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”,…
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…
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!…
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…
Scholarship Announcement The Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) at the University of Siegen is pleased to announce a special scholarship program, generously funded by the Lamarr Institute, for researchers with a strong background in machine learning for data analysis. This…
IEEE circuits and system society, Germany chapter together with Kerala chapter announces the third annual seasonal school on “Intelligence in chips” from 16th to 19 October 2024. This entirely online seasonal school is free to attend and will contain lectures…
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 Sense” (L2S). This session explores strategies to address uncertainties and challenges in healthcare big…
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 Sense” (L2S). The physics for image formation is known: light from light sources get…
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 Sense” (L2S). Burst imaging pipelines allow cellphones to compensate for less-than-ideal optical and sensor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…