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Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026

Frontmatter


Imprint

Imprint

2026-06-18 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • ii-ii

Preface

Preface

2026-06-18 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • iii-iv

Contents

Contents

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • v-x

Keynote Talks

Keynote Talks

2026-06-18 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 1-4

AI in Medicine


Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Ahmed Alshenoudy, Philipp Moser, Patrick Rockenschaub, Erich Kobler and Hrvoje Bogunovic

2026-06-18 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 6-7

Towards Real-Time Simulations Of Induced Electric Fields During Brain Stimulation Using Conditioned Transformers

Towards Real-Time Simulations Of Induced Electric Fields During Brain Stimulation Using Conditioned Transformers

Fabian Greifeneder, Dominik Freinberger and Philipp Moser

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 8-11

Disentangling Overfitting From Biological Signal: A Responsible AI Framework for IBS Analysis

Disentangling Overfitting From Biological Signal: A Responsible AI Framework for IBS Analysis

Nathanya Satriani

2026-06-22 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 12-16

CavitOmiX: A Proteome-Wide AI Framework for Structure-Based Off-Target Prediction, Drug Repurposing, and Antiviral Discovery

CavitOmiX: A Proteome-Wide AI Framework for Structure-Based Off-Target Prediction, Drug Repurposing, and Antiviral Discovery

Michael Hetmann, Lena Parigger, Tobias Schopper, Markus Fleck, Georg Steinkellner and Christian C. Gruber

2026-06-22 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 17-20

Generating Realistic and Accurate SMPL Body Shapes from Anthropometric Measurements

Generating Realistic and Accurate SMPL Body Shapes from Anthropometric Measurements

Maja Nikolic, Sophie Kaltenleithner, Ulrich Bodenhofer and Michael Giretzlehner

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 21-25

Quantifying and Mitigating Sycophantic Bias in Medical Diagnostic LLMs

Quantifying and Mitigating Sycophantic Bias in Medical Diagnostic LLMs

Nathanya Satriani

2026-06-22 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 26-30

Flow Matching for Conditional MRI-CT and CBCT-CT Image Synthesis

Flow Matching for Conditional MRI-CT and CBCT-CT Image Synthesis

Arnela Hadzic, Simon Johannes Joham and Martin Urschler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 31-36

Evidential Deep Learning for Missing Boundary Detection in Topologically Constrained OCT Layer Segmentation

Evidential Deep Learning for Missing Boundary Detection in Topologically Constrained OCT Layer Segmentation

Botond Fazekas and Hrvoje Bogunovic

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 37-42

Evaluation of Anatomical Shape Priors in Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Multi-Compartment Segmentation

Evaluation of Anatomical Shape Priors in Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Multi-Compartment Segmentation

Michael Hudler, Franz Thaler and Martin Urschler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 43-47

LigForge: Physics-Informed Diffusion for Structure-Based Drug Design

LigForge: Physics-Informed Diffusion for Structure-Based Drug Design

Tobias Schopper, Michael Hetmann, Lena Parigger, Chiara Gasbarri, Christian C. Gruber and Georg Steinkellner

2026-06-22 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 48-49

Forecasting individual survival in irregularly sampled patient trajectories

Forecasting individual survival in irregularly sampled patient trajectories

Daniel Sobotka, Nino Bogveradze, Lucian Beer, Philipp Seeböck, Helmut Prosch and Georg Langs

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 50-54

Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction in Imaging Genetics

Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction in Imaging Genetics

Jonas Fallmann and Erich Kobler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 55-60

xLSTM for Irregular Multivariate Clinical Time-Series Forecasting

xLSTM for Irregular Multivariate Clinical Time-Series Forecasting

Laura Legat and Erich Kobler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 61-66

Austrian Robotics Workshop


Austrian RoboticsWorkshop – Tactile Robotics

Austrian RoboticsWorkshop – Tactile Robotics

Thomas Thurner and Wilfried Kubinger

2026-06-23 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 68-68

KINESIS: A Schema-Driven Motion Capturing, Management and Augmentation Framework

KINESIS: A Schema-Driven Motion Capturing, Management and Augmentation Framework

Hutter Günther

2026-06-23 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 69-72

Towards Recipe-driven Automation Concepts for Large-scale Food Production

Towards Recipe-driven Automation Concepts for Large-scale Food Production

Moritz Dorfer and Michael Rathmair

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 73-76

Building a ROS 2 - Isaac Sim Framework for Dual Arm Manipulation of Rigid Objects and Textiles

Building a ROS 2 - Isaac Sim Framework for Dual Arm Manipulation of Rigid Objects and Textiles

Jonas Gschnell, Alexander Kitzinger, Hubert Gattringer and Andreas Müller

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 77-80

Embedded Haptic Control for Robotic Grasping using a Tactile Sensor System

Embedded Haptic Control for Robotic Grasping using a Tactile Sensor System

Thomas Kammerhofer and Thomas Thurner

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 81-88

Peak Force Evaluation for an Active Contact Flange

Peak Force Evaluation for an Active Contact Flange

Bernhard Rameder, Hubert Gattringer, Andreas Müller and Ronald Naderer

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 89-92

Multi-Modal Garment Sorting and Classification Combining Tactile and Visual Sensing

Multi-Modal Garment Sorting and Classification Combining Tactile and Visual Sensing

Serkan Ergun, Tobias Mitterer and Hubert Zangl

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 93-102

Applied Vision


Workshop on Applied Vision (AV 2026)

Workshop on Applied Vision (AV 2026)

Harald Ganster, Florian Kleber, Roland Perko, Gernot Stübl and Martina Uray

2026-06-22 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 104-107

Obstacle Detection Pipeline using Monocular Depth Estimation in Mobile Robotics

Obstacle Detection Pipeline using Monocular Depth Estimation in Mobile Robotics

Christian Schweighofer and Michael Zauner

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 108-113

AI-Based Optimization of Roadside Mowing Operations in Austria

AI-Based Optimization of Roadside Mowing Operations in Austria

Roland Perko, Stefanie Onsori-Wechtitsch, Helmut Neuschmied, Peter Schallauer, Katharina Hofer-Schmitz and Michaela Stolz

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 114-118

Synthetic Skeletal Pose Pre-training to Mitigate Data Scarcity in In-Cabin 2D-to-3D Pose Lifting

Synthetic Skeletal Pose Pre-training to Mitigate Data Scarcity in In-Cabin 2D-to-3D Pose Lifting

Thummanoon Kunanuntakij, Dominik Schörkhuber and Margrit Gelautz

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 119-124

Organ Level Representation Learning for Region Based Medical Image Retrieval

Organ Level Representation Learning for Region Based Medical Image Retrieval

Donghwan Lee and Wooju Kim

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 125-134

Diffusion Edge Detection Of Texture-less Objects

Diffusion Edge Detection Of Texture-less Objects

Matvey Ivanov, Markus Vincze and Peter Hönig

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 135-144

Intelligent Augmentation Methods for Training Defect Detection on Circuit Boards

Intelligent Augmentation Methods for Training Defect Detection on Circuit Boards

Olaf Kaehler, Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 145-153

Assessing Compressive Strength of Reclaimed Clay Bricks Using SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging and Deep Learning

Assessing Compressive Strength of Reclaimed Clay Bricks Using SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging and Deep Learning

Jean-Philippe Andreu, Maria Jernej, Maximilian Klammer and Benjamin Kromoser

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 154-158

GraspGen+HSR: Adapting Simulation-Trained 6-DoF Grasping to Real Service Robots Without Retraining

GraspGen+HSR: Adapting Simulation-Trained 6-DoF Grasping to Real Service Robots Without Retraining

Alexander Dvorak, Michael Nowak, Tessa Pulli and Markus Vincze

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 159-168

Spot and Edge Feature Based Estimation of Point-Spread Functions for Image Deconvolution

Spot and Edge Feature Based Estimation of Point-Spread Functions for Image Deconvolution

Martin Welk

2026-06-25 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 169-179

Explainable AI for Efficient Hyperspectral Band Selection in Textile Recycling: A Score-CAM Approach

Explainable AI for Efficient Hyperspectral Band Selection in Textile Recycling: A Score-CAM Approach

Achraf Guenounou, Harald Ganster and Jean-Philippe Andreu

2026-06-25 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 180-188

Fourier contrast optimization for occluded motion estimation

Fourier contrast optimization for occluded motion estimation

Ido Akov, Roman Pflugfelder and Daniel Cremers

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 189-193

Effect of polarization filters on hand vein sample image quality

Effect of polarization filters on hand vein sample image quality

Christof Kauba and Andreas Uhl

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 194-198

AI Certification, Fairness and Regulations


Editorial: AI Certification, Fairness and Regulations (CERT AI 2026)

Editorial: AI Certification, Fairness and Regulations (CERT AI 2026)

Bernhard Nessler, Michal Lewandowski, Simon Schmid, Gregor Aichinger, Iana Kazeeva and Rania Wazir

2026-06-25 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 200-203

Stochastic Application Domain Definition for Functional Trustworthiness Certification of AI Systems

Stochastic Application Domain Definition for Functional Trustworthiness Certification of AI Systems

Simon Schmid, Barbara Brune, Alexander Aufreiter, Lukas Gruber, Kajetan Schweighofer, Xaver Stadlbauer, Thomas Doms and Bernhard Nessler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 204-220

Conversational Agents in Multi-User Environments

Conversational Agents in Multi-User Environments

Umut Tanriverdi, Tobias Halmdienst, Simon Schmid, Bernhard Nessler and Michal Lewandowski

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 221-234

Safety Driven Hardware and Control Architecture for Automated Surface Vessel Systems

Safety Driven Hardware and Control Architecture for Automated Surface Vessel Systems

Önder Hamamcıoğlu, Semih Bajrami, Viktor Komyshan, Gehan Dasanayake and Mathias Brandstötter

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 235-243

Anthropomorphic Terminology in Artificial Intelligence

Anthropomorphic Terminology in Artificial Intelligence

Iana Kazeeva, Simon Schmid and Bernhard Nessler

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 244-253

Explainable Selection of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Sciences

Explainable Selection of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Sciences

Dijana Oreski, Luka Katava and Alen Kisic

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 254-262

Digital Transformation of Agriculture and Animal Science


Workshop on Digital Transformation of Agriculture & Animal Science (DTAAS)

Workshop on Digital Transformation of Agriculture & Animal Science (DTAAS)

Sebastian Gruber, Mark A.M. Kramer, Peter Riegler-Nurscher and Peter M. Roth

2026-06-26 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 264-266

Visions-based detection of pain and nest-building behaviors in sows within commercial farrowing pens

Visions-based detection of pain and nest-building behaviors in sows within commercial farrowing pens

Peter Helf and Maciej Oczak

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 267-272

Online adaptive path planning of UAVs for weed detection

Online adaptive path planning of UAVs for weed detection

Wolfgang Pitzl, Lukas Lachmann, Raphael Völker and Peter Riegler-Nurscher

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 273-277

Lightweight Classification of Canine Eye Diseases

Lightweight Classification of Canine Eye Diseases

Isselmou Abdarahmane and Peter M. Roth

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 278-281

Measuring the Specific Gravity of Urine of Dogs Using Digital Refractometers

Measuring the Specific Gravity of Urine of Dogs Using Digital Refractometers

Martina Jezik and Peter M. Roth

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 282-286

Interactive VetMap of Austria

Interactive VetMap of Austria

Valentina Dolin, Gudrun Kinz, Martina Jezik, Mark A.M. Kramer and Peter M. Roth

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 287-291

Physics-Informed Machine Learning and Hybrid Modelling


AIRoV 2026 | Workshop on Physics-Informed Machine Learning and Hybrid Modeling (PhysicsML)

AIRoV 2026 | Workshop on Physics-Informed Machine Learning and Hybrid Modeling (PhysicsML)

Bernhard C. Geiger, Manfred Mücke and Stefan Posch

2026-06-26 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 293-294

Introducing Monge-GPs: A new class of physics-informed Gaussian Processes (extended abstract)

Introducing Monge-GPs: A new class of physics-informed Gaussian Processes (extended abstract)

Johanna Moser, Christopher Albert and Sascha Ranftl

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 295-298

Joint Bayesian Inference on Lagrangian Physics and Trajectories

Joint Bayesian Inference on Lagrangian Physics and Trajectories

Michael Obermayr and Robert Peharz

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 299-304

Stabilizing PINNs: A regularization scheme for PINN training to avoid unstable fixed points of dynamical systems

Stabilizing PINNs: A regularization scheme for PINN training to avoid unstable fixed points of dynamical systems

Miloš Babić, Franz Rohrhofer and Bernhard Geiger

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 305-313

Derivative-Enhanced Training for Data-efficient Surrogate Modeling

Derivative-Enhanced Training for Data-efficient Surrogate Modeling

Paul Horvath, Marian Staggl and Stefan Posch

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 314-322

Towards a PIRL framework for efficient airflow diffuser design

Towards a PIRL framework for efficient airflow diffuser design

Alfredo Lopez, Florian Sobieczky, Christopher Lackner, Matthias Hochsteger, Bernhard Scheichl, Helmuth Sobieczky and Christoph Feichtinger

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 323-328

Understanding the Role of Domain Knowledge in Bayesian Optimization under Small-Data Constraints

Understanding the Role of Domain Knowledge in Bayesian Optimization under Small-Data Constraints

Bernd Schuscha, Franz Rohrhofer, Bernhard Geiger and Daniel Scheiber

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 329-332

Conceptual-Model-Guided Physics-Inspired Feature Engineering: A 3D-Printer Case Study

Conceptual-Model-Guided Physics-Inspired Feature Engineering: A 3D-Printer Case Study

Martin Paczona

2026-06-26 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 333-337

Equayes - Democratizing Probabilistic Model Construction and Exploration with automatic Equation to Bayesian Model transformation

Equayes - Democratizing Probabilistic Model Construction and Exploration with automatic Equation to Bayesian Model transformation

Christian Findenig and Manfred Mücke

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 338-342

RoboWork


Proceedings of the Robowork Workshop at AIROV 2026

Proceedings of the Robowork Workshop at AIROV 2026

Vedant Dave, Elmar Rueckert, Thomas Thurner, Siegfried Altmann and Yassine Elmanyari

2026-06-26 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 344-348

ZeroShop: Automated Metric Mesh Generation for Zero-Shot 6D Object Pose Estimation

ZeroShop: Automated Metric Mesh Generation for Zero-Shot 6D Object Pose Estimation

Stefan Lechner, Philipp Ausserlechner and Markus Vincze

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 349-362

1D Profiles vs. Spectral Images: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models for Mineral and Rock Classification

1D Profiles vs. Spectral Images: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models for Mineral and Rock Classification

Sai Puneeth Reddy Gottam, Martin Johannes Findl, Robert Galler, Klaus Philipp Sedlazeck and Elmar Rueckert

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 363-366

Spiking Neural Network Systems


SNNSys –Workshop on Spiking Neural Networks

SNNSys –Workshop on Spiking Neural Networks

Bernhard Moser, Michael Lunglmayr and Robert Legenstein

2026-06-26 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 368-369

Linearized Bregman Iterations for Sparse Spiking Neural Networks

Linearized Bregman Iterations for Sparse Spiking Neural Networks

Daniel Windhager, Michael Lunglmayr and Bernhard Moser

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 370-377

Recurrent versus parallelizable spiking neural networks: A comparative study

Recurrent versus parallelizable spiking neural networks: A comparative study

Alexander Mayr, Simon Hitzginger and Robert Legenstein

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 378-385

Effective Online SNN Training with One-Step Backpropagation

Effective Online SNN Training with One-Step Backpropagation

Saya Higuchi, Federico Corradi, Sander M. Bohté and Sebastian Otte

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 386-391

Probabilistic LIF Neurons Improve Learning in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks

Probabilistic LIF Neurons Improve Learning in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks

Sebastian Higuchi, Niels A. Kloosterman, Stefan Hallermann and Sebastian Otte

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 392-396

Working Memory in a Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks With Heterogeneous Synaptic Delays

Working Memory in a Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks With Heterogeneous Synaptic Delays

Laurent Perrinet

2026-07-01 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 397-406

Semantic Scene Representations


Proceedings of the Semantic Scene Representations (SSR)Workshop at AIROV 2026

Proceedings of the Semantic Scene Representations (SSR)Workshop at AIROV 2026

Christian Rauch, Linus Nwankwo, Shail Jadav and Jun Zhang

2026-07-01 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 408-413

Enhanced Environmental Context Encoding for Accurate Trajectory Prediction in Intralogistics

Enhanced Environmental Context Encoding for Accurate Trajectory Prediction in Intralogistics

Alexander Prutsch and Horst Possegger

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 414-418

D²DINO: Dense Descriptors from DINO for Pixel‑Level Object Understanding

D²DINO: Dense Descriptors from DINO for Pixel‑Level Object Understanding

Paolo Sebeto, Jean-Baptiste Weibel, Christian Hartl-Nesic and Markus Vincze

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 419-428

Overcoming Nature: Perception for Autonomous Navigation in Dense Vegetation

Overcoming Nature: Perception for Autonomous Navigation in Dense Vegetation

Lukas Wimmer, Andre Koczka, Uros Petrovic and Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 429-433

Backmatter


Awards 2025

Awards 2025

2026-07-02 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 434-434

Index of authors

Index of authors

2026-04-10 Proceedings of the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 2026 • 435-437