University of Konstanz
Graduiertenkolleg / PhD Program
Computer and Information Science

Summer School 2009

Photo by Böhringer



Monday, Sep 14 — Tuesday, Sep 15
Workshop on data-mining and kernel methods

Prof. Dr. Michael Berthold, Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes, Martin Mader, Uwe Nagel
University of Konstanz

Monday, September 14: Part I

13:00 Introduction to kernel methods [file (PPT, 817 KiB)]
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Introduction to programming environment (KNIME, Eclipse)
16:00 Hands-on session: implementing a simple kernel in KNIME
17:20 Presentation of the contest dataset
19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, September 14: Part II

09:00 Hands-on session: implement your own kernel
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Benchmarking, presentation of winner kernel
12:00 Lunch


Tuesday, Sep 15 — Wednesday, Sep 16
Workshop on 3D scanning and image processing techniques

Prof. Dr. Robert Sablatnig, Dr. Martin Kampel
TU Vienna

Tuesday, Sep 15: Part I

15:15 3D Scanning (by Dr. Kampel) [file (PDF, 3.5 MiB)]1
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Shape from Stereo (by Prof. Dr. Sablatnig) [file (PDF, 8.2 MiB]1
19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, Sep 16: Part II

08:00 Shape from X and Remote Sensing (by Prof. Dr. Sablatnig) [file (PDF, 7.0 MiB)]1
09:30 Coffee break
09:45 Range Data Registration (by Dr. Kampel) [file (PDF, 1.7 MiB)]1
11:15 Gather in lobby, pick up lunch packs and walk to bus stop
11:30 Departure bust to Bieler Höhe
12:10 Hike from Bieler Höhe to Saarbrücker Hütte
17:45 Last bus back from Bieler Höhe to Gaschurn
19:30 Dinner
1 The files are accessible via web only by members of the PhD Program. For other participants of the summerschool they will be distributed locally.


Thursday, Sep 17: Oral presentations I

Session Chair: Vladimir Bondarenko
09:00 Pattern classification for automated diagnosis in dementia: theory and practice
Dr.-Ing. Dorit Merhof, Siemens Molecular Imaging, Oxford
10:00 Content based document structure analysis
Andreas Stoffel, GK Konstanz
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Quasi-semantic properties and their usage in document analysis
Daniela Oelke, GK Konstanz
11:30 Dynamic visualization of evolving document collections
Milos Krstajic, GK Konstanz
12:00 Lunch


Thursday, Sep 17: Poster session

of invited master students
15:15 Coffee
15:30 Texture Based Document Layout Analysis of Glagolitic Manuscripts
Angelika Garz, TU Vienna, Austria
Virtual News Presenter
Denise Hippler, State University of Campinas, Brazil, and WSI/GRIS University of Tübingen, Germany
High-Resolution Mapping of the Structural Core fo Human Cerebral Cortex
Katarina Kanevceva, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia
Geometry Compression of Polygon Mesh Models
Dina R. Khattab, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Integrated Network Systems in a Town
Marina Litvinova, Kharkov National University of Radioelectronic, Ukraine
Dimensionality Reduction and Relevance Feedback: Powerful Techniques on CBIR Systems
Joselene Marques, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Anaglyph Stereo for the Realtime Synthesis of Images
Stefanie Mayer, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Enabling Physical Reasoning through 3D Simulation
Emitza Guzman Ortega, TU Munich, Germany
Segmentation of Microtubules from Electron Tomograms
Britta Weber, Free University Berlin, Germany
Application of tabu Search to Solving Problems of Non-Linear Programming
Anna Zubenko, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
Database Parameter Optimization for Welding Machines
Gissel Velarde, Electrical R&D Department, Miebach GmbH


Thursday, Sep 17: Oral presentations II

Session Chair: Hendrik Strobelt
16:30 Multi display environment
Mahsa Jenabi, GK Konstanz
17:00 Blended library
Mathias Heilig, GK Konstanz
17:30 Break
17:45 Frequency-based stippling
Sören Pirk, GK Konstanz
18:15 PDScan -- "Photo Data Scan" density-based clustering algorithms
Slava Kisilevich, GK Konstanz
19:00 Dinner


Friday, Sep 18: Oral presentations III

Session Chair: Martin Strauch
09:00 Sparse color salient points for object retrieval and categorization
Julian Stöttinger, TU Vienna
09:30 Integrating data mining & data warehousing / databases
Nafees Rehman, University of Konstanz
10:00 Mathematical models for race-bike time trials
Thorsten Dahmen, GK Konstanz
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Validation of cycling time trials on real tracks
Roman Byshko, GK applicant
11:15 Visualization of a tag cloud
Iris Adä, GK applicant
11:45 Advisors' meeting
12:00 Lunch


Friday, Sep 18: Oral presentations IV

Session Chair: Daniela Oelke
13:00 Connecting insect brain imaging to data mining tools - an extension of KNIME
Martin Strauch, GK Konstanz
13:30 Document cards: a top trump visualization for documents
Hendrik Strobelt, GK Konstanz
14:00 Coffee break
14:15 Assessment of observation importance in large scale estimation problem
Vladimir Bondarenko, GK Konstanz
14:45 Closing and departure