Join us at the L2S: Learning to Sense Workshop at NeurIPS 2025!đ 6-7 December 2025đ San Diego, USAđ This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners exploring how learning-based approaches can be used in cross-disciplinary processes that are shaping theâŠ
Looking back on an inspiring week: The EMINENT Summer School 2025 at the ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems at UniversitĂ€t Siegen was a complete success! From 21 to 25 July, the first cohort of EMINENT students immersed themselves inâŠ
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 âLearning to Senseâ (L2S). Angular information is applied across domains such as navigation, virtual and augmentedâŠ
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 toâŠ
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 industryâŠ
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 âLearning to Senseâ (L2S). DFG Research Unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S) Mercator fellow Prof Vincent WallaceâŠ
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 tookâŠ
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 MayâŠ
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”,âŠ
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.âŠ
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) andâŠ
At the annual âZESS PhD Research Forumâ, 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 andâŠ
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 âLearning to Senseâ (L2S). In this talk,âŠ
Congratulations, Dr Patrick MĂŒller (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 theâŠ
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 agentâwhether animal or roboticâprocessing visual sensory input efficiently is crucial for understanding and interacting with itsâŠ
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 toâŠ
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!âŠ
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 LĂłpez MartĂnez 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 toâŠ
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 spectrumâŠ
Donnerstag, 17 Oktober 2024, 17-19 h in in PB-A 119 Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem VDI Bezierksverein Siegen Nach dem Eröffnungsvortrag ĂŒber gelungene Kooperationen zwischen Zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen und universitĂ€rer Forschung durch Prof. Dr. Peter Kraemer (ZESS, Lehrstuhl fĂŒr fĂŒr MechanikâŠ
Dienstag, 19 November 2024, 10-18 h, US-S & ZESS Weitere Informationen zum Heidelberger Programmflyer Heidelberger Bildverarbeitungsforum & Open ZESS/Lamarr-Day Ăbersicht Open ZESS/Lamarr-Day Das ZESS ist am 19. November 2024 Gastgeber fĂŒr das Schwerpunktthema “KI fĂŒr Bildsensorik” desâŠ
IEEE circuits and system society, Germany chapter together with Kerala chapter announces the third annual seasonal school on âIntelligence in chipsâ from 16th to 19 October 2024. This entirely online seasonal school is free to attend and will contain lecturesâŠ
Congratulations Dr Jonas Hölzer (second from right) for successfully defending his PhD on Optimisation of non Lineaer, Laser Based Measuring Methods for the Characterisation of Reactive Flows” with summa cum laude at ZESS. We are happy that Jonas stays withâŠ
24 September 2024, 14-15 h in PB-H 0103 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Senseâ (L2S). This session explores strategies to address uncertainties and challenges in healthcare bigâŠ
17 September 2024, 11-12 h in PB-H 0103 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Senseâ (L2S). The physics for image formation is known: light from light sources getâŠ
26 August 2024, 14-15 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Senseâ (L2S). Burst imaging pipelines allow cellphones to compensate for less-than-ideal optical and sensorâŠ
2 July 2024, 14-15 h in PB-H 0103 This talk focuses on modern mobile password managers and presents a novel attack called AutoSpill (Best Paper Award at CODASPY ’23 and BlackHat EU Briefings ’23). AutoSpill on Android password manager leaks users’âŠ
On 22nd of May the annual PhD Research Forum took place at ZESS A busy crowd discussed 30 lightning talks and posters on a variety of aspects relating to sensor technology. The presentations enabled constructive exchange between students, PhD candidates,âŠ
Thanks to PhD committee members Roland WismĂŒller, Qin Lv and Madjid Fathi.