Within the MODAL research campus, ZIB together with 1000shapes participated at the Large Scale Vertebrae Segmentation Challenge VerSe 2019. A combined approach of machine learning using CNNs and shape modeling led to a promising result for automated segmentation and classification of vertebral bodies from CT data. Picture: Presenters and organizers of the challenge, from left to right: Dalong Cheng (iFLYTEK Research), Tamaz Amiranashvili (ZIB), Amir Hossein Bayat (TU München), Martin Urschler (University of Auckland), Jan Kirschke (TU München) and Anjany Sekuboyina (TU...Read More
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards every year a price for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize is sponsored by Siemens AG, and handed over at the society’s annual meeting, which in this year was organized by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science and the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dresden. One of the four theses that were selected by this year’s prize committee was “Presolving techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” Stefan Heinz...Read More
Sebastian Schenker successfully defended his dissertation on “Multicriteria Linear Optimisation with Applications in Sustainable Manufacturing”. The thesis originates from project A5 Multicriteria Optimisation” of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable Manufacturing”, which was later extended as project “MI 9: Solving multi-objective integer programs” by Berlin’s Mathematics Research Center Matheon. Balancing contradicting objectives such as cost efficienciey, social welfare, and environmental compatibility was a key issue in this research, and Sebastian showed how to formulate and solve questions from welding via...Read More
