Facial Reconstruction - Gesichtsrekonstruktion

Professor Dr. rer. nat. Thorsten M. Buzug
Director of the Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck

Buzug was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1963. He received his PhD in 1993 in Applied Physics from the University of Kiel. After a postdoctoral position at the German Federal Armed Forces Underwater Acoustics and Marine Geophysics Research Institute where he worked an signal processing for SONAR systems he joined the Philips Research Laboratories Hamburg in the end of 1994. As leader of the Philips research cluster Medical Image Processing he was responsible for several projects in that field. In 1998 Buzug has been appointed as Professor of Physics and Medical Engineering at RheinAhrCampus Remagen. In 2006 he has been appointed as director of the Institute of Medical Engineering at the University of Lübeck.

Professor Dr. rer. nat. Jens Bongartz

Bongartz studied Physics at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf and "Medical Physics and Engineering" at the University of Kaiserslautern. In 2002 he received his doctoral degree from the University of Duesseldorf with a thesis about holographic facial measurement. He worked for the Institute of Laser Medicine at the University of Duesseldorf and the center for advanced european studies and research (caesar) in Bonn as a rearch fellow. Since beginning of 2004 he is Professor for Medical Engineering at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen.

Various approaches tot face reconstruction an a skeletonized skull of an unknown individual have been presented since the 19th century. Recently, tremendous advances in information technology lead to significant further developments and refinements of the reconstruction methods. In combination with modern imaging technology, 3D simulation methods have been applied that create facial expressions. An international conference series an reconstruction of soft facial parts (RSFP) has been initiated to inform Police officers and international scientists about this complex scientific branch and to simultaneously encourage future international cooperative networks of the involved disciplines. This book includes contributions of the multi-faceted status quo of scientific developments in reconstruction of soft facial parts.