Bjoern Eskofier studied Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. In his Master thesis he enhanced a system for the subjective assessment of video quality. Since July 2006 he is a member of the digital sports group at the Institute of Pattern Recognition.

1986-1990
Primary School in Rosstal

1990-1999
Comprehensive Secondary School (Gymnasium Stein)

1999-2000
Civil Service in the "Berufsbildungswerk Mittelfranken"

2000-2006
Student of Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

• Fields of interest: Information Transmission and Coding, Multimedia Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Medical Image Processing
• Pre-master thesis: "Nonrigid Image Registration of Myocardial SPECT/CT Images"
• Master thesis: "Modelling of the temporal behaviour of the human visual system for the assessment of video quality"

2003
Participation in the Summer school of the Technische Universität München and the University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2003-2005
Study-accompanying work (March 2003 until August 2005) for the Fraunhofer Institute IIS in Tennenlohe

2003-2004
Study-accompanying work (October 2003 until March 2005) for the Chair of Multimedia Communications of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2004
Gain of international experience in the USA (6 months in Hoffman Estates (a suburb of Chicago) at Siemens Medical Solutions). During that time preparation of the pre-master thesis

since 2006
Member of the research staff of the Institute of Pattern Recognition in the digital sports group