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Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

ZHAW School of Engineering
Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 72 08
thilo.stadelmann@zhaw.ch

Personal profile

Management role

  • Head of Centre, Centre for Artificial Intelligence
  • Head, Computer Vision, Perception and Cognition Group

Position at the ZHAW

Scientist, lecturer, speaker, consultant, networker, principal investigator, reviewer, mentor, leader, father, believer.

Roles:

Director of Centre, CAI: www.zhaw.ch/en/engineering/institutes-centres/cai/
Professor for AI/ML (Chair of Engineering - Information): stdm.github.io/research/
Head of Computer Vision, Perception and Cognition Group: www.zhaw.ch/en/engineering/institutes-centres/cai/computer-vision-perception-and-cognition-group/
Keynote speaker, Premium Speakers: premium-speakers.com/en/speaker-presenter/thilo-stadelmann/

Activities:

Talks and scientific community engagement: stdm.github.io/service/
ZHAW staff prayer meeting: stdm.github.io/prayer

Awards:

ZHAW digital Impact Award 2022
DIZH Fellowship 2022
Swiss Data Science Conference Best Paper Award 2021
Swiss Data Science Conference Best Poster Presentation Award 2020
ZHAW teaching award "Best Teaching - Best Practices" (3rd rank) 2019

stdm.github.io

Professional development teaching

Expertise and research interests

Artificial intelligence and machine learning: deep learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, audio analysis, intelligent sysetems.

Current research interests: robust and efficient deep learning in neural networks for practical use cases, reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, more general and biologically inspired AI, large language models; ethical and societal aspects of such systems.

See stdm.github.io/research/

Educational background

Executive leadership training ZHAW, 2018, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Certificate of Advanced Studies in didactics of higher education, 2015, Zurich University of Teacher Education
PhD studies, Dr. rer. nat (PhD equivalent), 2010, University of Marburg
Computer science studies, Dipl. Inform. (FH) (MSc equivalent), 2004, Giessen University of Applied Sciences

Professional milestones

2023-present: Founder and member of the board, AlpineAI AG
2023-present: Keynote speaker, Premium Speakers Agency
2021-present: Professor of AI/ML, Director of ZHAW CAI, Head of CVPC Group
2019-2021: Scientific Director, ZHAW digital
2018-2021: Professor of Computer Science, ZHAW InIT
2017-2018: Managing Director ad Interim, Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services
2016-present: Board of the data innovation alliance
2015-2021: Deputy head of Information Engineering research group, ZHAW
2015-2017: Co-organizer Zurich Machine Learning & Data Science Meetup
2014-2018: Vice president of SGAICO, Swiss Group of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2013-2019: Head of the board, ZHAW Datalab
2013-present: Co-Founder & member of the board, ZHAW Datalab
2013-2018: Lecturer Information Engineering (50% research, 50% teaching), ZHAW InIT
2012-2013: Director of internal IT, TWT GmbH Science & Innovation
2011-2013: Head of smart software team, TWT GmbH Science & Innovation
2010-2011: Software architect and project leader, TWT GmbH Science & Innovation
2004-2010: Research assistant in the area of audio- and video mining, University of Marburg
1998-2010: several sideline jobs in software development and data mining

Membership of networks

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Books and monographs, peer-reviewed
Book parts, peer-reviewed
Conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Other publications
Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Thilo Stadelmann, Sven Johr, Michael Ditze, Florian Dittman, and Viktor Fässler. "FABELHAFT - Fahrerablenkung: Entwicklung eines Meta-Fahrerassistenzsystems durch Echtzeit-Audioklassifikation". In Proceedings of 28. VDI-VW Gemeinschaftstagung Fahrerassistenzsysteme und Integrierte Sicherheit, Wolfsburg, Germany, October 10.-11., 2012. VDI Wissensforum. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/VDIFASIS_2012.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann. "Voice Modeling Methods for Automatic Speaker Recognition". Dissertation, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Available online, 2010. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/PhdThesis_2010.pdf.

Christian Beecks, Thilo Stadelmann, Bernd Freisleben, and Thomas Seidl. "Visual Speaker Model Exploration", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'2010), pages 727-728, Singapore, July 19-23, 2010, IEEE. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ICME_2010.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann, Yinghui Wang, Matthew Smith, Ralph Ewerth, and Bernd Freisleben. "Rethinking Algorithm Development and Design in Speech Processing". In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), pages 4476-4479, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010a. IAPR. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ICPR_2010b.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann and Bernd Freisleben. "On the MixMax Model and Cepstral Features for Noise-Robust Voice Recognition". Technical Report, Marburg University, July 2010. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TR_2010.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann and Bernd Freisleben. Dimension-Decoupled Gaussian Mixture Model for Short Utterance Speaker Recognition. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), pages 1602-1605, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010a. IAPR. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ICPR_2010a.pdf.

Markus Mühling, Ralph Ewerth, Thilo Stadelmann, Bing Shi, and Bernd Freisleben. "University of Marburg at TRECVID 2009: High-Level Feature Extraction". In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid'09). Available online, 2009. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TRECVID_2009.pdf.

Ernst Juhnke, Dominik Seiler, Thilo Stadelmann, Tim Dörnemann, and Bernd Freisleben. "LCDL: An Extensible Framework for Wrapping Legacy Code". In Proceedings of International Workshop on @WAS Emerging Research Projects, Applications and Services (ERPAS'09), pages 638-642, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2009. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ERPAS_2009.pdf.

Dominik Seiler, Ralph Ewerth, Steffen Heinzl, Thilo Stadelmann, Markus Mühling, Bernd Freisleben, and Manfred Grauer. "Eine Service-Orientierte Grid-Infrastruktur zur Unterstützung Medienwissenschaftlicher Filmanalyse". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien (GeNeMe'09), pages 79-89, Dresden, Germany, September 2009. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/GeNeMe_2009.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann and Bernd Freisleben. "Unfolding Speaker Clustering Potential: A Biomimetic Approach". In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM'09), pages 185-194, Beijing, China, October 2009. ACM. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ACMMM_2009.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann, Steffen Heinzl, Markus Unterberger, and Bernd Freisleben. "WebVoice: A Toolkit for Perceptual Insights into Speech Processing". In Proceedingsof the 2nd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP'09), pages 4358-4362, Tianjin, China, October 2009. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/CISP_2009.pdf.

Steffen Heinzl, Markus Mathes, Thilo Stadelmann, Dominik Seiler, Marcel Diegelmann, Helmut Dohmann, and Bernd Freisleben. "The Web Service Browser: Automatic Client Generation and Efficient Data Transfer for Web Services". In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'09), pages 743-750, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2009a. IEEE Press. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ICWS_2009.pdf.

Steffen Heinzl, Dominik Seiler, Ernst Juhnke, Thilo Stadelmann, Ralph Ewerth, Manfred Grauer, and Bernd Freisleben. "A Scalable Service-Oriented Architecture for Multimedia Analysis, Synthesis, and Consumption". International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 5(3):219-260, 2009b. Inderscience Publishers. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/IJWGS_2009.pdf.

Markus Mühling, Ralph Ewerth, Thilo Stadelmann, Bing Shi, and Bernd Freisleben. "University of Marburg at TRECVID 2008: High-Level Feature Extraction". In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid'08). Available online, 2008. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TRECVID_2008.pdf.

Markus Mühling, Ralph Ewerth, Thilo Stadelmann, Bing Shi, Christian Zöfel, and Bernd Freisleben. "University of Marburg at TRECVID 2007: Shot Boundary Detection and High-Level Feature Extraction". In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid'07). Available online, 2007a. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TRECVID_2007.pdf.

Ralph Ewerth, Markus Mühling, Thilo Stadelmann, Julinda Gllavata, Manfred Grauer, and Bernd Freisleben. "Videana: A Software Toolkit for Scientific Film Studies". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Tools in Film Studies, pages 1-16, Siegen, Germany, 2007. Transcript Verlag. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/DTiMS_2007.pdf.

Markus Mühling, Ralph Ewerth, Thilo Stadelmann, Bernd Freisleben, Rene Weber, and Klaus Mathiak. "Semantic Video Analysis for Psychological Research on Violence in Computer Games". In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'07), pages 611-618, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007b. ACM. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/CIVR_2007.pdf.

Ralph Ewerth, Markus Mühling, Thilo Stadelmann, Ermir Qeli, Björn Agel, Dominik Seiler, and Bernd Freisleben. "University of Marburg at TRECVID 2006: Shot Boundary Detection and Rushes Task Results". In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid'06). Available online, 2006. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TRECVID_2006.pdf.

Thilo Stadelmann and Bernd Freisleben. "Fast and Robust Speaker Clustering Using the Earth Mover's Distance and MixMax Models". In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), volume 1, pages 989-992, Toulouse, France, April 2006. IEEE. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/ICASSP_2006.pdf.

Ralph Ewerth, Christian Behringer, Tobias Kopp, Michael Niebergall, Thilo Stadelmann, and Bernd Freisleben. "University of Marburg at TRECVID 2005: Shot Boundary Detection and Camera Motion Estimation Results". In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid'05). Available online, 2005. URL stdm.github.io/downloads/papers/TRECVID_2005.pdf.