A new video podcast has hit the airwaves courtesy Cyber Valley. Check out the first episode where IMPRS-IS faculty Antonio Orvieto discusses biases in AI and where they come from.
Anyone is welcome to visit the Max Planck for Intelligent System's Stuttgart campus on Saturday, April 20. See demonstrations, presentations, and get a sneak peek of the great scientific work happening there.
Focusing on the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision at the University of Tübingen, IMPRS-IS scholar Hassan Shahmohammadi won the outstanding paper award at the main EMNLP 2023 conference (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing).
This collaboration between the University of Stuttgart, University of Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics will work to establish a radically new approach for the tight integration of intelligent technological systems with humans.
Stuttgart-based computer scientist Prof. Steffen Staab has been appointed a Fellow of the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery in recognition of his research contributions to the field of Knowledge Technologies.
His project "Advanced Numerical Uncertainty for Bayesian Inference in Science" or ANUBIS will receive funding of some two million euros over a period of five years.
All community members are invited to join the launch of an international computation and AI network of excellence initiative. The initiative seeks to balance AI development globally, focusing on computing, data, and AI research, aligned with the UN SDGs.
Each year, IMPRS-IS hosts a symposium to interview Ph.D. applicants. As the scientific highlight of the 2024 program, we are excited to announce that Dr. Wieland Brendel (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ELLIS) and Prof. Andreas Bulling (University of Stuttgart) will be featured as keynote speakers for the event.
The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems offers funding to collaborative projects through its Grassroots initiative annually. The program provides an opportunity to obtain one year of funding for synergistic projects in intelligent systems.
He is one of two 2023 ELLIS Ph.D. Award recipients, earning the prize for his dissertation titled, "To err is human? A functional comparison of human and machine decision-making."
Working in the field of Computer Vision, Lea's research on 3D human pose and shape estimation has earned her two best paper nominations at CVPR. After the doctorate she will pursue postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley.
Michael J. Black, Director of the Perceiving Systems Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision which, this year, is held in Paris.
Our program is excited to continue its growth as it looks for great talent to join our existing cohort of IMPRS-IS scholars. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2023. Come join IMPRS-IS!
After the successful summer round, CyVy will again offer its six-week AI Incubator in this fall. This program is custom-tailored to the needs of our doctoral researchers, and successful completion of this training earns scholars 3 program credit points.
IMPRS-IS faculty members Metin Sitti and Wenqi Hu are working to develop a soft robotic tool that promises to one day transform minimally invasive endovascular surgery.
AI for Simulations and Intelligent Robotics are the areas of specialization of the new Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which has now been established at the University of Stuttgart.
Working in the field of machine learning with a focus on relational and graph-structured data at the University of Stuttgart, IMPRS-IS scholar Bo Xiong won a Best Student Paper Award at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022).
Around 250 guests from the fields of science, industry, and politics, including Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann, took part in the prestgious event.
Computer scientist Prof. Dr. Zeynep Akata Schulz has been awarded the Alfried Krupp Prize 2023, one of the most significant scientific awards in Germany.
Working in the field of computer vision at the University of Stuttgart, IMPRS-IS scholar Jenny Schmalfuss won a best paper award at the ECCV Workshop on Adversarial Robustness in the Real World (AROW).
One of the world's most important prizes in the research field of AI goes for the first time to a scientist from the Max Planck Society, to Europe for the fourth time.
IMPRS-IS faculty team up to develop fully biodegradable, high-performance artificial muscles, an important step towards green technology becoming a lasting trend in the field of soft robotics.
Friedrich won the honor for his dissertation titled, "Event-triggered Learning: Principled Decision Making on When to Learn".
IMPRS-IS Faculty Christoph Keplinger and colleagues work to develop fully biodegradable, high-performance artificial muscles. Their research project marks another step towards green technology becoming a lasting trend in the field of soft robotics.
This class, titled Numerics of Machine Learning, discusses both practical and theoretically interesting aspects of the algorithms that drive machine learning. The lecture explains the view of probabilistic numerics, which assumes that computation itself is an inference process.
Founded on February 1 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen, Hertie AI will be the first institute in Germany to research the prevention and early diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system using artificial intelligence methods.
Tübingen AI researcher and IMPRS-IS faculty member, Professor Jakob Macke, is aiming to use Deep Learning methods to build new neuronal networks at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. His team's project ‘DeepCoMechTome’ is receiving close to two million euros from the European Research Council.
IMPRS-IS held its seventh interview symposium last week. The event featured applicants from over 36 different countries, all interviewing to pursue a Ph.D. with the program. In addition to interviews, applicants gave scientific talks, participated in virtual tours of our program, and observed keynote presentations from IMPRS-IS faculty.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Prof. Michael Pradel, Managing Director of the Institute for Software Engineering of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, a Distinguished Member as recognition for his groundbreaking research results in computer science.
The Sintel optical flow dataset appeared at ECCV 2012. Ten years later, at ECCV 2022, it was awarded the Koenderink Prize.
Congratulations to IMPRS-IS Faculty member Michael Sedlmair for receiving this year's IEEE VIS Conference 2022 Ten Year Test of Time Award for the publication "Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks" (IEEE InfoVis 2012).
Our application portal is now open! Apply to join our program and begin a Ph.D. with us in 2023!
Biomedical engineer and Cyber Valley research group leader and IMPRS-IS faculty Dr. Tian Qiu from the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart will receive one of the prestigious Starting Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) from January 2023.
Professor Philipp Berens from the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University Hospital and University of Tübingen has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Autonomous Learning research group at the MPI-IS in Tübingen is awarded € 2 million for a period of 5 years.
Like a newborn animal, a four-legged robot stumbles around during its first walking attempts. But while a foal or a giraffe needs much longer to master walking, the robot learns to move forward fluently in just one hour.
The research project of IMPRS-IS scholar Gaurav Gardi and faculty Prof. Metin Sitti, along with researchers from Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University titled “Microrobot Collectives with Reconfigurable Morphologies, Behaviors, and Functions” was recently published in Nature Communications. The team has developed collectives of microrobots, which they can move in every formation they wish.
The state government of Baden-Württemberg has cleared the way for the development of the Cyber Valley Campus in Tübingen. A joint concept of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science was approved for the site. According to this concept, the innovation campus, which has grown enormously in its first five years of existence, will be expanded by several buildings, for which up to 180 million euros will be invested over the next few years.
Striving to improve touch sensing in robotics, scientists developed a thumb-shaped sensor with a camera hidden inside and trained a deep neural network to infer its haptic contact information. When something touches the finger, the system constructs a three-dimensional force map from the visible deformations of its flexible outer shell. This research invention significantly improves a robot finger’s haptic perception, coming ever closer to the sense of touch of human skin.
IMPRS-IS is the official Ph.D. program of Cyber Valley. We're teaming up with CyVy to create a one-of-kind individualized training experience that will allow our researchers to create their very own start-up company. Scholars should find more details about how to apply here.
Researchers train a neural network to estimate – in just a few seconds – the precise characteristics of merging black holes based on their gravitational-wave emissions. The network determines the masses and spins of the black holes, where in the sky, at what angle, and how far away from Earth the merger took place.
The finalists of AI GameDev as Europe’s first research-driven competition to enhance game technology for artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and start-ups have been selected. The finalists include IMPRS-IS scholars Partha Ghosh, Katja Schwarz, and Michael Stettler. Find out about how to stream the final award ceremony here.
University of Tübingen professor, Andreas Geiger, is part of a team of researchers honored with the PAMI Everingham Prize at this year’s International Conference for Computer Vision (ICCV). In addition to Geiger, Philip Lenz, Christoph Stiller and Raquel Urtasun received the prestigious award for their joint work on the “KITTI Vision Benchmark,” which they have been running and developing since 2012.
At an award ceremony in Bilbao, the BBVA Foundation recognizes Schölkopf for his work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data.
The University of Stuttgart based team has developed a range of artificial organ phantoms to serve as training platforms for surgeons. Thanks to the structured data of experienced medical professionals, a quantitative and objective assessment of a trainee’s skills can be assessed in real time.
Scientists use super-resolution microscopy to study previously undiscovered cellular worlds, revealing nanometer-scale details inside cells. This method revolutionized light microscopy and earned its inventors the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In an international collaboration, AI researchers from Tübingen have now developed an algorithm that significantly accelerates this technology.
The European Physical Society’s 2021 EPS-SNDP Prize for early career scientists in the statistical and nonlinear physics category has been awarded to Caterina De Bacco, leader of the Cyber Valley Physics for Inference and Optimization research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
Our application portal is now open! Apply to join our program and begin a Ph.D. with us in 2022!
Cyber Valley, Square Enix, and IT-Farm launch Europe’s first research-driven competition to enhance game technology.
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses enormous social, cultural, and ethical challenges. This raises a number of pressing questions with regards to how (self-)learning systems work and can be used, the risks and opportunities of AI, what interaction between intelligent systems really means, and how automated decision-making systems can alter public discourses.
The AI Media Lab is a new program for AI and Computer Scientists at the cutting edge of their fields, and we are excited to announce that IMPRS-IS faculty Nicole Ludwig and Ph.D. scholars Egor Iuganov and Viktoriia Kamska are among the first participants.
Great success for two AI researchers from the Cyber Valley ecosystem: Michael Niemeyer, PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger from the University of Tübingen were honored with the ‘Best Paper Award’ at this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) for their paper ‘GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields’.
On Monday, 21 June 2021, the European Commission notified successful applicants of the call for the Commission Expert group on Artificial Intelligence and Data in education and training. Among the selected members is Junior Professor Maria Wirzberger, head of the Department for Teaching and Learning with Intelligent Systems at the Institute of Educational Science and Faculty Member of Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SC SimTech) at the University of Stuttgart.
Germany’s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina announced on Friday that it has elected Michael J Black, founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Honorarprofessor at the University of Tübingen, and Cyber Valley speaker, as a member.
The highly prestigious annual Cozzarelli Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Winners and finalists are chosen among articles that appeared in the journal last year in the six broadly defined classes under which the NAS is organized. Additionally, the Editorial Board has recognized six papers – one in each class – as finalists for the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize.
With Generative Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis (GRAF), scientists from the University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have vastly improved the quality of machine-generated 3D images of single objects.
The doctoral program of the Cyber Valley research cooperation again exceeds all expectations. In its recent application round for its fifth generation of Ph.D. students, IMPRS-IS received a record number of applications, with women making up a third of all applicants. The applicants, who come from all over the world, are eager to become part of the highly renowned multidisciplinary research landscape in the Stuttgart/Tübingen region.
With 31 accepted papers, researchers from the Cyber Valley ecosystem are set to make a strong showing once again at the upcoming 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s leading conference for machine learning is going to be held online from December 6 to 12.
World-class science in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted seasoned mentors with investors committed to nurturing innovative ideas: local, national, and international venture capital (VC) firms will help young scientists within the Cyber Valley ecosystem to master the skills needed to become successful entrepreneurs. Their support will foster a breeding ground for the AI jobs of the future. Baden-Württemberg is one of the world’s strongest economies with a long history of start-ups that have become leading global players. The Cyber Valley Investor Network will continue to drive this success forward by helping create the AI companies of the future. Mentorship will enable entrepreneurs to turn world-class Cyber Valley AI research into leading new companies.
They do not think like us, they do not see like us, they do not navigate like us. Accordingly, the communication and cooperation between robots is different from that between humans. Dr. Aamir Ahmad has been appointed to the first professorship for flight robotics at the Institute of Flight Mechanics and Controls (IFR) at the University of Stuttgart from September 1, 2020. He focuses on the perception of robotic systems with a particular emphasis on aerial robots. Previously, he was a research group leader in the Perceiving Systems Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
Six doctoral students graduate only three years after the launch of this interdisciplinary research school
Peter Dayan is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of theoretical and experimental neuroscience. Dayan, 54, is managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. He also holds a Humboldt Professorship, the most valuable research award in Germany, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen. Dayan’s research combines the overlapping fields of neuroscience, medicine and machine learning. He is also regarded as a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. In the interview, Dayan describes, amongst other things, his fascination with this field of research and how he has settled in Tübingen.
Peter Dayan University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Humboldt Foundation IMPRS GTC Machine Learning AI IMPRS-IS
At a meeting with the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, and the state’s Science Minister Theresia Bauer, scientists welcomed the European Commission’s new Digital Strategy and demanded strong support for research in the field of learning AI.
The doctoral program of the Cyber Valley initiative far exceeds expectations. Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Theresia Bauer, is pleased with the high number of applications from all over the world because it shows how attractive the multidisciplinary research landscape in the Stuttgart/Tübingen region is for highly talented young scientists.
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