Oliver Grau received a Diploma (Master) and a PhD from the University of Hanover, Germany. From 1991-2000 he worked as a research scientist at the University of Hanover and was involved in several national and international projects, in the field of industrial image processing and 3D scene reconstruction for computer graphics applications.
In 2000 he joined the BBC Research & Development Department in the UK. He was working on a number of national and international projects, including ACTS- PANORAMA, Link-Prometheus, IST-MetaVision and IST-ORIGAMI and is currently leading the DTI iview project on 3D visualisation of sport scenes. His research interests are in new innovative tools for visual media production using image processing, computer vision and computer graphic techniques and he published a number of research papers and patents on this topic.
He was and is active as reviewer for scientific journals, research bodies like EPSRC and as a programme committee member of several international conferences, including BMVC, Mirage, VVG and CAIP. Further he was the initiator and chair of CVMP, the European Conference on Visual Media Production in London.