Joerg Liebelt is a PhD student under the French-German co-supervision of Cordelia Schmid in the LEAR (Learning and Recognition in Vision) team at INRIA Grenoble in France, and Rüdiger Westermann at the chair for Computer Graphics and Visualization at TU München in Germany; the PhD is part of an industry co-operation with EADS Innovation Works in München, Germany. His work focuses on the use of synthetic 3D CAD models for model-based object class detection and pose estimation; see below for details.