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01.09.2022 LMU News: Revolutionizing image generation by AI: Turning text into images The Machine Vision & Learning Group led by computer scientist and MCML PI Björn Ommer has developed one of the most powerful image synthesis algorithms in existence. |
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31.08.2022 Article in Spiegel Netzwelt: 'Diese Software macht Sie zum KI-Künstler' When it comes to AI-based text-to-image generators, the spotlight has recently focused on Stable Diffusion, a project in which MCML PI Björn Ommer's research group is involved. It is probably the most powerful AI text-to-image generator to date, freely available to Internet users. |
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27.08.2022 Article in Heise Online: 'Text-zu-Bild-Revolution: Stable Diffusion ermöglicht KI-Bildgenerieren für alle' With Stable Diffusion, an AI system is freely available that generates impressive images. MCML PI Björn Ommer's research group is involved in the project. |
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12.08.2022 ERC Results in Brief Article: 'Pushing the boundaries of automatic translation' The ERC has published a 'Results in Brief' article on MCML PI Alexander Fraser's ERC Starting Grant 'DASMT': Our globalised interconnected reality demands ever-smarter automatic translation tools. Via deep learning, Fraser's team delivers solutions for statistical machine translation |
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09.08.2022 We had a great Kick-Off on July 27, 2022 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
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07.08.2022 Article in Süddeutsche Zeitung about MCML: 'Wie Computer denken' Der Bund steckt Millionen Euro in das Münchner Kompetenzzentrum für maschinelles Lernen. Die gemeinsame Einrichtung von TU und LMU soll den Menschen helfen, Krebs zu erkennen, Shitstorms vorherzusagen und den Klimawandel zu verstehen. |
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27.07.2022 LMU News: Great success for AI research in Munich The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), a joint initiative of LMU and TUM, has been granted funding as a permanent establishment following a positive evaluation. |
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26.07.2022 TUM News: Big coup for AI research in Munich The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) will receive permanent funding from the German government and the state of Bavaria. MCML, a joint initiative by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), is one of six AI centers of excellence throughout Germany. As a result, regional research into artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly machine learning will gain considerable cachet within the knowledge hub of Munich and beyond. |
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01.07.2022 Start of Institutional Funding of German AI Centers Joint press release of the AI competence centers: Research on artificial intelligence firmly anchored in Germany. |
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15.04.2022 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), May 22–27, 2022, Dublin, Ireland We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at ACL 2022. |
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10.04.2022 10th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022), April 25–29, 2022, Virtual We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at ICLR 2022. |
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15.02.2022 36th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), February 22 – March 1, 2022, Virtual We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at AAAI 2022. |
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08.02.2022 Prof. T. Seidl: Talk at LMU KI Lectures Wie Künstliche Intelligenz Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und unser Leben verändert – eine virtuelle Veranstaltungsreihe im Wintersemester 2021-22 Künstliche Intelligenz - ein Ausblick auf künftige Entwicklungen |
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01.12.2021 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 6–14, 2021, Virtual We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at NeurIPS 2021. |
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08.11.2021 Best paper award at ISWC 2021 Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts M. Ali, M. Berrendorf, M. Galkin, V. Thost, T. Ma, V. Tresp, J. Lehmann |
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29.10.2021 1st Virtual AutoML Fall School 2021 Nov 8th – Nov 12th 2021 The AutoML Fall School will cover core topics of AutoML, covering basics, state-of-the-art approaches and hands-on sessions. Enthusiastic AutoML experts will present their diverse views on AutoML to ML practitioners, developers, research engineers, researchers and students. |
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15.09.2021 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2021), September 27 – October 1, 2021, Strasbourg, France We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at MICCAI 2021. |
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15.06.2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 19–25, 2021, Virtual CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at CVPR 2021. |
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17.05.2021 Lernen. Wissen. Daten. Analysen. - Learning. Knowledge. Data. Analytics. LWDA 2021 at MCML, Munich, 01.09–03.09.2021 The LWDA 2021 conference will be hosted by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) from September 01, 2021 to September 03, 2021. The conference will be fully online. |
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30.04.2021 French-German Machine Learning Symposium May 10th & 11th 2021, Munich, Germany (Virtual) We invited some of the leading ML researchers from France and Germany to this two day symposium to give a glimpse into their research, and engage in discussions on the future of machine learning and how to strengthen research collaborations in ML between France and Germany. |
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09.04.2021 Vacancy: Student(f/m/d) for master thesis 'Potential of Neural Networks for Image-based One-Shot-Predictions of Aero-Solutions' Our partner MTU Aero Engines AG in Munich is searching for you |
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09.04.2021 Vacancy: Student(f/m/d) for master thesis 'Potential of Neural Networks for 3D-Point-Cloud-based One-Shot-Predictions of Aero-Solutions' Our partner MTU Aero Engines AG in Munich is searching for you |
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09.04.2021 Vacancy: Student(f/m/d) for master thesis 'Evaluation of Periodic Activation Functions and Fourier Features for Image-based Prediction of Aero-Solutions with Neural Networks' Our partner MTU Aero Engines AG in Munich is searching for you |
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09.04.2021 Vacancy: Student(f/m/d) for bachelor thesis 'Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) for Generation of Image-based Aero-Solutions' Our partner MTU Aero Engines AG in Munich is searching for you |
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15.03.2021 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021). March 28 – April 1, 2021, Virtual We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented at ECIR 2021. |
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02.03.2021 LMU News: Enhanced computer power for AI research in Munich Technology pioneer: The Munich Center for Machine Learning and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center have installed a new data-processing architecture for AI research |
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24.02.2021 Invited key note at First ELLIS NLP Workshop Humans Learn From Task Descriptions. And So Should Our Models! H. Schütze |
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23.02.2021 MCML participates in this year's event ''Responsible Research 2021'' of the Lifescience Network - March 25 and 26, 2021 from 9:00 - 14:00 Researchers are obliged to conform to rules of Good Scientific Practice. While this might seem obvious at first glance, a closer look reveals that these rules are often implicit, and sometimes the border between acceptable and unacceptable practice may remain unclear. To raise awareness about these questions, life science graduate programs in the greater Munich area and the GraduateCenterLMU have joined forces to organize a campus-wide educational event. |
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08.02.2020 Flyer – Network of National Centers of Excellence for AI research – The Network of National Centres of Excellence for AI Research brings together experts and knowledge from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data. In their research, they aim to advance AI technologies that place societal interests at the forefront of scientific endeavours. |
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28.01.2021 Data Science for Social Goodx Summer Projects – Data Science Internship This year, the MCML will partake in the renowned Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) initiative. LMU Munich joins forces with University of Warwick under the DSSGx UK chapter of the DSSG Foundation supported by the Alan Turing Institute to organise 2021 DSSGx Summer Projects… |
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15.01.2021 Newsletter #1 of German AI competence centers In this first newsletter issue, the Network of German AI competence centres is introduced: The research institutions provide exciting insights into their work as well as research and inform about current events. You are an AI expert and would like to advance Germany’s position as a first-class innovator for AI science and technologies? Get in contact with us and network with excellent researchers from all over Germany… |
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17.12.2020 Advertisement Feature in Nature Research LMU Munich harnesses AI to drive discovery 'Give me your data and we’ll find patterns,' says Thomas Seidl, a computer scientist at LMU Munich. Decoding such patterns reveals secrets hidden in everything from bone fossils to ancient languages. And as academia and industry collect more and more data, there is growing interest in using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to analyse them… |
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17.12.2020 Researching Artificial Intelligence at LMU Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) open up new perspectives for science - As a central hub for highly innovative research in Europe, LMU Munich plays a key role in probing both the potential of AI and confronting the challenges it presents… |
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03.12.2020 LMU is partner of MLFPM The Marie Curie Innovative Training Network entitled “Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine” brings together leading European research institutes in machine learning and statistical genetics, both from the private and public sector, to train 14 early stage researchers. These scientists will apply machine learning methods to health data. The goal is to reveal new insights into disease mechanisms and therapy outcomes and to exploit the findings for precision medicine, which hopes to offer personalized preventive care and therapy selection for each patient. |
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26.11.2020 Vacancy: PostDoc in the area of Machine Learning and Data Analytics (f/m/d) We are looking for talented and highly motivated computer scientists (or people with a related background) interested in the design, development, and analysis of novel machine learning methods. The positions are situated within the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), one of the national competence centers for Machine Learning in Germany. |
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25.11.2020 Accepted paper at EDBT 2021 KISS - A fast kNN-based Importance Score for Subspaces A. Beer, E. Allerborn, V. Hartmann, T. Seidl |
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06.11.2020 Accepted paper at NeurIPS 2020 Workshop QTNML 2020 A Variational Quantum Circuit Model for Knowledge Graph Embeddings Y. Ma, V. Tresp |
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06.11.2020 Accepted paper at WI-IAT 2020 Ada-LLD: Adaptive Node Similarity Using Multi-Scale Local Label Distributions E. Faerman, F. Borutta, J. Busch, M. Schubert |
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06.11.2020 Accepted short paper at WI-IAT 2020 Memory-Efficient RkNN Retrieval by Nonlinear k-Distance Approximation S. Obermeier, M. Berrendorf, P. Kröger |
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06.11.2020 Accepted paper at NeurIPS 2020 Workshop SSL 2020 Learning Self-Expression Metrics for Scalable and Inductive Subspace Clustering J. Busch, E. Faerman, M. Schubert, T. Seidl |
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06.11.2020 Accepted short paper at WI-IAT 2020 Interpretable and Fair Comparison of Link Prediction or Entity Alignment Methods M. Berrendorf, E. Faerman, L. Vermue, V. Tresp |
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15.10.2020 Invited presentation at 1st CIKM 2020 Workshop on Combining Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Methods and their Applications (CSSA-CIKM 2020) Learning with Temporal Knowledge Graphs Y. Ma, Z. Han, V. Tresp |
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08.10.2020 Keynote talk at ICPM 2020 Data Mining on Process Data T. Seidl |
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24.09.2020 Accepted paper at ICDM 2020 Workshop HDM'20 I fold you so! An internal evaluation measure for arbitrary oriented subspace clustering D. Kazempour, A. Beer, P. Kröger, T. Seidl |
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24.09.2020 Accepted paper at ICDM 2020 Workshop HDM 2020 You see a set of wagons - I see one train: Towards a unified view of local and global arbitrarily oriented subspace clusters D. Kazempour, L. M. Yan, P. Kröger, T. Seidl |
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24.09.2020 Accepted paper at ICDM 2020 Workshop HDM'20 Towards an Internal Evaluation Measure for Arbitrarily Oriented Subspace Clustering D. Kazempour, P. Kröger, T. Seidl |
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24.09.2020 Accepted paper at ICPM 2020 Workshop SA4PM 2020 Performance Skyline: Inferring Process Performance Models from Interval Events A. Maldonado, J. Sontheim, F. Richter, T. Seidl |
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11.09.2020 Moritz Herrmann receives the Bernd-Streitberg Award of the German Biometric Society for his master thesis 'Large-scale benchmark study of prediction methods using multi-omics data' supervised by our PI Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix. In the context of MCML an article has been published in the renowned Journal 'Briefings in Bioinformatics' as an extension of his master thesis: Open Access |
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13.08.2020 Accepted paper at SISAP 2020 Angle-Based Clustering A. Beer, D. Seeholzer, N. Schüler, T. Seidl |
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30.07.2020 Accepted paper at LWDA 2020 Grace - Limiting the Number of Grid Cells for Clustering High-Dimensional Data A. Beer, D. Kazempour, J. Busch, A. Tekles, T. Seidl |
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29.07.2020 Virtual workshop on 29.07.2020 with over 20 presentations by our PhD students on current research topics. |
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02.07.2020 Announcement PyKEEN 1.0 As a member of the PyKEEN community project, we are happy to announce PyKEEN 1.0 – PyKEEN is a software package to train and evaluate knowledge graph embedding models. |
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01.06.2020 18 papers accepted at CVPR The PIs of TU Munich published 18 papers at CVF/IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) this year, the conference with the currently highest impact among all scientific conferences worldwide. |
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28.05.2020 Accepted short vision paper at SSDBM 2020 Orderings of Data - more than a Tripping Hazard A. Beer, V. Hartmann, T. Seidl |
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06.02.2020 Accepted paper at PAKDD 2020 Detecting Arbitrarily Oriented Subspace Clusters in Data Streams Using Hough Transform F. Borutta, D. Kazempour, F. Marty, P. Kröger, T. Seidl |
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20.12.2019 MCML Upgrade We are happy to announce that the MCML upgrade proposal is now accepted by BMBF. |
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19.12.2019 Accepted paper at ECIR 2020 reproducibility track Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment with Graph Neural Networks: Lessons Learned M. Berrendorf, E. Faehrman, V. Melnychuk, V. Tresp, T. Seidl |
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14.11.2019 3rd Place at ACM SIGSPATIAL GisCup 2019 goes to F. Borutta, S. Schmoll, S. Friedl for their contribution 'Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Resource Search Problem with Reinforcement Learning' |
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10.10.2019 Accepted paper at NeurIPS Workshop 2019 Graph Alignment Networks with Node Matching Scores E. Faerman, O. Voggenreiter, F. Borutta, T. Emrich, M. Berrendorf, M. Schubert |
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12.09.2019 Accepted paper at ICDM Workshop DeepSpatial 2019 Spatial Interpolation with Message Passing Framework E. Faerman, M. Rogalla, N. Strauß, A. Krüger, B. Blümel, M. Berrendorf, M. Fromm, M.Schubert |
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12.09.2019 Accepted journal paper at Datenbank-Spektrum 19 (2019) Chain-detection Between Clusters J. Held, A. Beer, T. Seidl |
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22.08.2019 Accepted paper at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Resource Search Problem with Reinforcement Learning F. Borutta, S. Schmoll, S. Friedl |
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25.07.2019 Accepted paper at LWDA 2019 A Generator for Subspace Clusters A. Beer, N. S. Schüler, T. Seidl |
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25.07.2019 Accepted paper at WI 2019 Structural Graph Representations based on Multiscale Local Network Topologies F. Borutta, J. Busch, E. Faerman, A. Klink, M. Schubert |
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25.07.2019 Accepted paper at LWDA 2019 Clustering Trend Data Time-Series through Segmentation of FFT-decomposed Signal Constituents D. Kazempour, A. Beer, O. Schrüfer, T. Seidl |
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25.07.2019 Accepted paper at LWDA 2019 CODEC - Detecting Linear Correlations in Dense Clusters with Comedian-based PCA D. Kazempour, M. Hunemörder, A. Beer, and T. Seidl |
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25.07.2019 Accepted paper at LWDA 2019 From Covariance to Comode in context of Principal Component Analysis D. Kazempour, L. M. Yan, T. Seidl |
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11.07.2019 Accepted paper at SISAP 2019 MORe++: k-Means Based Outlier Removal on High-Dimensional Data A. Beer, J. Lauterbach, T. Seidl |
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11.07.2019 Accepted paper at SISAP 2019 k-Distance Approximation for Memory-Efficient RkNN Retrieval M. Berrendorf, F. Borutta, P. Kröger |
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11.07.2019 Accepted paper at SISAP 2019 A Generic Summary Structure for Arbitrarily Oriented Subspace Clustering in Data Streams F. Borutta, P. Kröger, T. Hubauer |
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11.07.2019 Accepted paper at SISAP 2019 On coMADs and Principal Component Analysis D. Kazempour, M. Hünemörder, T. Seidl |
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11.07.2019 Accepted paper at SISAP 2019 On Co-medians and Principal Component Analysis D. Kazempour, T. Seidl |
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16.05.2019 Accepted short paper at SSDBM 2019 Graph Ordering and Clustering - A Circular Approach A. Beer, T. Seidl |
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16.05.2019 Accepted short paper at SSDBM 2019 LUCK - Linear Correlation Clustering Using Cluster Algorithms and a kNN based Distance Function A. Beer, D. Kazempour, L. Stephan, T. Seidl |
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16.05.2019 On systematic hyperparameter analysis through the example of subspace clustering Graph Ordering and Clustering - A Circular Approach D. Kazempour, T. Seidl |
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16.05.2019 Accepted short paper at SSDBM 2019 Detecting Global Periodic Correlated Clusters in Event Series based on Parameter Space Transform D. Kazempour, K. Emmerig, P. Kröger, and T. Seidl |
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29.03.2019 Accepted paper at ICDM Workshop DeepSpatial 2019 XD-STOD: Cross-Domain Superresolution for Tiny Object Detection M. Fromm, M. Berrendorf, E. Faerman, Y. Chen, B. Schüss, M. Schubert |
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12.03.2019 Accepted poster at HCII 2019 Human Learning in Data Science A. Beer, D. Kazempour, M. Baur, T. Seidl |
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12.03.2019 Accepted poster at HCII 2019 Data on RAILs: On interactive generation of artificial linear correlated data D. Kazempour, A. Beer, and T. Seidl |
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27.01.2019 LMU Munich Magazine 'Einsichten' Smarte Wesen: Hat das mit Intelligenz zu tun? Der Informatiker Thomas Seidl und der Statistiker Bernd Bischl debattieren über Maschinelles Lernen, andere Formen von KI und darüber, warum es wichtig ist zu verstehen, wie Rechner damit zu ihren Ergebnissen kommen. |
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17.01.2019 Press release LMU Munich Neues KI-Projekt geht an den Start |
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17.01.2019 Press release LMU Munich Munich Center for Machine Learning geht an den Start |
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15.01.2019 Accepted demo paper at BTW 2019 DICE: Density-based Interactive Clustering and Exploration D. Kazempour, M. Kazakov, P. Kröger, T. Seidl. |
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08.01.2019 Accepted short paper at EDBT 2019 Rock - Let the points roam to their clusters themselvese A. Beer, D. Kazempour, T. Seidl |
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08.01.2019 Accepted short paper at EDBT 2019 A Galaxy of Correlations - Detecting Linear Correlated Clusters through k-Tuples Sampling using Parameter Space Transform D. Kazempour, L. Krombholz, P. Kröger, T. Seidl |
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08.01.2019 Accepted short paper at EDBT 2019 Insights into a running clockwork: On interactive process-aware clustering D. Kazempour, T. Seidl |
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11.12.2018 Accepted poster at BTW 2019 Chain-detection for DBSCAN J. Held, A. Beer, T. Seidl |