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Simon Ging

PhD Student

Computer Vision Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Freiburg
Germany

Office: Georges-Köhler-Allee, building 052, 2nd floor, room 1-20, 79110 Freiburg

Phone: +49 761-203-8279
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Simon Ging
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Research Interests
  • Visual Question Answering
  • Image-Text Contrastive Learning
  • Video-Text Retrieval
  • Video Captioning

Bio
  • 2021 MSc Computer Science, University of Freiburg
  • 1 year experience studying BSc Physics, University of Freiburg
  • 2 years experience working as SAP Consultant and Developer, Ciber MS AG, Freiburg
  • 2014 BSc Business Information Management, DHBW Lörrach

Publications
2025

Conference
Using Knowledge Graphs to harvest datasets for efficient CLIP model training   Paperpaper-entitynet-v3.pdf doi> Code/data
Simon Ging, S. Walter, Jelena Bratulić, Johannes Dienert, H. Bast, Thomas Brox
Pattern Recognition, 47th DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2025, Freiburg, Germany, September 23--26, 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature Switzerland, LNCS: 287--302, 2025
 
2024

Conference
Open-ended VQA benchmarking of Vision-Language models by exploiting Classification datasets and their semantic hierarchy   Paperpaper-ovqa.pdf Code/data
Simon Ging, Maria A. Bravo, Thomas Brox
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2024
 
2023

Conference
Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection   Paperpaper-ovad23.pdf Code/data
Maria A. Bravo, Sudhanshu Mittal, Simon Ging, Thomas Brox
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2023
 
2020

Conference
COOT: Cooperative Hierarchical Transformer for Video-Text Representation Learning   Paperpaper-coot2020.pdf Code/data
Simon Ging, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, H. Pirsiavash, Thomas Brox
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Curran Associates, Inc., Vol.33: 22605--22618, 2020