Our group is working on Trustworthy AI and AI Security and Safety in various domains like Cybersecurity, Health, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing.
We are looking for PhD students and Post-Docs! Please get in touch.
We also offer student projects, bachelor/master thesis, internships.
Recent projects and initiatives related to trustworthy AI/ML, health, privacy:
- PI: European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Robust Generalization on Arbitrary Data Streams (ELLIOT)
- Coordinator and PI: European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA)
- Coordinator and PI: PriSyn: Representative, synthetic health data with strong privacy guarantees (BMBF)
- PI: AIgency “Opportunities and Risks of generative AI in Cybersecurity” (BMBF)
- PI: PrivateAIM – sichere verteilte Auswertung medizinischer Daten (Medizin Informatik Initiative)
- Leading Scientist: Helmholtz Medical Security, Privacy, and AI Research Center (HMSP)
- Coordinator and PI: PriSyn: Representative, synthetic health data with strong privacy guarantees
- Coordinator and PI: ImageTox: Automated image-based detection of early toxicity events in zebrafish larvae
- PI: Integrated Early Warning System for Local Recognition, Prevention, and Control for Epidemic Outbreaks (LOKI)
- Partner-PI: The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA)
- Coordinator and PI: Trustworthy Federated Data Analytics Project (TFDA)
- Coordinator and PI: Protecting Genetic Data with Synthetic Cohorts from Deep Generative Models (PRO-GENE-GEN)
- Member of working group in “Forum Gesundheit” of BMBF: “AG Nutzbarmachung digitaler Daten für KI-Entwicklungen in der Gesundheitsforschung”
Recent activities w.r.t. policy, regulation, outreach
- Frontier AI expert Findings on EU competitiveness, sovereignty and security
- Member of the AI Act Scientific Panel
- Expert for AI Cybersecurity Uplift Study “Toward Quantitative Modeling of Cybersecurity Risks Due to AI Misuse”
- Independent Expert study on technical means for implementing article 50 of EU AI Act towards the code of practice
- Scientific Lead of the CISPA-ELLIS Summerschool 2025 on “Trustworthy AI – Secure and Safe Foundation Models”
- Panel on “Loss of Control” at EU AI Office Workshop on “Towards defining best practices for systemic risk evaluations”
- Keynote on “Security and Safety of LLMs and AI Agents” at 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
- Talk on “Fundamental Risks in the Current Deployment of General-Purpose AI Models: What Have We (Not) Learnt From Cybersecurity?” at European AI Office workshop “Evaluating General-Purpose AI Models with Systemic Risk”
- Expert opinion for evidence review report “Successful and timely uptake of artificial intelligence in science in the EU”
- Co-Author “ELSA Strategic Research Agenda: Facing the Grand Challenges of Secure and Safe AI”
- Co-Author “AI, Data, and Robotics ‘made in Europe’: Research agendas from the EU AI and robotics Networks of Excellence”
- Lecture at Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Academy (AIDA) on “Trustworthy AI and A Cybersecurity Perspective on Large Language Models”
2026
Journal Articles

IPAuditor: Privacy Violation in Data Release Using Diffusion-based Generative Models Journal Article
In: Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026.


Carlos Mougan; Lauritz Morlock; Jair Aguirre; James R. M. Black; Jan Brauner; Simeon Campos; Sunishchal Dev; David Fernández Llorca; Alberto Franzin; Mario Fritz; Emilia Gómez; Friederike Grosse-Holz; Eloise Hamilton; Max Hasin; Jose Hernandez-Orallo; Dan Lahav; Luca Massarelli; Vasilios Mavroudis; Malcolm Murray; Patricia Paskov; Jaime Raldua; Wout Schellaert
The science and practice of proportionality in AI risk evaluations Journal Article
In: Science, vol. 391, no. 6787, pp. 769-771, 2026.




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Christoph R. Landolt; Julian Jang-Jaccard; Valentin Mulder; Roland Meier; Christoph Würsch; Mario Fritz
Enhancing Cyber Attack Autonomy Through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) Proceedings Article
In: 18th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Securing tomorrow (CyCon), 2026.

Ruta Binkyte; Sharif Abuadbba; Chamikara Mahawaga Arachchige; Ming Ding; Natasha Fernandes; Mario Fritz
Inspectable AI for Science: A Research Object Approach to Generative AI Governance Proceedings Article
In: 1st Workshop on Metascience and Critical Reflections in Security & Privacy at S&P (S&P-W), 2026.



Technical Reports


2025
Journal Articles

Marlon Tobaben; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Rubèn Tito; Khanh Nguyen; Raouf Kerkouche; Kangsoo Jung; Joonas Jälkö; Lei Kang; Andrey Barsky; Vincent Poulain D'Andecy; Aurélie Joseph; Aashiq Muhamed; Kevin Kuo; Virginia Smith; Yusuke Yamasaki; Takumi Fukami; Kenta Niwa; Iifan Tyou; Hiro Ishii; Rio Yokota; Ragul N; Rintu Kutum; Josep Lladós; Ernest Valveny; Antti Honkela; Mario Fritz; Dimosthenis Karatzas
NeurIPS 2023 Competition: Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Document VQA Journal Article
In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.


Proceedings Articles


Arya Labroo; Ivaxi Sheth; Vyas Raina; Amaani Ahmed; Mario Fritz
Beyond Steering: Evaluating Fine-Grained and Multi-Concept Control in LLMs Proceedings Article
In: NeurIPS Workshop on Evaluating the Evolving LLM Lifecycle: Benchmarks, Emergent Abilities, and Scaling, 2025.



Ivaxi Sheth; Zhijing Jin; Bryan Wilder; Dominik Janzing; Mario Fritz
Can LLMs Propose Instrumental Variables for Causal Reasoning? Proceedings Article
In: NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on CauScien: Uncovering Causality in Science, 2025.



Sarath Sivaprasad; Hui-Po Wang; Anna-lisa Jäckel; Jonas Baumann; Carole Baumann; Jennifer Herrmann; Mario Fritz
Automated Detection of Abnormalities in Zebrafish Development Proceedings Article
In: 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025.






Shraddha Vijay Pawar; Balavarun Pedapudi; Pramod Kaushik; Sarath Sivaprasad; Mario Fritz; Shirish Karande
EARL: Early Intent Recognition in GUI Tasks Using Theory of Mind Proceedings Article
In: ICML 2025 Workshop on Computer Use Agents (ICML-W), 2025.

Zhixiong Zhuang; Hui-Po Wang; Maria-Irina Nicolae; Mario Fritz
Stealix: Model Stealing via Prompt Evolution Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

Alaa Anani; Tobias Lorenz; Mario Fritz; Bernt Schiele
Pixel-level Certified Explanations via Randomized Smoothing Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

David Beste; Grégoire Menguy; Hossein Hajipour; Mario Fritz; Antonio Emanuele; Sébastien Bardin; Thorsten Holz; Thorsten Eisenhofer; Lea Schönherr
Exploring the Potential of LLMs for Code Deobfuscation Proceedings Article
In: SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), 2025.




Khanh Nguyen; Raouf Kerkouche; Mario Fritz; Dimosthenis Karatzas
DocMIA: Document-Level Membership Inference Attacks against DocVQA Models Proceedings Article
In: Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.



Proceedings


Technical Reports

Steve Barrett; Malcolm Murray; Otter Quarks; Matthew Smith; Jakub Kryś; Siméon Campos; Alejandro Tlaie Boria; Chloé Touzet; Sevan Hayrapet; Fred Heiding; Omer Nevo; Adam Swanda; Jair Aguirre; Asher Brass Gershovich; Eric Clay; Ryan Fetterman; Mario Fritz; Marc Juarez; Vasilios Mavroudis; Henry Papadatos
Toward Quantitative Modeling of Cybersecurity Risks Due to AI Misuse Technical Report
2025.


2024
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Proceedings Articles



Edoardo Debenedetti; Javier Rando; Daniel Paleka; Silaghi Fineas Florin; Dragos Albastroiu; Niv Cohen; Yuval Lemberg; Reshmi Ghosh; Rui Wen; Ahmed Salem; Giovanni Cherubin; Santiago Zanella-Beguelin; Robin Schmid; Victor Klemm; Takahiro Miki; Chenhao Li; Stefan Kraft; Mario Fritz; Florian Tramèr; Sahar Abdelnabi; Lea Schönherr
Dataset and Lessons Learned from the 2024 SaTML LLM Capture-the-Flag Competition Proceedings Article
In: Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.







Rubèn Pérez Tito; Khanh Nguyen; Marlon Tobaben; Raouf Kerkouche; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Gangsoo Jung; Joonas Jälkö; Vincent Poulain D'Andecy; Aurelie Joseph; Lei Kang; Ernest Valveny; Antti Honkela; Mario Fritz; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Privacy-Aware Document Visual Question Answering Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024.













Miscellaneous


Technical Reports


2023
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Technical Reports
2022
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Dingfan Chen; Ning Yu; Mario Fritz
RelaxLoss: Defending Membership Inference Attacks without Losing Utility Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), 2022.

2021
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2020
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2019
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Maxim Maximov; Tobias Ritschel; Laura Leal-Taixe; Mario Fritz
Deep Appearance Maps Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.



Qiuhong Ke; Mario Fritz; Bernt Schiele
Time-Conditioned Action Anticipation in One Shot Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.



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2018
Journal Articles


Stamatios Georgoulis; Konstantinos Rematas; Tobias Ritschel; Efstratios Gavves; Mario Fritz; Luc Van Gool; Tinne Tuytelaars
Reflectance and Natural Illumination from Single-Material Specular Objects Using Deep Learning Journal Article
In: Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2018.
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Edgar Tretschk; Seong Joon Oh; Mario Fritz
Sequential Attacks on Agents for Long-Term Adversarial Goals Proceedings Article
In: 2. ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium -- Future Challenges in Artificial Intelligence & Security for Autonomous Vehicles, 2018.





Liqian Ma; Qianru Sun; Stamatios Georgoulis; Luc Van Gool; Bernt Schiele; Mario Fritz
Disentangled Person Image Generation Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.



Apratim Bhattacharyya; Mateusz Malinowski; Bernt Schiele; Mario Fritz
Long-Term Image Boundary Prediction Proceedings Article
In: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018.
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Maxim Maximov; Tobias Ritschel; Mario Fritz
Deep Appearance Maps Technical Report
arXiv:1804.00863 [cs.CV], 2018.
2017
Journal Articles


Konstantinos Rematas; Chuong Nguyen; Tobias Ritschel; Mario Fritz; Tinne Tuytelaars
Novel Views of Objects from a Single Image Journal Article
In: Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2017.
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Stamatios Georgoulis; Konstantinos Rematas; Tobias Ritschel; Mario Fritz; Tinne Tuytelaars; Luc Van Gool
What Is Around The Camera? Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.






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2016
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Konstantinos Rematas; Tobias Ritschel; Mario Fritz; Efstratios Gavves; Tinne Tuytelaars
Deep Reflectance Maps Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016.


Paarijaat Aditya; Rijurekha Sen; Seong Joon Oh; Rodrigo Benenson; Bobby Bhattacharjee; Peter Druschel; Tongtong Wu; Mario Fritz; Bernt Schiele
I-Pic: A Platform for Privacy-Compliant Image Capture Proceedings Article
In: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'16), Singapore, 2016.

Jonas Scheer; Mario Fritz; Oliver Grau
Learning to Select Long Track Features for Structure-From-Motion & Visual SLAM Proceedings Article
In: German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2016.


Miscellaneous




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2015
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Masters Theses

Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury
Contextual Media Retrieval Using Natural Language Queries Masters Thesis
Saarland University, 2015.
Miscellaneous

Technical Reports

Konstantinos Rematas; Tobias Ritschel; Mario Fritz; Efstratios Gavves; Tinne Tuytelaars
Deep Reflectance Maps Technical Report
arXiv:1511.04384 [cs.CV], 2015.






2014
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2013
Book Sections

Allison Janoch; Sergey Karayev; Yangqing Jia; Jonathan T. Barron; Mario Fritz; Kate Saenko; Trevor Darrell
A Category-Level 3D Object Dataset: Putting the Kinect to Work Book Section
In: Fossati, Andrea; Gall, Juergen; Grabner, Helmut; Ren, Xiaofeng; Konolige, Kurt (Ed.): Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Springer London, 2013.
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Masters Theses


Wenbin Li
Multi-Scale Feature Learning for Material Recognition Masters Thesis
Saarland University, 2013.
Technical Reports

2012
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Sergey Karayev; Tobias Baumgartner; Mario Fritz; Trevor Darrell
Timely Object Recognition Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012.



2011
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Ping Chuan Wang; Stephen Miller; Mario Fritz; Trevor Darrell; Pieter Abbeel
Perception for the Manipulation of Socks Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011.

Tinne Tuytelaars; Mario Fritz; Kate Saenko; Trevor Darrell
The NBNN kernel Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.



Masters Theses
2010
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Book Sections

Mario Fritz; Mykhaylo Andriluka; Sanja Fidler; Michael Stark; Ales Leonardis; Bernt Schiele
Categorical Perception Book Section
In: Cognitive Systems, Springer, 2010.

Danijel Skocaj; Matej Kristan; Alen Vrecko; Ales Leonardis; Mario Fritz; Michael Stark; Bernt Schiele; Somboon Hongeng; Jeremy L. Wyatt
Multi-Modal Learning Book Section
In: Cognitive Systems, Springer, 2010.

Proceedings Articles

2009
Book Sections

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PhD Theses

Mario Fritz
Modeling, Representing and Learning of Visual Categories PhD Thesis
TU Darmstadt, 2009.
Proceedings

Mario Fritz; Bernt Schiele; Justus H. Piater (Ed.)
Springer, vol. 5815, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04666-7.
2008
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2007
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2006
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Mark Everingham; Andrew Zisserman; Christopher K. I. Williams; Luc Van Gool; Moray Allan; Christopher M. Bishop; Olivier Chapelle; Navneet Dalal; Thomas Deselaers; Gyuri Dork'o; Stefan Duffner; Jan Eichhorn; Jason D. R. Farquhar; Mario Fritz; Christophe Garcia; Tom Griffiths; Fr'ed'eric Jurie; Thomas Keysers; Markus Koskela; Jorma Laaksonen; Larlus, Diane; Bastian Leibe; Hongying Meng; Hermann Ney; Bernt Schiele; Corde
The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge Proceedings Article
In: Selected Proceedings of the first PASCAL Challenges Workshop, 2006.

2005
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2004
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Miscellaneous

2002
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Miscellaneous

Mario Fritz
3D Objektverfolgung mit Lichtfeldern (3D object tracking using light-fields) Miscellaneous
2002, (student thesis).