Arrivederci, Paolo
Paolo Zuzolo, who already had been a guest at ZESS for a talk in 2024 had returned for a longer research stay to collaborate with the DFG Research Unit “Learning to Sense”. Specifically, he worked on Shape Matching and Neural…
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Head of Outreach and PR and coordinator of DFG Research Unit "Learning to Sense". ZESS staff photographer.
Members Meeting
Last Tuesdays ZESS Members gathered to discuss activities of the past year, the strategy for the coming months and decide on three membership applications! Prof Jasmin Grosinger, Jun-Prof Jovita Lukasik, and Prof Daniel O’Hagan had applied to be associated and…
Hiring: PhD students in Communication Engineering!
We’re looking for two motivated PhD students to join the communications engineering group of Prof Jasmin Grosinger! Her research focuses on energy-efficient wireless systems and radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for next-generation IoT and sensor technologies. Both positions are full-time for three years and part of the…
L2S Talk by Moritz Nottebaum (University of Udine): Beyond MACs – Hardware-Aware Neural Network Design for Efficient Inference
30 October 2025, 10.00 h in H-A 7114 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). In this talk, Moritz will present his previous and current research, which mainly…
1st International Online Conference on Optics 25-27 Mar 2026
Welcome from the Chairs It is our great pleasure to invite you to join the 1st InternationalOnline Conference on Optics (IOCO 2026), which will behosted online from 25 to 27 March 2026. The conferenceserves as a premier platform for optics…
ZESS at Children’s University: How Can Wind Turn into Electricity?
ZESS spokesperson Prof Peter Kraemer held a lecture in front of a packed auditorium on how wind turbines generate electricity at the fall installment of University of Siegen’s Children’s University Here’s his announcement:
Publication Alert: Quantum-Enhancerd Computer Vision – Going Beyond Classical Algorithms
Natacha Kuete Meli, Shuteng Wang, Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Michele Sasdelli, Tat-Jun Chin, Tolga Birdal, and supervisors Michael Moeller and Vladislav Golyanik have released a survey! 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 Quantum-enhanced Computer Vision (QeCV) is a new and…
Former ZESS PhD Student Jonas Geiping Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2025
Since 2011, the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), organizer of the German Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (GCPR), has annually granted the German Pattern Recognition Award for outstanding, internationally visible research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer…
GCPR & VMV Conference 2026 at ZESS in Siegen
We are proud to announce that the next German Conference for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (GCPR) will take place in Siegen from Sept. 22nd to Sept. 25th, 2026, jointly with the Vision, Modelling and Visualization Conference (VMV). Both are hosted…
Publication Alert: Resolution-adjusted boundary particles for Adaptive SPH
Resolution-adjusted boundary particles for Adaptive SPH by Andreas Kolb et al has just been accepted in The Visual Computer! In Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), accurate boundary handling is essential, especially when using adaptive particle resolutions to combine efficiency with fine…
Publication Alert: Smart Eyes, FlowBench and Amending Inherent Interpretability
Three Publications from the DFG Research Unit “Learning to Sense” accepted by Shashank Agnihotri (Group of Margret Keuper at U Mannheim) – Congratulations and outstanding work!
L2S Talk by Prof R Venkatesh Babu (IISc Bangalore): Controllable and 3D-Aware Diffusion Models, and Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Domain Generalization
Mon 22 September 2025, 14.00 h in E1 5 029 and ZOOM (link upon request) The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Generative diffusion models have transformed image…
L2S Talk by Prof Bibhu Datta Sahoo (University at Buffalo): Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits and Systems for Emerging Applications
5 September 2025, 14.00 h in H-B 6414 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense”(L2S). Quantum Computing, having the ability to exponentially enhance the raw computing power, and Artificial…
Dr Joana Grah (RKI) visiting ZESS and “Women in Vision”
During the past couple of days we had the great pleasure to host Dr Joana Grah for a research stay at ZESS’ Computer Vision Group and the DFG research unit Learning to Sense. Apart from her talk on Light and…
Publication Alert: “Corner Cases”
Corner cases: How size and position of objects challenge imagenet-trained models by Mishal Fatima, Steffen Jung and Margret Keuper has been accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Lamarr Workshop on Mathematical Modelling for Machine Learning in Visual Computing
As part of the Lamarr workshop on Mathematical Modelling for Machine Learning in Visual Computing, last week our Computer Vision Group (led by ZESS member and Lamarr PI Prof. Dr. Michael Möller), the Geometry in Machine Learning Group at University…
L2S Talk by Dr Joana Grah (Robert Koch Institute): Light and Electron Microscopy Image Analysis with Applications in Public Health Research
21 August 2025, 10.00 h in PB-H 0103 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense”(L2S). In this talk, we present some of the work currently conducted in the Image Analysis…
Calling all ML, CV and Sensor Enthusiasts!
Join us at the L2S: Learning to Sense Workshop at NeurIPS 2025!🗓 6-7 December 2025📍 San Diego, USA🌐 This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners exploring how learning-based approaches can be used in cross-disciplinary processes that are shaping the…
EMINENT Summer School 2025 at ZESS
Looking back on an inspiring week: The EMINENT Summer School 2025 at the ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems at Universität Siegen was a complete success! From 21 to 25 July, the first cohort of EMINENT students immersed themselves in…
L2S Talk by Prof Dr Simeng Qiu (Swansea University): Encoding Angular Information into Computational Imaging
23 July 2025, 10.30-12 h in PB-H 210 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Angular information is applied across domains such as navigation, virtual and augmented…
174th Meeting of the Members
ZESS Members gathered for the 174th time and discussed the future direction of ZESS research. The meeting also marked the end of Prof Kristof Van Laerhoven’s term as ZESS spokesperson. After an extended term Kristof hands over the wheel to…
This was French-German THz Conference 2025
From June 24 to 27, 2025, the French-German Terahertz Conference (FGTC) took place at ZESS/University of Siegen. FGTC is a significant forum for international exchange on terahertz technologies and research. The conference brought together leading scientists, young talents, and industry…
ZESS Collaboration Workshop II
Since the first collaboration workshop in May ZESS members worked behind the scenes to draft possible projects in more detail. On 8 July they met with partners from outside ZESS for the second collaboration workshop to discuss the results and…
Best Poster Award at ISCS for ZESS Researcher
Congratulations to ZESS researcher Syed Muhammad Kazim for receiving best poster award at the International Symposium on Computational Sensing (ISCS). His poster is titled Performance Validation of Coded Wavefront Sensing for Quantitative Phase Imaging of Static and Dynamic Specimens using…
L2S Talk by Prof Dr Vincent Wallace (UWA, Perth, Australia): Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging, data processing and analysis
2 July 2025, 10.30-12 h in PB-H 0103 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). DFG Research Unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S) Mercator fellow Prof Vincent Wallace…
Jens Kamieth, MdL at ZESS
Jens Kamieth, who represents Siegen in the NRW state parliament and is a member of its science committee, visited the Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) to find out about current research activities, including those connected to the new research building…
DFG and VDI visiting ZESS and INCYTE
When German Research Foundation (DFG) programme officer Dr Bastian Mohr visited ZESS during PhD Research Forum 2025 in order to meet with research unit “Learning to Sense” PIs and VDI representative Prof Dr Jörg Himmel was present anyway, we took…
This was the ZESS PhD Research Forum 2025
Like in the previous years, the house was packed and the atmosphere was fantastic. We had the traditional lightning talks (14 in total) and poster format (21 in total) presented over the course of the afternoon of the 7 May…
L2S & ZESS at Open University Day
On 24th may 2025 University of Siegen presented itself at Open University day. At more than 50 booths and hands-on stations, visitors could learn about university life and could be active themselves. ZESS and DFG Research Unit “Learning to Sense”,…
CfP: Vibration of Wind Turbines 2026
Are you ready to share your insights and innovations on wind turbine vibrations, noise, or structural health monitoring? Join us at the “Vibration of Wind Turbines 2026” Symposium in Hamburg on June 11-12, 2026! This event brings together experts from…
ZESS Collaboration Workshop
Today ZESS members gathered for a collaboration workshop. Members pitched very interesting ideas in three rotating smaller teams initialising productive discussions throughout. In fact, so productive that most participants stayed well beyond the end to continue talking about possible projects.…
Girls’ Day 2025 at ZESS
On 3 April 2025, University of Siegen took part in the Girls’ Day, the nationwide day of action for stereotype-free career guidance. ZESS Professor and Lamarr Fellow Michael Möller, together with postdocs Dr Natacha Kuete Meli (3rd from left) and…
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…