📹Can 3D scenes be encoded into and rendered from a set of compressed tokens? New work "SceneTok" from the Geometric Representation Learning group shows that they can, and that this approach pairs naturally with generative rendering to handle uncertainty in observations.
↪️More: mpi-inf.link/scenetok

Quantum Computing Meets Visual Computing: New Paths for Image Reconstruction Max Planck researchers investigate “quantum neural networks” as a building block for more efficient visual-computing models.

The 4D Quantum Computer Vision group led by Dr. Vladislav Golyanik is studying how to leverage quantum computing for visual computing & computer vision. In particular novel quantum neural networks are a current research interest.🎓💡

↪️More: mpi-inf.link/4DQCV

We are happy to be part of the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and look forward to the exciting insights and the people we will meet along the way. 🎓🚀

Fukushima Reactor: 3D Technology to Aid in Decommissioning Joint Press Release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology

💡Basic research with real-world impact: #3DGaussianSplatting, co-developed by Inria and MPI-INF, was used to turn video footage from the Fukushima nuclear reactor into a freely navigable 3D visualization, making a previously inaccessible environment digitally explorable. ↪️ mpi-inf.link/3DGS

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Next up in our series "Research at MPI for Informatics": The Computer Vision and Machine Learning department. Director Bernt Schiele talks about the department’s work on explainable AI, foundation models, and how this connects to a range of real-world applications. 🎓

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Out into the countryside: MPI for Informatics takes part in “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” Talking about research in places where science is otherwise rarely present—that is the idea behind the event series “Heimspiel Wissenschaft.”

Science where it’s rarely present: “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” brings researchers back to their rural homes to talk about their work. @oduenkel.bsky.social spoke in Boxberg-Schwabhausen on generative AI. 86 attendees in a village of ~600 people, plus a lively Q&A.🎓

↪️https://sic.link/heimspiel

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First of all: Happy New Year! Today we’re excited to share the first episode of our video series about the research at MPI for Informatics. 🎉
In this format, we introduce each department and IRG at our institute, starting with the Algorithms and Complexity department.

↪️ youtube.com/shorts/Urh70...

MPI-INF presents two works at SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, that advance how virtual avatars look, move, and react to voice. 🎓
Both works in scienitific collaboration with industry; with Google at the VIA-Center and with the film technology company Flawless AI.

↪️ More Info: sic.link/avatars

Flyer for IMPRS-TRUST

🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de
and @rptu.bsky.social

🗓️ Application deadline: December 31st
↪️ sic.link/imprs

Hannaneh Akrami selected for Minerva Fast Track Programme Research focuses on fairness in allocation problems.

Congrats to Hannaneh Akrami for being selected for the @maxplanck.de Minerva Fast Track Programme! 🎉
Her work in algorithmic game theory explores fairness in allocation problems – how to distribute indivisible goods so everyone perceives the result as fair. 🎓

↪️ sic.link/fasttrack

Research Funding in the Millions: Two New Emmy Noether Groups Established at the MPI for Informatics Research focuses on algorithms and machine learning

Two new Emmy Noether research groups established at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, led by Dr. @janericlenssen.bsky.social and Dr. Karol Węgrzycki.
Together, they will receive around 3.7 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).🎓

More info ↪️ sic.link/emmynoether

Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.

Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch

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European Research Team Awarded for Detecting More Than 16,000 Compromised Servers The new method leverages a subtle feature in the Secure Shell authentication protocol.

International research team from MPI for Informatics and TU Delft has detected more than 16,000 compromised servers using a subtle feature of the SSH authentication protocol. Published at USENIX Security Symposium 2025, won Distinguished Paper Award + Internet Defense Prize. ↪️ sic.link/catch22

Kurt Mehlhorn awarded the Saarland Order of Merit Minister President Rehlinger presented the order during a ceremonial event at the Saarland State Chancellery.

Kurt Mehlhorn, Founding Director of MPI for Informatics, was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit yesterday by Minister President Anke Rehlinger. The award recognizes his life’s work, from advancing algorithmic research to mentoring researchers and helping build key institutions. More: sic.link/merit

Why System Administration Is More Than Just Technology Research shows: Social negotiation and care work are central components

System admins don’t just fix servers—they coordinate with users, support colleagues in high-stress situations, and much more. 🖥️🤝 Mannat Kaur from MPI-INF shows how these elements of social negotiation and care-work are an important part of IT security. ↪️ sic.link/sysadminday

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EATCS Presburger Award for Tomasz Kociumaka The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures

Congrats to Tomasz Kociumaka for winning the 2025 EATCS Presburger Award! 🎉🏅The prize committee recognized his work for resolving long-standing open problems and developing near-linear time algorithms for fundamental string processing tasks.

↪️ More Info: sic.link/presburger25

Otto Hahn Medal for Anna Kukleva The award is given for fundamental work on learning powerful representations for image and video recognition from reduced supervision.

Congrats to @annakukleva.bsky.social, for winning the Otto Hahn Medal of @maxplanck.de! 🏅In her PhD thesis she shows how AI can learn to recognize images & videos with less manual labeling, using self-supervised and weakly supervised methods.
↪️ sic.link/ottohahn25

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A Flyer for the International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing that mentions the application deadline on June 30th.

🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social

🗓️Application deadline: June 30th
↪️ sic.link/imprs

Thread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀

👏 Big congrats to everyone! Keep an eye out at #CVPR2025 🌟

#MPI-INF #D2 #ComputerVision #AI #PhD #ML

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The CVML group at the @mpi-inf.mpg.de has been busy for CVPR. Check out our papers and come by the presentations!

This is an event flyer for the Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science. It contains pictures of the speakers and information on the event.

Interested in recent advances in graph decomposition techniques and their use in designing efficient algorithms? Then save the date for ADFOCS 2025. More information on registration and available grants: ↪️https://sic.link/adfocs25

See you in Saarbrücken! 🎓

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From Photos to 3D Model: Saarbrücken Computer Scientist Receives International Recognition for PhD-Thesis Mojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.

Congratulations to Mojtaba Bemana for receiving one of the Eurographics 2025 Dissertation Awards! His thesis was about Image-Based Rendering, an emerging subfield of Computer Graphics. 🎉 More about his work and a link to the thesis: sic.link/egaward
@uni-saarland.de @saarland-informatics-campus.de

Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement A new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.

Making AI more transparent is central to building systems we can trust. Jonas Fischer’s Explainable Machine Learning Group at MPI-INF works on methods to achieve precisely that. Example: a NeurIPS paper on how domain knowledge can guide model pruning for better understanding. sic.link/dash

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Curious about our research or what it’s like to work and collaborate at our institute?🤔 In this short film, some of our researchers share what drives their work and what makes MPI for Informatics a unique place for computer science. 📹 Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/MbZ49mx6tf0
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Welcome to the Bluesky channel of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Here, we will soon share updates on research, people, and events at our Institute. Don’t miss the release of our introductory video this Friday! 🦋

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