Erhardt Barth (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Munich, in 1994. He was a Research Associate with the Department of Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich, and a Visiting Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, Melbourne University, Australia, where he was supported by the Gottlieb–Daimler and Karl–Benz Foundation. Then, he was a Researcher with the Department of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, and a Klaus-Piltz Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. From 1997 to 1998, he was a member of the NASA Vision Science and Technology Group, NASA Ames, Moffet Field, Mountain View, CA, USA. He is currently a Professor of computer science and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck, Germany. He also leads the research on human and machine vision at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning. In May 2000, he received a Schloessmann Award from the Max-Planck Gesellschaft.