ZESS PhD Research Forum 2025

At the annual “ZESS PhD Research Forum”, the Center for Sensor Systems offers its doctoral and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to present their research progress.

The aim of the event is the interdisciplinary exchange between the various working groups and external parties and also offers the opportunity to gain presentation experience and improve presentation techniques.

Programme

11.30 h – Session I

Welcome from ZESS & VDI

1. Welcome: Prof Kristof Van Laerhoven (ZESS)
2. Opening: Prof Jörg Himmel (VDI)
3. Keynote: Dr Marina Evers (Group Kolb)

12.15 h – Session II

Lightning Talks I

1. Erqi Huang (Group Ihrke/L2S): BSNeRF: Broadband Spectral Neural Radiance Fields for Snapshot Multispectral Light-field Imaging
2. Marius Bock (Group Möller/L2S): Temporal Action Localization for Inertial-based Human Activity Recognition
3. Henry Kipsang Misoi (Group Seeger): Temperature-Dependent Raman Linewidths of CO₂: Insights from Pure Rotational CARS
4. Syed Muhammad Kazim (Group Ihrke/L2S): Refractive Index Tomography of Biological Cells with Coded Phase Camera
5. Mohamed Saleh (Group Kolb/L2S): Detecting Object Parameters in MIMO THz Measurements through Inverse Simulation
6. Jonas Powell (Group Nelles): Data-Driven State-Space Modeling of an Excavator
7. Yannik Loth (Group Haring): A Waveguide-Driven Resonator for THz-Biosensing

13.30 h – Session III

Poster Presentations I & Coffee Break

1. Jonas Pöhler (Group Van Laerhoven): Simulators in HCI: Evaluating Cognitive Load, Interaction Design, and Physiological Responses from Control Rooms to Cycling
2. Pratik Bisht (Group Kolb): Quad-Quartic Gaussian Surfel Splatting with updated Color basis
3. Hao Qian (Group Choubey): Neuromemristive circuits as hardware accelerators for edge computing towards ultra-secure bio-sensors (DE-TW-NeuroMemSens)
4. Zeyneddin Oz (Group Van Laerhoven): FedFitTech: A Baseline for Federated Learning in Fitness Tracking
5. Mishal Fatima (Group Keuper/L2S): Learning to Quantize – Towards Low-bit RAW Imaging in Computer Vision
6. Aryaman Sharma (Group Kolb): Mesh Aware Gaussian Splatting
7. Michael Brilka (Group Van Laerhoven): Tracking progress with a proactive video recording system
8. Hendrik Sommerhoff (Group Kolb/L2S)/Qiushuang Zhang (Group Chouubey/L2S): Task driven sensor layouts – joint optimization of pixel layout and network parameters
9. Emrah Dursun (Group Haring): Scalable Transfer of Graphene (2D Material)
10. Henry Kipsang Misoi (Group Seeger): Temperature-Dependent Raman Linewidths of CO₂: Insights from Pure Rotational CARS
11. Jannis Maron (Group Ihrke), “Pose Optimization of Transparent Objects for Microscopic Cell Tracking”

14.30 h – Session IV

Lightning Talks II

1. Felix Thiel (Group Haring): Direct Confocal Absorption Microscopy (dCAM)
2. Syed Muhammad Raza (Group Manns): Human Assistance System with Eye-Tracking and Smartwatch Integration
3. Zeyneddin Oz (Group Van Laerhoven): A Federated Learning Study in Human Activity Recognition
4. Emrah Dursun (Group Haring): Scalable Transfer of Graphene (2D Material)
5. Dr Patrick Müller (Group Ihrke/L2S): Sensing the Essential – Robust Vision Camera with Hardware Prepended Layer
6. Dr John Meshreki (Group Ihrke/L2S): Entangled Vision: Pushing Boundaries in Quantum Imaging
7. Alireza Yazdani (Group Van Laerhoven): From Simulation to Visualization: Confirming Tube Bending Predictions with 3D Geometry

15:45 – Session V

Poster Presentations II & Coffee Break

1. Nahshon Obiri (Group Van Laerhoven): Indoor Localization: Improving LoRaWAN-based Distance Estimation via Environmental-Aware Path Loss Modeling
2. Atikkhan Faridkhan Nilgar (Group Van Laerhoven): Privacy Perceptions in Robot-Assisted Well-Being Coaching
3. Alexander Auras (Group Möller): Learned Representations of Discontinuous Functions
4. Zhaoyu Xiong (Group Kolb): Real-Time Multi-Material Material Method Point Simulation in Virtual Reality Applications
5. Michael Brilka (Group Van Laerhoven): Capturing Commuter Life: Recording Passenger Attention
6. Amir Peiraviminaei (Group Ihrke): Modelling and Recovering Differential Motion from Wavefield Transformations for Transparent Microscopic Objects
7. Dr Andrii Nehrich (Group Ihrke/L2S): Ultrasound 3D manipulations and phase imaging of biological microobjects
8. Johann Schmitt (Group Van Laerhoven): Development of a fast, robust and cost-effective system for nanoparticle analysis
9. Dr John Meshreki (Group Ihrke/L2S): Leveraging Vignetting in Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy
10. Fabian Rösner (Group Seeger): Studies on ammonia injection with Schlieren technique and Laser-Induced Grating spectroscopy

16.45 h – Session VI

Awards & Closing