Contents
Ongoing and outlook
- Spring retreat 2026
- Research Colloquium in Data Science and Bioeconomy
New Joint Lab members
Recent activities
- Agritechnica trade fair
- ATB scientific review
- Launch AI-Real Lab Agriculture
- Spring retreat 2025
Selected publications
Ongoing and outlook
- Spring retreat 2026
Our spring retreat will take place from March 18 to 20, 2026, at the ATB in Potsdam; the Joint Lab's research training group and the ATB's doctoral researchers will meet a day earlier for a networking event. The work of our young talents will also be highlighted at the regular PhD Day at ATB. Furthermore, there will be opportunities for various focus groups to meet. The agenda and registration details will be available soon.
- Research Colloquium in Data Science and Bioeconomy
Launched in September 2025, the Research Colloquium in Data Science and Bioeconomy is being held on a weekly basis. This colloquium is a joint effort between the ATB and the Joint Lab and hosts hybrid presentations about the current topics, methods and results of our researchers, as well as talks about good scientific practices and research data management. The colloquium brings together scientists and researchers at all career levels and the speakers include senior researchers, postdocs and doctoral students. If you are interested in learning more, please contact please contact Ulrike Praeger ( upraeger@atb-potsdam.de) or Juan Carlos Saborío ( jcsaborio@uos.de).
New Joint Lab members
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest members: Juan Carlos Saborío, Freddy Sikouonmeu, and Nikolas Müller. Juan Carlos joined the Joint Lab as a Postdoc in February 2025. He was previously our neighbor at DFKI and is now leading Research Area 3: Hybrid process and system modeling - application-based development of process controls and digital twins (HyProS). Freddy Sikouonmeu began his PhD with us in February 2025 in Research Area 1: Artificial intelligence and data science - method development and data analysis (MetDev). In particular, he is focusing on explainable AI methods for multimodal data in the bioeconomy. Nikolas Müller joined MetDev as a PhD student in August 2025 and is researching semantic localization and mapping for navigation of mobile robots in barn environments.
Learn more about our new colleagues:
Juan Carlos: uni-osnabrueck.de/fb6/jl-kids/ueber-uns/graduiertenkolleg/saborio-morales-juan-carlos
Freddy: uni-osnabrueck.de/fb6/jl-kids/ueber-uns/graduiertenkolleg/sikouonmeu-freddy
Nikolas: uni-osnabrueck.de/fb6/jl-kids/ueber-uns/graduiertenkolleg/mueller-nikolas
Recent activities
- Agritechnica trade fair
Members of the Joint Lab presented their work at the Agrotech Valley Forum’s stand at the Agritechnica trade fair in Hanover from Nov 9-15, 2025. The Joint Lab’s demo showed how LiDAR can be used on UAVs to create 3D models of agricultural landscapes. An interactive slide show also provided visitors with the opportunity to learn more about the various research projects that our members are pursuing.
- ATB scientific review
On November 17 and 18 the Science Council visited ATB as the next step in the process to decide whether the research institute will open a branch office in Lower Saxony. The Joint Lab KI & DS would like to thank everyone involved in the process. We are aware that significant person-power and resources have been invested in this project to get us to this point, and we are very grateful to be where we are today.
- Launch AI-Real Lab Agriculture
We are delighted that the AI Real Lab Agriculture, an important large-scale project connecting researchers and practitioners in the region, was launched on October 17, 2025. This marks another milestone in the interlinking of AI and agriculture.
For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ki-reallabor-agrar_ki-datascience-agrar-activity-7385742616086302720-_oxi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAD9nZ4UBGlrqn12-uYWns63KPg_9cMlQFy8
The kick-off event took place on October 17, 2025, at Osnabrück Castle and was a special and successful evening for everyone involved.
For detailed information on the event: https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/sfb1604/en/production-insights/news-insights/detail-news/2025/07/millionenfoerderung-uni-leitet-ki-reallabor-agrar
- Spring retreat 2025
Our spring retreat from March 19 to 21, 2025 in Osnabrück provided us with a great opportunity to exchange ideas in person. The supporting program was accompanied by presentations on synthetic data and data management.
For more information and pictures, take a look at LinkedIn and our webpage:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joint-lab-ki-ds_retreat-osnabraesck-inhalten-activity-7315049070086033408-HFJB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAD9nZ4UBGlrqn12-uYWns63KPg_9cMlQFy8
https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fb6/en/jl-kids/activities/activities/detail/2025/03/mehr-als-praesenz-fruehlings-retreat-2025-in-osnabrueck
Selected publications
- L. Kaiser et al. (2025). A long-term evaluation of soil moisture sensing based on wireless communication. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 239(2025):111054, doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.111054
- J.C. Saborío et al. (2025). Uncertainty-Resilient Active Intention Recognition for Robotic Assistants. In Proc. 12th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR). Padova, Italy, 2025:1-6, doi.org/10.1109/ECMR65884.2025.11163230
- J. Schmidinger et al. (2025). LimeSoDa: A dataset collection for benchmarking of machine learning regressors in digital soil mapping. Geoderma, 459:117337, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117337
- O. Schütte, Moritz Lucas, and Björn Waske. (2025). Individual tree crown delineation in heterogenous urban environments using high-resolution airborne imagery, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18:27923-27936, doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3626942
- M. von Westenholz et al. (2025) Generalizing Local Pattern Mining on Attributed Graphs Using Simplicial Complex Abstraction, Complex Netzworks & Their Applications XIII, 1187:298-311, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82427-2_25
Please see our website for a complete list: https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fb6/en/jl-kids/research/publications