As a Keynote Speaker of the 11th edition of Metadata Conference, Prof Dr Kai Uwe Barthel will talk about New Methods of Image Search.
Kai studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. At the university’s department for image and signal processing he finished his PhD thesis in 1996 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, teaching image processing, computer vision, visual information retrieval and machine learning. In 2009 Kai founded pixolution, a company for visual image search: www.pixolution.de. Pixolution’s visual search technologies are used by many stock agencies. Kai’s latest research topics include automatic keywording of images, image search and the development of visual image navigation systems, research demos can be found at www.visual-computing.com
