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…
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…
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!…
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
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…
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
For the contribution entitled Usage of Electro-Mechanical Impedance Spectra for Structural Health Monitoring of Bolted Connections under Varying Temperatures, ZESS PhD student Anna Lena Dreisbach (with Prof Peter Kraemer and Prof. Claus-Peter Fritzen) made 3rd place at the Best Paper…
Donnerstag, 17 Oktober 2024, 17-19 h in in PB-A 119 Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem VDI Bezierksverein Siegen Nach dem Eröffnungsvortrag über gelungene Kooperationen zwischen Zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen und universitärer Forschung durch Prof. Dr. Peter Kraemer (ZESS, Lehrstuhl für für Mechanik…
Dienstag, 19 November 2024, 10-18 h, US-S & ZESS Weitere Informationen zum Heidelberger Programmflyer Heidelberger Bildverarbeitungsforum & Open ZESS/Lamarr-Day Übersicht Open ZESS/Lamarr-Day Das ZESS ist am 19. November 2024 Gastgeber für das Schwerpunktthema “KI für Bildsensorik” des…
The Chair for Computational Sensing at Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS), University of Siegen is looking to fill a PhD position in computational microscopy/image processing and computer vision for microscopy. The position is within a DFG funded research project that…
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…
Congratulations Dr Jonas Hölzer (second from right) for successfully defending his PhD on Optimisation of non Lineaer, Laser Based Measuring Methods for the Characterisation of Reactive Flows” with summa cum laude at ZESS. We are happy that Jonas stays with…
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…
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…
The Siegen chapter of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) has awarded two bachelor and three master theses from the field of engineering with the 2023 prize. Two out of the five recipients worked at Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Kraemer‘s chair…
Visiting researcher at University of Siegen’s Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS), Professor Abdelhadi Soudi from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Rabat, Morocco, received this year’s Georg Forster Research Prize at the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt…
Sensorica, the prestigious international conference on measuring and Sensor Technology, takes place each year and has been co-organised by ZESS since the very beginning in 2014 (when it still took place in St Petersburg). From 2016 onwards, Hochschule Ruhr West…
Join us in congratulating ZESS Senior Member Joachim Ender for being the 2023 recipient of the IEEE AESS Pioneer Award for his seminal pioneering contributions to multichannel Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
In the Institute of Analogue Circuits and Image Sensors in Siegen University, Germany, we are looking for two researchers at Group Leaders (Postdoc) or early career (PhD student) level to join us in near future. The positions are initially for…
2 July 2024, 14-15 h in PB-H 0103 This talk focuses on modern mobile password managers and presents a novel attack called AutoSpill (Best Paper Award at CODASPY ’23 and BlackHat EU Briefings ’23). AutoSpill on Android password manager leaks users’…
Double congratulations to ZESS PhD student Jonas Hölzer: Jonas, who works at the Chair of Technical Thermodynamics, received the poster prize at the European Conference on Non-linear Optical Spectroscopy (ECONOS 2024) in Vienna for his work on Laser-induced grating diagnostics of…
On 22nd of May the annual PhD Research Forum took place at ZESS A busy crowd discussed 30 lightning talks and posters on a variety of aspects relating to sensor technology. The presentations enabled constructive exchange between students, PhD candidates,…
Thanks to PhD committee members Roland Wismüller, Qin Lv and Madjid Fathi.