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most citedA Solution for Multi-Alignment by Transformation Synchronisation

60 citations

22 papers

cs.AI2026

Causal Attribution for Agentic Decisions: Estimators, Coupling, and a Traceability Specification

Ajay Pravin Mahale

A provider of a high-risk AI system must keep records that make a decision traceable, and for agentic systems it has not been established what those records must contain for post-h…

cs.AI2026

Explanation Multiplicity: Circuit-Level Interpretability Evidence Does Not Survive Defensible Analytic Variation

Ajay Pravin Mahale

The EU AI Act requires providers of high-risk systems to file technical documentation describing how the system reaches its decisions. Mechanistic interpretability is the obvious s…

physics.optics2026

Mach-Zehnder based Rotational Shearing Interferometer for Non-destructive Testing using Spatial Phase-Shifting Shearography

Valentin-Johannes Bastgen, Michael Schuth, Georg von Freymann

This work introduces a novel optical setup based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, enabling spatial phase shifting shearography with rotational shear. The optical concept employs a…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

Model-Driven Legacy System Modernization at Scale

Tobias Böhm, Jens Guan Su Tien, Mohini Nonnenmann +3

This experience report presents a model-driven approach to legacy system modernization that inserts an enriched, technology-agnostic intermediate model between the legacy codebase…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Learning for Industrial Defect Detection: A Case Study on Shearographic Data

Jessica Plassmann, Nicolas Schuler, Georg von Freymann +1

Shearography is a non-destructive testing method for detecting subsurface defects, offering high sensitivity and full-field inspection capabilities. However, its industrial adoptio…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

From the Laboratory to Real-World Application: Evaluating Zero-Shot Scene Interpretation on Edge Devices for Mobile Robotics

Nicolas Schuler, Lea Dewald, Nick Baldig +1

Video Understanding, Scene Interpretation and Commonsense Reasoning are highly challenging tasks enabling the interpretation of visual information, allowing agents to perceive, int…

cs.CV2025

Keeping it Local, Tiny and Real: Automated Report Generation on Edge Computing Devices for Mechatronic-Based Cognitive Systems

Nicolas Schuler, Lea Dewald, Jürgen Graf

Recent advancements in Deep Learning enable hardware-based cognitive systems, that is, mechatronic systems in general and robotics in particular with integrated Artificial Intellig…

cs.CL2025

Evaluation of LLM-based Strategies for the Extraction of Food Product Information from Online Shops

Christoph Brosch, Sian Brumm, Rolf Krieger +1

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential for automating the extraction of structured information from web pages. In this work, we focus on food pr…

math.SP2025

Manifolds with many small wormholes: norm resolvent and spectral convergence

Colette Anné, Olaf Post

We present results concerning the norm convergence of resolvents for wildperturbations of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. This article is a continuation of ouranalysis on wildly per…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Creation and Evaluation of a Food Product Image Dataset for Product Property Extraction

Christoph Brosch, Alexander Bouwens, Sebastian Bast +2

The enormous progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) enables retail companies to automate their processes and thus to save costs. Thereby, many AI-based automation ap…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Likelihood-based Sensor Calibration using Affine Transformation

Rüdiger Machhamer, Lejla Begic Fazlic, Eray Guven +8

An important task in the field of sensor technology is the efficient implementation of adaptation procedures of measurements from one sensor to another sensor of identical design.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Polarization power spectra and dust cloud morphology

A. Konstantinou, V. Pelgrims, F. Fuchs +1

In the framework of studies of the CMB polarization and its Galactic foregrounds, the angular power spectra of thermal dust polarization maps have revealed an intriguing E/B asymme…

math.OC2021★ 5 cited

Shape Optimization for the Mitigation of Coastal Erosion via Porous Shallow Water Equations

Luka Schlegel, Volker Schulz

Coastal erosion describes the displacement of land caused by destructive sea waves, currents or tides. Major efforts have been made to mitigate these effects using groynes, breakwa…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

EVO-RL: Evolutionary-Driven Reinforcement Learning

Ahmed Hallawa, Thorsten Born, Anke Schmeink +6

In this work, we propose a novel approach for reinforcement learning driven by evolutionary computation. Our algorithm, dubbed as Evolutionary-Driven Reinforcement Learning (evo-RL…

cs.SE2017

Round-Trip Sketches: Supporting the Lifecycle of Software Development Sketches from Analog to Digital and Back

Sebastian Baltes, Fabrice Hollerich, Stephan Diehl

Sketching is an important activity for understanding, designing, and communicating different aspects of software systems such as their requirements or architecture. Often, sketches…

cs.CV2016★ 5 cited

Multi-Scale Anisotropic Fourth-Order Diffusion Improves Ridge and Valley Localization

Shekoufeh Gorgi Zadeh, Stephan Didas, Maximilian W. M. Wintergerst +1

Ridge and valley enhancing filters are widely used in applications such as vessel detection in medical image computing. When images are degraded by noise or include vessels at diff…

cs.CV2016★ 48 cited

Shape-aware Surface Reconstruction from Sparse 3D Point-Clouds

Florian Bernard, Luis Salamanca, Johan Thunberg +7

The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important role in medical image analysis, e.g. in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic measur…

cs.SI2016★ 4 cited

It's about time: Online Macrotask Sequencing in Expert Crowdsourcing

Heinz Schmitz, Ioanna Lykourentzou

We introduce the problem of Task Assignment and Sequencing (TAS), which adds the timeline perspective to expert crowdsourcing optimization. Expert crowdsourcing involves macrotasks…

math.CV2015

Generic boundary behaviour of Taylor series in Hardy and Bergman spaces

Hans-Peter Beise, Jürgen Müller

It is known that, generically, Taylor series of functions holomorphic in the unit disc turn out to be universal series outside of the unit disc and in particular on the unit circle…

cs.CV2014★ 60 cited

A Solution for Multi-Alignment by Transformation Synchronisation

Florian Bernard, Johan Thunberg, Peter Gemmar +3

The alignment of a set of objects by means of transformations plays an important role in computer vision. Whilst the case for only two objects can be solved globally, when multiple…

math.NA2014

Towards a Lagrange-Newton approach for PDE constrained shape optimization

Volker H. Schulz, Martin Siebenborn, Kathrin Welker

The novel Riemannian view on shape optimization developed in [Schulz, FoCM, 2014] is extended to a Lagrange-Newton approach for PDE constrained shape optimization problems. The ext…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011

A contact model for the yielding of caked granular materials

L. Brendel, J. Török, R. Kirsch +1

We present a visco-elastic coupling model between caked spheres, suitable for DEM simulations, which incorporates the different loading mechanisms (tension, shear, bending, torsion…