General news concerning CVG Jena
The whole Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University Jena is moving to new offices at Campus Inselplatz starting next week. Our group is scheduled to move on September 10, 2025. As a result, you will no longer find us at our old offices at Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2! Note, that during the time of…
We are excited and proud to report that the Bachelor thesis “SIR-based Modelling of COVID-19 Pandemic using PINNs” by Phillip Rothenbeck has been selected for the award “Beste Thüringer Bachelorarbeiten in KI und Robotik” (Best Thuringian Bachelor Theses in AI and Robotics) by the TZLR e.V! The award ceremony will be part of the 7….
We are happy to report that Paul Bodesheim has been elected as the main lead of Working Group 3 on Image Processing in the Management Committee meeting at the InsectAI annual meeting in Tirana on May 8th, 2025 by a quorum of representatives from more than 22 European countries that take part in this EU…
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…
