Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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Official account of the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken. Our goal is to advance foundational research and drive innovation in key areas of computer science. Imprint: https://imprint.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/inf/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de?lang=de

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Stronger together: the Max Planck Institute for #Informatics and Stanford School of #Engineering are establishing a joint #AI research centre, the Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence 😎 www.mpg.de/26996903/max... @mpi-inf.mpg.de @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

mpg.deMax Planck Stanford Center to be establishedMax Planck Institute for Informatics and Stanford School of Engineering will establish a joint AI research hub, the Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence. The partnership...
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🎉 Congrats to MPI-INF researchers Yiting Xia and Thomas Leimkühler on being awarded ERC Starting Grants by the @erc.europa.eu Each researcher will receive approximately 1.5 Million euros over the next five years to advance research in their projects. ↪️ More: mpi-inf.link/ERCStG2026 #ERCStG

mpi-inf.linkThree Million Euros in EU Funding for Two Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for InformaticsDr. Yiting Xia and Dr. Thomas Leimkühler awarded ERC Starting Grants
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Research team from Tokyo University and the MPI-INF has introduced a new approach for detecting manipulated face videos. Instead of searching for pixel-level inconsistencies, their model predicts how a person’s face should move based on their speech. #CVPR2026 ↪️ mpi-inf.link/EACVPR2026

mpi-inf.linkResearchers develop new method for detecting manipulated videosThe AI-based approach turns video footage into a detector for Deepfakes of a specific person.
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📣Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski and Dr. Marc Habermann on receiving high honors from Eurographics: the Outstanding Technical Contributions Award and a Eurographics Young Researcher Award. 🎉 Join us in congratulating them! 👏 ↪️More info on our website: mpi-inf.link/EGawards

mpi-inf.linkTwo scientists from MPI for Informatics receive high honors from the Eurographics AssociationThe awards go to a pioneer in the field and an emerging young researcher.
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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

mpi-inf.linkQuantum Computing Meets Visual Computing: New Paths for Image ReconstructionMax Planck researchers investigate “quantum neural networks” as a building block for more efficient visual-computing models.
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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. 🎓🚀

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Exciting news! 🎉🎓The Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence has officially been established - Germany's fourth #MaxPlanckSchool & its first graduate programme dedicated to AI in the life sciences.

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💡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

mpi-inf.linkFukushima Reactor: 3D Technology to Aid in DecommissioningJoint Press Release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology
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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

sic.linkOut 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.”
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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

sic.linkResearch Funding in the Millions: Two New Emmy Noether Groups Established at the MPI for InformaticsResearch focuses on algorithms and machine learning
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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

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

sic.linkKurt Mehlhorn awarded the Saarland Order of MeritMinister President Rehlinger presented the order during a ceremonial event at the Saarland State Chancellery.
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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 #sysadminday

sic.linkWhy System Administration Is More Than Just TechnologyResearch shows: Social negotiation and care work are central components
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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

sic.linkEATCS Presburger Award for Tomasz KociumakaThe computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures
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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 #AI #ComputerVision #research

sic.linkOtto Hahn Medal for Anna KuklevaThe award is given for fundamental work on learning powerful representations for image and video recognition from reduced supervision.

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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!

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🎉 Exciting News #CVPR2025! We’re proud to announce that we have 5 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 papers accepted at various CVPR workshops this year! We’re looking forward to sharing our research with the community in Nashville! Stay tuned for more details! ‪‪@mpi-inf.mpg.de‬

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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

sic.linkFrom Photos to 3D Model: Saarbrücken Computer Scientist Receives International Recognition for PhD-ThesisMojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.
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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

sic.linkReshaping Neural Networks for Their ImprovementA new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.

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