News
Announcements, paper acceptances, talks, and lab highlights.
2025
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DFG Funds Research on Reliable AI for Open-World Object Detection
Project DFG UOSThe German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for a new research project led by Matthias Rottmann at Osnabrück University.
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ICCV2025 Paper Acceptance
ICCV2025 PaperOur work "TARS Traffic-Aware Radar Scene Flow Estimation" by Jialong Wu , Marco Braun, Dominic Spata and Matthias Rottmann (Aptiv, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) has been accepted for publication at ICCV2025.
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Team Event in Bochum
Team eventOur team headed underground at the German Mining Museum to see massive, century-old machinery in action and learn about 200 years of Ruhr region mining history—all while escaping the summer heat above.
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Workshop with CARIAD
WorkshopOn June 12th, the ACM AI-Lab at the University of Wuppertal hosted a collaborative workshop with CARIAD, the software and technology company within the Volkswagen Group.
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Research Visit from Australia
We were delighted to host Dr. Maryam Haghighat from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, for a two-week research visit in June.
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Just Scan It 3D Project Meeting at the German Mining Museum
Project Team eventOn April 11, 2025, the Just Scan It 3D project held its second meeting at the German Mining Museum (Deutsches Bergbaumuseum) in Bochum, hosted by Professor Michael Prange and the museum itself. Our team, along with all other project participants, gathered for a productive day.
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Girls’ Day 2025 with the ACM AI Lab
On April 3, as part of Girls' Day, two groups of schoolgirls visited us.
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New paper on Shape Bias & Robustness Evaluation released
PaperOur work on Shape Bias & Robustness Evaluation via Cue Decomposition for Image Classification and Segmentation was published.
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Workshop with Control Expert
WorkshopOn February 7, 2025, a joint workshop with Control Expert took place at Campus Freudenberg. The event provided a platform for exchange between industry partners and our research team.
2024
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BMVC Workshop
WorkshopOn November 27, 2024, we hosted the Workshop on Robust Recognition in the Open World (RROW) in collaboration with Hermann Blum, Hanno Gottschalk, Kira Maag and Siniša Šegvić.
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OOD Detection: Limits of Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors
Paper ECCV2024Up to now, there has only been a limited number of scientific works on how to teach object detection systems to detect unknown objects, so-called out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, e.g. objects that typically do not appear in street scenes.
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Workshop at dSPACE
WorkshopToday we had a wonderful workshop at dSPACE with the team of Nikolas Hemion.
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Workshop on Robust Recognition in the Open World at BMVC2024
Workshop BMVC2024The ACM AI Lab is co-organizing a BMVC2024 workshop (https://rrow2024.github.io/) end of November in Glasgow Scotland.
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Paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of BMVC2024
Paper BMVC2024Our work with colleagues from EPFL's CVLab has been accepted for publication at BMVC.
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New paper has been accepted for presentation at ECAI2024 in Santiago de Compostela
Paper ECAI2024Our paper, titled "Reducing Texture Bias of Deep Neural Networks via Edge Enhancing Diffusion", has been accepted for presentation at ECAI2024 in Santiago de Compostela!
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Paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of ECCV2024
Paper ECCV2024Our paper "SparseRadNet Sparse Perception Neural Network on Subsampled Radar Data" has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ECCV2024!
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Participation at the DataNinja sAIOnARA 2024 Conference
Sarina Penquitt and Matthias Rottmann (associated DataNinjas) participated at the DataNinja sAIOnARA 2024 conference from June 25th to June 27th, 2024 at Bielefeld University.
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ACM AI Lab at University of Wuppertal's summer fest
BUWThe ACM AI Lab, part of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (IZMD), took part in the University of Wuppertal's summer fest.
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Exchange with the Centre for Robotics at Queensland University of Technology in Australia
Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Annika Mütze and Matthias Rottmann visited Dimity Miller and Niko Sünderhauf at the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
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Scientific Workshop at ControlExpert GmbH
WorkshopWe had the pleasure to be guests of ControlExpert GmbH who hosted a scientific exchange with deep dives into the cutting-edge topics aoround dep learning.
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Uncertainty estimation for semantic segmentation and its application to insurance industry
Our industry partner ControlExpert (CE), part of Allianz SE, demonstrates how methods for uncertainty quantification in semantic segmentation can be of use in automated motor claim handling in the insurance industry.
2023
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Two Preprints Accepted for Presentation at VISIGRAPP 2024 in Rome, Italy
Paper VISIGRAPP2024Both papers contribute to the advancement of data-centric artificial intelligence.
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Digital workshop with Continental
WorkshopToday Continental — our partner in KI Familie projects — and us had another very pleasant digital joint workshop with many fruitful discussions on trustworthy and efficient AI.
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DAAD supports cooperation with Queensland University of Technology, QUT Center for Robotics
Project DAAD QUT BUWThe collaboration between Niko Suenderhauf, Dimity Miller from Queensland University of Technology, our colleague Annika Mütze and Matthias Rottmann has been selected for fundin...
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Inaugural Lecture by Matthias Rottmann
On October 24, 2023, PD Dr. Matthias Rottmann gave his inaugural lecture at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, at the University of Wuppertal.
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Paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of WACV2024
Paper WACV2024Our paper "Identifying Label Errors in Object Detection Datasets by Loss Inspection" has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of WACV2024!
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Making automated driving safer: RELiABEL project launched
Project BMFTR UOSAs part of the RELiABEL project, scientists at the University of Wuppertal are researching how to make the interpretation of image data for automated driving more reliable in th...
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Paper accepted for publication at ICCV workshops
Paper ICCV2023Sarina Penquitt and Matthias Rottmann (associated DataNinjas) participated at the DataNinja sAIOnARA 2024 conference from June 25th to June 27th, 2024 at Bielefeld University.
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DataNinja association of S. Penquitt and M. Rottmann
Since September 2023, Sarina Penquitt and Matthias Rottmann are officially associated members of the DataNinjas.
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Paper acceptance at GCPR 2023
Paper GCPR2023Our paper „LMD Light-weight Prediction Quality Estimation for Object Detection in Lidar Point Clouds“ has been accepted for publication and oral presentation at GCPR 2023.
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Workshop with visitors from Queensland University of Technology
WorkshopToday we had a very inspiring workshop with our guests Dimity Miller and Niko Sünderhauf from Queensland University of Technology, Center for Robotics at the University of Wuppertal, IZMD.
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Girlsday 2023 School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Today we supported the girlsday 2023 at the University of Wuppertal with a number of curious and enthusiastic girls.
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Our team joins the Applied and Computational Mathematics group
BUWAs of today, our junior research group on reliable and efficient AI is part of the Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM) group in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
2022
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BMBF Junior Research Group UnrEAL
Project BMFTR BUWMaking the use of artificial intelligence safer: Funding for scientists from Wuppertal Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in many areas of our daily lives: when shopping onlin...
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Paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of NeurIPS2022
Our joint work with Technical University of Dortmund entitled „UQGAN A Unified Model for Uncertainty Quantification of Deep Classifiers trained via Conditional GANs“ has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of NeurIPS 2022.