Involved in several publicly funded research projects, such as polymorphic scene representation for enhanced instant scene reconstruction, forward and differentiable simulation of L2S sensor data, etc.; more details about his publications can be found on Google Scholar, Scopus, and ResearchID.
Research Experience
Head of the Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems Group at the University of Siegen since 2003; prior to that, he was a professor for computer graphics at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel near Hamburg; from October 2009 until September 2018, he served as the spokesperson for Research Training Group 1564 'Imaging New Modalities' funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); from the beginning of 2011 until the end of January 2015, he was the Vice Dean for Research and Junior Scientists of the Faculty for Science and Technology at the University of Siegen; from November 2019 to December 2024, Andreas Kolb was the Liaison Officer of the DFG for the University of Siegen; since May 2022, he has been a member of the Steering Board of the Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS), and since March 2024, he has been the Vice-Rector for Research, Infrastructure, and Collaboration at the University of Siegen.
Education
Received his PhD from the University of Erlangen in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. H.-P. Seidel.
Background
Has a background in computer graphics and visualization; research interests include computer vision based on ToF sensors, and graphics hardware-based visualization.
Miscellany
Member of ACM/SIGGRAPH (since 2002), Eurographics Association (since 2001), and Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI, since 1998).