Martin Meßmer

Background

Since 2025
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Cognitive Systems, University of Tübingen
2019 - 2024
PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Systems, University of Tübingen
2017 - 2019
MSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen
2013 - 2017
BSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen

Publications

[1]Martin Messmer, Andreas Zell. "Evaluating UAV Path Planning Algorithms for Realistic Maritime Search and Rescue Missions". In 2024: International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pages 272–280 (ICUAS), 2024. [link]
[2]Martin Messmer, Benjamin Kiefer, Leon Amadeus Varga, Andreas Zell. "UAV-Assisted Maritime Search and Rescue: A Holistic Approach". In: 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pages 472–479 (ICUAS), 2024. [link]
[3]Leon Amadeus Varga, Martin Messmer, Nuri Benbarka, Andreas Zell. "Wavelength-Aware 2D Convolutions for Hyperspectral Imaging". In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023. [link]
[4]Timon Höfer, Benjamin Kiefer, Martin Messmer, Andreas Zell. "HyperPosePDF – Hypernetworks Predicting the Probability Distribution on SO(3)". In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023. [link]
[5]Benjamin Kiefer, Martin Messmer, et al. "2nd Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2024: Challenge Results". In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024. [link]
[6]Martin Messmer*, Benjamin Kiefer*, and Andreas Zell. “Gaining scale invariance in uav bird's eye view object detection by adaptive resizing”. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022. (*Equal contribution). [ link ]
[7]Leon Amadeus Varga*, Benjamin Kiefer*, Martin Messmer*, and Andreas Zell. SeaDronesSee: “A Maritime Benchmark for Detecting Humans in Open Water”. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pages 2260--2270, January 2022. (*Equal contribution). [ link ]
[8]Benjamin Kiefer*, Martin Messmer*, and Andreas Zell. "Diminishing Domain Bias by Leveraging Domain Labels in Object Detection on UAVs". In: 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages 523--530, December 2021. (*Equal contribution). [ DOI | link ]
[9]Yitong Quan, Benjamin Kiefer, Martin Messmer, Ram Akupati, Rainer Graser, Andreas Zell. “Robust Single-Cam Surround View Object Detection and Localization Using Memory Maps”. In: International Conference on Pattern Recognition (pp. 105-118), (ICPR), 2024.

Research Interests

  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Object Detection

Teaching

Supervised Theses

2021 Bachelor Thesis Development of a Chess Framework in Python
2021 Bachelor Thesis

A Deep Neural Network to Recognize Handwritten Mathematical Formulas