Computer Graphics Night 2023 – Award Winners

December 01, 2023

As every year, the Computer Graphics Night once again sought out the brightest minds in visual computing. The jury—comprising scientists from Fraunhofer IGD and associated university chairs—selected this year’s award winners. We once again extend our warmest congratulations and thank the many guests who made the 25th edition a wonderful winter evening.

GRADUATION

Danwu Chen

Deep Learning for Characterizing Full-color 3D Printers: Accuracy, Robustness, and Data-efficiency

Meiling Fang

Boosting the Generalizability and Fairness of Presentation Attack Detection

Camila González

Lifelong Learning in the Clinical Open World

Stefan Lengauer

Crossmodal Search, Visual Exploration, and Restoration of Digital Pottery Artifacts

Dirk Siegmund

Image Classification of High Variant Objects in Fast Industrial Applications

Julian von Wilmsdorff

Passive Electric Field Sensing for Ubiquitous and Environmental Perception

AWARD WINNERS | “Best Thesis Award”

Jury: Dr. Gerald Bieber, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper, Fraunhofer IGD Darmstadt

Maximilian Jens Schwalenberg
“Height Estimation of Wind Turbines Using Neural Networks and the Fusion of Image and Geoinformation”
Supervisor: M. Sc. Dennis Sidin (Fraunhofer IGD, Rostock)

Marcel Klemt
“On the Development of Face Recognition Using Synthetic Data and Unsupervised Representation Learning”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper and Dr. Fadi Boutros

Anh Thi Luu
“Investigating and Mitigating the Performance Gap in Face Recognition Models Trained on Real or Synthetic Data”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper (Fraunhofer IGD / TU Darmstadt MAVC) and Marco Huber (Fraunhofer IGD)