Dr. Simone Frintrop

Professor

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Biography

Simone Frintrop is a Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on computational modeling of human visual system aspects to enhance machine vision systems. Frintrop explores the potential of technical systems to understand and utilize concepts that make human vision effective, particularly emphasizing the generalization capabilities of human perception to deal with noise and unexpected situations. Her work aims at creating future vision systems that are robust, flexible, and able to interact intuitively with humans. Research topics in her group include object discovery, visual attention and saliency detection, visual tracking of objects and persons, and visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Frintrop's academic background includes a PhD from Bonn University and previous roles as a senior researcher and lecturer. She has extensive involvement in EU projects and has contributed to many high-profile research initiatives in cognitive computer vision.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2016-03-01 — Present

University of Hamburg • Hamburg

Head of Computer Vision Research Group

Senior Researcher

2006-01-01 — 2016-01-01

University of Bonn • Bonn

Conducted research in various areas of computer vision.

Postdoc

2005-01-01 — 2006-01-01

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) • Stockholm

Worked on projects related to visual attention and robotics.

Requirements for University of Hamburg

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:2.5
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:90
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field At least 60 ECTS in core computer science subjects
Application Checklist
  • Transcript of Records
  • Bachelor's degree certificate (or preliminary transcript)
  • Proof of English proficiency
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Letter of Motivation
  • Module descriptions/table of 60 ECTS in CS
Specialization Notes

Includes tracks like Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS).