Björn is a researcher in the areas of computer vision and machine learning. He is currently leading the computer vision group of Toshiba Research Europe and is an associate of the vision group at the University of Cambridge.

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 received the Diplom-Informatiker degree from the University of Bonn in 2000 and the 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 Corporate R&D Center in Japan, where he worked on gesture recognition and human body tracking. The interface technology has found its way into Toshiba's Qosmio laptop. In 2006 Bjorn joined the Computer Vision Group of Toshiba Research Europe, where he is currently working on a broad range of research topics including 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