Sebastian Bosse heads the Interactive & Cognitive Systems group in the Vision and Imaging Technologies Department, which he founded in 2020. He measures and models human perception and intention, and works on making machine inference legible enough for the person acting on it to judge, in applications ranging from interactive media through healthcare and industrial production to sustainable agriculture.
Biography
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Bosse Head of the Interactive & Cognitive Systems group
Sebastian Bosse heads the Interactive & Cognitive Systems group at Fraunhofer HHI, which he founded in 2020. He works on what a person and a machine have to know about each other in order to decide together: measuring what a person perceives and intends well enough for a machine to read it, and making a machine's inference legible enough for a person to know when to override it. He built the institute's psychophysical and neurophysiological laboratory and pioneered the use of learning-based methods to model and predict human visual perception. His work runs from interactive and immersive media through healthcare, industrial production and public safety to sustainable agriculture.
He has been at Fraunhofer HHI since 2009. He received his doctorate in media technology from Technische Universität Berlin and his diploma in electrical engineering and information technology from RWTH Aachen University, and was a guest scientist at the Stanford Vision and Neuro-Development Lab in 2014. Twenty-five bachelor's and master's theses have been completed under his supervision.
Since 2025 he has led the Global Initiative on AI for Agrifood Systems of FAO, IFAD, ITU and WFP, having founded and chaired the ITU/FAO Focus Group on AI and IoT for Digital Agriculture from 2022 to 2024. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2021 to 2026 and served on the board of the Video Quality Experts Group from 2018 to 2022, where he chaired the working group on psychophysiological quality assessment. He is an affiliate member of the VISTA research centre at York University in Toronto, established the institute-wide ethics committee at Fraunhofer HHI, and reviews for IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IEEE TNNLS, CHI, SAP, QoMEX and ICIP.
He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2025 and was named an Outstanding Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 2023. Earlier awards include the EURASIP Best Paper Award in 2022 and the Fraunhofer HHI Young Researcher Award for the best dissertation in 2018.
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