Scientific AI Hamprecht Lab, IWR, Heidelberg University

Projects

Current focus

Kinetic energy functional
Kinetic energy functional Making orbital-free density functional theory a reality

We work on making quantum chemical predictions with chemical accuracy, without orbitals and at a fraction of the cost.

Selected contributions

ilastik
ilastik Interactive ML for biology

Now headed by Anna Kreshuk at EMBL, ilastik facilitates quantitative image analysis and has many users in biology.

Signed Graph Partitioning
Signed Graph Partitioning Fast heuristics for image analysis

One decade of work from exactly solving the multicut problem, to the fast mutex watershed and the generalized gasp heuristic.

PlantSeg
PlantSeg 3D instance segmentation

PlantSeg is a deep learning tool for cell instance segmentation tailored to the needs of plant biologists.