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Florian Blume

PhD Student - Machine Learning/Computer Vision

Education

PhD in computer Science

Technical University of Berlin
2020 - 2025

Diploma in Computer Science

Technical University of Dresden
2012 - 2019

BSc in Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2011 - 2012

Languages

  • German (Native)
  • English (Professional (C1))

Career Profile

PhD in Computer Vission & Machine Learning (TU Berlin), with a focus on context-aware facial expression recognition using multi-modal deep learning. Experienced in interdisciplinary research, project management and team leadership. Seeking a posiLon as a machine learning research scientist or engineer.

Publications

I was first (or shared-first) author of the following publications:

  • How Do You Perceive My Face? Recognizing Facial Expressions in Multi-Modal Context by Modeling Mental Representations
    • Florian Blume, Runfeng Qu, Pia Bideau, Martin Maier, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Olaf Hellwich
    Accepted to GCPR 2024
  • Multi-Task Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning for Facial Expression Recognition
    • Marah Halawa, Florian Blume, Pia Bideau, Martin Maier, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Olaf Hellwich
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, pp. 4604-4614
  • Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision
    • Martin Maier, Florian Blume, Pia Bideau, Olaf Hellwich, Rasha Abdel Rahman
    Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 101, 2022, ISSN 1053-8100

    Education

    PhD in computer Science

    2020 - 2025
    Technical University of Berlin

    Magna cum laude Focus on

    • Facial expression recognition in context
    • Computer vision
    • Interdisciplinary work with psychologists

    Diploma in Computer Science

    2012 - 2019
    Technical University of Dresden

    Grade: very good (1.4) Focus on

    • Machine learning
    • Computer vision
    • Theoretical computer science

    BSc in Computer Science

    2011 - 2012
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    Projects

    Some of my open source projects on GitHub:

    6D-PAT - With 6D-PAT you can create 6D annotations on images for 6D pose estimation, i.e. annotate 2D images with the 3D rotation and 3D translation of 3D models.
    ConCluGen - Code for our paper "Multi-Task Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning for Facial Expression Recognition"
    Qt3D Offscreen Renderer - Implementation of an offscreen renderer for the Qt3D framework.
    Qt3D-Widget - Implementation of a Qt widget that allows to embed Qt3D.
    Qt3D Gizmo - A 3D gizmo implemented for the Qt3D framework.

    Work Experience

    Research Assistant

    05/2019 - 09/2019
    Max Planck institute für molecular cell biology, Dresden

    Development of an application to create mobile machine control apps.

    Student Employee

    02/2017 - 12/2017
    Monkey Works GmbH, Dresden

    Development of an application to create mobile machine control apps.

    Research Assistant

    03/2017 - 09/2017
    Computer lab of the faculty of law, Dresden

    Assisting in running the computer lab.

    Student Employee

    09/2015 - 12/2016
    exedio GmbH, Dresden

    Java-based backend development.

    Student Employee

    03/2014 - 08/2015
    Konsole Labs GmbH, Dresden

    Development of iOS radio apps.

    Awards

    Deutschlandstipendium

    2015 - 2016

    Receiver of the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship for talented students for one year.

    Skills & Proficiency

    Python

    PyTorch

    PyTorch Lightning

    CometML

    MLFlow

    Research & Analysis

    Project Managmeent

    Scientific Writing

    C++

    Qt

    TensorFlow

    Java

    Illustrator & Inkscape

    HTML5 & CSS