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…
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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…
L2S Talk by 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.…
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…
Best Paper Award at IWIS for Anna Lena Dreisbach
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…
Energiewende in Südwestfalen [in German]
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…
KI für Bildsensorik – 88. Heidelberger Bildverarbeitungsforum + ZESS & Lamarr-Tag [in German]
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…
Hiring: Researcher DFG-Project “Tomo-Track”
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…
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…
*Dr* Jonas Hölzer!
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…
Hiring: Computer Graphics/ML Researcher
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…
Best Wishes to Joy Muriithi
Joy Muriithi from Dedan Kimathi University in Kenya was a guest at ZESS during the past months. She wrote her master’s thesis at ZESS as part of the Erasmus+ funded exchange programme KA171 International Credit Mobility (ICM) at Prof Thomas…
L2S Talk by 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…
L2S Talk by 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…
L2S Talk by 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…
VDI Siegen Chapter Awards Prizes to Two ZESS Students
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…
ZESS Visiting Researcher Prof Abdelhadi Soudi Recieves Georg Forster Award
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…
ZESS at SENSORICA 2024
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…
ZESS Senior Member Joachim Ender Receives IEEE AESS Pioneer Award
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).
Hiring: 2 Positions (PhD or Postdoc) in CMOS Chip Design and Artificial Intelligence
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…
Prof Ankit Gangwal (IIIT Hyderabad): “Stealing Credentials from Mobile Password Managers”
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
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…
Full House at ZESS – PhD Research Forum 2024
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,…
*Dr.* Alexander Hoelzemann!
Thanks to PhD committee members Roland Wismüller, Qin Lv and Madjid Fathi.
*Dr* Jochen Kempfle!
Congratulations Dr Jochen Kempfle for successfully defending his PhD at ZESS!
*Dr* Sanhita Guha Pour!
Last week on Monday 8 April, Dr Sanhita Guha Pour (center) has successfully defended her PhD with a talk on Radar Band Fusion for Improved Range Resolution using Compressed Sensing. While not the first PhD within MENELAOS NT to defend…
L2S Talk by 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…
Meeting of ZESS Members
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…