| Sep 29, 2026 | Our paper “Pixel-Level Transformers in Remote Sensing: A Canopy Height Case Study”, led by Sven Ligensa, has been accepted at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026. We show that pixel-level attention beats larger patch sizes for canopy height regression and study efficient attention variants to keep it practical. Preprint on arXiv. |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Our paper “Deep learning-based forest disturbance detection for Europe using Landsat time series” is now published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Using a 1D U-Net on Landsat time series, we map annual forest disturbances across Europe at 30m resolution from 1985 to 2024. Joint work with the Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management group at TU Munich. |
| Sep 01, 2026 | Our paper “Brick Kilns Across India: A Temporal Analysis of Brick Kiln Distribution and Technology Types” has been published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. We map brick kilns and their technology types across India over multiple years from Sentinel-2 imagery; the accompanying MuTBriK dataset is available on Zenodo. |
| May 01, 2026 | We are happy to announce that our proposal for compute time on the HPC Jülich Cluster has been accepted! |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Our paper on “ECHOSAT: Estimating Canopy Height Over Space And Time” is now available on arXiv. We present the first global and temporally consistent tree height map at 10m resolution spanning multiple years. Check out the project page and the interactive maps! |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Our paper on “Canopy Tree Height Estimation using Quantile Regression: Modeling and Evaluating Uncertainty in Remote Sensing” has been accepted to AISTATS 2026. We will present it there and are happy to discuss at our poster! |
| Dec 15, 2025 | We had a retreat with our research lab to Winterberg to discuss future research and ongoing projects. |
| Dec 01, 2025 | We attended the Eurips Conference in Copenhagen, proud that Europe strengthens its AI capabilities. |
| May 01, 2025 | Our paper on “Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation” has been accepted to ICML 2025. Happy to have a discussion at our poster in Vancouver! |
| Mar 24, 2025 | I was in Berlin meeting Sebastian Pokutta, Max Zimmer, and Berkant Turan, and had a presentation at ZIB. |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Participated in the AI4Forest Workshop in Berlin (hosted by Sebastian Pokutta) where we met with the entire AI4Forest Team. |
| Sep 09, 2024 | Attended the AI4Forest Workshop in Munich, hosted by Cornelius Senf. |
| May 01, 2024 | Our paper on “Estimating Canopy Height at Scale” has been accepted to ICML 2024 for Vienna and we will present it as a poster. We are looking forward to the conference and to see you there! |
| Apr 08, 2024 | Visited the Research Lab of Cornelius Senf for a few days to work on disturbance mapping in Europe. |
| Feb 27, 2024 | Hosted the AI4Forest Workshop in Münster. |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Research lab retreat in Winterberg. |
| Nov 09, 2023 | Kick-Off event for the AI4Forest project in Paris, hosted by Alexandre d’Aspremont and Philippe Ciais. |
| Oct 02, 2023 | Will attend ICCV in Paris as student helper. Happy to see you there! |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Meeting with the CTrees Team, Inria, LSCE (Philippe Ciais), CNRS Paris, and University of Copenhagen (Martin Brandt) in Bordeaux. |
| Jan 01, 2023 | I joined the group of Prof. Dr. Fabian Gieseke at the University of Münster as a PhD student. |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Submitted master thesis on “Generating High-Resolution Height Maps Using Deep Neural Networks”. |