CV for Per-Erik Forssén

Academic Degrees

• October 2009: Docent in Computer Vision
  Talk title: “Robot Vision, More than Meets the Eye”
• March 2004: Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Vision
  PhD thesis: “Channel Representations for Low and Medium Level Vision”,
  Supervisor Prof. Gösta Granlund.
• February 2001: Licentiate of Engineering in Computer Vision
  Licentiate thesis (halftime PhD): “Sparse Representations for Medium
  Level Vision”, Supervisor Prof. Gösta Granlund.
• December 1997: Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
  Master’s Thesis: “Detection of Man-made Objects in Satellite Images”,  Work conducted at the Swedish Space Corporation in Kiruna, Sweden. Supervisor Dr. Sören Molander.

Employment History

• January 2013 - present
  Associate Professor (Universitetslektor), Linköping University
• April 2009 – December 2012
  Assistant Professor (LiU Foass), Linköping University
• May 2008 – March 2009
  Research Associate, Linköping University
• January 2008 – April 2008
  Research Engineer, Computer Vision Lab, Linköping
• January 2006 – December 2007
  Post-doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada
• June 2004 – December 2005
  1st Research Engineer, 20% teaching, Computer Vision Lab,  Linköping
• May 2004 – December 2005
  Computer Vision Consultant, (15-25 h/month) ATS AB, Linköping
• November 1998 – May 2004
  PhD Student Position (20% teaching), Computer Vision Lab, Linköping
• July 1998 – November 1998
  Teaching Assistant/Programmer, Computer Vision Lab, Linköping
• Full time studies, spring 1998
  English Language Studies, Linköping University
• Summer 1996
  Assistant Computer Network Analyst, SEMA Group, Örebro and Stockholm
• June 1994 – August 1995
  Military Service, Technician/Under-Officer
• August 1992 – December 1997
  Studies in Computer Science and Engineering Programme
  (with breaks for military service and summer employment)

Research Grants

• VR PostDok, 2006-2007, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
  Post-doc stipend for two years stay at University of British Columbia, Canada.
  Project title: Active Exploration of Surroundings and Effectors for Vision Based Robots.
• Forskarassistent NT, 2009-2012, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
  Project title: Embodied Visual Object Recognition.
• Projektbidrag NT, 2009-2012, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
  Project title: Embodied Visual Object Recognition.
• CENIIT 2009-2011, LiTH (Linköpings Tekniska Högskola)
  Funding for a PhD student (with possible extension to another 3 years).
  Project title: Virtual Global Shutters for CMOS Cameras.
• LiU Forskarassistent, 2009-2012, Linköping University
  Position converted to a grant.
• KAW Resebidrag, travel grant, 2009

Awards and memberships

• PRCV Colloquium Invited Speaker. October 2012.
• ECMR 2011 Invited speaker, September 2011.
• DICTA 2011 Best Colour Paper Prize
• IMVW 2011 Best Paper Award
• ECCV 2010 Reviewer Award
• Winner of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge. Core member of the winning UBC team.
• Member of IEEE since August 2007.

Publications

• Publication list

Teaching

• TSBB15 Computer Vision, LiU, Examiner and course manager, Teaching  6h+6h preparations, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• TNM089 Imaging Technology, LiU, Guest Lecturer, 2h+4h preparations, Autumn 2011
• Geometry for Computer Vision, LiU Course development of a graduate course together with Klas Nordberg. extent: 8hp. The course featured 16h lectures, 23 attendees (9 PhD students, 14 from industry), written exam for 6 people, corrected and supervised project assignments. Spring 2010
• TS1017 Computer Vision, LiU, Teaching 4h+4h, Spring 2011 
• TSBB12 Computer Vision, LiU, Teaching 8h+8h preparations, Contributed to course development, Spring 2009, Teaching 8h+8h Spring 2010
• Visual Object Recognition, LiU, Complete course development of a graduate course, extent:8hp, teaching 14h lectures, 24 attendees (11 PhD students, and 13 from local companies), Written exam for 11 people, corrected and supervised project assignments, Autumn 2008
• TSBB09 Image Sensors, LiU, Contributed to course development in a new undergraduate course, Assisted students during one 4h computer session, Autumn 2008, Demo of Kinect Autumn 2010, Demo and talk on Kinect Autumn 2011.
• Artikelklubben, LiU, Planning and execution of a seminar series covering the latest research in Computer and Robot Vision, also offered as a PhD course, Spring 2008, Spring 2009 - ongoing.
• 525 Image Understanding II, UBC, guest lecturer. Spring 2006
• TSBB04 Computer Vision, LiU, assistant lecturer, lab-exercise development. Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005
• TSBB35 Multidimensional Signal Analysis, LiU, project supervisior, lab-exercise development. Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005
• TSBB65 Images and Graphics, LiU, computer excersise assistant. Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005
• TSBB53 Images and Graphics, Project Course, LiU, project development and supervision. Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005

Supervised and Examined Masters

• Supervised Per Öberg
  Tracking By Image Processing in a Real-Time System, March 2003
• Supervised Andreas Böckert
  Vehicle Detection and Classification in Video Sequences, August 2002
• Supervised Robert Söderberg
  View Dependent Recognition of Objects, February 2002
• Examined Jan-Willhelm Isoz
  Calibration of Multispectral Sensors, December 2005
• Examined Markus Olgemar
  Camera Based Navigation, October 2008
• Examined Marcus Wallenberg
  A Single-Camera Gaze Tracker using Controlled Infrared Illumination, March 2009
• Examined Alexander Tuttle
  Saliency Maps using Channel Representations, January 2010
• Examined Anders Lind
  High-speed View Matching using Region Descriptors, August 2010
• Examined Axel Landgren
  A Robotic Camera Platform for Evaluation of Biomimetic Gaze Stabilization using Adaptive Cerebellar Feedback, September 2010
• Examined Andreas Schöndell
  Evaluation of methods for segmentation of 3D range image data, January 2011
• Examined David Sandberg
  Model-Based Video Coding Using a Colour and Depth Camera, June 2011
• Examined Gustav Hanning
  Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Correction using Inertial Measurement Sensors, June 2011
• Examined Tobias Lundqvist
  3D mapping with iPhone, October 2011
• Examined Anton Nordmark
  Kinect 3D Mapping, October 2012
• Examined Magnus Stigson
  Object Tracking Using Tracking-Learning-Detection in Thermal Infrared Video, May 2013

Supervision of PhD students

• Co-supervised PhD Fredrik Viksten, PhD Fredrik Larsson, and PhD Johan Hedborg
• Currently supervising: Marcus Wallenberg, Erik Ringaby, and Hannes Ovrén.
• Currently co-supervising: Bertil Grelsson.

Committee work

• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Henrik Andreasson, OrU
• External licentiate thesis reviewer (opponent) for Olof Enqvist, LU
• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Martin Byröd, LU
• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Olof Enqvist, LU
• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Jeroen Hol, LiU
• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Babak Rasolzadeh, KTH
• Member of PhD grading committee (betygskommitté) for Daniel Forsberg, LiU

Popular Science Presentations

• Interview: Östgöta Correspondenten, Slutet för skakiga mobilklipp, August 8, 2011.
• Robot demo: Robotseende, Quintek-dagarna, March 30, 2011.
• Invited talk: Seende robotar, hur och varför?, Teknikfestivalen Norrköping, December 1, 2010.
• Interview: SVT Östnytt, Roboten Eddie kan både se och känna igen, May 10, 2010.
• Interview: Linköpings Extra, Eddie - en pratglad ettåring, March 29, 2010.
• Invited popular science talk:  How to build a robot that can recognize objects,
  IT workshop at University College Skövde, March 23, 2010
• Two demonstrations at the annual LiU popular science day, October 14, 2009.
  Gaze-tracker with 3D display, and Robot with object recognition capabilities.
• Interview: Östgöta Correspondenten, Eddie känner igen sin Teddy, October 7, 2009
• Interview: TV4 Norrköping, Dator ska varna bilförare för trafikfaror, March 31, 2008
• Interview: Vetenskapsradion Tekno Radio Show, SR P1, March 26, 2008
• Interview: BBC Radio Show: Robots and Artificial Intelligence, Sep 23, 2007
• Interview: New Scientist, I Google, therefore I am, Aug 18, 2007