Other Awards

  • Rikard Vinge (MF-DAS), together with his co-authors Stefan Byttner & Jens Lundström, was awarded the "Frontier Prize" at the Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2025) for his paper "Expanding Polynomial Kernels for Global and Local Explanations of Support Vector Machines".
  • Chaikal Amrullah, Daniel Panangian, Dr. Ksenia Bittner (all MF-PBA) were awarded the "Best Student Contest Paper in Methodological Session" prize at the 17th International Conference on Joint Urban Remote Sensing - JURSE 2025 in Tunis. The winning paper is titled "PolyRoof: Precision Roof Polygonization in Urban Residential Building with Graph Neural Network".
  • Xiangtian Yuan from the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) successfully defended his doctorate entitled “Building Monitoring through Multimodal Remote Sensing Data and Deep Learning” at the University of Osnabrück.
  • Björn Tings from the Institute of Remote Sensing Technology (IMF) defended his dissertation entitled “Detection of bow and stern waves of ships using satellite-based C-band and X-band synthetic aperture radar sensors” at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg “with distinction”.
  • Nico Adam from the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) has successfully defended his dissertation on "Improved SAR Coherence Magnitude Estimates in Scenarios with Low Coherence and Small Sample Size" at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich.
  • Ines Standfuß from the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) has successfully defended her dissertation on “Remote sensing for species-environment studies –  Obtaining Meaningful and Robust Environmental Variables for White Stork Habitats” at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
  • Patrick Aravena Pelizari from the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) successfully defended his dissertation on “Multi-hazard exposure modeling with multimodal geospatial data and deep learning” at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
  • Philipp Schuegraf from the Institute of Remote Sensing Technology (MF) has successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Leveraging Deep Learning for Enhanced Building Information Retrieval and Reconstruction from Remote Sensing Imagery" at the University of Osnabrück.
  • Prof. Hannes Taubenböck, representing DLR and the Earth Observation Research Cluster of the University of Würzburg, won first place in the scientific short lecture competition on November 8, 2024 in Würzburg.
  • Corentin Henry from the Institute of Remote Sensing Technology (IMF) and Friedrich Fraundorfer (IMF, TU Graz) won the DAGM GCPR Best Paper Award at the "German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)" 2024 in September. Their paper entitled "Worldwide High-fidelity Road Extraction from Aerial and Satellite Imagery enabled by Low-fidelity OpenStreetMap Labels" was honored.
  • René Traoré from the Institute of Remote Sensing Technology (IMF) has successfully defended his dissertation on "Automated Machine Learning for the Application in Earth Observation" at the Technical University of Munich.