High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Simone Frintrop is a German software engineer and researcher within the field of cognitive computer vision. Her most notable achievement is developing a visual attention system for object detection and goal-directed search – VOCUS, applicable in robotics. After getting her diploma from the University of Bonn, http://www3.uni-bonn.de/the-university in 2001, she became a PhD student at Fraunhofer Institute AiS in St. Augustin. In 2005 she defended her PhD thesis and became a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP), http://www.nada.kth.se/cvap/index.html at the Royal Institute for Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently she works as Senior Scientist in the Intelligent Vision Systems Group, http://ivs.informatik.uni-bonn.de/index.html at the University of Bonn, where she investigates cognitive methods for intelligent vision systems.