General news concerning CVG Jena
A couple of weeks ago on January 12th, 2023 the official Kick-Off event of ELLIS Unit Jena (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, ELLIS) took place. It was a whole day of scientific talks, discussions and introductions celebrating this occasion. Many computer science researchers of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, as well as researchers…
Our former colleague Christian Reimers, who was part of the Computer Vision Group Jena between 2017 and 2021 will defend his PhD thesis called “Understanding Deep Learning” on January 11th, 2023 at 4pm. The defense is public and will take place at room 3319 in the building of the Department for Mathematics and Computer Science…
Only three more days until the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022 in Jena takes place on November 25th, starting 6pm! For the fifth time after 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2019 we will be part of it with a large program! There will be live demonstrations on currently hot topics like explainable AI, causal reasoning for…
Whether you are interested in the field of Computer Vision, unsure what that actually is or simply eager to get a behind-the-scenes look at a research group, you should mark your calendars! On October 19th, 2022 starting at 5pm we will host the first “Lehrstuhlabend” of Winter Term 2022/2023, a series organized by the FSR…
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) started four new units across Europe including one in Jena. Together with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the Institute for Data Science of the German Aerospace Center the Friedrich Schiller University Jena represented by the Computer Vision Jena joined the network as an organized…
In the context of a pupils project, Susann Janetzki qualified for the federal round of the “Jugend Forscht” competition. Additionally, she received a special award “Rundfunk-, Fernseh- und Informationstechnik” sponsored by Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung. Supervised by Christian Reimers, she worked on the topic “Die Würfel sind gefallen: Strategieoptimierung des Spieles Qwixx durch maschinelles Lernen”. She utilized an evolutionary…
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems offers an interdisciplinary PhD program. The ELLIS PhD program is a key element of the ELLIS initiative and its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe. The program supports…
