Latest news from the Visual Analytics Research Group
We are always looking for student assistants to support our research and teaching activities. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Ewerth.
Three papers accepted at ECIR 2025!
The accepted papers from our group are
- “Unraveling the Impact of Visual Complexity on Search as Learning”, written by W. Gritz, A. Hoppe, & R. Ewerth
- “Patent Figure Classification using Large Vision-language Models”, written by S. Awale, E. Müller-Budack, & R. Ewerth
- “Verifying Cross-modal Entity Consistency in News using Vision-language Models”, written by byS. Tahmasebi, E. Müller-Budack, & R. Ewerth
Link to programm: http://ecir2025.eu/accepted-papers/
Organized Workshop at DHd 2025 on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs
Members of the Visual Analytics Research Group, together with project partners from LMU (Prof. Kohle) as well as ZBW Kile (Prof. Krestel), are organizing a workshop on "Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models in the Digital Humanities" during DHd 2025 in Bielefeld on March 3rd and 4th. Participants will receive an introduction to knowledge graphs and learn in several hands-on sessions how to automatically extract knowledge from texts using large language models.
Two papers accepted at CIKM 2024!
The accepted papers from our group are
- “Saliency Detection in Educational Videos: Analyzing the Performance of Current Models, Identifying Limitations and Advancement Directions”, written by by Evelyn Navarrete, Ralph Ewerth, & Anett Hoppe
- “Multimodal Misinformation Detection using Large Vision-Language Models”, written by Sahar Tahmasebi, Eric Müller-Budack, & Ralph Ewerth
Link to programm: http://cikm2024.org/accepted-papers/
Best Paper Award at ICMR 2024
The paper "Identification of Speaker Roles and Situation Types in News Videos" by G. Cheema, J. Arafat, C. Tseng, J. A. Bateman, R. Ewerth, and E. Müller-Budack won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2024).
TIB-AV-A Workshop organized at DHd Conference 2024
Members of the Visual Analytics Research Group, together with project partners, have presented the TIB-AV-A video analysis platform in February 2024, as part of a DHd workshop in Passau. Participants had the opportunity to analyze their own videos using TIB-AV-A and provided feedback on the integrated AI-supported analysis methods.
Best Student Paper Award at JCDL 2022
The paper "Cross-Domain Multi-Task Learning for Sequential Sentence Classification in Research Papers" by Arthur Brack, Anett Hoppe, Pascal Buschermöhle, and Ralph Ewerth won the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022)
Best Student Paper Award at JCDL 2022
The paper "Cross-Domain Multi-Task Learning for Sequential Sentence Classification in Research Papers" by Arthur Brack, Anett Hoppe, Pascal Buschermöhle, and Ralph Ewerth won the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022)
We are currently offering several PhD scholarships in the PhD networks LernMINT (LearnSTEM) and Responsible AI!
PhD positions in LernMINT:
- Semi-automatic classification of student drawings and texts in Science Education
- Data Analytics for informal learning in school settings
- Ontology-based modelling of learner profiles and curricula
PhD position in Responsible AI:
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Ewerth.
Nomination for Best Full Paper Award at ICALT 2020
The paper "A Recommender System For Open Educational Videos Based On Skill Requirements" by Mohammadreza Tavakoli, Sherzod Hakimov, Ralph Ewerth, and Gabor Kismihok has been nominated for competing the Best Full Paper Award at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2020).
