Thomas Low

Dipl.-Inform. Thomas Low

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Faculty of Computer Science
Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme (ITI)
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, G29-118
Research

Research Topics:

  • Machine Learning
  • Curse of Dimensionality
  • Information structuring and organization

Current Projects:

  • Development of GLUE, a software that simplifies communication between local and remote services
  • Development of a software architecture for searching heterogenous data (local and remote)
  • Development of a research tool in coorperation with Volkswagen
  • Solution Centre for Image Guided Local Therapies, STIMULATE

Past Work:

  • Gesture recognition in cooperation with MMIS Rostock
  • Logfile analysis of children appropriate search engines in coorporation with the German Youth Institute, DJI
  • Logfile analysis of webshops in coorporation with Omikron

Vita:

    2010     Diploma thesis about "Local Forecasting of the Entry and Exit Points of a Satellite into the Van Allen Radiation Belts" after an intership at the ESOC in Darmstadt
2009 Internship at CERN, writing a monitoring tool for the computing grid which analyses the data of the Large Hadron Collider
2005 Beginning of my computer science study in Magdeburg
Publications

2022

Dissertation

Towards combining search and exploration - escaping the filter bubble through map-based exploration

Low, Thomas; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Magdeburg: Universitätsbibliothek, Dissertation Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Informatik 2022, 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 210 Seiten, 11,88 MB) [Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-189]

2019

Book chapter

The ISMIR explorer - a visual interface for exploring 20 years of ISMIR publications

Low, Thomas; Hentschel, Christian; Polley, Sayantan; Das, Anustup; Sack, Harald; Nürnberger, Andreas; Stober, Sebastian

In: ISMIR 2019 - International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2019; Flexer, Arthur . - 2019, S. 754-760

2018

Book chapter

Exploration of web search results based on the formal concept analysis

Butka, Peter; Low, Thomas; Kotzyba, Michael; Haun, Stefan; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources - Cham : Springer International Publishing ; Szymański, Julian . - 2018, S. 123-135 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10546)

2017

Book chapter

Exploring large movie collections - comparing visual berrypicking and traditional browsing

Low, Thomas; Hentschel, Christian; Stober, Sebastian; Sack, Harald; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: MultiMedia Modeling - Cham: Springer, 2017 . - 2017, S. 198-208[Kongress: 23rd International Conference, MMM 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 4-6, 2017]

Book chapter

Towards identifying user intentions in exploratory search using gaze and pupil tracking

Low, Thomas; Bubalo, Nikola; Gossen, Tatiana; Kotzyba, Michael; Brechmann, André; Huckauf, Anke; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval: Oslo, Norway, March 07 - 11, 2017 - New York, NY: ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, S. 273-276[Kongress: 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval : Oslo, Norway, March 07 - 11, 2017]

2015

Book chapter

Ontology-supported exploratory search for physical training exercises

Kotzyba, Michael; Ponomaryov, Denis; Low, Thomas; Thiel, Marcus; Glimm, Birte; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: CEUR workshop proceedings - Aachen: RWTH, Bd. 1486.2015, insges. 4 S.Kongress: ISWC-P&D 2015 (Bethlehem, PA, USA : 2015.10.01)

Article in conference proceedings

A framework for FCA-based exploratory web search

Butka, Peter; Low, Thomas; Kotzyba, Michael; Haun, Stefan; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Companion-Technology (ISCT 2015): September 23rd - 25th, Ulm University, Germany, S. 131-136Kongress: International Symposium on Companion-Technology, ISCT 1 (Ulm : 2015.09.23-25)

2014

Book chapter

Visual berrypicking in large image collections

Low, Thomas; Hentschel, Christian; Stober, Sebastian; Sack, Harald; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: fun, fast, foundational: Helsinki, Finland - October 26 - 30, 2014 - New York, NY: ACM, S. 1043-1046

2013

Book chapter

Incremental visualization of growing music collections

Stober, Sebastian; Low, Thomas; Gossen, Tatiana; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Proceedings of the 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR): November 4th-8th, Curitiba, Brazil /ed. by Alceu de Souza Britto ... - ISMIR; Souza Britto, Alceu . - 2013, S. 433-438Kongress: ISMIR 2013 14 (Curitiba, Brazil : 2013.11.04-08)

Book chapter

The hubness phenomenon - fact or artifact?

Low, Thomas; Borgelt, Christian; Stober, Sebastian; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Towards Advanced Data Analysis by Combining Soft Computing and Statistics / Borgelt , Christian - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer ; Borgelt, Christian . - 2013, S. 267-278 - (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing; 285)

2012

Book chapter

Gesture spotting for controlling a mobile assistance system for service and maintenance

Hein, Albert; Low, Thomas; Hensch, Maximilian; Kirste, Thomas; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: Informatik 2012. - Bonn : GI - (GI-Edition lecture notes in informatics)Kongress: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik; 42 (Braunschweig) : 2012.09.16-21

2011

Book chapter

What are the real differences of children's and adults' web search

Gossen, Tatiana; Low, Thomas; Nürnberger, Andreas

In: SIGIR 2011. - New York, NY : ACM, S. 1115-1116Kongress: ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval; 34 (Beijing, China) : 2011.07.25-29

Teaching

Winter Term 2015/2016

Summer Term 2015

Winter Term 2014/2015

Summer Term 2014

Winter Term 2013/2014

Summer Term 2013

Winter Term 2012/2013

Summer Term 2012

Winter Term 2011/2012

Summer Term 2011

Winter Term 2010/2011

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