Joachim Weickert
As of October 2026, Joachim Weickert is a professor at Saarland University, where he works on image processing and computer vision. His 1996 doctorate at Kaiserslautern dealt with anisotropic diffusion in image processing, and the Olympus Prize honored his work on nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering in 1998. He became a full professor at Saarland University in 2001 and leads its Mathematical Image Analysis group. His optical-flow paper with Thomas Brox, Andres Bruhn and Nils Papenberg won the ECCV 2004 best paper award and received the Koenderink Prize in 2014. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2010, and in 2017 an ERC Advanced Grant funded INCOVID, his project on inpainting-based compression.
Timeline
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1996
A doctorate on anisotropic diffusion
He earns a mathematics doctorate at Kaiserslautern in 1996 under the supervision of Helmut Neunzert. His dissertation is titled Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing.
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1998
An Olympus Prize for diffusion filtering
In 1998 the Olympus Prize honors his work on nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering.
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2001
Full professor at Saarland
He earns a habilitation at Mannheim in 2001 and becomes a full professor at Saarland University. He leads the Mathematical Image Analysis group at Saarland University since 2001.
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2004
A best paper award at ECCV
He and his co-authors Thomas Brox, Andres Bruhn and Nils Papenberg win the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award at ECCV 2004 for their paper on optical flow. The paper is titled High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping.
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2010
A Leibniz Prize for image analysis
He receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2010 for his work in image processing.
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2014
Koenderink Prize for the 2004 paper
At ECCV 2014 in Zurich, he and his co-authors receive the Koenderink Prize for their ECCV 2004 paper. The prize recognizes fundamental contributions in computer vision.
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2017
An ERC Advanced Grant for compression
The European Research Council awards him an Advanced Grant in 2017 for INCOVID, a project on inpainting-based compression of visual data. The grant provides up to 2.46 million Euro over five years.
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As of October 2026
Professor at Saarland University
He is a professor at Saarland University, where he performs research in image processing and computer vision. For the winter term 2025/2026, he is the professor named for the group's Bachelor and Master seminar.
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- Joachim Weickert - Wikipedia
- Joachim Weickert Awards, Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University
- Joachim Weickert, Professor, Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University
- High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping | ML Anthology
- Leibniz-Preise 2010: Zehn Mal Ehre, Geld und "märchenhafte Freiheit"
- ERC Advanced Grant INCOVID: Inpainting-based Compression of Visual Data, Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University
- Bachelor Seminar / Master Seminar / Oberseminar Mathematical Image Analysis, WT 2025 / 2026, Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University