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VitalizeU.DE Apps Now Available

We are happy to announce that the mobile applications developed by the project group “VitalizeU.DE” during summer term 2024 are now publicly available on Google Play and the Apple App Store. VitalizeU.DE is a campus-wide mobile game that incentivizes users to be more active. Users can earn points for their […]

MobyDex Workshop in Sinzig

On March 14th, the fourth MobyDex consortium meeting took place at CISS TDI GmbH. Sinzig is located in the beautiful Ahr Valley west of the Rhine. Local attractions include Sinzig Castle and St. Peter’s Church, which we saw on our way to lunch. In the morning, we first discussed the […]

MobyDex Presentation on Bike Demand at Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität

This year, we were once again able to successfully submit a contribution to the Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität in Duisburg. Together with our colleagues from LocosLab GmbH and CAS Software AG we will present results on our joint analysis of bike sharing availability and demand for MobyDex. Further information will soon be […]

Upcoming Paper and Presentation at ICRA 2025

We are happy to announce that we will be able to present our work on “Enhancing 3D Scene Graphs with Real-Time Room Classification” at ICRA 2025 in May in Atlanta, USA. In recent years, 3D scene graphs have become a critical tool in robotics and computer vision for enabling systems […]

Second Place Achieved in the EWSN’24 Sustainability Competition

In a collaborative effort, the researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, and the Hamburg University of Technology attained 2nd place in the EWSN’24 Sustainability Competition, held in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Sustainability Competition aimed to benchmark the performance of ultra-low-power embedded devices under intermittent energy […]

Paper Published in Journal on Machine Vision and Applications

We are happy to announce the publication of our article on an “Axes-aligned non-linear optimized PnP algorithm” by Peter Roch, Bijan Shahbaz Nejad, Marcus Handte and, Pedro José Marrón in the Journal on Machine Vision and Applications by Springer Nature. This extended version of our ISVC 2023 conference contribution provides […]

Paper Published in International Journal of Data Science and Analytics

We are happy to announce that our paper “Discovering Potential Founders within Academic Institutions” by Arman Arzani, Marcus Handte and Pedro José Marrón has been published in the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics published by Springer. The paper analyzes data on founders and non-founders from different universities. An […]

MobyDex at Science Forum on Mobility in Duisburg

We are happy to announce that we will be presenting the MobyDex research project during this year’s science forum on mobility (Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität) in Duisburg. The presentation will take place in Track 4 (Session 2) on Thursday, June 13th, 2024. Besides from describing the project idea and goals, the presentation […]

Paper published in the Journal Machine Vision and Applications 2024

Title: A visual foreign object detection system for wireless charging of electric vehicles Authors: Bijan Shahbaz Nejad, Peter Roch, Marcus Handte and Pedro José Marrón Abstract: Wireless charging of electric vehicles can be achieved by installing a transmitter coil into the ground and a receiver coil at the underbody of […]