Peter Sturm holds a position of permanent researcher at INRIA. Peter Sturm is born in Germany where he graduated from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. He moved to France in 1994. He obtained his PhD in 1997 from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He started his professional career at the University of Reading where he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow. He joined INRIA and the MOVI research team (now PERCEPTION) in 1999. In 1998 Peter Sturm got the SPECIF PhD award, given annually to one French PhD thesis in Computer Science (he was the first one to receive this prize). His research interests cover camera calibration, 3D reconstruction with a moving camera, and photometric-based reconstruction.