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Dr. Armin Gruen

Armin Grün has been Full Professor of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at the ETH Zurich since August 1984 and serves currently as Head of Institute. Prof. Grün was born on April 27, 1944 in Berneck, Germany. He studied Geodesy and received his doctorate in Photogrammetry at the Technical University in Munich in 1974. He was on the scientific staff at the German Geodetic Research Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (1969), scientific assistant at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Cartography (1969/1976), senior engineer at the Chair for Photogrammetry of the TU in Munich (1976/1981), Associate Professor at the Department of Geodetic Sciences of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1981/1984). He had teaching and research assignments at the University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, USA, Department of Geodesy, TU Delft, Holland, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, the Department of Geomatics, Melbourne University, Australia and the National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan. In his research Prof. Grün is currently focusing on problems of automatic extraction of objects (roads, buildings) from aerial and satellite images, modelling of new linear Array Sensor Cameras, on machine vision tasks, on motion capture, cultural heritage modeling, 3D city models and generation of VR/VE.