Dec. 11-12, 2023: X-KIT Workshop on transfer and generalizability of AI applications in agriculture, nutrition, food chain and rural areas in Magdeburg. Florian Huber, Alina Pollehn and Alvin Inderka presented at this X-KIT Workshop the KI-iREPro Yield Prediction System with respect to explainability in automated yield prediction systems.

Nov. 1, 2023: Frank Schindler (M.Sc.) joins the KI-iREPro project of the IVS group. Wellcome!

Aug. 31, 2023: Team member Timm Haucke moves to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We wish you well!

Apr. 4, 2023: Team member Timm Haucke defended his Master thesis successfully. Congrats!

Oct. 31, 2022: Team member Artem Yushchenko completed his project work in KI-iREPro. We wish you well!

Sept. 30, 2022: Team member Morris Klasen moved to MABRI.VISION. We wish you well!

Oct. 11, 2022: Team member Morris Klasen defended his Master thesis successfully. Congrats!

June 14, 2022: Former team member Peter Johanns has been awarded for his outstanding BSc thesis in Computer Science from the Bonner Informatik Gesellschaft (BIG). Congrats!

July 23, 2021: Team members Timm Haucke, Morris Klasen and Frank Schindler have been awarded for their outstanding BSc/MSc theses in Computer Science from the Bonner Informatik Gesellschaft (BIG). Congrats!

July 1, 2021: Florian Huber (M.Sc.) joins the IVS group. Wellcome!

May 1, 2021: Artem Yushchenko (B.Sc.) joins the IVS group. Wellcome!

March 19, 2021: The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) grants funding of KI-iREPro, a research project on innovative yield prediction in viticulture for three years.

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Oct. 1, 2020: Frank Schindler joins the IVS group. Wellcome!

May 31, 2020: Team member Jenny Mack moved to pixolus GmbH. We wish you well!

May 1, 2020: Timm Haucke (B.Sc.) joins the IVS group. Wellcome!

Apr. 1, 2020: Morris Klasen (B.Sc.) joins the IVS group. Wellcome!

Oct. 10, 2019: The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grants funding of AMMOD, a research consortium for constructing Automated Multisensor Stations for Monitoring of BiodDiversity for three years.

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Sep. 23, 2019: Team member Jenny Mack defended her PhD thesis successfully. Congrats!

March 31, 2019: Team member Pierre Barré moved to Geutebrück GmbH. We wish you well!

Nov. 29/30, 2018: Participation of Volker Steinhage at the Workshop on Field Phenotyping in Breeding organized by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMLE), the German Federation for Plant Innovation (GFPi) and the Research Center Jülich (FZ Jülich).

Feb. 9, 2017: For his teaching of the module Intelligent Vision Systems in the Bachelor programme Volker Steinhage receives a teaching award from the faculty.

Feb. 1, 2017: Pierre Barré joins the IVS group.

Oct. 10, 2016: The Inst. of Computer Science of Bonn Univ. grants start-up funding of a new project on computational sensing with applications to plant breeding for two years.

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May 25, 2016: Congrats to student member Vincent Casser of our IVS group. His full paper contribution entitled Using Feedforward Neural Networks for Color Based Grape Detection in Field Images was awarded with a best paper prize at the 3rd Computer Science Conference for University of Bonn Students (CSCUBS 2016).

More details: 3rd Computer Science Conference for University of Bonn Students (CSCUBS 2016)

Febr. 3, 2016: The German Research Council (DFG) grants funding of a new project on analysing grape genotypes with respect to cluster architecture for three years.

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May 3, 2015: Congrats to student member Joel Janai of our IVS group. His master thesis entitled Tracking of Arbitrary Objects in 3D Laser Range Data was awarded with a prize of the AFCEA Bonn e. V.

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Jan. 1, 2015: Jenny Mack joins the IVS group as Ph.D. student

Aug. 1, 2014: Volker Steinhage moved as head of the IVS group to the Institute of Computer Science 4, University of Bonn