Anna Penzkofer
PhD Candidate. University of Stuttgart. Perceptual User Interfaces.
Hi, my name is Anna. I’m a PhD student at University of Stuttgart at the Institute for visualization and interactive systems (VIS), affiliated with the perceptual user interfaces group. I’ve been doing research since my bachelor’s degree at Stuttgart in 2018, where I published my first paper at ICMI’21.
My personal research goal is understanding and developing a biologically plausible model of human visual processing, from bottom-up vision to spatial and abstract reasoning on natural images. I am particularly interested in integrating cognitive models with machine learning methods.
I regularly work with vision-language models for tasks such as object detection, or visual question answering. Additionally, I am interested in reinforcement learning agents and their strong link to human adaptive learning processes.
news
Apr 05, 2024 | My new paper VSA4VQA: Scaling a Vector Symbolic Architecture to Visual Question Answering on Natural Images has been accepted at CogSci’24 as an oral presentation! |
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Apr 01, 2024 | Co-organising new practical course on Computational Theory of Mind & Cognition. Click for details! |
Mar 11, 2024 | The MultiMediate Challenge, where I am one of the organisers, was accepted at the ACM Multimedia 2024! Start participating now, details are on our website |
Mar 01, 2024 | Accepted for Nengo summer school at University of Waterloo, Canada. Looking forward to being there in June! |
May 29, 2023 | Poster presentation at the Adaptive and Learning Agent Workshop (ALA) at AMAAS conference 2023. |