Andreas Geiger
Professor of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, head of the Autonomous Vision Group, Tübingen AI Center
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Andreas Geiger leads the Autonomous Vision Group at the University of Tübingen, and his group is where Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons were built. AKOrN, the ICLR 2025 oral paper he co-authored with Takeru Miyato, Sindy Löwe and Max Welling (arXiv:2410.13821), replaces threshold units with oscillators that bind by synchronizing, and the reference code is published under his group’s name at github.com/autonomousvision/akorn. His wider work is computer vision for robots and cars, including the KITTI benchmark for autonomous driving.
He is covered here under the Builder position because this project built on AKOrN. The project’s binding layer follows the AKOrN update on the N-sphere, and its own tests of that layer are set out in Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons and what they bind in this project. No view on consciousness is attributed to him.
Known for. Co-author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (Miyato, Löwe, Geiger and Welling, ICLR 2025), whose code is released by his Autonomous Vision Group, and the KITTI benchmark for autonomous driving
Coverage on this site
- Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN), What They Bind and What Hardware Can Run Them October 2026
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- Takeru MiyatoPreferred Networks, Inc.; PhD student, Autonomous Vision Group, University of TübingenFirst author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (ICLR 2025 oral), and earlier work on spectral normalization and adversarial training methods for semi-supervised learning
- Max WellingProfessor of Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam; Chief AI Officer, CuspAICo-author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (Miyato, Löwe, Geiger and Welling, ICLR 2025), Neural Wave Machines with T. Anderson Keller (ICML 2023), and foundational work on variational inference, geometric deep learning and graph neural networks
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Andreas Geiger is listed with the other builders, who hold that the claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open. The positions themselves are set out in the index of consciousness theories. Every researcher covered on this site is indexed in the directory of consciousness researchers.