Publication Alert: “Corner Cases”
Corner cases: How size and position of objects challenge imagenet-trained models by Mishal Fatima, Steffen Jung and Margret Keuper has been accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Category Learning to Sense
Dr Joana Grah (Robert Koch Institute): Light and Electron Microscopy Image Analysis with Applications in Public Health Research
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…
Calling all ML, CV and Sensor Enthusiasts!
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…
Prof Dr Simeng Qiu (Swansea University): Encoding Angular Information into Computational Imaging
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…
This was French-German THz Conference 2025
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…
Prof Dr Vincent Wallace (UWA, Perth, Australia): Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging, data processing and analysis
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…
DFG and VDI visiting ZESS and INCYTE
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…
This was the ZESS PhD Research Forum 2025
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…
L2S & ZESS at Open University Day
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”,…
Prof Dr Michael Wand (University of Mainz): Deep Learning, the Universe and all the Rest
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,…
*Dr* Patrick Müller
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…
Dr Giulia D’Angelo (Czech Technical University Prague): What’s catching your eye? Biologically Inspired Systems for Human-Machine Interaction
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…
Research Unit “L2S” Retreat 2025
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!…
Paolo Zuzolo (University of Bologna): “Deep spectral features for 3D shape analysis”
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…
6-Month Research Fellowship in Machine Learning at ZESS
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…
Seasonal School “Intelligence in chips”
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…
Prof Sonali Agarwal (Big Data Analytics Lab, Indian Institute of Information Technology): “Addressing Uncertainties and Challenges in Big Data for Healthcare”
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…
Dr Partha Das (University of Amsterdam): Physics based photometric invariance for image understanding
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…
Ilya Chugunov (Princeton University): Neural Field Representations of Mobile Computational Photography
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a research unit on artificial intelligence at ZESS
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,…