Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Herpers was appointed Professor of Applied Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in 1999. Since then he has worked on a large number of research and development projects in the areas of computer vision, perception 3D simulations and visualisation and has published numerous scientific papers. In addition, he has held an adjunct professorship at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, continuously since 2008. He currently heads the Institute for Visual Computing at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the Graduate Institute.