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    General Information of the Cognitive Systems Group

    Dear Students,

    At this point you will find general information of our professorship which are not directly connected to any course.

    If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Either by posting in the Q&A forum below or by contacting one of our group members directly:


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    Doctoral Colloquium

    The Cognitive Systems group holds a regularly doctoral colloquium. There, our internal and external doctoral students present and discuss the current status of their work. Occasionally, we invite external lecturers. We welcome interested students and colleagues (exceptions are marked with 'internal' in the schedule).

    When? Wednesdays, 16:00 s.t. - 17:30
    Where? KogSys-Lab (WE5/05.013)
    (Every first Wednesday of the Month during the semester is the BaCAI Colloquium!)

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    For meetings outside our regular schedule (Wednesdays 16:00-17:30) we will have one time Teams meeting links which can be found in the news feed.

    • Schedule SS 2025 - Hybrid Colloquium

      Date Speaker(s) Topic
       02.04.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       09.04.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       11.04.25 - 15:00  Corbinian Weithmann  Erklärbare Fehlerklassifikation in der bildbasierten industriellen Qualitätskontrolle
       16.04.25 - 16:00  ---  Cancelled due to the CogSys DC-Days happening on this day
       23.04.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       30.04.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       07.05.25 - 17:00  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
       14.05.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       21.05.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       28.05.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       04.06.25 - 17:00  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
       11.06.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       18.06.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       25.06.25 - 16:00  ---  Holidays
       02.07.25 - 16:00  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
       09.07.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       16.07.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       23.07.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       30.07.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       06.08.25 - 16:15  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
       13.08.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       20.08.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       27.08.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       03.09.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       10.09.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       17.09.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
       24.09.25 - 10:00  ---  Open Session
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        Past semesters

        • Schedule WS 2024/2025 - Hybrid Colloquium

          Date Speaker(s) Topic
           02.10.24 - 16:15  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
           09.10.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           16.10.24 - 16:00  ---  Cancelled due to the CogSys DC-Days happening on the following days
           23.10.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           30.10.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           06.11.24 - 16:15  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
           13.11.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           20.11.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           27.11.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           04.12.24 - 17:00  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
           11.12.24 - 16:00  Corbinian Weithmann  Erklärbare Fehlerklassifikation in der bildbasierten industriellen Qualitätskontrolle
           18.12.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           25.12.24 - 16:00  ---  Holidays
           01.12.25 - 16:00  ---  Holidays
           08.01.25 - 17:15  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
           15.01.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           22.01.25 - 16:00  Tobias Nietsch  Inductive Logic Programming for Single-cell Analysis
           29.01.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           05.02.25 - 16:15  multiple  BaCAI Colloquium
           12.02.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           19.02.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           26.02.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           05.03.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           12.03.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           19.03.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           24.03.25 - 10:00  Normix Hillemann  NLP Techniques for Summarizing and Topic Matching in Patient-Chatbot Interactions: A Comparative Study
           26.03.25 - 16:00  ---  Open Session

        • Schedule SS 2024 - Hybrid Colloquium

          Date Speaker(s) Topic
           03.04.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           10.04.24 - 16:00  ---  cancelled
           11.04.24 - 17:00  David Cerna  Anti-unification: Introduction, Applications, and Recent Results
           15.04.24 - 12:00  Daniel Gramelt  ThesisExplanatory interactive machine learning for welding seam quality assessment
           17.04.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           24.04.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           01.05.24 - 16:00  ---  Holidays
           08.05.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           15.05.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session - ONLY REMOTE
           22.05.24 - 17:00  Thomas Schultze-Gerlach  Using Large Language Models to Augment (Rather Than Replace) Human Feedback in Higher Education Improves Perceived Feedback Quality
           29.05.24 - 16:00  Lukas Gernlein  Towards Explainable and Interactive Machine Learning for Multi-Label Classification
           05.06.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session - ONLY REMOTE
           12.06.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session - ONLY REMOTE
           19.06.24 - 16:00  Annabel Lindner (FAU)   How to Deal with Transformative Topics in Computer Science Education: An Analysis Based on the Topic of Artificial Intelligence
           26.06.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           03.07.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           10.07.24 - 15:00  Corbinian Weithmann  tba
           10.07.24 - 16:00  Leonhard Kestel  Tree Vitality Classification from Image Data - A Comparison of Multipectral Index Scores and Deep Learning Approaches
           14.07.24 - 14:00  Christian Dormagen  Inductive Learning of System-level Process Behaviour Explanations - A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Process Mining
           17.07.24 - 17:00 ---  Open Session
           22.07.24 - 10:00  Barbara Blank  Utilizing NLP Methods in an Intelligent Tutor System for Teaching Concepts by Socratic Dialog – Learning about Trees in Primary Education
           24.07.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           31.07.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           07.08.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           14.08.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           21.08.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           26.08.24 - 14:00  Johannes Langer  A Neuro-symbolic Single-path Approach for Solving Raven’s Progressive Matrices
           28.08.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           04.09.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           11.09.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           16.09.24 - 11:00  Satyam Pant  Model Revision for Images Based on Near-Misses and Near-Hits Explanation-Guided Augmentation
           18.09.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           25.09.24 - 16:00  ---  Open Session
           26.09.24 - 14:00  Leonhard Kestel  Tree-Vitality Classification from Image Data - A Comparison of Multispectral Indices and Deep Learning Approaches

        • Schedule WS 2023/2024 - Hybrid Colloquium

          Date Speaker(s) Topic
          9.10.2023 Richard Nieding Unsupervised Machine Learning via Feature Extraction and Clustering to Classify Tree Species from High-Resolution UAV-based RGB Image Data
          18.10.2023 Judith & Leo Bericht über die European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence
          25.10.2023   Open Session
          1.11.2023   Open Session
          8.11.2023   Open Session
          15.11.2023   Open Session
          22.11.2023   CANCELLED
          29.11.2023 14:00 s.t.  Oraz Serdarov Verteidigung MA: Explainable Unsupervised Learning for Fraud Detection (in coop with HUK Coburg)
          29.11.2023 Martin Schmeißer MA Verteidigung: Evaluating methods for transcompiling high-level programming languages (MA AI, in cooperation with Siemens)
          4.12.2023 15:30 Adrian Völker  OS4ITS: A Distributed Shell-based Platform for Integrated Knowledge- and Learner-Modeling and Curriculum Management Across Different Tutoring Systems
          6.12.2023   Open Session
          13.12.2023   Open Session
          20.12.2023 12:00 s.t. Shamim Miroliaei Verteidigung: Exploring Potential Biases in Sequential Data Classification for Hand Gesture Recognition using Layer-wise Relevance Propagation and Cluster Analysis
          20.12.2023   Open Session
          21.12.2023 13:00 s.t. Jonas Amling

          Explainable AI for Mixed Data Clustering -- Model-Agnostic Entropy-Based Cluster Explanations
          ---   Weihnachten
          10.1.2024   Open Session
          17.1.2024 16:00-17:30 Alexander Köbler

          Human-Centered AI Using Domain Knowledge
          24.1.2024   Open Session
          31.1.2024   Open Session
          7.2.2024   Open Session
          14.2.2024   Open Session
          21.2.2024   Open Session
          28.2.2024   Open Session
          6.3.2024   Open Session
          13.3.2024   Open Session
          20.3.2024   Open Session
          27.3.2024   Open Session
           
           

        • Schedule SS 2023 - Hybrid Colloquium

           
          Date Speaker(s) Topic
          13.4.23 Franz Motzkus How to Doktor*innenarbeit
          20.4.23 Bettina Finzel Write Reviews: A How To
          10.5.23 Bettina Finzel Pixy - ein Tool für Reasoning auf Graphen (im Speziellen Neo4j)
          24.5.23 Bettina Finzel Concept- and Relation-based Explanations
          15.6.2023 Adish Singla Fakultäts Kolloquium: AI-Driven Educational Technology for Introductory Programming
          Monday
          3.7.2023
          14:00-15:00          		 Christoffer Löffler tba
          Tuesday
          4.7.2023
          14:00-15:30          		 Martin Schmeißer

          tba
          19.7.2023 Prof. Dr. CC Carbon Verschwörungstheorien und -mythen: Was, woher, warum - was machen sie mit uns und wie gehen wir mit ihnen um, und das in Zeiten von DeepL, ChatGPT, DALL-e und Kolleg*innen?
          23.8.2023 Zeynep Saribatur (TU Wien)

          Foundations for Projecting Away the Irrelevant in ASP Program
          Monday 28.8.2023 11:00 Alexander Hatzold, Master Angewandte Informatik Semantic and Syntactic Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs): Effects of Different Types of Prompting on the Performance of ChatGPT
          13.9.2023  Simon Schramm (BMW)  ILP for explainable graph clustering
           19.9.2023  Felix Hempel  Explanatory and Interactive Machine Learning with Counterfactual Explanations for Ordinal Data



           

        • Schedule WS 2022/23 - Virtual Colloquium


           
          Date Topic
          05.10.2022 (10:00) Louisa Heidrich: Combining Explanatory Interactive Learning and Fair Machine Learning – Interacting with Explanations to Uncover and Reduce Human and Machine Biases
          25.10.2022 (14:00) Amit Singh: Does Contrastive Attention Guidance Facilitate Action Recall? An Eye- tracking
          Study
          10.11.2022
          (12:15)          		 Zeynep Saribatur: Towards Comprehensible ASP Reasoning by Means of Abstraction
          14.11.2022 (16:00) David Tafler: The Object-Centric Concept Learner - An Interpretable Framework for Learning Relational Visual Concepts
          20.12.2022 Thomas Sedlmeir: Betrugserkennung in Dokumenten: Untersuchung von Methoden des Maschinellen Lernens für die Identifikation manipulierter Zeichen
           19.1.2023  Stefan Raab: Active Learning for interactive labeling of RGB UAV forest data
          Johannes Rabold & Johannes Langer: A Brief Overview of Transformer Models and their Architecture (PDF zum Vortrag)
           26.1.2023  Open Session
           2.2.2023 (tba)  Maximilian Rosilius: Fehlerauswirkungen in der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion auf die menschliche Leistung und Akzeptanz
           16.2.2023 (18:00-19:00)  Franz Motzkus: Quantifizierung von lokalen Heatmapping xAI Methoden
           02.3.2023  Christoph Wehner: Docker Einführung
           09.3.2023  Mareike Müller: Masterarbeit Verteidigung zum Thema "Dynamic Fingerspelling Recognition Using Sequential Deep Learning"
           

        • Schedule ST 2022 - Virtual Colloquium


           
          Date Topic
          13.04.2022 (17:00) Mareike Müller: Automatic Sign Language Recognition
          12.05.2022 Matthias Uhl: People Prefer Moral Discretion to Algorithms
          23.06.2022 Alexander Becker: Certified Data Removal in Sum Product Networks
          05.07.2022 Felix Schweinfest: Comparing the Performance of Memory Augmented Neural Networks in Reinforcement Learning


           

        • Schedule WS 2021/22 - Virtual Colloquium

           
          Date Topic/Doctoral Candidate
          07.10.2021 Simon Kuhn: Verifying Convolutional Neural Networks: A Landmark-based Approach for Quantitative Evaluation of Facial Action Unit Classification
          29.10.2021 Christoph Wehner: Master's Defense with the topic: "Interpretable Lane Change Prediction"
          25.11.2021 Oliver Mey: Prediction of Energy Consumption for Variable Customer Portfolios Including Aleatoric Uncertainty Estimation
          02.12.2021 Sarem Seitz: Gaussian Processes come with (almost) free explainability
          07.12.2021 (17:00!!) Pascal Hitzler: Concept Induction for Explainable AI
          13.01.2022
          • An Explanatory Interactive Machine Learning Approach for Image Classication in Medical Engineering. (Bachelor Thesis, Yannik Ott)
          • Recent Advances in the hKI-Chemie Project: An Incremental Attribution Method for Gaussian Processes. (hKI-Chemie, Emanuel Slany)
          16.02.2022 (17:00!!)

          Talk Aliya Hammad: Optimizing Hierarchical Classification for Resource-Constrained Systems Using Reinforcement Learning Methods.
          24.03.2022

          Talk Christoph Wehner: Root-Cause Detection in the Wild -  The first steps of the project "KIProQua"
           

        • Schedule ST 2021 - Virtual Colloquium

           
          Date Topic/Doctoral Candidate
          15.04.2021 Bettina Finzel: Interactive Machine Learning
          29.04.2021 Jan Tinapp: Debugging Causal Models. Later: Johannes Rabold: Discussion Research Proposition (Humanly plausible feature vector clustering)
          06.05.2021 Lisa Lengenfelder: Are Relations Relevant in CNNs?
          20.05.2021
          		Talk 2: Deepika Arneja: TraMeExCo Internship Presentation (Join via Teams here)
          20.05.2021 Talk 1: Joscha Eirich, Jakob Bonart: ”The interactive clustering and labeling of acoustic signature patterns of electrical engines (We use the same Teams link as one row above!)
          27.05.2021 Oliver Mey: Self-Masking Adversarial Networks
          10.06.2021 Dennis Müller: Mathematical Knowledge Management Across Formal Libraries
          24.06.2021 Wolfgang Kratsch (Credium): Fusion von unterschiedlichen Datenquellen für semi-automatisiertes Labelling und Closed-Loop Machine Learning Cycle
          01.07.2021 Alexander Schneider: How to Train a NER Model from Annotation to Model
          05.07.2021 Ploy Schneider: Counterfactuals as an Approach to Test Fairness in Machine Learning -- And Why Fairness in Machine Learning Affects Everyone
          15.07.2021 Christian Wirth: Scalable Probabilistic Deep Learning: An Engineers Guide to the State of the Art
          23.09.2021 Maximilian Muschalik: Beyond Contrastive Explanations for Deep Learning Models in Physical Relational Domains

        • Schedule WT 2020/21 - Virtual Colloquium

           
           
          Date Topic/Doctoral Candidate
          01.10.2020 & 08.10.2020     
          		KI2020 Recap
          15.10.2020 AI Safety, Gesina Schwalbe
          29.10.2020 Mena Leemhuis: Cones, Negations and all that
          5.11.2020 (will start at 17:15 this time only!) Durgesh Nandini: Answer Set Programming
          12.11.2020 Deep Transfer Learning for Time Series Regression in Chemical Production, Namrata Jain (Master Thesis at Wacker AG, Intermediate Presentation)
          19.11.2020 Deniz Neufeld: Recurrent Neural Network Architecture based on Dynamic Systems Theory for Data Driven Modelling of Complex Physical Systems
          26.11.2020 Sarem Seitz: Bayesian mixtures of interpretable experts
          10.12.2020 Bettina Finzel: Sustainability in Machine Learning: From Nomads to Data Centers and Back.
          14.12.2020 Regina Siegers (Master Survey Statistics, Uni Bamberg): Vectors and the Search for Happiness.
          21.01.2021 Tobias Huber (Uni Augsburg): "Benchmarking Perturbation-based Saliency Maps for Explaining Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents" and "Do Deep Neural Networks Forget Facial Action Units? - Exploring the Effects ofTransfer Learning in Health Related Facial Expression Recognition"
          11.03.2021 mgm: AI assisted labelling tool
          18.03.2021 Lennart Thamm: Intermediate Presentation of thesis results (delayed and will start at 17:00)
          25.03.2021 Gesina Schwalbe: Concept Analysis for Verification - slides
          15.04.2021 Bettina Finzel: Interactive Machine Learning: Approaches and Examples
          (this time only click here to join the Teams meeting)

        • Schedule ST 2020 - Virtual Colloquium

           

           
          Date Topic/Doctoral Candidate
          09.07.2020               
          		Joscha Eirich
          23.07.2020 Gesina Schwalbe and Johannes Rabold
          17.09.2020 Kick-Off in Preparation of Winter Term

        • Schedule WT 2019/20


          Date Topic/Doctoral Candidate
          2020-01-30 Sarem Seitz:
          "End-to-end prototype-based reinforcement learning"
          2020-02-13 Tobias Hepp:
          "Latent Class Distributional Regression"
          2020-03-19
          		Regina Siegers:
          "Parallelized Causal Inference with Latent Variables"


        • Schedule ST 2019
          Date Topic / Doctoral Candidate
          2019-04-18 Gast: Thomas Voit, TH Nürnberg, Lernen über Spiele/Ähnlichkeit von Spielen
          2019-04-25
          2019-05-02 internal meeting
          2019-05-09 no meeting
          2019-05-16 no meeting
          2019-05-23 Thoughts on automatic constraint generation from examples (Michael Siebers)
          2019-05-30 public holiday
          2019-06-06 14-15 Malte Büttner -- Iterative visual reasoning beyond convolutions
          2019-06-13 Reserved - topic will be announced
          2019-06-20 public holiday
          2019-06-27 no meeting
          2019-07-04 Towards the Inference of Shape Predicates from Memory Graphs (Jan Boockmann)
          2019-07-11 Making Reinforcement Learning agents efficient for learning and acting in the real-world (Sarem Seitz)(17:15)
          2019-07-18 no meeting
          2019-07-25 Pepper (Sebastian Seufert, Ferdinand Lang)
          2019-08-01 no meeting
          2019-08-08 public holiday
          2019-08-15 public holiday
          2019-08-22 no meeting
          2019-08-29 Der Einfluss von Erklärungen auf Vertrauen in Dare2Del - Studienvorstellung (Clemens Bartnik)
          2019-09-05
          2019-09-12 external talk (Tim Grelka) 13-14 Uhr!
          2019-09-19 no meeting
          2019-09-24, 9:15-11:00
          (Tuesday)
          		  Optimizing alert timings (external talk, Thilip)
          2019-09-26 no meeting
        • Schedule WT 2018/19
          Date Topic / Doctoral Candidate
          2018-11-22, 14:00-15:00 Mark Gromowski internal
          2018-11-29
          		 Explanation Generation Frameworks
          2018-12-06 Bayesian Deep Learning (Johannes Rabold)
          2018-12-13 ibindo – ein Chatbot gegen Liebeskummer (external talk) [abstract]
          2018-12-20 Gesina Schwalbe, Absicherung von DNNs im autonomen Fahren;
          afterwards Christmas party
          2019-01-10 cancelled!
          2019-01-17
          2019-01-24 no meeting
          2019-01-31 Hannah Deininger, Masterarbeit zur expliziten Erklärungsfindung für komplexe Neuronale Netze
          2019-02-07 cancelled!
          2019-02-14, 17:00-18:00
          		 Bettina Finzel, Constraint-based Explanations in Aleph
          2019-02-20
          		 Mark Gromowski, Projektupdate PainFaceReader (Schwerpunkt Datenrepräsentation)
          2019-02-28 no meeting
          2019-03-07 ECDA 2019 - Testvorträge / Fragen
          2019-03-14
          		 Gast: Martin Hillebrand (Vodafone)
          2019-03-21
          		  Abschlussbericht Praktikant Sebastian Gary
          2019-03-28
          		 no meeting
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    Theses and Project Topics

    In the Cognitive Systems group, topics for 15-ECTS projects* and bachelor's and master's theses are usually closely linked to our research. If you like to do your thesis or a project with us, please select a suitable topic from the list below or / and contact the named contact person. Alternatively, we encourage students to suggest their own topic. In that case, please contact Prof. Schmid, Bettina Finzel or Johannes Langer. You can look at the current research projects of the group and past student projects as inspiration for your topic. In either case, we expect that you have shown interest in our group, for example by participating in our courses.

    More information regarding theses at the Cognitive Systems group can be found on our website. 

    *Note that 6-ECTS Projects (winter or summer semester) have fixed topics and are organized via Univis, like regular lectures.

    • There are currently no specific topics posted here. If you are interested in writing your thesis at our chair please directly contact us with your own topic idea.

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