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Markus Käppeler

PhD Student
Postal address:

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Technische Fakultät
Robot Learning Lab
Georges-Köhler-Allee 080
D-79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany

Office: 080-00-024
Email: kaeppelm@cs.uni-freiburg.de

About me

  • 01/2024 - current: Ph.D. Student in the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg
  • 04/2020 - 12/2023: M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Freiburg
  • 10/2016 - 02/2020: B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science, Konstanz University of Applied Sciences

Research Interests

  • Robot Perception
  • Map-Based Perception
  • Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving
  • Self-Supervised and Label-Efficient Learning

Current Research Projects

  • AI-based System Architectures for Autonomous Driving

Teaching

  • TA, Robot Learning Seminar, University of Freiburg, WS2024/25
  • TA, Advanced Deep Learning, University of Freiburg, SS2024

Publications

2025

  • Niclas Vödisch*, Kürsat Petek*, Markus Käppeler*, Abhinav Valada Wolfram Burgard,
    A Good Foundation is Worth Many Labels: Label-Efficient Panoptic Segmentation
    IEEE Automation and Robotics Letters (RA-L), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 216-223, 2025.
    Paper IEEE Xplore Video Website BibTeX

2024

  • Markus Käppeler*, Kürsat Petek*, Niclas Vödisch*, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada
    SPINO: Few-Shot Panoptic Segmentation With Foundation Models
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.,
    Paper IEEE Xplore Video Website BibTeX