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Dennis Wittich honoured with the Rizkallah Award

Dennis Wittich honoured with the Rizkallah Award

Dennis Wittich (centre) with Ludger Lohaus, the Chair of the Rizkallah Foundation (right) and Franz Rottensteiner, the PhD supervisor.

On October 20, 2023 Dr.-Ing. Dennis Wittich from the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz Universität Hannover, was awarded the Victor Rizkallah-Foundation Prize for his dissertation, completed in June 2023, entitled „Deep domain adaptation for the pixel-wise classification of aerial and satellite images“. In this thesis he demonstrated a remarkable level of scientific research, both in theory and in terms of the practical results achieved.