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Official account of the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken. Our goal is to advance foundational research and drive innovation in key areas of computer science. Imprint: imprint.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/inf/www.mpi…

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 24/09/2026
Stronger together: the Max Planck Institute for #Informatics and Stanford School of #Engineering are establishing a joint #AI research centre, the Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence 😎 www.mpg.de/26996903/max... @mpi-inf.mpg.de @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
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Max Planck Stanford Center to be established
Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Stanford School of Engineering will establish a joint AI research hub, the Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence. The partnership...
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 03/09/2026
🎉 Congrats to MPI-INF researchers Yiting Xia and Thomas Leimkühler on being awarded ERC Starting Grants by the @erc.europa.eu Each researcher will receive approximately 1.5 Million euros over the next five years to advance research in their projects. ↪️ More: mpi-inf.link/ERCStG2026 #ERCStG
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Three Million Euros in EU Funding for Two Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Dr. Yiting Xia and Dr. Thomas Leimkühler awarded ERC Starting Grants
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 16/07/2026
Research team from Tokyo University and the MPI-INF has introduced a new approach for detecting manipulated face videos. Instead of searching for pixel-level inconsistencies, their model predicts how a person’s face should move based on their speech. #CVPR2026 ↪️ mpi-inf.link/EACVPR2026
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Researchers develop new method for detecting manipulated videos
The AI-based approach turns video footage into a detector for Deepfakes of a specific person.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 20/05/2026
What foundational theoretical knowledge should a machine learning researcher have? 🎓🤔 That’s the central question behind this year’s ADFOCS 2026 at the MPI for Informatics. If you’d like to explore machine learning through a theoretical lens, this summer school is for you. ↪️ mpi-inf.link/ADFOCS26
Advertising flyer for ADFOCS 2026. The summer school takes place from 10-14  August at the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 07/05/2026
📣Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski and Dr. Marc Habermann on receiving high honors from Eurographics: the Outstanding Technical Contributions Award and a Eurographics Young Researcher Award. 🎉 Join us in congratulating them! 👏 ↪️More info on our website: mpi-inf.link/EGawards
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Two scientists from MPI for Informatics receive high honors from the Eurographics Association
The awards go to a pioneer in the field and an emerging young researcher.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 19/03/2026
📹Can 3D scenes be encoded into and rendered from a set of compressed tokens? New work "SceneTok" from the Geometric Representation Learning group shows that they can, and that this approach pairs naturally with generative rendering to handle uncertainty in observations. ↪️More: mpi-inf.link/scenetok
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SceneTok: A Compressed, Diffusable Token Space for 3D Scenes.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 18/03/2026
The 4D Quantum Computer Vision group led by Dr. Vladislav Golyanik is studying how to leverage quantum computing for visual computing & computer vision. In particular novel quantum neural networks are a current research interest.🎓💡 ↪️More: mpi-inf.link/4DQCV
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Quantum Computing Meets Visual Computing: New Paths for Image Reconstruction
Max Planck researchers investigate “quantum neural networks” as a building block for more efficient visual-computing models.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 13/03/2026
We are happy to be part of the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and look forward to the exciting insights and the people we will meet along the way. 🎓🚀
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 11/03/2026
💡Basic research with real-world impact: #3DGaussianSplatting, co-developed by Inria and MPI-INF, was used to turn video footage from the Fukushima nuclear reactor into a freely navigable 3D visualization, making a previously inaccessible environment digitally explorable. ↪️ mpi-inf.link/3DGS
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Fukushima Reactor: 3D Technology to Aid in Decommissioning
Joint Press Release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 30/01/2026
Next up in our series "Research at MPI for Informatics": The Computer Vision and Machine Learning department. Director Bernt Schiele talks about the department’s work on explainable AI, foundation models, and how this connects to a range of real-world applications. 🎓 www.youtube.com/shorts/KUwuL...
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 20/01/2026
Science where it’s rarely present: “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” brings researchers back to their rural homes to talk about their work. @oduenkel.bsky.social spoke in Boxberg-Schwabhausen on generative AI. 86 attendees in a village of ~600 people, plus a lively Q&A.🎓 ↪️https://sic.link/heimspiel
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Out into the countryside: MPI for Informatics takes part in “Heimspiel Wissenschaft”
Talking about research in places where science is otherwise rarely present—that is the idea behind the event series “Heimspiel Wissenschaft.”
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 09/01/2026
First of all: Happy New Year! Today we’re excited to share the first episode of our video series about the research at MPI for Informatics. 🎉 In this format, we introduce each department and IRG at our institute, starting with the Algorithms and Complexity department. ↪️ youtube.com/shorts/Urh70...
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 09/12/2025
MPI-INF presents two works at SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, that advance how virtual avatars look, move, and react to voice. 🎓 Both works in scienitific collaboration with industry; with Google at the VIA-Center and with the film technology company Flawless AI. ↪️ More Info: sic.link/avatars
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 08/12/2025
🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social 🗓️ Application deadline: December 31st ↪️ sic.link/imprs
Flyer for IMPRS-TRUST
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 13/11/2025
Congrats to Hannaneh Akrami for being selected for the @maxplanck.de Minerva Fast Track Programme! 🎉 Her work in algorithmic game theory explores fairness in allocation problems – how to distribute indivisible goods so everyone perceives the result as fair. 🎓 ↪️ sic.link/fasttrack
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Hannaneh Akrami selected for Minerva Fast Track Programme
Research focuses on fairness in allocation problems.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 29/10/2025
Two new Emmy Noether research groups established at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, led by Dr. @janericlenssen.bsky.social and Dr. Karol Węgrzycki. Together, they will receive around 3.7 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).🎓 More info ↪️ sic.link/emmynoether
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Research Funding in the Millions: Two New Emmy Noether Groups Established at the MPI for Informatics
Research focuses on algorithms and machine learning
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 19/09/2025
Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence. ↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch 📸MPI-INF
Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 01/09/2025
International research team from MPI for Informatics and TU Delft has detected more than 16,000 compromised servers using a subtle feature of the SSH authentication protocol. Published at USENIX Security Symposium 2025, won Distinguished Paper Award + Internet Defense Prize. ↪️ sic.link/catch22
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European Research Team Awarded for Detecting More Than 16,000 Compromised Servers
The new method leverages a subtle feature in the Secure Shell authentication protocol.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 21/08/2025
Kurt Mehlhorn, Founding Director of MPI for Informatics, was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit yesterday by Minister President Anke Rehlinger. The award recognizes his life’s work, from advancing algorithmic research to mentoring researchers and helping build key institutions. More: sic.link/merit
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Kurt Mehlhorn awarded the Saarland Order of Merit
Minister President Rehlinger presented the order during a ceremonial event at the Saarland State Chancellery.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 25/07/2025
System admins don’t just fix servers—they coordinate with users, support colleagues in high-stress situations, and much more. 🖥️🤝 Mannat Kaur from MPI-INF shows how these elements of social negotiation and care-work are an important part of IT security. ↪️ sic.link/sysadminday #sysadminday
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Why System Administration Is More Than Just Technology
Research shows: Social negotiation and care work are central components
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 11/07/2025
Congrats to Tomasz Kociumaka for winning the 2025 EATCS Presburger Award! 🎉🏅The prize committee recognized his work for resolving long-standing open problems and developing near-linear time algorithms for fundamental string processing tasks. ↪️ More Info: sic.link/presburger25
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EATCS Presburger Award for Tomasz Kociumaka
The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 01/07/2025
Congrats to @annakukleva.bsky.social, for winning the Otto Hahn Medal of @maxplanck.de! 🏅In her PhD thesis she shows how AI can learn to recognize images & videos with less manual labeling, using self-supervised and weakly supervised methods. ↪️ sic.link/ottohahn25 #AI #ComputerVision #research
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Otto Hahn Medal for Anna Kukleva
The award is given for fundamental work on learning powerful representations for image and video recognition from reduced supervision.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 17/06/2025
🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social 🗓️Application deadline: June 30th ↪️ sic.link/imprs
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Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · 11/06/2025
Thread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀 👏 Big congrats to everyone! Keep an eye out at #CVPR2025 🌟 #MPI-INF #D2 #ComputerVision #AI #PhD #ML @mpi-inf.mpg.de
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Thomas Wimmer @wimmerthomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The CVML group at the @mpi-inf.mpg.de has been busy for CVPR. Check out our papers and come by the presentations!
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 06/06/2025
Interested in recent advances in graph decomposition techniques and their use in designing efficient algorithms? Then save the date for ADFOCS 2025. More information on registration and available grants: ↪️https://sic.link/adfocs25 See you in Saarbrücken! 🎓 @saarland-informatics-campus.de
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 05/06/2025
Congratulations to Mojtaba Bemana for receiving one of the Eurographics 2025 Dissertation Awards! His thesis was about Image-Based Rendering, an emerging subfield of Computer Graphics. 🎉 More about his work and a link to the thesis: sic.link/egaward @uni-saarland.de @saarland-informatics-campus.de
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From Photos to 3D Model: Saarbrücken Computer Scientist Receives International Recognition for PhD-Thesis
Mojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 03/06/2025
Making AI more transparent is central to building systems we can trust. Jonas Fischer’s Explainable Machine Learning Group at MPI-INF works on methods to achieve precisely that. Example: a NeurIPS paper on how domain knowledge can guide model pruning for better understanding. sic.link/dash
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Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement
A new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 30/05/2025
Curious about our research or what it’s like to work and collaborate at our institute?🤔 In this short film, some of our researchers share what drives their work and what makes MPI for Informatics a unique place for computer science. 📹 Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/MbZ49mx6tf0 @maxplanck.de
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The Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 28/05/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky channel of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Here, we will soon share updates on research, people, and events at our Institute. Don’t miss the release of our introductory video this Friday! 🦋 🖼️Picture created with AI @maxplanck.de @saarland-informatics-campus.de
A text block with the words "Launching Soon" and a cartoon-style rocket that is launching into space.
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