Professor Carsten Steger has been unanimously elected into the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM).
Steger is co-owner of MVTec Software, founded in 1996, where he has been in charge of research and development. From 1987 until 1993, he studied computer science at Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich, and received his PhD in 1998. Since 2000, he has given lectures and practical courses on machine vision and, in 2011, was appointed as a TUM adjunct professor for the field of computer vision.
Dr Olaf Munkelt, managing director of MVTec, commented: ‘We are pleased to see that Professor Steger's competence in research on machine vision qualified him to become part of the DAGM committee.’