*Dr* Jochen Kempfle!
Congratulations Dr Jochen Kempfle for successfully defending his PhD at ZESS!
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*Dr* Sanhita Guha Pour!
Last week on Monday 8 April, Dr Sanhita Guha Pour (center) has successfully defended her PhD with a talk on Radar Band Fusion for Improved Range Resolution using Compressed Sensing. While not the first PhD within MENELAOS NT to defend…
Prof Onofre Martorell (University of the Balearic Islands): Joint fusion and denoising for multi-exposure sequences
29 April 2024, 16-18 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). Sequences of images taken with different exposure time can be combined by…
Meeting of ZESS Members
At ZESS meeting yesterday Prof. Ivo Ihrke received a warm welcome as our latest full member – great to have you! After learning that we just had the best year in the history of ZESS in terms of third party…
Dr Manuel Dietrich (Honda Research Institute Europe): Designing AI-powered technologies to align with social norms in human environments
23 April 2024, 13-14 h in PB-H 0103 AI-powered systems navigating everyday human environments can pose challenges to individual’s ethical and social values, presenting particular issues, when systems act upon their own initiative without strong oversight. In my talk, I…
L2S Retreat 2024
The DFG research unit 5336 “Learning to Sense”, which is hosted at ZESS, had a very robust retreat at Mannheim castle last week. We were joined by friends and colleagues from adjacent fields, ensuring massive input/massive output (MIMO). Thanks everybody…
Dr Jing Ren (ETH Zurich): Shape matching and map space exploration via functional maps
26 March 2024, 13-14 h in H-C 7327 Computing semantically meaningful correspondences between shapes is an important yet challenging task in computer graphics and geometry processing, with a wide range of applications including deformation, motion, and texture transfer , as…
Dr Alexandra Diehl (ETH Zurich): Visualization Research for Characterization of High Impact Weather Events (HIWE)
25 March 2024, 14-15 h in H-C 7327 — The talk will be held at a later date. — The efficient analysis, decision making, and communication of high-impact weather events (HIWE) and their associated risks is a challenging and ongoing…
Dr Simone Schaub-Meyer (TU Darmstadt): Efficient and Understandable Neural Networks for Image and Video Analysis
21 March 2024, 14-15 h in H-C 7327 Recent developments in deep learning have led to significant advances in many areas of computer vision. However, the success of these methods often depends on having a well-defined task corresponding training data,…
Anna Kukleva (MPI Saarbrücken): Advancing Image and Video Recognition with Less Supervision
14 March 202, 14-15 h in H-C 7327 Deep learning has become an essential component of modern life, transforming various tasks across multiple domains such as entertainment, education, and autonomous driving. However, the increasing demand for data to train models…
Prof Matthias Uhl (TH Ingolstadt): Behavioral Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
4 March 2024, 17.30-18.30 h at US-C 105 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Behavioral ethics deviates from armchair philosophy by systematically incorporating the moral concepts…
Prof Peter Kraemer with Wölfel Engineering and Alstom: Lectures on Structural Health Monitoring
7 November 2023 – 30 January 2024 in PB-A 118 30 January 2024, 16.00 h in PB-A 118: Dr Yan Niu, Alstom: Bogie Health Monitoring Using Acoustic Data 23 January 2024, 16.00 h in PB-A 118: Dr Manuel Eckstein, Wölfel Engineering:…
Dr Onofre Matorell: Variational models for High Dynamic Range Video
27 October 2023, 14-15 h at PB-H 0103 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction for multi-exposure video sequences is a very…
Dr Rajiv Joshi (T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM): Variability Aware Design in nm Era
14 August 2023, 13-14 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). As the technology scales, process, voltage, and temperature, variations (PVT) and model…
Jérome Eertmans (UC Louvain): Differentiable Ray Tracing for Telecommunications
17 July 2023, 11-12 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Over the last few decades, ray tracing (RT) has established itself as…
Jovita Lukasik (MPI for Informatics Saarbrücken): Topology Learning for Prediction, Generation, and Robustness in Neural Architecture Search
5 July 2023, 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 Sense” (L2S). Jovita Lukasik is a Ph.D. candidate in the focus group of Computer…
Jack Naylor (Sydney University Robotic Imaging Lab): Through the Looking Glass – Neural Fields for Robotics
7 June 2023, 11-12 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Robotic imaging is an emergent field which seeks to synthesize concepts across…
Dr John Meshreki (University of Siegen): Modelling Vignetting in Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy
31 May 2023, 10-11 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). John Meshreki completed his masters and PhD in Experimental Particle Physics with…
Prof Wolfgang Heidrich (KAUST): Learned Optics: Improving Computational Imaging Systems through Deep Learning and Optimization
24 May 2023, 13-14 h in H-C 7327 The talk is part of the ZESS lecture series and hosted by the DFG research unit “Learning to Sense” (L2S). Computational imaging systems are based on the joint design of optics andassociated…
Sensing and Machine Learning – ZESS PhD Research Forum 2023
Auch in diesem Jahr 2023 findet am Zentrum für Sensorsysteme wieder ein dreitägiges Doktorandenseminar zusammen mit dem ATHENA Forum und dem MenelaosNT Forum statt. Ziel dieser Veranstaltungsreihe ist der internationale Informations- und Wissensaustausch der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus den unterschiedlichen Arbeitsgruppen des ZESS und…
30 Jahre ZESS – “Herausragendes Forschungsinstitut in NRW”
Die Universität Siegen feiert in diesem Jahr ihr 50jähriges Jubiläum – das Zentrum für Sensorsysteme (ZESS) wird 30 Jahre alt. Lobende Worte gab es von NRW-Digitalminister Andreas Pinkwart. Im Sommer 1992 wurde auf dem Paul-Bonatz-Campus der Universität Siegen das Gebäude…
Sensing Anywhere – PhD Research Forum 2022
Auch im Jahr 2022 fand am Zentrum für Sensorsysteme wieder ein dreitägiges Doktorandenseminar zusammen mit dem ATHENA Forum und dem MenelaosNT Forum statt. Ziel dieser Veranstaltungsreihe ist der internationale Informations- und Wissensaustausch der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus den unterschiedlichen Arbeitsgruppen des ZESS und den…
International Day of Light 2021 @ZESS
Smart Sensing with Light: from Photons to Information On May 16th 2021, 14:00-18:20, our contribution to the international day of light took place at the Center for Sensor Systems. It was well attended with an average of 20-30 visitors. The…
New: Lecture “Compressive Sensing”
Tuesday, 14 -18pm PB-H 0103 Basics: Classical Shannon sampling theory links the sampling rate to the bandwidth of the signals being acquired. This means that the data flow directly depends on the maximum frequency present in the signal. High-resolution sensors,…