23 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News Anna Hilsmann Anna Hilsmann is the head of the department for vision and imaging technologies at HHI. Within this department she is also heading one of the four research groups. It is the computer vision and graphics research group. Anna is co-author of a paper accepted as an oral at WACV 2025. Anna, what is your work about? I am more in a research management position right now. But the research focus of my research group is everything around computer vision and graphics. So the modern word would be like visual computing. We are not doing classical computer graphics, but more like using the information that we got get from the computer vision algorithms in order to also synthesize new data and new represent 3D representations of the world, for example. The research group is quite large. There are currently 13 PhD students and also the topics we are currently working on are quite diverse. At Fraunhofer, we are mostly funded by research projects with different applications. The applications range from multimedia, agriculture, industrial, computer vision, construction. Currently, we also have some security projects and medical imaging. So apparently everybody needs you. Of all the fascinating fields that you have mentioned, which one is your favorite? Actually, I'm more focused on the methods. Our goal is to develop computer vision methods that can then be applied in different applications. What I like most is if we develop some method and we can also apply it for another field. One example is one PhD student who is working on hyperspectral imaging, mainly in the medical field for the differentiation of tissues in intraoperative settings. We gained a lot of experience there. And we are currently also applying hyperspectral imaging with a different focus in the agricultural field, because you can also apply it there for the detection of plant diseases and so on. We will have health and we will have food, thanks to you.
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