Björn is leading the computer vision group of Toshiba Research Europe and is an associate of the vision group at the University of Cambridge. His research areas of interest are computer vision and machine learning.

Address:
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, 208 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 0GZ, UK
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E-Mail:
bjorn [at] cantab.net

Short bio:
Björn Stenger studied computer science at the University of Bonn and received his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2004. His thesis on 3D hand tracking won the BMVA Sullivan Thesis Prize, awarded annually to the best thesis in the UK in the field of vision. He was a Research Fellow at the Toshiba R&D Center, where he worked on gesture recognition and human body tracking. In 2006 he joined the Computer Vision Group of Toshiba Research Europe, where he is currently working on human-computer interfaces, 3D capture and registration, and object recognition.

Professional activities:
Area Chair: BMVC 2008, 2009, 2012, ICCV 2011.
Industrial Liaison Chair: ECCV 2012
Tutorial at ICCV 2009 with Tae-Kyun Kim and Jamie Shotton on Boosting and Random Forests
Co-organizer (with Toru Tamaki and David Suter): Subspace 2009 Workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2009

Students co-advised:
Rob Anderson
Tom Woodley (PhD 2009): Online learning for visual tracking, now at Sony Entertainment Europe