Gernot A. Fink earned his diploma in computer science from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 1991. He recieved a Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1995 and the venia legendi in applied computer science in 2002 both from Bielefeld University, Germany. Currently, he is professor for Pattern Recognition in Embedded Systems at the University of Dortmund, Germany, where he also heads the Intelligent Systems Group at the Robotics Research Institute. His reserach interests lie in the development and application of pattern recognition methods in t...