Contact

+43 316/876 - 1716

Fax

gerhard.paar@joanneum.at

http://www.joanneum.at/

Curriculum Vitae

Gerhard Paar is head of the close range photogrammetry group in the Remote Sensing Department of the Institute of Digital Image Processing (DIB). He leads the development team for the photogrammetric tunnel metrology system dibit, one of the first fully automatic industrial close-range photogrammetry systems for non-expert users world-wide. Gerhard Paar coordinates the ExoMars PanCam 3D Vision Team and the EC FP7-Space Project PRoVisG – Planetary Robotic Vision Ground Processing (2008-2011), and he is key-researcher for Features, Recognition & Matching within the Austrian KProjekt Centre of Competence Embedded Computer Vision (ECV) for industrial computer vision cutting edge development. Within JR he acts as project manager for industrial, national funded, ESA and EU – funded projects in the domain of 3D computer vision and photogrammetry.

Professional Interests and Qualifications

Digital Photogrammetry, Stereovision, Vision-Based Navigation, Machine Vision, Optical Metrology, Industrial Computer Vision System Integration

Employment

Since 1988:                       Institute of Digital Image Processing of Joanneum Research.
                                            Since 2000 Project manager and Head of close range photogrammetry group

Education

Oct. 1987:                          Graduation as “Diplom-Ingenieur” (technical mathematics) at TU Graz

Sep. 1969 – Jun.  1981: Elementary school in Pernegg, junior high- and high school in Bruck/Mur

Awards

1993:                                  Best paper award of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition

2007:                                  Best paper award at the Optical 3d Conference, Zurich

Memberships

2000 - 2007                       Key Researcher for Matching at the Austrian K+ Center of Competence Advanced Computer Vision

1995 - 2003:                      Leading board of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition

2008 - present                   Key Researcher for Features, Recognition & Matching within the Austrian KProjekt Centre of Competence Embedded Computer Vision (ECV) 

2009 - 2014                       Co-Principal Investigator for the NASA Lunar and Planetary Science U.S. Participating Investigator Program Project  High-Precision Long-Range Rover Localization and Topographic Mapping using Networked PanCam Images for the ESA ExoMars Rover Mission

Additional Qualifications and Experiences

• Fluent in spoken and written English and German
• Moderately fluent spoken Spanish
• Poorly spoken French
• Rock &  Dance Music & Jazz Keyboards