TOBIAS HINZ
PhD Candidate
University of Hamburg
Since April 2017 I am a PhD student at the Knowledge Technology group at the University of Hamburg, advised by Professor Wermter. I work on machine learning approaches that try to understand the relationships between objects in the environment in a semi- or unsupervised way and can describe these relationships with natural language. This includes applications such as text-to-image synthesis, image captioning, and visual question answering
I completed my Bachelor degree in Business Informatics at the University of Mannheim, during which I also studied at the National University of Singapore for one semester. Following that, I did a research oriented Master degree in Intelligent Adaptive Systems at the University of Hamburg.
News
- 10/2019: We uploaded our latest work on generative text-to-image synthesis. Check out our blog post and implementation.
- 08/2019: I just returned from Edmonton where I attended the DLRLSS. Have a look at the new blog post for some highlights.
- 07/2019: I attended this year's EEML in Bucharest and summarized my experiences in a new blog post.
- 05/2019: I just returned from this year's ICLR. Check out my blog post and see this post which mentions our paper.
- 01/2019: I started a new position with the Crossmodal Learning (CML) project (subproject A5) at the University of Hamburg.
- 12/2018: Our work on controlled image generation got accepted to ICLR 2019.
- 07/2018: I attended this year's IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
- 04/2018: I attended this year's ESANN in Bruges (Belgium).
- 03/2018: Our work on hyperparameter optimization for convolutional neural networks got accepted to the IJCIA.
- 03/2018: Our work on image generation and translation got accepted to this year's IJCNN.
Semantic Object Accuracy for Generative Text-to-Image Synthesis
Posted on 30 Oct 2019 | Reading time: 8 minutes
Overview of our paper about our new model and evaluation metric for generative text-to-image synthesis models.
My Time At The Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRLSS) in Edmonton (Canada)
Posted on 06 Aug 2019 | Reading time: 17 minutes
After attending the EEMLSS I was lucky enough to also attend the Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRLSS) in Edmonton (Canada) 2019.
Impressions from the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML) 2019 in Bucharest (Romania)
Posted on 08 Jul 2019 | Reading time: 6 minutes
My experiences at the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML) organized by DeepMind in Bucharest (Romania) 2019.
Impressions and Highlights from the ICLR 2019 in New Orleans
Posted on 15 May 2019 | Reading time: 18 minutes
My impressions from the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019 in New Orleans and an overview of papers and keynotes I found particularly interesting
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Selected Publications
For a full list, have a look at my Google Scholar page.
Speeding Up the Hyperparameter Optimization Of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
How to use lower dimensional data representations to speed up the hyperparameter optimization for CNNs processing images..
T. Hinz, N. Navarro-Guerrero, S. Magg, S. Wermter, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 2018.
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