About me

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CV

• 07/2019 - 08/2025, Software Developer C++, Christie Digital Systems Germany GmbH, Richard-Byrd-Straße 19, 50829 Köln
• 01/2018 - 06/2019, Software Engineer, Embico GmbH, Kappellenstr. 31, Bretten, Germany
• 04/2010 - 12/2017, Consulting, Research & Development,  EckesVision, Köln, Germany
• 01/2010 - 03/2015, Freelancer/Freier Mitarbeiter, TRACKMEN Ltd, Leichlingen, Germany
• 05/2001 - 08/2009, Computer Scientist, Project Manager, Product Manager, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Institut IAIS , Department NetMedia, Sankt Augustin, Germany
• 10/1997 - 12/2000, Computer Scientist, Institut für Neuroinformatik , Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
• 04/1997 - 09/1997, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California , Los Angeles,U.S.A.
• 01/1997 - 03/1997, Computer Scientist, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

 

Education

• M.A. (Diplom), Physics, University Dortmund, 1991-1995
  Focus on Computational Physics and Image Analysis
  Thesis: "Integration of high-level and low-level cues for segmentation"
  Final Grade: Very Good with Distinction (summa cum laude)

 

Publications

• Matching statue fragments by means of 3D printing, Horizon - The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 20, Autumn 2019 (see https://www.amarnaproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/horizon-newsletter-20.pdf)
• Capturing and Processing of 360 Degree Panoramic Images for Emergency Site Exploration, Krausz, Barbara; Briell, Andreas; Eckes, Christian; Löffler, Jobst: Proceedings of Second International Workshop Mobile Response 2008, Springer LNCS, 2008
• „Hierarchical modeling and adaptive clustering for realtime summarization of rush videos in TRECVID'08“, Ren, J.; Jiang, J.; Eckes, C., 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008
• „Hand Gesture Recognition with a novel IR time-of-flight range camera: a pilot study„, Breuer, P.; Eckes, C.; Müller, S., in Gagalowicz, André (Ed.) et al.: Computer vision/computer graphics collaboration techniques: third international conference, MIRAGE 2007, Recquencourt, France, March 23-30, 2007 ; proceedings. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2007. (Lecture notes in computer science 4418), pp. 247-260
• „Towards sociable Virtual Humans: Multimodal Recognition of Human Input and Behavior“, Eckes, C.; Biatov, K.; Hülsken, F.; Köhler, J.; Breuer, P., Branco, P.; Encarnacao, L. M., , International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol.6 (2007), 4, pp. 21-30„Modeling and animating Virtual Humans for real-time applications“, Hülsken, F.; Eckes, C.; Kuck, R.; Unterberg, J.; Jörg, S.,, International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol.6 (2007), 4, pp. 11-20
• Design and narrative structure for the virtual human scenarios, Göbel, Stefan; Iurgel, Ido Aharon; Rössler, Markus; Hülsken, Frank; Eckes, Christian
  International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol.6 (2007), 4, pp. 1-10
• Business cases for virtual human technology: evaluation and exploitation, Reinecke, Alexander B.; Rössler, Markus; Günther, Nico; Eckes, Christian; Hülsken, Frank, International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol.6 (2007), 4, pp. 67-76
• „Analysis of cluttered scenes using an elastic matching approach for stereo images“, Eckes, C.; Triesch, J.; Malsburg, C. v. d.:, Neural Computation, Vol.18 (2006), 6, pp. 1441-1471
• „Object recognition with deformable feature graphs“, Triesch, J.; Eckes, C.: in Chen, Chi-Hau (Ed.) et al.: Handbook of pattern recognition and computer vision. Singapore [u.a.]: World Scientific, 2005, pp. 461-480
• „iFinder: An MPEG-7-based Retrieval System for Distributed Multimedia Content“, Löffler, J.; Biatov, K.; Eckes, C.; Köhler, J., ACM-Multimedia Conference 2002. Proceedings, New York: ACM, 2002
• „Classification of sea-ice with neural networks -- results of the EU research project ICE ROUTES“, Eckes, C.; Fritzke, B. , IRINI-2001-02: Internal report of the Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, March 2001, Bochum, Germany.
• „Designing Objects for Computer Vision: The Backbone of the Library FLAVOR“, Rinne,M.; Pötzsch, M.; Eckes, C.; von der Malsburg, C., , IRINI-99-08: Internal report Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, December 1999, Bochum, Germany
• „Tracking of Rotating Objects“, Peters, G.; Eckes, C. and von der Malsburg, C., in ,,Advances in Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshops, SSPR'98 and SPR'98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1451, Springer, edited by Adnan Amin, Dov Dori, Pavel Pudil, Herbert Freeman, pp. 390-396, Sydney, August 11-13, 1998.
• „Object Recognition with Multiple Feature Types“, Triesch, J. and Eckes, C.; ICANN 98: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, September 2-4 1998, Skövde, Sweden, 1998.
• „Combining Data-Driven and Model-Based Cues for Segmentation of Video Sequences“, Eckes, C. and Vorbrueggen, J. C., in WCNN World Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, 1996.

 

Patents

• "Verfahren zum Erkennen von Objekten in digitalisierten Abbildungen", Eckes, C.; Kefalea, E.; von der Malsburg,C; Poetzsch, M; Rinne, M.; Triesch, J. und Vorbrueggen, J.C. , Deutsches Patent Nr. 19837004, Aug. 1998; PCT WO 00/10119 2000-02-24

•  "Method for recognizing objects in digitized images", Eckes, C.; Kefalea, E.; von der Malsburg,C; Poetzsch, M; Rinne, M.; Triesch, J. und Vorbrueggen, J.C. , US-Patent 7,113,641 B, 26th of Sept.,2006

 

Private life

• Ride a motorcycle
• Schrebergarten
• Amarna e.V.