Workshop

2024 – Research IDEAS 7th Workshop

Introduction

ZEISS is a global company world-wide known and recognized for high quality instrumentation and solutions for the semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries, biomedical research and medical technology, as well as eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetariums.

Since 2016, ZEISS and EPFL collaborate in the field of Imaging and Digital Engineering, Application and Systems (IDEAS). The IDEAS program aims to trigger and enable explorative research projects in fields of joint interest of EPFL and ZEISS. These research projects in fields defined by the EPFL-ZEISS scientific committee (SC) of IDEAS have a typically duration of one year and a budget of about 100 k€. In the past 6 years, 13 collaborative projects are funded and have been funded, respectively. The projects may be the seed for further joint research project financed either by ZEISS or by other funding.

An annual workshop provides the platform to explore the fit of active research fields at EPFL with innovation areas at ZEISS. Through scientific discussions, it is aimed to trigger proposals for research projects that are submitted in a subsequent call process.

Focus areas

This year the Scientific Committee decided to address a broad scope, covering all focus fields and applications fields defined by the initiative, such as:

• 3D Imaging and Data Processing
• Smart Automated Systems
• Multi-dimensional Visualisation and Human-Machine Interaction
• Image Simulation, Experimental Modelling and VR
• Smart, Sustainable, Nano- and Micro-Manufacturing

7th Workshop – October 1st, 2024

The 7th workshop will take place at EPFL campus, date to be announced shortly. It will be a one-day workshop, involving both Zeiss participants and EPFL faculties.

This workshop aims to create a dynamic platform for exploring the intersection between EPFL research fields and ZEISS Innovation fields. We hope to ignite fresh IDEAS and catalyze collaborative research projects for the upcoming call process by engaging in stimulating discussions.

The focus will be on AI (in particular generative AI and its application) as well as the more general issue of sustainability in diverse fields such as:

• 3D Imaging and Data Processing
• Smart Automated Systems
• Multidimensional Latency-Free Visualization and Human-Machine Interaction
• Image Simulation, Experimental Modelling and VR/AR
• Smart, Sustainable, Nano- and Micro-Manufacturing

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please contact : [email protected]