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Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

Dept. of Computer Science Faculty of Engineering

Simon Ging

PhD Student

Computer Vision Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Freiburg
Germany

Office: Georges-Köhler-Allee, building 052, 2nd floor, room 1-20, 79110 Freiburg

Phone: +49 761-203-8279
E-Mail: template AT informatik.uni-freiburg

Simon Ging

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Research Interests

Visual Question Answering
Image-Text Contrastive Learning
Video-Text Retrieval
Video Captioning

Bio

2021 MSc Computer Science, University of Freiburg
1 year experience studying BSc Physics, University of Freiburg
2 years experience working as SAP Consultant and Developer, Ciber MS AG, Freiburg
2014 BSc Business Information Management, DHBW Lörrach

Publications

2025

Conference

Using Knowledge Graphs to harvest datasets for efficient CLIP model training Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Ging, S. Walter, Jelena Bratulić, Johannes Dienert, H. Bast, Thomas Brox

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2025

2024

Conference

Open-ended VQA benchmarking of Vision-Language models by exploiting Classification datasets and their semantic hierarchy Paper Code/data

Simon Ging, Maria A. Bravo, Thomas Brox

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2024

2023

Conference

Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection Paper Code/data

Maria A. Bravo, Sudhanshu Mittal, Simon Ging, Thomas Brox

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2023

2020

Conference

COOT: Cooperative Hierarchical Transformer for Video-Text Representation Learning Paper Code/data

Simon Ging, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, H. Pirsiavash, Thomas Brox

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Curran Associates, Inc., Vol.33: 22605--22618, 2020