Most recently, Franz Huber won the First Prize of the Poster Award at the 112th conference of the DGaO held in Ilmenau from 14-18 Juni 2011. His winning poster was titled “3D body scanning with Flying Triangulation”. The ...more

 
Florian Willomitzer received an award for his poster - 3D measurement of objects in the decimeter range with Flying Triangulation - at the 111th conference of the DGaO in Wetzlar. ...more

 
We have a new project - Flying Triangulation (or short: FlyTri). Its goal is to enable a motion-robust and freely hand-guided 3D measurement of objects. For further information please visit the project side. ...more

 
Sandy Peterhaensel received an award for her poster "Micro-defelktometry in transmission" at this year's annual conference of the DGaO. ...more

 
We welcome our new co-worker Evelyn Olesch (). She will work on her dissertation in the deflectometry group. ...more

 
The Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics (Max Planck Research Group - ) becomes the "Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light". The institute will be founded on January the 1st, 2009.
We are all very happy that our ...more

 
We welcome our new co-worker Christian Faber (). He will work on his dissertation in the deflectometry group. ...more

 
Markus Knauer was awarded the Innovation Award Laser Technology 2007 at this years LANE conference. The award was given for the research on the field of phase-measuring deflectometry. He received the price together with Thorsten Bothe of the BIAS ...more

 
Our spin-off company 3D-Shape Gmbh was awarded the Medizinpreis 2007 of Erlangen. They received the price for their contributions in the field of optical 3D measurement of human faces and bodies. ...more

 
This semester we offer a course on "Optical 3D-Sensing and Virtual Models".

During the lectures, the principles of various optical 3D-sensors will be discussed. The course consists of a two hour lecture and a one hour exercise per week. In ...more

 
Due to software updates on the server it is possible, that some features will not work correctly for some days. ...more

 
On Friday, 28/07/06, Markus C. Knauer has been honored with the Ohm Award 2006 for his PhD-Thesis on Phase-Measuring Deflectormetry (PMD). The method of PMD metrology allows a fast and highly accurate measurement of specular surfaces. This satisfies some ...more

 
Congratulations to our spin-off company 3D-SHAPE GmbH. They just celebrated their fith anniversary with a symposium on optical 3D-measurement systems.
During the last years our cooperation generated many excellent results. We hope that the future years will be as succesful ...more

 
Prof. Adolf Lohmann, former holder of the Chair of Applied Optics, will celebrate his 80th birthday.

Therefore, his friends and former students invite you to a
Birthday Symposium
April 7, 2006, 2:30 pm at the University of Erlangen, Lecture Hall G, Staudtstr. ...more

 
The Homepage was slightly re-designed for better navigation.

The headlines of the news and open positions have been moved to the navigation menu on the left side. Additionally, it is now possible to see the complete news archive starting from ...more

 
Visit us at the Hannover Messe from Monday, 24th of April to Friday, 28th of April, 2006. You will find us in hall 2, stand A54 - as part of the stand of Bayern Innovativ. We also applied for ...more