A new approach enables, for the first time, the creation and control of photorealistic digital avatars based on input from a single, body-worn RGB camera.
On April 3, 2025, the Max Planck Institutes for Informatics and Software Systems in Saarbrücken invite interested girls to explore the world of computer science and gain exciting insights into cutting-edge research.
On 18 February 2025 Denis Sumin successfully defended this PhD-thesis titled: "Data-driven methods for high-fidelity material appearance reproduction in additive 3D printing".
A mathematical analysis of widely-used parliamentary seat apportionment methods provides detailed insights into their structural properties and possible adjustments.
Volker Maria Geiß, former head of the joint administration of the Max Planck Institutes for Informatics and Software Systems, is celebrating his 70th birthday. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has been involved in the founding of four Max Planck Institutes, helped to establish a new research field within the Max Planck Society and provided many impulses for the scientific landscape in the Saarland. At the age of 70, he can look back on a career marked by his passion for promoting science and building successful research institutes.
Jan Eric Lenssen, head of the research group “Geometric Representation Learning” at the Saarbrücken Max Planck Institute for Informatics, has been awarded the 2024 Dissertation Award by the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA).
The Max Planck project “Oraclase” showcased its innovative laser-based method for producing colorful images on metal surfaces in an "art exhibition" at the Institute.
Paul Strohmeier has been bestowed with an ERC Grant to research and develop algorithms to vibrate actuators in such a way that they generate sensations of movement. Strohmeier's research focuses on Kinesthetic Displays, a new class of devices that enable us to experience and perceive movements, even those we do not physically perform.
New research area "Vision and Language Models (VLMs)" at the Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence under the direction of Professor Bernt Schiele
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most prestigious international scientific society in the field of computer science, has named Anja Feldmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Professor at Saarland University, an "ACM Fellow". This honors her influential contributions to the data-driven analysis of operational networks. Worldwide, only 68 new ACM Fellows were named for 2023.
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has bestowed the title of an honorary doctor (doctor honoris causa) on Gerhard Weikum, in recognition of his contributions to the fields of databases, world wide web, and artificial intelligence.
