Mathias Zinnen

Mathias Zinnen, M. Sc.

Researcher

Department of Computer Science
Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition)

Room 9.156
Martensstr. 3
91058 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-28977
Fax number: +49 9131 85-27270
Email: mathias.zinnen@fau.de
Website: https://lme.tf.fau.de/person/zinnen/

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Mathias Zinnen studied philosophy and computer science in Berlin and Erlangen. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in FAU Erlangen’s Pattern Recognition Lab, his research centers on computer vision in arts. His main academic interests cover object detection, pose estimation, and multimodal methods, along with innovative work on visual representations of smell.

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2025

Journal Articles

Gorges T., Scholz T., Saloman S., Zinnen M., Hoffmann J., Gourmelon N., Maier A., Hettenkofer S., Christlein V.:
PASAL: Progress- and sparsity-aware loss balancing for heterogeneous dataset fusion
In: Information Fusion 120 (2025), p. 103038
ISSN: 1566-2535
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103038
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Conference Contributions

Liu S., Huang H., Zinnen M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Novel Artistic Scene-Centric Datasets for Effective Transfer Learning in Fragrant Spaces
In: Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops, Cham: 2025
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91572-7_10
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Lang S., Zinnen M.:
Digital Provenance Research: Eine computerassistierte Bildersuche in historischen Auktionskatalogen
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) (Universität Bielefeld, March 3, 2025 - March 7, 2025)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14943104
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2024

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Zinnen M., Madhu P., Leemans I., Bell P., Hussian A., Tran TMH., Hürriyetoğlu A., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Smelly, dense, and spreaded: The Object Detection for Olfactory References (ODOR) dataset
In: Expert Systems With Applications 255, Part B (2024), Article No.: 124576
ISSN: 0957-4174
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124576
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Zinnen M., Christlein V.:
Odeuropa und der Duft der Bilder
In: Schönere Heimat (2024), p. 225-229
ISSN: 0177-4492
URL: https://heimat-bayern-kaufladen.de/Schoenere-Heimat-2024-Heft-3/SW10437
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Zinnen M., Hussian A., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Recognizing sensory gestures in historical artworks
In: Multimedia Tools and Applications (2024)
ISSN: 1380-7501
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-024-20502-6
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Conference Contributions

Huang H., Zinnen M., Liu S., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Scene Classification on Fine Arts with Style Transfer
SUMAC '24: 6th workshop on the analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents
In: SUMAC '24: Proceedings of the 6th workshop on the analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3689094.3689468
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Patoliya V., Zinnen M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Smell and Emotion: Recognising Emotions in Smell-Related Artworks
Digital Humanities Conference 2024 (Arlington, VA, August 6, 2024 - August 9, 2024)
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Hussian A., Zinnen M., Tran TMH., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Gesture Classification in Artworks Using Contextual Image Features
Digital Humanities Conference 2024 (The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Arlington, August 6, 2024 - August 9, 2024)
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2023

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van Erp M., Tullett W., Christlein V., Ehrhart T., Hürriyetoğlu A., Leemans I., Lisena P., Menini S., Schwabe D., Tonelli S., Troncy R., Zinnen M.:
More than the Name of the Rose
In: American Historical Review 128 (2023), p. 335-369
ISSN: 0002-8762
DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhad141
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Conference Contributions

Zinnen M., Hussian A., Tran TMH., Madhu P., Maier A., Christlein V.:
SniffyArt: The Dataset of Smelling Persons
SUMAC '23: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents (Ottawa ON, Canada)
In: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on AnalySis, Understanding and ProMotion of HeritAge Contents 2023
DOI: 10.1145/3607542.3617357
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11888
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Akdemir K., Hürriyetoğlu A., Troncy R., Paccosi T., Menini S., Zinnen M., Christlein V.:
Multimodal and Multilingual Understanding of Smells using VilBERT and mUNITER
2022 MediaEval Workshop, MediaEval 2022 (Virtual, Online, NOR, January 12, 2023 - January 13, 2023)
In: Steven Hicks, Alba Garcia Seco De Herrera, Johannes Langguth, Johannes Langguth, Andreas Lommatzsch, Stelios Andreadis, Minh-Son Dao, Pierre-Etienne Martin, Ali Hurriyetoglu, Vajira Thambawita, Tor-Arne Nordmo, Romain Vuillemot, Martha Larson (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2023
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Hürriyetoğlu A., Paccosi T., Menini S., Zinnen M., Lisena P., Akdemir K., Troncy R., van Erp M.:
MUSTI - Multimodal Understanding of Smells in Texts and Images at MediaEval 2022
2022 MediaEval Workshop, MediaEval 2022 (Virtual, Online, NOR, January 12, 2023 - January 13, 2023)
In: Steven Hicks, Alba Garcia Seco De Herrera, Johannes Langguth, Johannes Langguth, Andreas Lommatzsch, Stelios Andreadis, Minh-Son Dao, Pierre-Etienne Martin, Ali Hurriyetoglu, Vajira Thambawita, Tor-Arne Nordmo, Romain Vuillemot, Martha Larson (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2023
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2022

Conference Contributions

Zinnen M., Madhu P., Bell P., Maier A., Christlein V.:
Transfer Learning for Olfactory Object Detection
Digital Humanities 2022 (Tokyo, Japan, Online, July 25, 2022 - July 29, 2022)
In: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ed.): Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts 2022
Open Access: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09906
URL: https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf
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Madhu P., Meyer A., Zinnen M., Mührenberg L., Suckow D., Bendschus T., Reinhardt C., Bell P., Verstegen U., Kosti RV., Maier A., Christlein V.:
One-Shot Object Detection in Heterogeneous Artwork Datasets
2022 Eleventh International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) (Salzburg, Austria, April 19, 2022 - April 22, 2022)
DOI: 10.1109/IPTA54936.2022.9784141
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Zinnen M., Madhu P., Kosti RV., Bell P., Maier A., Christlein V.:
ODOR: The ICPR2022 ODeuropa Challenge on Olfactory Object Recognition
26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition / 8th International Workshop on Image Mining - Theory and Applications (IMTA) (Montreal)
In: 2022 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR), NEW YORK: 2022
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956542
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2021

Conference Contributions

Zinnen M.:
How to See Smells: Extracting Olfactory References from Artworks
30th World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021 (Ljubljana, April 19, 2021 - April 23, 2021)
In: The Web Conference 2021 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021 2021
DOI: 10.1145/3442442.3453710
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Zinnen M.:
How To See Smells: Extracting Olfactory References from Artworks
The Web Conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia (online), April 19, 2021 - April 23, 2021)
In: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21 Companion), New York, NY, USA: 2021
DOI: 10.1145/3442442.3453710
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3442442.3453710
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Ehrich SC., Verbeek C., Zinnen M., Marx L., Bembibre C., Leemans I.:
Nose-First. Towards an Olfactory Gaze for Digital Art History
2021 Workshops and Tutorials - Language Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021 (Zaragoza, ESP, September 1, 2021 - September 4, 2021)
In: Sara Carvalho, Renato Rocha Souza (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2021
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.MDK.2021.6
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Theses

Type	Title	Status
MA thesis	From Pixels to Structure: Analysis of Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Document OCR and Structured Output Generation	running
MA thesis	Investigation on Object Detection in Industrial Settings Centered on Extended Reality Platforms Through Generation and Utilization of Synthetic Data from CAD Models	running
MA thesis	Unsupervised Image Retrieval for Auction Catalogues	running
BA thesis	Context-Aware Emotion Recognition from Pictures using Frozen CLIP	running
MA thesis	Multimodal fusion of pose and visual information for gesture recognition in historical artworks	running
Project	Unsupervised detection	running
MA thesis	Pre-processing and synthetic data generation techniques for defect detection in SiC and AlN wafers	running
MA thesis	CADGLM – Integrating Graph Neural Networks and Large Language Models to Predict Machining Information from Graph Representations of 3D Models	finished
MA thesis	Enhancing small-sized video object detection through temporal information and synthetic data	finished
MA thesis	Data Augmentation for Artwork Object Detection via Latent Diffusion Models	finished
MA thesis	Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection for Smart Data Logging	finished
MA thesis	Improving OCR for Structured Documents using Domain Knowledge	finished
MA thesis	Multimodal Gesture Classification in Artwork Images	finished
MA thesis	Investigating the benefits of combining CNNs and transformer architecture for rail domain perception task	finished
MA thesis	Exploring Stylistic Invariance in Self-Supervised Pretraining for Feature Extraction	finished
MA thesis	ML based Classification of States in LPWAN Current Consumption Curves	finished
MA thesis	Object Consistency GAN for Object Detection Pretraining	finished
MA thesis	Improving Instance Localization for Object Detection Pretraining	finished
MA thesis	Multi-task Learning for Molecular Odor Prediction With Multiple Datasets	finished

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