Julia Hindel

	PhD Student
	Postal address:	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Technische Fakultät Robot Learning Lab Georges-Köhler-Allee 080 D-79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
	Office:	080-01-022
	Email:	hindel@cs.uni-freiburg.de

About me

09/2022 - current: Ph.D. Student in the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg
10/2024 - 08/2025: 6 month research visit at Mobile Robotics group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
09/2021 - 12/2021: Visiting student at Université de Montréal/MILA, Montreal, Canada
09/2020 - 08/2022: M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Maastricht University
10/2016 - 08/2019: B.Sc. in Information Systems, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Research Interests

Perception
Open-World Learning
Limited Human Supervision

Teaching

Supervisor, Seminar: Robot Learning, University of Freiburg, WS2025
Co-organizer, Laboratory: Deep Learning Lab , University of Freiburg, SS2024
Co-organizer, Seminar: Robot Learning, University of Freiburg, WS2023/24
Supervisor, Seminar: Robot Learning, University of Freiburg, SS2023
Co-organizer, Foundations of Deep Learning, University of Freiburg, WS2022/23

Publications

Halil Sina Kelebek, Julia Hindel, Kobus Hoffman, Lauren Hoffman, Andrew Loveridge, Bob Mandinyenya, Kudakwashe Ncube, Justin Seymour-Smith, Andrea Sibanda,, Abhinav Valada, Matthew Wijers, Daniele De Martini,
Spotted: Location-informed Reidentification of Hyenas and Leopards in Camera Trap Surveys
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.00804, 2026.
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@article{hindel2026hyenas,
      author={Sina Kelebek, Halil and Hindel, Julia and Hoffman, Kobus and Hoffman, Lauren and Loveridge, Andrew and Mandinyenya, Bob and Ncube, Kudakwashe and Seymour-Smith, Justin and Sibanda, Andrea and Valada, Abhinav and Wijers, Matthew and De Martini, Daniele},
      title={Spotted: Location-informed Reidentification of Hyenas and Leopards in Camera Trap Surveys},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.00804},
      year={2026},
}

Julia Hindel, Simon Bultmann, Houman Masnavi, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada,
Self-Supervised Online Robot-Agnostic Traversability Estimation for Open-World Environments
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28442, 2026.
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@article{hindel2026corate,
      author={Hindel, Julia and Bultmann, Simon and Masnavi, Houman and Cattaneo, Daniele and Valada, Abhinav},
      title={Self-Supervised Online Robot-Agnostic Traversability Estimation for Open-World Environments},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28442},
      year={2026},
}

Fabian Kabus, Julia Hindel, Jelena Bratulić, Meropi Karakioulaki, Ayush Gupta, Cristina Has, Thomas Brox, Abhinav Valada, Harald Binder,
Assessing Multimodal Chronic Wound Embeddings with Expert Triplet Agreement
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.29376, 2026.
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@article{kabus2026wound,
      author={Kabus, Fabian and Hindel, Julia and Bratulić, Jelena and Karakioulaki, Meropi and Gupta, Ayush and Has, Cristina and Brox, Thomas and Valada, Abhinav and Binder, Harald},
      title={Assessing Multimodal Chronic Wound Embeddings with Expert Triplet Agreement},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.29376},
      year={2026},
}

Fabian Kabus, Maren Hackenberg, Julia Hindel, Thibault Cholvin, Antje Kilias, Thomas Brox, Abhinav Valada, Marlene Bartos, Harald Binder,
Embedding Interpretable l1-regression into Neural Networks for Uncovering Temporal Structure in Cell Imaging
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.02899, 2026.
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@article{kabus2026cellimaging,
      author={Kabus, Fabian and Hackenberg, Maren and Hindel, Julia and Cholvin, Thibault and Kilias, Antje and Brox, Thomas and Valada, Abhinav and Bartos, Marlene and Binder, Harald},
      title={Embedding Interpretable l1-regression into Neural Networks for Uncovering Temporal Structure in Cell Imaging},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.02899},
      year={2026},
}

Julia Hindel, Ema Mekic, Enamundram Naga Karthik, Rohit Mohan, Daniele Cattaneo, Maria Kalweit, Abhinav Valada,
Dynamic Robot-Assisted Surgery with Hierarchical Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
MICCAI Workshop on Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
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@article{hindel2025miccai,
      author={Hindel, Julia and Mekic, Ema and Naga Karthik, Enamundram and Mohan, Rohit and Cattaneo, Daniele and Valada, Abhinav},
      title={Dynamic Robot-Assisted Surgery with Hierarchical Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation}, 
      journal={MICCAI Workshop on Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence},
      year={2025},
}

Rohit Mohan, Julia Hindel, Florian Drews, Claudius Glaser, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada,
Open-Set LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation Guided by Uncertainty-Aware Learning
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
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@article{mohan25ulops,
  title={Open-Set LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation Guided by Uncertainty-Aware Learning},
  author={Mohan, Rohit and Hindel, Julia and Drews, Florian and Glaser, Claudius and Cattaneo, Daniele and Valada, Abhinav},
  journal={IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year={2025}
}

Julia Hindel, Rohit Mohan, Jelena Bratulic, Daniele Cattaneo, Thomas Brox, Abhinav Valada,
Label-Efficient LiDAR Semantic Segmentation with 2D-3D Vision Transformer Adapters
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
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@article{hindel25balvit,
  title={Label-Efficient LiDAR Semantic Segmentation with 2D-3D Vision Transformer Adapters},
  author={Hindel, Julia and Mohan, Rohit, and Bratulic, Jelena and Cattaneo, Daniele and Brox, Thomas and Valada, Abhinav},
  journal={IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year={2025}
}

Julia Hindel, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada,
Taxonomy-Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Spaces for Open-World Perception
IEEE Automation and Robotics Letters (RA-L), vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1904-1911, 2025.
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@article{hindel24topics,
  title={Taxonomy-Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Spaces for Open-World Perception},
  author={Hindel, Julia and Cattaneo, Daniele and Valada, Abhinav},
  journal={IEEE Automation and Robotics Letters (RA-L)},
  volume={10},
  number={2},
  pages={1904-1911},
  year={2025}
}

Julia Hindel, Nikhil Gosala, Kevin Bregler, Abhinav Valada,
INoD: Injected Noise Discriminator for Self-Supervised Representation Learning in Agricultural Fields
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 6013-6020, 2023.
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@article{hindel23inod,
  title={INoD: Injected Noise Discriminator for Self-Supervised Representation Learning in Agricultural Fields},
  author={Hindel, Julia and Gosala, Nikhil and Bregler, Kevin and Valada, Abhinav},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  volume={8},
  number={9},
  pages={6013-6020},
  year={2023}
}