Principal Investigator

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel

Project Leader

• Ludger van Elst manages the project and leads the knowledge management aspects.
  
• Faisal Shafait leads Perspecting's research on attention-based image retrieval.
  

Researchers

• Benjamin Adrian
• Ralf Biedert
• Ludger van Elst
• Matthias Reif
• Faisal Shafait

Software Engineer

• Christian Kofler: Christian is responsible for the image retrieval software infrastructure and the integration of related scientific results.
• Andreas Lauer

Students

• Sebastian Ebert (supervised by Benjamin Adrian)
• Arman Vartan: Arman mostly works on the Text 2.0 framework and takes care of the diagnosis and the tracking server; also he is interested in eye tracking mobile devices. (supervised by Ralf Biedert)
• Dominik Henter: Image Retrieval Desktop GUI, Visual Construction of Search Systems (supervised by Christian Kofler)
• Manuel Hoffmann: Web Frontend for visual search (supervised by Christian Kofler)
• Takumi Toyama: Museumguide 2.0 - What if the guide knows what you are looking at? (supervised by Faisal Shafait)

Project Mentor

• Prof. Horst Bunke and Prof. Randy Goebel are members of DFKI's Scientific Advisory Board and serve as mentors to the Perspecting project.

Former Team Members

• Georg Buscher worked as a researcher in Perspecting and completed his PhD on Attention-based Information Retrieval. Now Georg is with Microsoft Research.
• Nazly Sabbour is a Bachelor student from the German University Cairo. She completed a thesis on models for search processes on the Semantic Desktop. (supervised by Ludger van Elst)