Prof. Dr. Carsten Steger
Honorary Professor
Technical University of MunichSchool of Computation, Information and Technology
Informatics 9
Boltzmannstrasse 3
85748 Garching
Germany
Fax: +49-89-289-17757
Mail: carsten.steger@in.tum.de
Career
The research activities of Professor Steger currently comprise all aspects of machine vision, in particular, modeling and calibration of imaging sensors, close-range photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, 2D and 3D object detection, 6-DoF object pose estimation, and deep-learning-based anomaly detection.
Professor Steger studied computer science at TUM from 1987 to 1993, worked as a researcher in TUM’s Department of Informatics (IX) from 1993 to 1999, and received his PhD from TUM in 1998. During this time, his main research interests were feature detection and automatic recognition of roads in aerial images.
In 1996, he founded MVTec Software GmbH together with three colleagues from the Department of Informatics (IX). MVTec is a leading international manufacturer of software for machine vision. At MVTec, he is general manager (Prokurist) and head of the Research Department.
Since 2001, he has been teaching machine vision at TUM’s Department of Informatics. He was appointed an honorary professor at TUM's Department of Informatics in 2011.
Functions
- General manager (Prokurist) at MVTec Software GmbH, Munich (since 1999)
- Director of Research at MVTec Software GmbH, Munich (since 2015)
- Director of Research and Development at MVTec Software GmbH, Munich (1999-2015)
- Founded MVTec Software GmbH together with three colleagues from the Department of Informatics (IX) at TUM (1996)
- Research associate in the Department of Informatics (IX) at TUM (1993-1999)
Service for Scientific Organizations
- Speaker of the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung; DAGM) (2018-2021)
- Member of the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung; DAGM) (2013-2018)
- Chairman of Working Group III/5 (Algorithms for Industrial Vision) of Commission III (Theory and Algorithms) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (2000-2004)
- Secretary of Working Group III/4 (Image Understanding/Object Recognition) of Commission III (Theory and Algorithms) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (1996-2000)