Deep Learning Engineer at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI). If you are interested to chat, reach out to me on LinkedIn, Github, or Twitter/X (@AlexKugele).
Interests
Generative AI to synthesize realistic images and videos of the real world.
Previous projects
- Neural architecture search to optimize neural networks on the edge.
- Object detection with event cameras and spiking neural networks.
Experience
since May 2022
Deep Learning Engineer at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Improving and deploying generative models for images and videos.
Education
Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2023
PhD Student Artificial Intelligence, Bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group, University of Groningen, in joint collaboration with the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Renningen.
Sept. 2012 - Aug. 2018
Bachelor & Master of Science Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Publications
Check my Google Scholar for the most up-to-date information.
| Date | Publication | Authors | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/2023 | How Many Events Make an Object? Improving Single-frame Object Detection on the 1 Mpx Dataset | Alexander Kugele, Thomas Pfeil, Michael Pfeiffer, Elisabetta Chicca | 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW); Fourth International Workshop on Event-Based Vision |
| 08/2021 | Hybrid SNN-ANN: Energy-Efficient Classification and Object Detection for Event-Based Vision | Alexander Kugele, Thomas Pfeil, Michael Pfeiffer, Elisabetta Chicca | DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2021 |
| 05/2020 | Efficient Processing of Spatio-Temporal Data Streams With Spiking Neural Networks | Alexander Kugele, Thomas Pfeil, Michael Pfeiffer, Elisabetta Chicca | Frontiers in Neuroscience 14, p. 439. |
| 11/2019 | Accelerated physical emulation of Bayesian inference in spiking neural networks | AF Kungl, S Schmitt, J Klähn, P Müller, A Baumbach, D Dold, A Kugele, E Müller, C Koke, M Kleider, C Mauch, O Breitwieser, L Leng, N Gürtler, M Güttler, D Husmann, K Husmann, A Hartel, V Karasenko, A Grübl, J Schemmel, K Meier, MA Petrovici | Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, p. 1201. |