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Library appoints first professor in the field of Research and Development / Research Projects on Visual Analytics and Multimedia Retrieval
HANNOVER, 8 December 2015 – Professor Dr. Ralph Ewerth started his activities as a professor of “Visual Analytics” at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and Leibniz Universität Hannover at the start of November 2015. The 43-year-old will lead the Research Group “Visual Analytics” in the area of Research and Development at the library. He and his staff will conduct joint research into topics such as multimedia retrieval and usability.
“The aim of my research work is to develop useful exploration and search options in large media collections for users of digital libraries,” stated Professor Dr. Ralph Ewerth. In his activities at TIB, he will focus on exploring machine learning methods for mining media and research data, new forms of visualisation and representation for volumes of data, and interactive search methods in media and research data. A special emphasis will be placed on deep learning and adaptive learning methods, which can easily be transferred to new application domains.
Professor Dr. Ralph Ewerth, born in 1972, studied Computer Science with Psychology as a minor subject in Frankfurt am Main and Marburg. After obtaining a PhD in Marburg (2008) on the topic of “Robust video content analysis via transductive learning methods”, he was responsible for the research area of Multimedia Computing at the Distributed Systems Group of Marburg University from 2008 to 2012. He was Professor of Digital Image Processing and Media Technology at the Jena University of Applied Sciences from 2012 to 2015, and Vice Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the beginning of 2015.
About TIB
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover is Germany’s National Library for all areas of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics. It primarily supplies the national and international research community and industry with literature and information. TIB has an excellent collection of fundamental and highly specialised literature of science and technology. As the world’s largest specialised library in its fields, TIB is responsible for maintaining the knowledge recorded and for providing the latest information for research and development, both now and in the future, irrespective of the time and the place. GetInfo is TIB’s portal for specialist and research information in science and technology. More than 170 million data sets are currently available. A variety of knowledge objects such as audiovisual media, 3D models and research data are integrated in GetInfo.
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