Thomas Breuel is professor of computer science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern Computer Science Department and head of the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition (IUPR) research group at the DFKI. His research group works in the areas of image understanding, document imaging, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Previously, he has worked as a researcher at Xerox PARC, the IBM Almaden Research Center, IDIAP, Switzerland, as well as a consultant to the US Bureau of the Census. He is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.