Main Responsibilities

• Algorithm development in the field of digital film restoration

Career

Hannes Fassold finished his study of Technical Mathematics - branch: information sciences at the University of Technology in Graz with his master thesis "Verfeinerung von DEM mit Shape from Shading und automatischer Bestimmung von Lichtquelle und Reflexionsparameter" (April 2004).

Since July 2004 he works as scientific coworker at JOANNEUM RESEARCH - Institute of Information Systems. His major fields of interest are Applied Mathemetics, Image Processing and Computer Graphic.

• Automated Visual Quality Analysis for Media Production
• Automatic Content Based Video Quality Analysis for Media Production and Delivery Processes
• Automatic Freeze Frame Detection for Video Preservation
• Efficient Video Breakup Detection and Verification
• Fast GPU-based image warping and inpainting for frame interpolation
• Fast GPU-based KLT feature point tracking using CUDA
• GPU-accelerated SIFT descriptor matching
• Innovative Tools for 3D Cinema Production
• Real-time person tracking in high-resolution panoramic video for automated broadcast production
• Real-time video breakup detection for multiple HD video streams on a single GPU
• Realtime KLT Feature Point Tracking for High Definition Video
• Robust Detection of Single-frame Defects in Archived Film
• Tracking and Clustering Salient Features in Image Sequences