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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

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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.