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Media entertain, inform, advertise and educate us, they are important components of our lives.

We are witnesses of this media technology revolution. The cooperative doctoral college Digital Media enables targeted research in the promising field of digital media. It covers all important technical aspects of digital media like image acquisition, image and video processing, image synthesis, visualization and display technology in connection with artistic aspects.

The Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and the Hochschule der Medien have joined forces to form the cooperative Digital Media doctoral college. The college is supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg with eleven full-time scholarships according to the Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz (LGFG) for a maximum of three years. The focus of the college is on media production, visualisation and computer graphics/vision.

 

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Structure

The college is headed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eberhardt (Speaker, Media University), Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Schilling (University of Tübingen). The promotions at the college are carried out by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Tübingen and the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Stuttgart in accordance with their doctoral regulations. Upon successful completion of the doctoral process, the faculties award the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences.
 

Partners

Hochschule der Medien

The ,,Hochschule der Medien” (HdM) has been active for many years in researching new paths in media production. From film, sound, interactive media to computer graphics, computer animation and VFX, it offers a rich research terrain and up-to-date technical infrastructures in the field of digital media. The doctoral school is located at the HdM in Stuttgart, contact Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eberhardt.

Professors involved in the first call for proposals are: Prof. Oliver Curdt, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eberhardt, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hahn, Prof. Dr. Johannes Maucher, Prof. Dr. Gottfried Zimmermann, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheible

 

University of Stuttgart

The Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) at the University of Stuttgart is headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl and it is an institute in the department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Research areas of the institute are visualization and computer graphics, human-computer interaction and interactive systems, as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

Professors involved in the first call are: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl, Prof. Dr. Niels Henze and Prof. Dr. Daniel Weiskopf.

 

University of Tübingen

Central topics of the Institute of Computer Graphics and the Department of Media Informatics at the University of Tübingen are the generation and processing of digital images. This includes the development of algorithms for rendering, physically based modeling and simulation, visualization of scientific data as well as image processing and computer vision, image processing and computer graphics for medicine and life sciences. The department is headed by Prof. Dr. Hendrik Lensch and Prof. Dr. Andreas Schilling.

Professors involved in the first round of calls are: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schilling