Torsten Büschenfeld was born in Nienburg/Germany in 1979. He studied Electrical Engineering with a focus on Automation Technology / Mechatronics at the University of Hanover.
His "Studienarbeit" (first student research project) at the TNT was dealing with 'Fast Depth Estimation in Onboard Sequences by a Feature-Based Stereo Approach' and received the VDE Hanover student award for the best student research project in electrical engineering in 2004. His diploma thesis was dealing with 'Motion Estimation by a Fast ICP Approach for Driver Assistance Systems'.

Since then he has been working as a research assistant toward a doctor's degree (Dr.-Ing.) at the 'Institut für Informationverarbeitung' at the University of Hanover. His research interests are image processing and computer vision.