"ugliness that grows into beauty inside of your favorite shell" Torsten Spindler, Dipl. Informatiker

CV:

• Study of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern
• Unix and Linux administrator, programmer and enthusiast
• From 08/2001 to 8/2005 employed as researcher at the chair of CAAD | Areas of activity:
• Main Research Topic: Privacy Enhancement for Video Surveilled Spaces
  • Some Code Snippets

Projects:

• Research on Privacy in Video Surveilled Spaces, using video processing and cryptographic components to give observed persons control over their images
• Within blue-c-II the ViRoom is a framework developped by CVL used in my privacy project as well
• The future might foster intelligent building, which we researched in the context of a next generation lecture hall in project Building IP.
• Replay bild-o-mat was a class on image browsers
• The EasyProjector is a flash based image browser for easyDB
• A small project on colorspaces in one of my favorite languages: PerlColor
• The CAAD chair runs it's own Infrastructure
• To become a PhD^? at ETH you have to follow some Administrativa

Personal Links:

• Interests:
  • Linux Conference: http://www.linuxtag.org/
  • MLT Multimedia Framework: http://mlt.sf.net/
  • VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org/
  • Bicycling: http://velotreff.ethz.ch/
  • Online boardgaming tool: http://www.vassalengine.org/