Timo Lüddecke

Research Group Leader
Institute of Computer Science
University of Göttingen

My research focuses on scalable, multi-modal machine learning methods that make use of large datasets and use cross-modal relationships as a learning signal. A goal of my research is to minimize effort and facilitate labelling. To this end, data-centric and user interaction techniques play a central role. Current applications involve animal behavior analysis and acoustics engineering.

Group Members

Jan van Delden (PhD student)
Felix B. Müller (PhD student)
Jan Meier (PhD student)
Christian Libner (PhD student)
Diego Canez (incoming PhD student)

Former Members

Julius Schultz (associated PhD student at TU Braunschweig)

If you are intersted in joining my group, please write an email directly to me.

Short Bio

Before starting my research group in January 2024, I worked as a postdoc with Alexander Ecker. I completed my PhD in 2019 with Florentin Wörgötter working on robotic perception at the University of Göttingen. I received Bachelor and Master from the University of Magdeburg with an emphasis on medical image processing working with Klaus Tönnies.

Selected Publications

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LiDeRe: A Lightweight Readout for Fast and Data-Efficient Dense Prediction

Timo Lüddecke, Jan Frederik Meier, Jan van Delden, Alexander S. Ecker

accepted at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026

PriVi: Towards a General-Purpose Video Model for Primate Behavior in the Wild

Felix Benjamin Müller, Jan Frederik Meier, Timo Lüddecke, Richard Vogg, ..., Alexander Ecker

accepted at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026

A Circular Argument: Does RoPE need to be Equivariant for Vision?

Chase van de Geijn, Timo Lüddecke, Polina Turishcheva, Alexander S Ecker

NeurIPS 2025

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Detection transformer-based approach for mapping trees outside forests on high resolution satellite imagery

Tao Jiang, Maximilian Freudenberg, Christoph Kleinn, Timo Lüddecke, Alexander Ecker, Nils Nölke

Ecological Informatics 2025

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Learning to Predict Structural Vibrations

Jan van Delden, Julius Schultz, Christopher Blech, Sabine C Langer, and Timo Lüddecke

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

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Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wild

Richard Vogg*, Timo Lüddecke*, Jonathan Henrich*, Sharmita Dey, Matthias Nuske, Valentin Hassler, Derek Murphy, Julia Fischer, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke, and others

Nature Methods, 2024

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An unsupervised map of excitatory neuron dendritic morphology in the mouse visual cortex

Marissa A. Weis, Stelios Papadopoulos, Laura Hansel, Timo Lüddecke, Brendan Celii, ..., Alexander S. Ecker

Nature Communications, 2024

GPT4GEO: How a Language Model Sees the World's Geography

Jonathan Roberts, Timo Lüddecke, Sowmen Das, Kai Han, and Samuel Albanie

NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Foundation Models for Decision Making, 2023

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Self-supervised graph representation learning for neuronal morphologies

Marissa A Weis, Laura Pede, Timo Lüddecke, and Alexander S Ecker

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023

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Image Segmentation Using Text and Image Prompts

Timo Lüddecke, and Alexander Ecker

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

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One-shot multi-path planning for robotic applications using fully convolutional networks

Tomas Kulvicius, Sebastian Herzog, Timo Lüddecke, Minija Tamosiunaite, and Florentin Wörgötter

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

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Fine-grained action plausibility rating

Timo Lüddecke, and Florentin Wörgötter

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 2020

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CNNs can efficiently trace paths, too

Timo Lüddecke, and Alexander Ecker

NeurIPS 2020 Workshop SVRHM, 2020

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Distributional Semantics of Objects in Visual Scenes in Comparison to Text

Timo Lüddecke, Alejandro Agostini, Michael Fauth, Minija Tamosiunaite, and Florentin Wörgötter

Artificial Intelligence, 2019

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Context-based Affordance Segmentation from 2D Images for Robot Action

Timo Lüddecke, Tomas Kulvicius, and Florentin Wörgötter

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 2019

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Learning to Segment Affordances

Timo Lüddecke, and Florentin Wörgötter

International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2017

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Convolutional Neural Networks for Movement Prediction in Videos

Alexander Warnecke, Timo Lüddecke, and Florentin Wörgötter

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2017

Action-oriented Scene Understanding

Timo Lüddecke

PhD Thesis

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Open Source Software

DrawCNN

DrawCNN is a python script to visualize CNN architectures and export to SVG for later refinement.

Code

Tralo

Tralo is a dependency-free training and experiment framework for PyTorch.

Code

Timo Lüddecke

Group Members

Former Members

Short Bio

Selected Publications

Open Source Software

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