05.02.2026
Needle in a Haystack: Finding Exact Moments in Long Videos
MCML Research Insight - With With Tanveer Hannan and Thomas Seidl
Long videos are everywhere, with footage of movies, YouTube videos, body-cam recordings, and AR/VR often running for tens of minutes or even hours. Now imagine asking a simple question like “Where are …
04.02.2026
Benjamin Busam Leads Design of Bavarian Earth Observation Satellite Network “CuBy”
Bavarian Earth Observation Satellite Network Ready for Launch
MCML PI Benjamin Busam is leading the scientific design of the Bavarian Earth observation satellite network “CuBy”, which is scheduled for launch in June 2026. The system consists of five small …
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30.01.2026
Cracks in the Foundations of Cosmology
Daniel Grün Explains How Observations Test Our Understanding of the Universe
There was a time when the Andromeda Nebula was the end of the Universe. At least, a number of astronomers in the early 20th century still thought that fuzzy objects in the night sky – such as the …
29.01.2026
How Machines Can Discover Hidden Rules Without Supervision
MCML Research Insight - With Tobias Schmidt, and Steffen Schneider
How can machines learn the hidden rules that govern how systems change—how objects move, how weather patterns unfold, or how biological signals evolve—without ever being told what those rules are?
28.01.2026
Matthias Nießner Co-Founds AI Startup Synthesia
Interactive AI Avatars Reshape Corporate Training
The London-based AI company Synthesia, co-founded by MCML PI Matthias Nießner, has raised an additional $200 million, bringing its valuation to $4 billion. Synthesia is one of Europe’s most valuable …
28.01.2026
Fabian Theis Featured in FOCUS Online at DLD 2026
How AI Can Support Doctors and Improve Access to Healthcare
MCML PI Fabian Theis was featured in an interview with FOCUS online at DLD Munich 2026, discussing how artificial intelligence can transform medicine. Fabian highlighted how AI can help make diagnosis …
27.01.2026
Joint Retreat of MCML and TUEAI Center on the Latest Advances in Computer Vision
Short Recap
In January 2026, two research groups of the MCML and Tübingen AI Center met for a four-day retreat in Gaschurn/ Austria. About 60 researchers joined for talks and poster sessions. The joint retreat …
27.01.2026
Daniel Rückert Speaks at DLD Munich 2026
AI and the Future of Medicine: From Sci-Fi to Your Doctor's Office
Our Director Daniel Rückert spoke at the DLD Conference 2026 as part of the BIOSPHERE Health Track. In his talk, Daniel explored how AI is moving from science fiction into real clinical practice and …
27.01.2026
Fabian Theis Speaks at DLD Munich 2026
From Models to Medicines: AI-Guided Experimental Biology
We are pleased to share that our PI Fabian Theis contributed to DLD Conference 2026 as part of the BIOSPHERE Health Track. Fabian gave a talk titled “From Models to Medicines: AI-guided Experimental …
27.01.2026
Björn Ommer Speaks at DLD Munich 2026
It’s Gonna Be Wild: When AI Moves Faster Than Society
Our PI Björn Ommer was a featured speaker at DLD Munich 2026 in the session “It’s Gonna Be Wild: When AI Moves Faster Than Society”, together with LMU VP Armin Nassehi. The discussion reflects on the …
22.01.2026
From Global to Regional Explanations: Understanding Models More Locally
MCML Research Insight - With Giuseppe Casalicchio, Thomas Nagler, and Bernd Bischl
Machine learning models can be powerful, but understanding why they behave the way they do is often much harder. Early global interpretability tools were designed to show how each feature affects the …
22.01.2026
Research Stay at University of St. Gallen
Andrea Maldonado – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
Between Freudenberg – “happiness mountain” – and Rosenberg – “roses mountain”, I had the pleasure to visit the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in …
20.01.2026
MCML PI Matthias Nießner Featured in WirtschaftsWoche on Spaitial AI
German Startup Develops AI for Instant 3D Room Creation
MCML PI Matthias Nießner was featured in WirtschaftsWoche for his startup Spaitial AI, which develops AI capable of creating realistic 3D models of real-world rooms and interiors within seconds. The …
20.01.2026
MCML Supporting Girls in STEM
Encouraging Girls to Explore Science, Technology, and University Life
At the first GirlsLAB at TUM, female students from Bavarian partner schools explored STEM subjects through hands-on teamwork and creative problem-solving. While the students built chain-reaction …
19.01.2026
MCML PI Frauke Kreuter Featured on ARD Alpha on AI
Exploring Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
MCML PI Frauke Kreuter was featured on ARD alpha, discussing how AI is shaping everyday life and the workplace. Alongside moderator Birgit Kappel and Sabine Pfeiffer, head of the Chair of Sociology at …
15.01.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Live From the CES in Las Vegas
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Christof Horn reports live from the CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas and now also one of the leading trade shows for the global …
15.01.2026
Blind Matching – Aligning Images and Text Without Training or Labels
MCML Research Insight - With Dominik Schnaus, Nikita Araslanov, and Daniel Cremers
Vision-language models have shown that images and text can live in a shared space: a picture of a “cat” often lands close to the word “cat” in the embedding space. But such …
12.01.2026
MCML PI Alexander Fraser Featured on Breaking Data Podcast
Discussing AI, Language Diversity, and Low-Resource Languages
MCML PI Alexander Fraser was featured as a guest on an episode of the Breaking Data podcast, where he discussed the importance of integrating low-resource and minority languages into AI models. In …
12.01.2026
MCML PIs Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Innovations in Science and Technology
MCML PIs Xiaoxiang Zhu and Felix Dietrich were featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung’s coverage of TU Munich’s major scientific breakthroughs in 2025. Their work contributes to current advances in …
12.01.2026
Call for Speakers Certificate Course „Responsible AI“
We Are Seeking Speakers for the First Certificate Course on Responsible AI
The certificate course “Responsible AI” is jointly organized by the German National AI Centers. It addresses AI researchers on all levels from the centers, the participating universities, …
08.01.2026
High-Res Images, Less Wait: A Simple Flow for Image Generation
MCML Research Insight - With Johannes Schusterbauer, Pingchuan Ma, Vincent Tao Hu, and Björn Ommer
Image generation models today can create almost anything, like a futuristic city glowing at sunset, a classical painting of your cat, or a realistic spaceship made of glass. But when you ask them to …
28.12.2025
Konstantin Riedl Wins Doctoral Award from the Friends of TUM e.V.
Former MCML Member Recognized for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Konstantin Riedl, former MCML member, has received the Doctoral Award of the Friends of TUM e.V., honoring one of the most outstanding doctoral dissertations at the Technical University of Munich. He …
25.12.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Armin Nassehi, How Does Social Transformation Succeed?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, the sociologist Armin Nassehi declares, how social transformation succeeds. He discusses, why social changes are often not implemented despite clear goals and great urgency …
23.12.2025
MCML: Supporting Teachers in the Use of AI in Education
Using AI Effectively in Teaching and Learning
Teachers need support to keep up with rapid technological change and to adapt teaching and learning to the demands of an increasingly digital world. While new technologies are widely available, they …
18.12.2025
"See, Don’t Assume": Revealing and Reducing Gender Bias in AI
MCML Research Insight - With Leander Girrbach, Yiran Huang, Stephan Alaniz and Zeynep Akata
Using AI and LLMs at work feels almost unavoidable today: they make things easier, but they can also go wrong in important ways. One of the trickiest problems? Gender bias. For example, if you ask …
16.12.2025
Fabian Theis Featured in Handelsblatt on the Future of AI in Precision Medicine
Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Research
Our PI Fabian Theis was recently featured in an interview exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern healthcare. As a leading researcher in AI-driven biomedical data analysis, he …
16.12.2025
Gitta Kutyniok Featured in VDI Nachrichten on AI Ethics
Defining Measurable Criteria for Responsible AI Agents
Our PI Gitta Kutyniok was featured in VDI Nachrichten discussing ethical and safety challenges for autonomous AI agents. She emphasizes the need for measurable criteria to guide AI decision-making, …
16.12.2025
Hinrich Schütze Featured in WirtschaftsWoche on Innovative AI Approaches
Advancing Language Models With Memory-Efficient and Context-Aware AI
Our PI Hinrich Schütze commented on the Swiss start-up Giotto.ai’s breakthrough in language models, featured in WirtschaftsWoche. Giotto.ai challenges the prevailing trend of ever-larger AI models by …
16.12.2025
Xiaoxiang Zhu Featured in Focus Online on Global 3D Building Atlas
AI-Driven 3D Mapping Reveals Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Social Insights
Our PI Xiaoxiang Zhu and her team have created a Global Building Atlas, mapping 2.75 billion buildings in 3D. Using satellite data and AI, the atlas captures building footprints, geometry, and height, …
11.12.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Will AI Be the New Colleague, Prof. Sabine Pfeiffer?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Sabine Pfeiffer from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg talks about AI as a new colleague. An MIT study shows that artificial intelligence is widespread in everyday life, but lags …
11.12.2025
From Sitting Dog to Standing: A New Way to Morph 3D Shapes
MCML Research Insight - With Lu Sang and Daniel Cremers
Ever wondered how a 3D shape can smoothly change — like a robot arm bending or a dog rising from sitting to standing — without complex simulations or hand-crafted data? Researchers from MCML and the …
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08.12.2025
Tom Sterkenburg Wins Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Honored for His Work at the Intersection of Philosophy, Statistics, and Machine Learning
MCML JRG Leader Tom Sterkenburg has been awarded the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW). The prize was presented at the Academy’s Ceremonial Annual …
08.12.2025
Björn Ommer Guest on ZDF’s Terra X
Image-Generative AI and Visual Understanding
Our PI Björn Ommer was a guest in the ZDF science series Terra X - moderated by Harald Lesch - where he explained how image-generative AI works and how systems like Stable Diffusion enable machines to …
08.12.2025
Björn Schuller Guest on ZDF’s Terra X
Emotion Recognition and Empathic AI
Our PI Björn Schuller was a guest in the ZDF science series Terra X - moderated by Harald Lesch, where he discussed the fundamentals of Affective Computing and the role of emotion recognition in …
©Juli Eberle / TUM / ediundsepp Gestaltungsgesellschaft
04.12.2025
All the World's Buildings Available as 3D Models for the First Time
Xiaoxiang Zhu’s Team Releases GlobalBuildingAtlas
With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, the research team led by MCML PI Xiaoxiang Zhu has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial basis for climate …
04.12.2025
When to Say "I’m Not Sure": Making Language Models More Self-Aware
MCML Research Insight - With Yawei Li, David Rügamer, Bernd Bischl, and Mina Rezaei
Large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini are now everywhere, from summarizing text to writing code or answering simple questions. But there’s one thing they still struggle with: admitting …
01.12.2025
Research Stay at Princeton University
Abdurahman Maarouf – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
From May to July, I spent three exciting months as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Manoel Horta Ribeiro. The visit grew out of a …
27.11.2025
Daniel Grün and Lukas Heinrich Receive BMFTR Funding for Physics Foundation Models
Developing Advanced AI Tools for Astro- And Particle Physics
MCML PIs Daniel Grün and Lukas Heinrich are part of the newly funded Germany-wide project “SciFM,” supported by the BMFTR, which aims to develop foundation models for astro- and particle physics. …
27.11.2025
MCML Members Honored in GAIE Spotlight 2025
Recognized for Their Contributions to AI Research and Innovation in Germany
Four members of the MCML have been selected for the GAIE Spotlight Series: Leading 30 German AI Experts & Academics 2025. The list recognizes outstanding researchers shaping the future of …
27.11.2025
Seeing the Bigger Picture – One Detail at a Time
MCML Research Insight - With Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, and Zeynep Akata
Large vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) have changed how AI works with mixed inputs of images and text, by learning to connect pictures and words. Given …
©BIFOLD/Michael Setzpfandt
25.11.2025
How Will Artificial Intelligence Redefine Medicine in the Next Decade?
MCML Keynote at AI in Medicine Workshop 2025
The AI in Medicine Workshop 2025 brought together more than 120 experts from medicine and computer science at the Baltic, Charité’s innovation hub for digital health.
25.11.2025
Daniel Rückert Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
TUM News
MCML Director Daniel Rückert is listed among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in the Cross-Field category for his work on artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine. In total, 17 …
20.11.2025
Digdeep Podcast: How Does Synera Shape Product Development of the Future, Moritz Maier?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Moritz Mayer talks about the shape product development of Synera. Developing physical products requires specialized knowledge and the use of complex tools. Moritz Maier …
©Andreas Heddergott / TUM
20.11.2025
Uniform Reference System for Lightweight Construction Methods
Rüdiger Westermann Develops Benchmark for Lightweight Design
How can components be designed for an optimal balance of minimal weight and maximum robustness? This is a challenge faced by many industries, from medical device manufacturing to the automotive and …
20.11.2025
Zigzag Your Way to Faster, Smarter AI Image Generation
MCML Research Insight - With Vincent Tao Hu, Olga Grebenkova, Pingchuan Ma, Johannes Schusterbauer, and Björn Ommer
State-of-the-art diffusion models like DiT and Stable Diffusion have made AI image generation incredibly powerful. But they still struggle with one big issue: scaling to large images or videos quickly …
13.11.2025
Anne-Laure Boulesteix Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
LMU Newsroom
MCML PI Anne‑Laure Boulesteix has been named a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 by Clarivate for her influential work in the Cross-Field category. The recognition highlights publications from 2014–2024 …
13.11.2025
Björn Ommer Featured in Frankfurter Rundschau
Google’s AI Search Mode Challenges Content Visibility and Online Publishing
MCML PI Björn Ommer was recently featured in Frankfurter Rundschau, commenting on the impact of Google’s new AI-powered search mode. The article discusses how AI-generated summaries in search results …
13.11.2025
Fabian Theis Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
TUM News
MCML PI Fabian Theis is listed among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in Biology and Biochemistry for his work on mathematical modeling of biological systems. In total, 14 TUM scientists …
13.11.2025
Explaining AI Decisions: Shapley Values Enable Smart Exosuits
MCML Research Insight - With Julia Herbinger, Giuseppe Casalicchio, Yusuf Sale, Bernd Bischl and Eyke Hüllermeier
Picture a typical day in a warehouse: one worker lifts, bends, and carries out the same task over and over again. While the routine may seem simple, the physical toll steadily builds—affecting joints …
©Oliver Dietze/DFKI
07.11.2025
The MCML at the All Hands Meeting 2025 in Saarbrücken
Meet Up of All German AI Competence Centers - Hosted by DFKI
This year’s All Hands Meeting in Saarbrücken gathered researchers from all German AI centers (BIFOLD, ScaDS.ai, Lamarr Institute, Tübingen AI Center, DFKI and MCML) to exchange ideas and discuss …
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03.11.2025
Research on Human-Centred Exosuit Technology Highlighted in Börsen-Zeitung
MCML Research About Wearable Robotics
LMU and Harvard researchers are developing smarter and safer wearable technologies that adapt to the people using them. Their latest method not only optimizes how an exosuit supports workers during …
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30.10.2025
Strength of Gender Biases in AI Images Varies Across Languages
Alexander Fraser Shows Text-to-Image Generators Reproduce and Magnify Role Stereotypes
The team of MCML PI Alexander Fraser together with researchers at TU Darmstadt have studied how text-to-image generators deal with gender stereotypes in various languages. The results show that the …
26.10.2025
CSG-Fusion Wins Best Paper at ICCV 2025 Workshop
Award-Winning Work by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Members Wenbo Ji and Weirong Chen
The paper “CSG-Fusion: Consistent Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting via Matching-based Fusion” by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Member Weirong Chen, together with Wenbo Ji, and Yan Xia, …
26.10.2025
Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze Featured on ARD
The Segment Highlights Challenges AI Faces in Understanding Regional Language Variations
MCML PIs Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze were featured in a recent ARD Capriccio segment on how AI struggles to understand dialects. The broadcast highlighted research from the MaiNLP lab, with …
26.10.2025
CoProU-VO Wins GCPR 2025 Best Paper Award
Award-Winning Work by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and His Team for Advances in Unsupervised Visual Odometry
The paper “CoProU-VO: Combining Projected Uncertainty for End-to-End Unsupervised Monocular Visual Odometry” by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Members Weirong Chen and Johannes …
26.10.2025
Unai Fischer-Abaigar Featured on Executive Code
AI Prediction and Its Impact on Government Resource Allocation
MCML Junior Member Unai Fischer-Abaigar, was featured in a recent episode of Executive Code. He discussed his paper “The Value of Prediction in Identifying the Worst-Off”, exploring how …
24.10.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Live From HerCareer With Anne Greul: How to Successfully Pivot a Startup.
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Anne Greul shows startup-pivots form herCareer. Anne took the courageous step into entrepreneurship and learned early on that the path is rarely straightforward. Instead …
20.10.2025
Björn Ommer Appointed LMU Chief AI Officer
LMU News
As of October 1, our PI Björn Ommer, has been appointed LMU’s Chief AI Officer. In his new role, he will help strengthen LMU’s strategic profile in Artificial Intelligence and further expand research …
17.10.2025
Call for Applications: Data Science Professional Certificate Program @LMU 2026
Application Deadline: 16.01.2026
The Data Science Certificate Program at LMU Munich, offered in collaboration with MCML, is a graded, part-time academic training program. It is designed for working professionals, researchers, and …
16.10.2025
SIC: Making AI Image Classification Understandable
MCML Research Insight - With Tom Nuno Wolf, Emre Kavak, Fabian Bongratz, and Christian Wachinger
Deep learning models are emerging more and more in everyday life, going as far as assisting clinicians in their diagnosis. However, their black box nature prevents understanding errors and …
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