Prof. Dr. Kai Uwe Barthel, founder of pixolution, is the moderator of the CEPIC Congress Seminar The Future of Keywording which will be held on Friday 27 May 2016 from 14:15 to 15:30 at the Zagreb Sheraton Hotel.
Kai Uwe Barthel studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. At the university’s department for image and signal processing he finished his PhD in 1996 thesis about fractal image compression. In 1998 Kai became head of R&D with LuraTech Inc. where hard- and software for image compression were developed. He also participated in the JPEG2000 standardization committee.
In 2001 Kai became a professor for visual computing at HTW Berlin, University of applied sciences. At HTW Berlin Kai is teaching courses such as image processing, computer vision, visual information retrieval and machine learning. Main research topics are visual image search and automatic image understanding. In 2009 Kai founded pixolution, a company for visual image search. Pixolution’s visual search technologies are used by many stock agencies. Kai’s latest research topics include automatic keywording of images, image clustering and the development of visual image navigation systems such as picsbuffet.com
