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The first workshop on "Vision-based Structural Inspections in Civil Engineering" will take place at the "IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)" in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
The core of the workshop is the “dacl challenge”, which aims to find the best models for recognizing bridge defects and bridge components by means of semantic image segmentation.

Beginning November 1, 2023, the evaluation server for the TexBiG dataset will be available on EvalAI. The TexBiG dataset focuses on historical documents from 1880 to 1930 and is characterized by a property often referred to as "repeated labels". This property enables the study of noisy annotations in the context of instance segmentation.

David Tschirschwitz will present the work on "Drawing the Same Bounding Box Twice? Coping Noisy Annotations in Object Detection with Repeated Labels" on September 20, 2023 at the DAGM German Conference for Pattern Recognition in Heidelberg, Germany.

Call for our "1st Workshop on Vision-based Structural Inspections in Civil Engineering" at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024, exploring approaches for analyzing and evaluating structures in civil engineering using computer vision. The workshop will focus on the "dacl challenge" to find the best models for detecting bridge defects and bridge components using semantic segmentation.

Paul Debus will present his work on "Potential-guided UAV-flight path planning for the inspection of complex structures" on September 4, 2023 at ISPRS Geospatial Week in Cairo, Egypt.

David Tschirschwitz will present the work on "Drawing the Line: A Dual Evaluation Approach for Shaping Ground Truth in Image Retrieval Using Rich Visual Embeddings of Historical Images" on August 25, 2023 at the ICDAR Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP) in San José, California.

The MDR reports in the Thuringia Journal about the preparations for the Summaery, including an AI project in the 3D-RealityCapture-ScanLab.

The DFG-funded research project "3D multiscale characterization of cementitious building materials", which is carried out together with the professorships Materials of Construction and Construction Chemistry and Polymer Materials, has started.

David Tschirschwitz, together with Franziska Klemstein, Benno Stein and Volker Rodehorst, has won the 2,000 euro prize from the Competence Network for Research Data Management of the Thuringian Universities for his dataset "TexBiG Dataset for Analysing Complex Document Layouts in the Digital Humanities", which was created in the project "Text-Bild-Gefüge" under the direction of Henning Schmidgen.

The final Hot Topics in Computer Vision (HTCV) presentation by the project group on "Gigapixels of Perfectly Calibrated Vision" will be held on May 3, 2023, at 11 am in the LiNT pool on Schwanseestraße.