Prof. Dr. Carsten Steger, Research & Development Director at MVTec Software, was unanimously elected into the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM).

Prof. Dr. Steger studied computer science at Technische Universität München (TUM) and received his Ph. D. in 1998. From beginning he has been in charge of research and development. Furthermore he is co-owner of MVTec. Since 2000, he has given lectures and practical courses on machine vision. In 2011, he was appointed a TUM adjunct professor for the field of computer vision.