About the authors
Jürgen Beyerer is 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.
Fraunhofer IOSB, Fraunhoferstr. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 721-6091 210
Thomas Usländer holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a PhD in Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is head of the department “Information Management and Production Control” and speaker of the business unit “Automation” at Fraunhofer IOSB. His research interests include the analysis and design of open, secure and dependable service architectures for the Industrial Internet of Things and Services and Industrie 4.0.
Fraunhofer IOSB, Fraunhoferstr. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 721-6091 480
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