Machine Learning in Automation

• Jürgen Beyerer

  Jürgen Beyerer has been a full professor for informatics at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT since March 2004, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Ettlingen, Karlsruhe, Ilmenau and Lemgo. Research interests include automated visual inspection, signal and image processing, variable image acquisition and processing, active vision, metrology, information theory, fusion of data and information from heterogeneous sources, system theory, autonomous systems and automation.

  and Oliver Niggemann

  Prof. Dr Oliver Niggemann is deputy head of the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA Industrial Automation branch and since 2008 a professor of computer science at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo. He studied computer science at the University of Paderborn until 1997, where he graduated in 2001 with a PhD in Machine Learning. He then worked as a software developer, software project manager and as a lead product manager for several companies. Since 2009, he has been a board member of the Institute for Industrial Information Technologies inIT. Prof. Niggemann is author/co-author of various publications and a member of numerous program committees. His present interest of research lies in range of Cyber-physical production systems, the analysis and diagnosis of technical systems and machine learning.