About Me
Nils Krahnstoever is a research scientist at the Visualization and
Computer Vision Lab at GE Global Research. At GE he has led and
performed research for GE Security, NBC Universal, Lockheed Martin, and
other businesses and customers. His current work is centered around
large-scale real-time surveillance systems with a particular focus on
person detection and tracking, behavior recognition, calibration,
search, embedded systems and performance evaluation. Other research
interests include vision-based special effects in broadcast and human
computer interaction. Dr. Krahnstoever is currently the PI on research
sponsored by the Sensor and Surveillance unit of the National Institute
of Justice. While at GE, Dr. Krahnstoever has deployed and productized
a number of successful technologies, ranging from security systems to
vision-based special effects for Sunday Night Football on NBC. Dr.
Krahnstoever has more than ten years of experience in applied computer
vision research. He regularly serves as a referee for journals and
conferences and has published over 35 peer reviewed scientific publications
as well as patents. Prior to joining GE in 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State
University in 2003. Before beginning his Ph.D. he worked for Philips Medical Systems as an intern. He obtained his M.S. in
Physics from the University of Kiel, Germany in 1998.
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