Projects

Funding

Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.

Role

Doctoral Researcher, KIT CV:HCI.

Host Lab

Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction Lab (CV:HCI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Supervision

Prof. Rainer Stiefelhagen; Prof. Matthias Wölfel.

Current Scope

Document AI, robust visual analysis, accessibility, and reliable multimodal document access.

This doctoral project develops methods that make visually complex documents more reliably accessible. It moves from flexible layout and graph-structured analysis, through robustness under real-world perturbations and domain shifts, toward privacy-aware and semantically grounded document access.

1. Visual content analysis

   Flexible document layout analysis and graph-based representations of spatial and logical structure.

2. Robust document analysis

   Evaluation and adaptation under visual perturbations, heterogeneous layouts, and domain shifts.

3. Reliable document access

   Privacy-aware retrieval and unified parsing of bounding boxes, content, reading order, caption links, and alternative text.

Funding

DAAD IFI: International Research Stays for Computer Scientists.

Role

Visiting Researcher.

Host Lab

Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford.

Supervision

Prof. Andrew Zisserman.

Duration

Six-month research visit in 2026.

Conducted within Oxford's Visual Geometry Group under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Zisserman, this visiting project investigates image-based document analysis for historical collections, with an emphasis on visual layout, document structure, and reliable information extraction from heterogeneous archival material.