Alumni

PhD Graduates

Krishnakant Singh PhD defense pending
Robin Hesse PhD defense pending, now PostDoc at MPI for Informatics
Sascha Rosbach PhD 03.2024, now Staff Computer Vision and Robotics Engineer at Almetra
A Hybrid Approach to Automated Driving Unifying Prediction and Planning
Nikita Araslanov PhD 09.2022, now PostDoc at the University of Oxford, Visual Geometry Group
Deep Visual Parsing with Limited Supervision
Shweta Mahajan PhD 06.2022, now Assistant Professor at York University
Multimodal Representation Learning for Diverse Synthesis with Deep Generative Models
Junhwa Hur PhD 05.2022, now Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Joint Motion, Semantic Segmentation, Occlusion, and Depth Estimation
Anne Wannenwetsch PhD 01.2021, now at Amazon
Probabilistic Optical Flow and its Image-Adaptive Refinement
Tobias Plötz PhD 09.2020, now Data Scientist at Merck Group
Measuring and Removing Realistic Image Noise
Stephan Richter PhD 01.2020, now Researcher at Apple
Visual Perception with Synthetic Data
Marius Cordts PhD 10.2017, now Principal Engineer Image Understanding at Mercedes-Benz
Understanding Cityscapes: Efficient Urban Semantic Scene Understanding
Timo Rehfeld (né Scharwächter) PhD 09.2017, now AI/ML Engineering Manager at Aptiv
Combining Appearance, Depth and Motion for Efficient Semantic Scene Understanding
Kevin Schelten PhD 08.2017
Foundations, Inference, and Deconvolution in Image Restoration
Uwe Schmidt PhD 12.2016, now PostDoc at MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Half-quadratic Inference and Learning for Natural Images
Christoph Vogel PhD 05.2015, now Researcher at Microsoft Mixed Reality & AI Lab
Robust and Accurate 3D Motion Estimation under Adverse Conditions
Anton Milan (né Andriyenko) PhD 05.2013, now Applied Scientist at Amazon Core ML
Energy Minimization for Multiple Object Tracking
Stefan Walk PhD 09.2012, now Principal Software Engineer at Parametric Technology
Multi-Cue People Detection from Video
Ulf Blanke PhD 12.2010, now at antavi
Recognizing Complex Human Activity Based on Activity Spotting (PDF file) (opens in new tab)
Mykhaylo Andriluka PhD 10.2010, now Research Scientist at Google
Detection, Tracking and Pose Estimation of People in Challenging Real-World Scenes
Paul Schnitzspan PhD 09.2010, now Software Development Manager at exocad
Conditional Random Fields for Detection of Visual Object Classes

Former PostDocs

Anita Sellent 03/2015 – 08/2016, now Professor at Hochschule Mainz

Former Research Assistants

Samin Hamidi 04/2021 – 04/2024
Baris Can Cam 01/2022 – 11/2023
Jannik Schmitt 01/2020 – 06/2022
Faraz Saeedan 02/2016 – 12/2020, now at Smiths Detection
Jochen Gast 10/2014 – 10/2019, now Applied Scientist at Amazon
Thorsten Franzel 05/2012 – 08/2014
Qi Gao 01/2009 – 12/2013, now Scientist at the Universität Heidelberg

Former Visiting Students

Claudia Cuttano 04 – 11/2025, now PhD Student at Politecnico di Torino
Ferran Diego 07 – 11/2009, now Research Scientist at Telefonica Research
J. Javier Yebes 04 – 08/2013, now Machine Vision Engineer at GOBOTiX Ltd.