Henning Konermann

Curriculum Vitae

Apr 2024 – Present	Research Scientist, Chair of Imaging and Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen
Oct 2021 – Mar 2024	M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Information Technology & Computer Engineering, RWTH Aachen
Sep 2022- Mar 2023	Internship in Driver Assistance Systems and Innovative Control at Porsche Engineering, Bietigheim-Bissingen
Oct 2021 – Jul 2022	Research Assistant, Institute for Communication Engineering, RWTH Aachen
Oct 2018 – Sep 2021	B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Information Technology & Computer Engineering, RWTH Aachen

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Research Field

Computer Vision in Retinal Interfaces through Deep Learning

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Thesis Topics

Publications

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  2026inproceedings

  Henning Konermann, Yuli Wu, Emil Mededovic, Volkmar Schulz, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  Training-Free Stimulus Encoding for Retinal Implants via Sparse Projected Gradient Descent

  In: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), S. 1--6, IEEE

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  2026article

  Jiayun Wang, Tibor Lohmann, Yuli Wu, Kim Schaffrath, Henning Konermann, Kaan Keven, Frederic Balcewicz, Sandra Johnen, Johannes Stegmaier, Peter Walter and others

  Anatomical effects of ablation of the anterior retina in small animal eyes

  In: BMC Ophthalmology 26 (1), S. 184

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  2026inproceedings

  Yuli Wu, Fucheng Liu, Rüveyda Yilmaz, Henning Konermann, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  A Pragmatic Note on Evaluating Generative Models with Fréchet Inception Distance for Retinal Image Synthesis

  In: Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 315, S. 2352--2368, PMLR

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  2025inproceedings

  Yuli Wu, Henning Konermann, Emil Mededovic, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  Evaluating Cross-Subject and Cross-Device Consistency in Visual Fixation Prediction

  In: 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

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  2025misc

  Yuli Wu, Henning Konermann, Emil Mededovic, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  Dataset for Cross-Device and Cross-Subject Consistency Evaluation in Visual Fixation Prediction

  In: IEEE Dataport, IEEE Dataport

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  2025inproceedings

  Yuli Wu, Do Dinh Tan Nguyen, Henning Konermann, Rüveyda Yilmaz, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  Visual Fixation-Based Retinal Prosthetic Simulation

  In: IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

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  2025inproceedings

  Henning Konermann, Yuli Wu, Peter Walter and Johannes Stegmaier

  Beyond downsampling: semantic preservation in retinal implant stimuli

  In: Artificial Vision – The International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

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Academics

Mathematical Methods in Electrical Engineering: Supervision and organization of small group exercises and global exercise representation

Completed and ongoing theses

2025

• Tom Merten: Development and Comparison of Real-Time Camera Systems for Use in VR-Based Retinal Implant Evaluation (Bachelor's Thesis)
• Aleksandre Kandelaki: Evaluation and Optimization of Superpixel-Based Downsampling for Perception-Oriented Stimulation Simulations (Interdisciplinary Project in cooperation with Computer Vision Group at the Technical University of Munich)
• Chourouk Abdelmoula: Development and Evaluation of a Test Procedure for Investigating Image Processing Algorithm Preferences in the Virtual Simulation of Retinal Implants (Bachelor's Thesis)
• Vivien Hou: Student assistant in the field of virtual patients — realized through virtual reality
• Eric Christfreund: Investigation of Optimal Transport with Wasserstein Metrics for Improving Semantic Preservation in Retinal Implants (Master's Thesis in Cooperation with the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University of Munich)
  
• Ibrahim Ait el Hend: Optimization of Cost Functions of Deep Neural Networks for the Quality of Phosphenes Generated by Visual Prostheses Using Preference Ratings (Master's Thesis)