Dr. Jilliam Díaz Barros, from the Augmented Vision department at DFKI, was honored as an Outstanding Reviewer at WACV 2025.
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) provides a forum for computer vision researchers working on practical applications and innovative algorithms to share their latest developments. WACV 2025 was held in Tucson, Arizona, from February 28th to March 4th.
The researchers of the Augmented Vision department have presented 4 papers at the ICPRAM 2025 conference taking place Feb 23 – 25, 2025 in Porto, Portugal.
The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) is a point of contact between researchers and engineers working on Pattern Recognition, both from a theoretical and application perspective.
The presented papers are:
“Domain-Incremental Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving under Adverse Driving Conditions”
Shishir Muralidhara, René Schuster, Didier Stricker
“1D-DiffNPHR: 1D Diffusion Neural Parametric Head Reconstruction using a single image”
Pragati Jaiswal, Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial, Didier Stricker
“HI^2: Sparse-View 3D Object Reconstruction with a Hybrid Implicit Initialization”
Pragati Jaiswal, Didier Stricker
“Object-Centric 2D Gaussian Splatting: Background Removal and Occlusion-Aware Pruning for Compact Object Models”
Marcel Rogge, Didier Stricker
The paper “HI^2: Sparse-View 3D Object Reconstruction with a Hybrid Implicit Initialization” was a nominee for the best paper award.
Congratulations to all the authors!
Contact: René Schuster, Didier Stricker
The researchers of the department Augmented Vision have presented 4 papers at WACV 2025 conference taking place Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2025 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) one of the three major Computer Vision conferences organized by TCPAMI.
The 4 papers are:
“Uni-SLAM: Uncertainty-Aware Neural Implicit SLAM for Real-Time Dense Indoor Scene Reconstruction” Shaoxiang Wang, Yaxu Xie, Chun-Peng Chang, Christen Millerdurai, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker
“Modality-Incremental Learning with Disjoint Relevance Mapping Networks for Image-based Semantic Segmentation”, Niharika Hegde, Shishir Muralidhara, René Schuster, Didier Stricker
“AnonyNoise: Anonymizing Event Data with Smart Noise to Outsmart Re-Identification and Preserve Privacy”, Katharina Bendig, René Schuster, Nicole Thiemer, Karen Joisten, Didier Stricker
“Beyond Boxes: Mask-Guided Spatio-Temporal Feature Aggregation for Video Object Detection”, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Talha Uddin Sheikh, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
Congratulations to the authors for this great achievement!
Contact: Alain Pagani, René Schuster, Zeshan Afzal
Contact: Alain Pagani, René Schuster, Zeshan Afzal
The consortium of the HumanTech project, under the coordination of DFKI Augmented Vision – Dr. Jason Rambach, had its final in-person General Assembly meeting in Madrid, Spain on the 30-31st January 2025. The meeting was hosted in the premises of the project partner ACCIONA. All project partners had an opportunity to experience live demonstrations of the HumanTech technologies bringing AI and Robots to construction sites, such as intention-activated exoskeletons for construction workers and collaborative brick-laying robots.
The HumanTech project is ending in May 2025 with several success stories such as:
For more on HumanTech: https://humantech-horizon.eu/news/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
Our article “Resolving Symmetry Ambiguity in Correspondence-based Methods for Instance-level Object Pose Estimation” was published in the prestigious Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) Journal. The work is a collaboration of DFKI with Zhejiang University. The article is openly accessible at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10906413
Yongliang Lin, Yongzhi Su, Sandeep Inuganti, Yan Di, Naeem Ajilforoushan, Hanqing Yang, Yu Zhang, Jason Rambach. “Resolving Symmetry Ambiguity in Correspondence-based Methods for Instance-level Object Pose Estimation” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (2025).
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
Three EU projects coordinated by the AV department have been presented in a meeting of the Virtual and Augmented Reality Industrial Coalition, hosted by the European Commission in Brussels on February 11th and 12th 2025. The meeting brought together over 110 attendees from more than 80 private and public organisations for discussions about the creation of a Private Public Partnership on Virtual Worlds.
The Augmented Vision department presented its work on extended reality (XR) in the projects CORTEX² (Coordinator: Alain Pagani), LUMINOUS (Coordinator: Zeshan Afzal) and SHARESPACE (Coordinator: Didier Stricker), and participated intensively to the discussions about the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the future Virtual Worlds Partnership.
The topics covered immersion & visualization, intuitive real-time user interaction, standardisation & interoperability, digital twins and XR use cases such as logistics & industry, healthcare, culture media & arts or education.
The department Augmented Vision will continue to represent DFKI in the future partnership on Virtual Worlds with eXtended Reality as key enabling technology.
More information: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/virtual-and-augmented-reality-industrial-coalition-remains-committed-solving-real-world-problems
Contact: Alain Pagani, Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker
On December 19th, 2024, Jilliam Díaz Barros successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Optimization and Generative Models for Face Analysis’. The PhD thesis was carried out in the Augmented Vision department at DFKI, led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, as part of the Computer Science department at RPTU.
The PhD examination commission consisted of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (RPTU) and Prof. Dr. Luís Gonzaga Mendes Magalhães (University of Minho) and was chaired by Prof. Dr. Annette Bieniusa (RPTU).
In her thesis, Jilliam Díaz investigated the modelling of the rigid and non-rigid motions of the head, targeting existing challenges in assistance tools and assistive technologies. The PhD thesis focused on four main areas of contributions: head pose estimation, performance-driven facial animation, facial landmark detection and tracking, and face and upper body image synthesis.
Jilliam Díaz received her Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from Universidad del Norte, Colombia and her M.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics from the Université de Bourgogne, France. Besides being part of the Augmented Vision department, Ms. Díaz Barros has been working as software engineer at ANNA Healthcare Saarland UG.
A great big congratulations on receiving your PhD and we wish you all the best for the future!
The Network of Excellence dAIEDGE organized two successful workshops at the High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers Conference HiPEAC in Barcelona, Spain on January 20-22, 2024.
The workshop “Excellence in AI and Edge Computing” held on Monday, 20 January, was dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the AI and edge computing synergy, focusing on the development of scalable and robust AI systems. It opened with a keynote by Dr. Alireza Dehghani from the Irish National Centre for Applied AI CeADAR, followed by the presentation of 15 scientific papers and a demo session. The workshop closed with a matchmaking session about “Industrial investment priorities for successful AI at the Edge in Europe”.
The workshop “Charting the Future of Edge AI: Functional and Non-Functional Requirements in the Age of Generative AI” held on Tuesday, 21 January, was organized by Ovidiu Vermesan (SINTEF) and Alain Pagani (DFKI). It provided a comprehensive platform for stakeholders to exchange ideas, share experiences, and collaborate on advancing edge AI technologies, with a special focus on addressing functional and non-functional requirements defined based on system engineering principles. The three sessions covered “Requirements in the Generative AI Era”, “Technology developments” and “Application developments” with presentations, followed by a panel discussion on Edge AI Future Trends.
Coordinator: Dr. Alain Pagani
Project Manager : Dr. Mohamed Selim
