Brief (né Budig), Benedikt
Research Interests
- Metadata extraction from historical maps
- Algorithms for Geographic Information Systems
- Systems with user interaction
- Implementation (GitHub organisation of the chair)
Projects
Talks
- "Glyph Miner: A System for Efficiently Extracting Glyphs from Early Prints in the Context of OCR" [PDF], presented at JCDL 2016.
- "Towards a Pipeline for Metadata Extraction from Historical Maps" [PDF], presented at the International Workshop on Exploring Old Maps (EOM 2016).
- "Efficient Algorithms and User Interaction for Metadata Extraction from Historical Maps" [PDF], presented at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 PhD Symposium.
- "Matching Labels and Markers in Historical Maps: an Algorithm with Interactive Postprocessing" [PDF], presented at the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on MapInteraction 2014.
Scholarships und Awards
- July 2017:
Distinction "Best of Computing – Notable Article" for "Matching Labels and Markers in Historical Maps: An Algorithm with Interactive Postprocessing" [paper] by the ACM Computing Review. With Thomas van Dijk und Alexander Wolff. - November 2015:
Best Poster Award Runners up at 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2015 (ACMGIS) for "There and Back Again: Using Fréchet-Distance Diagrams to Find Trajectory Turning Points." [PDF] With Lukas Beckmann, Thomas van Dijk and Johannes Schamel. - October 2015:
Best Applied Paper Award at Discovery Science 2015 for "Active Learning for Classifying Template Matches in Historical Maps." [PDF] With Thomas van Dijk. - October 2014:
Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Teaching
- SS17: Tutorials Algorithms for Geographic Information Systems
- WS16: Seminar Algorithms for Extracting Data from Historical Maps (new!)
- WS16: Tutorials Approximation Algorithms
- SS16: Tutorials Visualization of Graphs
- WS15: Tutorials Approximation Algorithms
- SS15: Tutorials Algorithms for Geographic Information Systems
- WS14: Tutorials Computational Geometry
Publications
2016[ to top ]
-
Matching Labels and Markers in Historical Maps: an Algorithm with Interactive Postprocessing in Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) (2016). 2(4) 13:1–13:24.
-
Polygon Consensus: Smart Crowdsourcing for Extracting Building Footprints from Historical Maps in Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016) (2016). 66:1–66:4.
-
Efficient Algorithms and User Interaction for Metadata Extraction from Historical Maps in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD Workshop, SIGSPATIAL PhD ’15 (2016). 4:1–4:4.
-
Glyph Miner: A System for Efficiently Extracting Glyphs from Early Prints in the Context of OCR. in Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL ’16, N. R. Adam, L. (Boots) Cassel, Y. Yesha, R. Furuta, M. C. Weigle (eds.) (2016). 31–34.
2015[ to top ]
-
There and Back Again: Using Fréchet-Distance Diagrams to Find Trajectory Turning Points in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015) (2015). 238–241.
-
Active Learning for Classifying Template Matches in Historical Maps in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Discovery Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2015). (Vol. 9356) 33–47.
2014[ to top ]
-
Matching Labels and Markers in Historical Maps: an Algorithm with Interactive Postprocessing in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction (MapInteract ’14) (2014). 22–28.
2012[ to top ]
-
An algorithm for map matching given incomplete road data in Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS ’12) (2012). 510–513.