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Frank Deinzer was born in 1972. He obtained his diploma (Dipl.-Inf.) degree in 1998 and his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in computer science in 2005 from the University of Erlangen. Between 2004 and 2009 he had a position as project lead for medical image fusion at Siemens AG, Medical Solutions, Forchheim, Germany. Currently, he holds a position at the University of Applied Sciences in Wuerzburg (Germany) as professor for computer science. From 2012 to 2014 he headed the Institute Design and Information Systems there. Since 2014 he is head of the Steinbeis Transfer Center New Media and Data Science.

His research interests are in statistical fusion of sensor data in the field of medical image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, interaction design and multimedia techniques. He is author and co-author of more than 60 conference/journal articles and books, and inventor resp. patentee of more than 50 patents. His work on sensor fusion for active object recognition was awarded the DAGM best paper award in 2001. In 2008 he received the innovation award of the German society for computer science. He is a member of Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI, German society for computer science).