21 May 2026, 11.30 h-17.15 h at ZESS 11:30 Session I Welcome from ZESS & VDI (Chair: Peter Kraemer) Keynote PD Dr. Andreas Bablich 12:15 Session II Lightning Talks 1 (Chair: Patrick Müller) 13:30 Session III Posters and Coffee Break…
On 14 April 2026 ZESS members met for the 176th time. The topics of our very productive meeting were recomendations of the external advisory board, state of the project collaborations among the members, future collaborations and the general direction of…
On 17 December Research Unit Learning to Sense welcomed Manuela Möller and Hanna Völkel from EAF Berlin for a day long workshop, training our diversity awareness. The sessions focussed on dynamics of power, unconscious biases, and communication in the work…
On 28 November the ZESS family gathered for the traditional pre-Christmas External Advisory Board meeting where we presented our academic achievments and the very sucessful third party funding activities of the last year. Same as in 2024, we were especially…
Pratik Bisht and Michael Möller presenting the spotlight “Neural Atlas Graphs for Dynamic Scene Decomposition and Editing” by Jan Philipp Schneider, Pratik Bisht, Ilya Chugunov, Andreas Kolb, Michael Möller and Felix Heide at NeurIPS in San Diego.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
In order to meet the challenges of the future, there is a lack of young talent, particularly in the technical disciplines. In the education and training sector, many players such as companies, chambers of industry and commerce, universities, colleges and…
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!…
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.
The chair for Computer Graphics at Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) is looking to fill a permanent position for a dedicated researcher in the field of Computer Graphics and Machine Learning or in related fields in research and teaching. Your…
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…
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…
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…
Official website: As part of its strategic funding initiative in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding eight new research units—including one at the University of Siegen. The “Learning to Sense” project,…
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…
DFG project on Deep Models for Handheld Light Field Acquisition Dr. Paramanand Chandramouli received a DFG funding for his project on “Deep Models for Handheld Light Field Acquisition”. He will be hosted by the Computer Graphics Chair at University’s Center…
Dr. Yuval Bahat has been awarded an EU Cofund STAR Fellowship for his project “Ambiguity-Aware System Design for Computer Vision Problems”, which addresses reconstruction problems from imaging sensor data. Yuval Bahat is now starting a joint postdoctoral researcher position at…