Patch-based Object Recognition

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Prof. Ney for offering me the opportunity to work as a student researcher at the Chair of Computer Science 6, where I have been a member of the image recognition group since August 2004, and to write my diploma thesis at this department. Also, I would like to thank Prof. Seidl who kindly accepted to co-supervise this work. For the excellent supervision of my work I would like to thank Thomas Deselaers, who spent a lot of time and effort in supporting me while this thesis developed. Furthermore, I would like to thank the other students and former students at the department for interesting discussions and many helpful comments. Special thank goes to Christian Terboven for proof reading the draft of this work. Last but not least I would like to thank my parents who gave me, besides so much more, the possibility to study.