Petra Perner
Director
Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences Germany
Germany
Biography
Petra Perner is the founder and director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Under her leadership the institute developed to one of the leading institutes in basic and applied research in computer vision, data mining, machine learning, case-based reasoning and image databases. She received a diploma degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and a PhD degree in computer science in 1985. In 1989 she finished her habilitation entitled “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems”. Under her guidance highly qualified national and international personnel got trained in the above mentioned high-technology fields through research projects and education programs.
Research Interest
Research Interest Applied Computer Science, Data Mining