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…
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…
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 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:
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”,…
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.…
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…
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…
A Personal Perspective on Interdisciplinary Research in Machine Learning 20 March 2025, 16.00 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,…
Congratulations, Dr Patrick Müller (second from left), who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Impact of Visual Range Optical Blur Aberrations on Deep Learning based Models for Image Classification and Object Detection! The late Prof Dr Otmar Loffeld supervised the…
19 March 2025,10.30 h (online event) Vision is an exploratory behaviour that relies heavily on the dynamic relationship between actions and sensory feedback.For any agent—whether animal or robotic—processing visual sensory input efficiently is crucial for understanding and interacting with its…
ZESS at Girls Day 2025 In this workshop, offered by Prof Michael Möller from ZESS, you’ll dip your toes into robotics and AI! You’ll go hands-on programming a Fischer-Technik Robot and teach it to recognise objects and intelligently react to…
During this year’s retreat of the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” we cleared away a good amount of fog (pictured in background) and had the physical and mental space to prepare for several exciting collaborations in the coming months!…
Invited speaker at ATHENA European University Talks is Prof Peter Kraemer from ZESS with a talk on Vibration Based Structural Health Monitoring. Friday, 31 January 2025, 1000 h CET To attend the talk, please register at
Invited speaker at ATHENA European University is Professor Kristof Van Laerhoven from ZESS, with a talk on Ubiquitous Computing. Friday, 24 January 2025, 1000 h CET To attend the talk, please register at
Today we had a very fruitful discussion of short and long term ideas on future projects among the ZESS members!
Congratulations Dr Faisal Ahmed on successfully defending his PhD thesis! Many thanks to Miguel Heredia Conde and Paula López Martínez for their supervision as well as to MENELAOS-NT for funding the research under the umrbella of MarieCurieITN.
On 22 November the annual meeting of the external advisory board (EAB) took place at ZESS. We were especially happy that both the head of the university, rector Prof Stefanie Reese, and dean, Prof Holger Schönherr, made the time to…
20th November 2024, 11-12 h in PB-H 0103 3D shape analysis tasks often involve characterizing a 3D object by an invariant, computationally efficient, and discriminative numerical representation, called shape descriptors. Among those, spectral-based shape descriptors have become increasingly widespread, since the spectrum…