Biography

Petra Perner is the director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Under her leadership the institute developed to one of the leading institutes in basic and applied research in computer vision, data mining, machine learning, case-based reasoning and image databases. She received a diploma degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer science. Her PhD thesis is about "Data Reduction Methods for Industrial Robots with Direct Teach-in-Programing" and her habilitation thesis is about "A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems".

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Research Interest

Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining, Transaction on Case-Based Reasoning, Transactions on Mass Data Analysis