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    Publications

    • , , , , , and . . “Gated recurrent units for modelling time series of soil temperature and moisture: An assessment of performance and process reflectivity.Environmental Modelling and Software, 183: 106245106245. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106245.

    • , , , , and . . “SAM meets Gaze: Passive Eye Tracking for Prompt-based Instance Segmentation.Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2023
    • , and . . “Solving the Plane-Sphere Ambiguity in Top-Down Structure-from-Motion.” contribution to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, Hawaii doi: 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00345.
    • , , , , and . . “Towards a Dynamic Vision Sensor-based Insect Camera Trap.” contribution to the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024, Waikoloa, Hawaii
    • , , , , , , , , , , and . . “pyAKI - An Open Source Solution to Automated KDIGO classification.https://arxiv.org doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.12930.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Human fertilization in vivo and in vitro requires the CatSper channel to initiate sperm hyperactivation.Journal of Clinical Investigation, 134 (1) doi: 10.1172/JCI173564.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning--Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder.JAMA Psychiatry, 81 (4): 386395. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.5083.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “Therapy-induced modulation of tumor vasculature and oxygenation in a murine glioblastoma model quantified by deep learning-based feature extraction.Scientific Reports, 14 (1): 20342034. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52268-0.
    • , , , , , , , , , , and . “deepbet: Fast brain extraction of T1-weighted MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks.Computers in Biology and Medicine, 179 doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108845.
    • , , , , , and . . “Towards Estimation of 3D Poses and Shapes of Animals from Oblique Drone Imagery.” contribution to the ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium 2024, Las Vegas
    • , , , , and . . “Compensation to visual impairments and behavioral plasticity in navigating ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (48): e2410908121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2410908121.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Probabilistic photonic computing with chaotic light.Nature Communications, 15 (1): 1044510445. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54931-6.
    • , , , , and . . “Learning Proposal Distributions in Simulated Annealing via Template Networks: A Case Study in Nanophotonic Inverse Design.” in Pattern Recognition, Vol.27 of 27th International Conference ICPR 2024, edited by Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rama Chellappa, Cheng-Lin Liu, Saumik Bhattacharya and Umapada Pal. Heidelberg: Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78186-5_13.
    • , , , , , , , , and . . “VR-based Competence Training at Scale: Teaching Clinical Skills in the Context of Virtual Brain Death Examination.Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8 261. doi: 10.1145/3664635.
    • , , , , and . . “Accelerating Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain Simulations for Inverse Design Problems in Nanophotonics using Deep Learning.Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 41 (4): 10391046. doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.506159.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “Immersive learning in medical education: analyzing behavioral insights to shape the future of VR-based courses.BMC Medical Education, 2024 (24) 1413. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-06337-7.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Deep learning predicts therapy-relevant genetics in acute myeloid leukemia from Pappenheim-stained bone marrow smears.Blood Advances, 8 (1): 7079. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023011076.

    • , , , , and . . “Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Devices using Dynamic Binarization.Optics Express, 31 (10): 1574715756. doi: 10.1364/OE.484484.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Coherent dimension reduction with integrated photonic circuits exploiting tailored disorder.Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 40 (3): B35B40.
    • , , , , , and . . “CATER: Combined Animal Tracking & Environment Reconstruction.Science advances, 9 (16): eadg2094eadg2094.
    • , , , , , , , , , , and . . “An overview and a roadmap for artificial intelligence in hematology and oncology.Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 15: 110.
    • , , , , and . . “A Universal Approach to Nanophotonic Inverse Design through Reinforcement Learning.” in CLEO 2023, paper STh4G.3, edited by Optica Publishing Group. Washington, DC: Optica. doi: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STh4G.3.
    • , , , , and . . “A Novel Approach to Nanophotonic Black-Box Optimization Through Reinforcement Learning.” in Q 30 Nano-optics, edited by DPG. Bad Honnef: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
    • , , , and . . “EyeGuide - From Gaze Data to Instance Segmentation.” contribution to the The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberdeen
    • , , , , , and . . “Adaptive Photo-Chemical Nonlinearities for Optical Neural Networks.Advanced Intelligent Systems, ‎ 5 (12) 2300229. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202300229 .
    • , , and . . “Tracking Tiny Insects in Cluttered Natural Environments using Refinable Recurrent Neural Networks.” contribution to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, Hawaii doi: 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00697.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Event-driven adaptive optical neural network.Science advances, 9 (42): eadi9127. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9127.
    • , , , , , and . . “Activation Functions in Non-Negative Neural Networks.” contributed to the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop, NeurIPS, New Orleans
    • , , , and . . “Diffusion Models in Dermatological Education: Flexible High Quality Image Generation for VR-based Clinical Simulations.” contributed to the NeurIPS'23 Workshop: Generative AI for Education (GAIED), New Orleans, Louisiana
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Sustainable research software for high-quality computational research in the Earth System Sciences: Recommendations for universities, funders and the scientific community in Germany.FIG GEO-LEO e-docs doi: 10.23689/fidgeo-5805.
    • , , , , , and . . “Adaptive Photochemical Nonlinearities for Optical Neural Networks.Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5 (12) doi: 10.1002/aisy.202300229.
    • , , , , and . . “Combinatorial Optimization via Memory Metropolis: Template Networks for Proposal Distributions in Simulated Annealing applied to Nanophotonic Inverse Design.” contributed to the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on AI for Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat-2023), New Orleans
    • , , , , , and . . “Immersive training of clinical decision making with AI driven virtual patients-a new VR platform called medical tr.AI.ning.GMS Journal for Medical Education, 40 (2) doi: 10.3205/zma001600.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Integration of VR into Medical Education (Workshop).” in Würtual Reality, edited by 2023 University of Würzburg, Department of Psychology I (Marcusstr. 9-11, 97070 Würzburg). N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag. doi: 10.25972/OPUS-31720.
    • , , , , , and . . “Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes.Learning and Behavior, s13420-023-00615 doi: 10.3758/s13420-023-00615-y.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Hirntoddiagnostik in Virtual Reality – was denken Studierende darüber?” contributed to the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) 2023, Osnabrück doi: 10.3205/23GMA227.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Zusammenhang von Persönlichkeitsvariablen und Leistung in der virtuellen medizinischen Ausbildung.” contributed to the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) 2023, Osnabrück doi: 10.3205/23GMA273.

    • , , , , , , , and . . “Virtual Reality based teaching – a paradigm shift in education?” contributed to the 73. Jahrestagung Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, Köln doi: 10.3205/22DGNC538.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Volumetric imaging reveals VEGF-C-dependent formation of hepatic lymph vessels in mice.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 10: 949896949896. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.949896.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “An Uncertainty-Aware, Shareable and Transparent Neural Network Architecture for Brain-Age Modeling.Science advances, 8 (1): eabg9471eabg9471. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9471.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation.Nature Communications, 13 (1): 792807. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-27980-y.
    • , , , , , and . . “Towards VR Simulation-Based Training in Brain Death Determination.” in 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), edited by IEEE. New York City: Wiley-IEEE Press.
    • , and . . “Narrowing Attention in Capsule Networks.” in 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, edited by IEEE. New York City: Wiley-IEEE Press.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Cell Selection-based Data Reduction Pipeline for Whole Slide Image Analysis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia.” in The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, edited by IEEE/CVF. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. doi: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00199.
    • , , , , and . . “Development of a nanophotonic nonlinear unit for optical artificial neural networks.” contributed to the DPG Springmeeting 2022, Erlangen
    • , , , , and . . “Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Devices based on Reinforcement Learning.” in Q 38 Photonics II, edited by DPG. Bad Honnef: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

    • , , , and . . “Resolving colliding larvae by fitting ASM to random walker-based pre-segmentations.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 18 (3): 11841194.
    • , , , and . . “Touch Recognition on Complex 3D Printed Surfaces using Filter Response Analysis.” in IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), edited by IEEE. New York City: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. doi: 10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00043.
    • , , , and . . “The Impact of Activation Sparsity on Overfitting in Convolutional Neural Networks.” in The Impact of Activation Sparsity on Overfitting in Convolutional Neural Networks Basel: Springer International Publishing.
    • , and . . “Embedded Dense Camera Trajectories in Multi-Video Image Mosaics by Geodesic Interpolation-based Reintegration.” contribution to the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Waikoloa, Hawaii
    • , , , , and . . “Towards Visual Insect Camera Traps.” contribution to the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Workshop on Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior (VAIB), Milan
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “PHOTONAI-A Python API for rapid machine learning model development.PloS one, 16 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254062.

    • , , , , , , , , , , and . . “PHOTON--A Python API for Rapid Machine Learning Model Development.arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.05426, 2020
    • , , , , , , , and . . “The Drosophila NCAM homolog Fas2 signals independently of adhesion.Development, 147 (2) doi: 10.1242/dev.181479.
    • , , , and . . “Towards image-based animal tracking in natural environments using a freely moving camera.Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 330: 108455. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108455.
    • , , , and . . Exploiting the Full Capacity of Deep Neural Networks while Avoiding Overfitting by Targeted Sparsity Regularization, arXiv e-print:2002.09237: CoRR.

    • , , , and . . “From skylight input to behavioural output: a computational model of the insect polarised light compass.PLoS Computational Biology, 15 (7): e1007123. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007123.

    • , , , , , and . . “Automatic non-invasive heartbeat quantification of Drosophila pupae.Computers in Biology and Medicine, 93: 189199.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “The Sulfite Oxidase Shopper controls neuronal activity by regulating glutamate homeostasis in Drosophila ensheathing glia.Nature Communications, 9 (1): 3514.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “A Multi-Purpose Worm Tracker Based on FIM.bioRxiv
    • , , and . . “Possibilities, Constraints and Limitations of Image-based Animal Tracking in Natural Environments.” contribution to the Measuring Behavior, Manchester, UK
    • , , , and . . “Software to convert terrestrial LiDAR scans of natural environments into photorealistic meshes.Environmental Modelling and Software, 99: 88100. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.09.018.
    • , , and . . “Deep distance transform to segment visually indistinguishable merged objects.” contribution to the Proc. of 40th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), Stuttgart

    • , , , and . . “The Ol1mpiad: Concordance of behavioural faculties of stage 1 and stage 3 Drosophila larvae.Journal of Experimental Biology, 220: 24522475. doi: 10.1242/jeb.156646.
    • , , , , and . . “FIMTrack: An open source tracking and locomotion analysis software for small animals.PLoS Computational Biology, 13 (5): e1005530. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005530.
    • , , , , , and . . “A FIM-based long-term in-vial monitoring system for Drosophila larvae.IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64 (8): 18621874.
    • , , , and . . “Visual Tracking of Small Animals in Cluttered Natural Environments Using a Freely Moving Camera.” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017, edited by Computer Vision Foundation. New York City: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. doi: 10.1109/ICCVW.2017.335.

    • , , , , , and . . “Interactions among Drosophila larvae before and during collision.Scientific Reports, 11 (6): 31564. doi: 10.1038/srep31564.
    • , , and . . “Tracking, Mapping and Reconstruction. Modelling the Visual Perception of Desert Ants.” contribution to the Animal Movement International Symposium, Lund, Sweden
    • , , and . . “Habitat3D: Recreating the History of Visual Experience of Individual Insects.” contribution to the International Congress of Neuroethology, Montevideo, Uruguay
    • , , , and . . “HabiTracks: Visual Tracking of Insects in Their Natural Habitat.” contribution to the International Congress of Neuroethology, Montevideo, Uruguay
    • , , , , , and . . “FIM2c : A Multi-Colour, Multi-Purpose Imaging System to Manipulate and Analyse Animal Behaviour.IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64: 1–1.

    • , , , , and . “Quantifying subtle locomotion phenotypes of Drosophila larvae using internal structures based on FIM images.Computers in Biology and Medicine, 63 (null): 269276. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.08.026.

    • , , , , and . . “Imaging Modalities for Semi-Translucent Animals and Their Impact on Quantitative Analysis.” in VAIB Workshop, ICPR
    • , , , , and . “FIM imaging and FIMTrack: Two new tools allowing high-throughput and cost effective locomotion analysis.Journal of Visualized Experiments, 94
    • , , , , , , , , and . “The Drosophila FHOD1-like formin Knittrig acts through Rok to promote stress fiber formation and directed macrophage migration during the cellular immune response.Development, 141 (6): 13661380. doi: 10.1242/dev.101352.
    • , , and . . “Stereo and Motion Based 3D High Density Object Tracking.Image and Video Technology, 2014: 136148. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-53842-1_12.
    • , , , , and . . “FIM2C and the Analysis of Collision Behavior.” contribution to the Flies, Worms and Robots: Combining Perspectives on Minibrains and Behavior Conference, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

    • , , , , , , and . . “Biomedical Imaging: a Computer Vision Perspective.” in Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, edited by R.Wilson et al.: CAIP 2013. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • , , and . . “FIM: Frustrated Total Internal Reflection Based Imaging for Biomedical Applications.ERCIM News, 95 (Image Understanding): 1112.
    • , , , , and . “Drosophila pupal macrophages - A versatile tool for combined ex vivo and in vivo imaging of actin dynamics at high resolution.European Journal of Cell Biology, 2013 doi: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2013.09.003.
    • , , , , , , and . “FIM, a novel FTIR-based imaging method for high throughput locomotion analysis.PloS one, 8 (1): e53963. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053963.
    • , , , , , and . . “Comparison of two 3D tracking paradigms for freely flying insects.EURASIP J Image Video Process, 2013 (1): 57. doi: 10.1186/1687-5281-2013-57.
    • , , , , and . . “Tracking of Colliding Larvae.” contribution to the Conference on Neurobiology of Drosophila, New York, USA

    • , , , , , and . . “Kinesin heavy chain function in Drosophila glial cells controls neuronal activity.Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (22): 74667476. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0349-12.2012.
    • , , , and . . “3D Trajectory Estimation of Simulated Fruit Flies.In Proc 27th IVCNZ, Dunedin, 2012
    • , , , and . . “FIM: FTIR Based Image Acquisition and Tracking.” contribution to the Conference on Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva (Maggot Meeting), Ashburn, USA
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