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Anna Saranti

Dr. techn. Dipl.-Ing.

Welcome to my blog; a place where I am inspired and creative about AI and non-AI topics.

AI Engineer with a master’s degree (Dipl.-Ing.) and PhD (Dr.techn.)
with distinction from Graz University of Technology (TUGraz).
Worked both in industry as a Data Scientist, AI Engineer and Software Developer as well as a researcher at universities with an h-index of 22.


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  • KANDINSKYPatterns–An experimental exploration environment for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    Machine intelligence is very successful at standard recognition tasks when having high-quality training data. There is still a significant gap between machine-level pattern recognition and human-level concept learning. Humans can learn under uncertainty from only a few examples and generalize these concepts to solve new problems. The growing interest in explainable machine intelligence, requires experimental…

  • Towards Visual Concept Learning and Reasoning: On Insights into Representative Approaches

    The study of visual concept learning methodologies has been developed over the last years, becoming the state-of-the art research that challenges the reasoning capabilities of deep learning methods. In this paper we discuss the evolution of those methods, starting from the captioning approaches that prepared the transition to current cutting-edge visual question answering systems. The…

  • Property-based testing for parameter learning of probabilistic graphical models

    Code quality is a requirement for successful and sustainable software development. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence and data driven Machine Learning in current applications makes customized solutions for both data as well as code quality a requirement. The diversity and the stochastic nature of Machine Learning algorithms require different test methods, each of which is…

  • Explainable AI methods-a brief overview

    Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) is an established field with a vibrant community that has developed a variety of very successful approaches to explain and interpret predictions of complex machine learning models such as deep neural networks. In this article, we briefly introduce a few selected methods and discuss them in a short, clear and concise…

  • Classification and Visualization of Patterns in Medical Images

    Histopathology and cytopathology developed for the microscopic examination of tissue samples a specific terminology to describe type and shape of objects and patterns in the composition of nuclei, cells, tissue and anatomical elements. We map such a terminology to Bertin’s visual variables and propose three methods to describe “shape grammar” (1) With a formal, mathematical…

  • Insights into learning competence through probabilistic graphical models

    One-digit multiplication problems is one of the major fields in learning mathematics at the level of primary school that has been studied over and over. However, the majority of related work is focusing on descriptive statistics on data from multiple surveys. The goal of our research is to gain insights into multiplication misconceptions by applying…