General news concerning CVG Jena
On March 31st, the official kickoff for the developments in the second funding period of the LEPMON project happened with an in-person meeting in Jena. For the first time, all project staff had the chance to get to know each other personally and to discuss their respective project aims and specific research tasks, especially considering…
We are happy to report that we received the notice of grants for our LEPMON project on LEPidoptera MONitoring with camera light traps and AI for fine-grained visual species identification. It will be funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for three years within the BiodivKI funding program, which is part…
Only one more week until the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2024 in Jena takes place on November 22nd, starting 6pm! As is tradition by now, we will be contributing with a multiple interactive demos! There will be live demonstrations on topics like explainable AI, AI for medicine and machine learning for biodiversity research. Additionally, we…
We currently have two open PhD positions for research in the area of fine-grained visual categorization! These positions offer the opportunity to focus on leveraging foundation models and multimodal approaches (like vision language models), as well as, integrating domain knowledge and uncertainty quantification into the prediction systems. You can find all the details on these…
Are you interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of earth sciences and machine learning with our colleagues at Max Planck Institute for BioGeoChemistry (MPI-BGC) and us in Jena? Here is your chance! From June 14 to July 28 you can apply for PhD projects with the respective International Max Planck Research School for…
We are happy to report, that our ongoning research cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for BioGeoChemistry as a core element of the ELLIS Unit Jena is featured in German press. The following articles focus on our collaborative efforts with respect to predicting effects of climate change using machine learning models. More specifically, we are…
We are proud to announce that we offer a new lecture in this winter term: Werkzeuge der Mustererkennung und des Maschinellen Lernens! This lecture provides a practice-oriented view on pattern recognition methods as you are going to implement and explore them youself on different problems for instance in the smart health domain. For more informations…
Recently, regional television channel MDR visited us to record two features for the TV news show “MDR Thüringen Journal“. While being shot independent of each other, they both cover aspects of our research in Jena. Generating Images using AI In the feature “KI schafft neue Ansichten von Jena” Niklas Penzel has been interviewed on the…
Are you interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of earth sciences and machine learning with our colleagues at Max Planck Institute for BioGeoChemistry (MPI-BGC) and us in Jena? Here is your chance! From July 10 to August 21 you can apply for PhD projects with the respective International Max Planck Research School for…
Members of the Computer Vision Group Jena will be attending the AI for Good Global Summit, that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on July 6th and July 7th, 2023. This two-day event brings together people from AI research topics that contribute towards more global problems like environmental change, AI in health or trustworthy AI….
