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: https://imprint.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/inf/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de?lang=dehttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.dehttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mlb3a4lgqk2f📣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 https://mpi-inf.link/EGawards07 May 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb3a4lgqk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mhfta2fjcc22📹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 https://mpi-inf.link/scenetok19 Mar 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfta2fjcc22https://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mhdcmcnm222mThe 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 https://mpi-inf.link/4DQCV18 Mar 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdcmcnm222mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mgwymqcfak2cWe 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. 🎓🚀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwymqcfak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mgrq3aanl22q💡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 https://mpi-inf.link/3DGS11 Mar 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrq3aanl22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mdnj5kv7ps2qNext 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. 🎓 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KUwuLTU304s30 Jan 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnj5kv7ps2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mcuawptixs2fScience 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/heimspiel20 Jan 2026 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcuawptixs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3mbyc6fx6wc2bFirst 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. ↪️ https://youtube.com/shorts/Urh70YuB7V409 Jan 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbyc6fx6wc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3m7kfdb7x5k26MPI-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/avatars09 Dec 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kfdb7x5k26https://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3m7hxgjpqfc2g🎓 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/imprs08 Dec 2025 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7hxgjpqfc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3m5isw3twms2aCongrats 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 https://sic.link/fasttrack13 Nov 2025 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5isw3twms2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3m4d54o54ec22Two 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 https://sic.link/emmynoether29 Oct 2025 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4d54o54ec22https://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lz6xtuiwn22xDirector 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-INF19 Sep 2025 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6xtuiwn22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lxrlyarrnk2aInternational 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 https://sic.link/catch2201 Sep 2025 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxrlyarrnk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lwvi3q55lc25Kurt 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 https://sic.link/merit21 Aug 2025 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwvi3q55lc25https://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lurpuuox2s2sSystem 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 https://sic.link/sysadminday25 Jul 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lurpuuox2s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3ltol3oftik2yCongrats 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 https://sic.link/presburger2511 Jul 2025 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltol3oftik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lsvs2zbt422qCongrats 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 https://sic.link/ottohahn2501 Jul 2025 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvs2zbt422qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lrslh3qwsk2w🎓 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/imprs17 Jun 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrslh3qwsk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lqwvosljqs2zInterested 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.de06 Jun 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqwvosljqs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lqty5eewu22dCongratulations 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 https://sic.link/egaward05 Jun 2025 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqty5eewu22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lqp5nivqhc2wMaking 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 https://sic.link/dash03 Jun 2025 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqp5nivqhc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lqf3tlrvg22uCurious 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 https://youtu.be/MbZ49mx6tf030 May 2025 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqf3tlrvg22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mpi-inf.mpg.de/post/3lqaalxurhs2tWelcome 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.de28 May 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:log7tu3rczzfijsqufdodlcr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqaalxurhs2t