Universität Ulm

I joined the Visual Computing Research Group at the University of Ulm in April 2020. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in 2019 and my M.Sc. in 2022, focusing on the reconstruction of biomedical data. Since then, I have completed my PhD, which I defended in July 2026. My doctoral research focused on “Deep Biological Electron Microscopy Analysis: Learning on Few and Noisy Images”, exploring machine learning approaches for analyzing biological electron microscopy data in challenging settings. I enjoy exploring new ideas, tackling challenging research questions, and learning from interdisciplinary perspectives. I am always curious about new approaches and opportunities to exchange ideas with others.

Research interests

  • Deep Learning Techniques for Computer Graphics
  • Differentiable Rendering
  • Deep Learning Techniques for Biomedical Image Processing
  • Synthetic Image Generation

Theses

I’m currently mainly working on Deep Learning techniques for Biomedical Image Processing.
I am interested in everything around this topic.

If you are interested in writing a thesis that fits in this topic, feel free to send me an email or come by my office.

Supervised Theses

5 theses
Bachelor
AMINO - Designing a Tool for Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Genetic Mutations on Yeast Cultures
Linus Nadler
2025
Bachelor
Evaluating Synthetic Data Generation for Semantic Segmentation in Electron Microscopy
Pascal Rapp
2024
Master
Active Learning for Improved Classification Model Training
Aysun Arslan
2024
Master
Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Neural Networks for CT Defect Analysis (External Thesis at Zeiss)
Jonas Häussler
2023
Bachelor
PySplitUbi - A program for measurement and analysis of SplitUb arrays
Fabian Thieser
2022

Publications

10 papers
PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates
PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates
Poonam Poonam, Hannah Kniesel, Pere-Pau Vázquez, Timo Ropinski
ICPR 2026 ↓PDF
A Survey on Quality Metrics for Text-to-Image Generation
A Survey on Quality Metrics for Text-to-Image Generation
Sebastian Hartwig, Leon Sick, Hannah Kniesel, Tristan Payer, Poonam Poonam, Michael Glöckler, Alex Bäuerle, Timo Ropinski
TVCG 2025 ↓PDF
DeepEM Playgound: Bringing Deep Learning to Electron Microscopy Labs
DeepEM Playgound: Bringing Deep Learning to Electron Microscopy Labs
Hannah Kniesel, Poonam Poonam, Tristan Payer, Tim Bergner, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski
jmi 2025 ‹›Code
Evaluating Text-to-Image Synthesis: Survey and Taxonomy of Image Quality Metrics
Evaluating Text-to-Image Synthesis: Survey and Taxonomy of Image Quality Metrics
Sebastian Hartwig, Dominik Engel, Leon Sick, Hannah Kniesel, Tristan Payer, Poonam Poonam, Michael Glöckler, Alex Bäuerle, Timo Ropinski
arXiv ↓PDF
Weakly Supervised Virus Capsid Detection with Image-Level Annotations in Electron Microscopy Images
Weakly Supervised Virus Capsid Detection with Image-Level Annotations in Electron Microscopy Images
Hannah Kniesel, Leon Sick, Tristan Payer, Tim Bergner, Kavitha Shaga Devan, Clarissa Read, Paul Walther, Timo Ropinski, Pedro Hermosilla
ICLR 2024 ↓PDF ‹›Code
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Radiologie – jenseits der Black-Box
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Radiologie – jenseits der Black-Box
Luisa Gallee, Hannah Kniesel, Michael Götz, Timo Ropinski
RöFo 2023
Clean Implicit 3D Structure from Noisy 2D STEM Images
Clean Implicit 3D Structure from Noisy 2D STEM Images
Hannah Kniesel, Timo Ropinski, Tim Bergner, Kavitha Shaga Devan, Clarissa Read, Paul Walther, Tobias Ritschel, Pedro Hermosilla
CVPR 2022 ↓PDF ‹›Code
Real-Time Visualization of 3D Amyloid-Beta Fibrils from 2D Cryo-EM Density Maps
Real-Time Visualization of 3D Amyloid-Beta Fibrils from 2D Cryo-EM Density Maps
Hannah Kniesel, Timo Ropinski, Pedro Hermosilla
EG VCBM 2020 ↓PDF
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