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MobyDex Project Completion

After three years of research and development, the MobyDex research project is reaching its conclusion. The project has developed a data-driven platform that systematically analyzes mobility supply and mobility demand, creating a new foundation for needs-based and sustainable mobility planning. The project results will be presented at the official final […]

MobyDex Milestone Meeting in Darmstadt

On March 18, 2026, the fifth project milestone of MobyDex was successfully completed at the consortium partner Urban Software Institute in Darmstadt. We would like to express our sincere thanks for the excellent organization and the warm hospitality on site. With the achievement of this milestone, the project is now […]

Paper Accepted and Presented at KDIR 2025 in Marbella, Spain

We are happy to announce that our paper “A Hybrid Approach for Mining the Organizational Structure from University Websites” by Arman Arzani, Theodor Josef Vogl, Marcus Handte, Pedro José Marrón has been accepted and presented in the International Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval – KDIR 2025. The paper […]

Upcoming Publication and Presentation of Papers at ISVC 2025

We are happy to announce that we will present two papers at the 20th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) in November in Las Vegas, USA. SLICE – Street-Level Insights from Camera Evidence (Peter Roch, Bijan Shahbaz Nejad, Marcus Handte, Pedro José Marrón) Quantifying the Impact of Face Obfuscation on […]

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 […]