Automation and Robotics

Petra Perner is the Director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI. She has received her Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and her PhD degree in Computer Science for the work on data reduction methods for industrial robots with direct teach-in-programing. Her habilitation thesis was about a methodology for the development of knowledge-based image-interpretation systems. She has been the Principal Investigator of various national and international research projects. She has received several research awards for her research work and has been awarded with three business awards for her work on bringing intelligent image interpretation methods and data mining methods into business. Her research interest includes image analysis and interpretation, machine learning, data mining, big data, machine learning, image mining and case-based reasoning