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PatentSemTech @ SIGIR 2025
Patent image search by text or image, with clustered results.
Sushil Awale
Research Associate at TIB Hannover and Universität Marburg
The best way to contact me is through LinkedIn.
I build search systems that use vision-language models to find and interpret images in patents and cultural heritage collections. I am a Research Associate in the Visual Analytics Research Group at TIB Hannover and in the M3L team at Universität Marburg, and a PhD candidate at Leibniz Universität Hannover supervised by Prof. Dr. Ralph Ewerth.
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- Visual and Multimodal Patent Search: Exploring New Frontiers
The EPO on our joint work adapting vision-language models to patent search, now in pilot use.
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All news- Panel on colonial photographs accepted at DHD 2027
- Award Best Poster Award at ACM WebSci 2026
- Bias in vision-language models accepted at WebSci 2026