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.
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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…
EMINENT Summer School 2025 at ZESS
Looking back on an inspiring week: The EMINENT Summer School 2025 at the ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems at Universität Siegen was a complete success! From 21 to 25 July, the first cohort of EMINENT students immersed themselves in…
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…
174th Meeting of the Members
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…
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…
ZESS Collaboration Workshop II
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…
Best Poster Award at ISCS for ZESS Researcher
Congratulations to ZESS researcher Syed Muhammad Kazim for receiving best poster award at the International Symposium on Computational Sensing (ISCS). His poster is titled Performance Validation of Coded Wavefront Sensing for Quantitative Phase Imaging of Static and Dynamic Specimens using…
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…
Jens Kamieth, MdL at ZESS
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…
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”,…
CfP: Vibration of Wind Turbines 2026
Are you ready to share your insights and innovations on wind turbine vibrations, noise, or structural health monitoring? Join us at the “Vibration of Wind Turbines 2026” Symposium in Hamburg on June 11-12, 2026! This event brings together experts from…
ZESS Collaboration Workshop
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.…
Girls’ Day 2025 at ZESS
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) and…
ZESS PhD Research Forum 2025
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…
ZESS and VDI Siegener Bezirksverein e.V. sign cooperation agreement
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…
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…
Your own AI Robot
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 to…
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!…
ZESS Lecture Series at ATHENA European University Talks II
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
Women in Vision at ZESS
January meeting of the Women in Vision group, hosted by ZESS. The group is an informal association of women who study and work in the field of computer vision, imaging and sensing at the University of Siegen. The goal is…
ZESS Lecture Series at ATHENA European University Talks I
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
Cover at Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
The article “Experimental Determination of the Temperature-Dependent Broadening Effect of Water Vapour on the S-Branch Raman Linewidths of Nitrogen” by Henri Misoi, Jonas Hölzer, and Thomas Seeger made it to the front page of the first issue 2025 of the…
Meeting of the Members
Today we had a very fruitful discussion of short and long term ideas on future projects among the ZESS members!
*Dr* Faisal Ahmed
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.
External Advisory Board Meeting 2024
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 to…
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…
Keynote at IRMMW-THz by Merle Richter
Merle Richter was part of this year’s Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves conference IRMMW-THz in Perth, Australia. We’re especially proud that her topic was chosen for the keynote presentation in the biomedical applications session. Congratulations and well done, Merle! M.…