He received his Ph.D in computer vision in 2005 from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. His Diploma in Computer Science is from the University of Lübeck. Jan-Michael Frahm’s research interests include a variety of computer vision in the areas of structure from motion, dense 3D reconstruction, location recognition and the development of data-parallel algorithms for commodity graphics hardware for efficient 3D reconstruction. He has written more than 70 peer-reviewed publications in computer vision conferences and journals and is an editor in chief of the Elsevier Journal of Image and Vision Computing.