I am a student of Simulation Technology at the University of Stuttgart. My interests include computer vision, deep learning, scientific computing, and everything at the intersection of these fields.
Education
- M.Sc. in Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, 2025 (expected)
- Master Thesis: “Interpolation of Embeddings in satellite-based Earth Observation”
- Supervisor: Rocco Sedona, Andrés Bruhn
- B.Sc. in Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, 2022
- Bachelor Thesis: “An Optimization Approach to Attacking the Horn and Schunk Method”
- Supervisor: Jenny Schmalfuss, Andrés Bruhn
Work experience
- 2024-today: Research Assistant
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
- Duties including: Research on foundation models for earth observation for FAST-EO and Embed2Scale
- Supervisors: Gabriele Cavallaro, Rocco Sedona
- 2020-2023: Research Assistant
- Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart
- Duties included: Contributing to the development of preCICE and its ecosystem
- Supervisor: Ishaan Desai, Benjamin Uekermann
- 2019-2020: Student Assistant
- University of Stuttgart
- Duties included: Supervision of exercises of “Fortgeschrittene Analysis für SimTech 2” and “Mathematische Programmierung für Lehramt”
Publications
- LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Earth Observation with a Predictive Architecture
- Poster at EurIPS 2025 in workshop: Advances in Representation Learning in Earth Observation
- Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefan Kesselheim and Gabriele Cavallaro
- Scalable Efficient Compression in Large-Scale Earth Observation
- Poster at EGU General Assembly 2025 workshop: Advancing Foundation Models for Earth and Climate: Benchmarking, Best Practices and AI-Enabled Scientific Understanding
- Erik Scheurer, Jiangtao Wang, Rocco Sedona, Stefano Maurogiovanni, Benedikt Blumenstiel, Johannes Jakubik, Paolo Fraccaro, Thomas Brunschwiler, Stefan Kesselheim, Gabriele Cavallaro
- TerraMind: Large-Scale Generative Multimodality for Earth Observation
- arXiv preprint, 2025
- Johannes Jakubik, Felix Yang, Benedikt Blumenstiel, Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefano Maurogiovanni, Jente Bosmans, Nikolaos Dionelis, Valerio Marsocci, Niklas Kopp, Rahul Ramachandran, Paolo Fraccaro, Thomas Brunschwiler, Gabriele Cavallaro, Juan Bernabe-Moreno, Nicolas Longépé
- Lossy Neural Compression for Geospatial Analytics: A review
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 2025
- C. Gomes, I. Wittmann, D. Robert, J. Jakubik, T. Reichelt, S. Maurogiovanni, R. Vinge, J. Hurst, E. Scheurer, R. Sedona, T. Brunschwiler, S. Kesselheim, M. Batic, P. Stier, J. D. Wegner, G. Cavallaro, E. Pebesma, M. Marszalek, M. A. Belenguer-Plomer, K. Adriko, P. Fraccaro, R. Kienzler, R. Briq, S. Benassou, M. Lazzarini, C. M. Albrecht.
- Detection Defenses: An Empty Promise against Adversarial Patch Attacks on Optical Flow
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024
- Erik Scheurer, Jenny Schmalfuss, Alexander Lis, Andrés Bruhn
- Micro Manager: a Python package for adaptive and flexible two-scale coupling
- Journal of Open Source Software, Nov 2023
- Ishaan Desai, Erik Scheurer, Carina Bringedal, and Benjamin Uekermann
- Blind Image Inpainting with Sparse Directional Filter Dictionaries for Lightweight CNNs
- Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2022
- Jenny Schmalfuss, Erik Scheurer, Heng Zhao, Nikolaos Karantzas, Andrés Bruhn & Demetrio Labate