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Prof. Dr. Jakob Suchan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Constructor University Bremen gGmbH, Campus Ring 1 28759 Bremen Germany
Phone number
+49 421 200 - 3051
Fax number
+49 421 200 - 3103
Email Address
jsuchan@constructor.university
Office
Research I, Room 168
Research Interests
My research lies in the intersection of AI, Computer Vision, and Human-Centred Computing. In particular, I am interested in how we can develop general methods and tools that enable autonomous systems to abstract, understand, reason about, and learn from multimodal (human) Interactions, with the aim to assist humans in their everyday personal and professional tasks.
From a technical point of view this includes for instance:
- Commonsense Abstractions of Space and Motion
- Declarative Reasoning and Learning about Visuospatial Dynamics
- Neurosymbolic Integration of AI and Vision
- Visual Perception (e.g., involving eye-tracking)
Research Group
I lead a growing research group in Artificial Visuospatial Intelligence at Constructor University. The group brings together doctoral research with Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis projects and provides a collaborative environment for developing new methods, conducting experiments, and preparing scientific publications.
PhD Researcher
Salim Baloch works on neurosymbolic visual commonsense, investigating how vision-language models and computer vision can be combined with declarative knowledge representation and reasoning to construct, refine, and interpret structured models of visual scenes.
Student Research and Supervision
Student research is an integral part of the group’s activities. I supervised more than 30 Bachelor’s theses and more than 10 Master’s theses across artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics, human–robot interaction, and human-centred computing.
The group’s activities build on and contribute to research conducted within the international CoDesign Lab, particularly its work on Cognitive Vision and Perception. This collaboration supports scientific exchange and joint research across artificial intelligence, spatial cognition, visual perception, and human-centred computing.
Selected Publications
| ASP-Driven Visual Commonsense: A General Framework for Reasoning about Embodied Interaction in the Wild. J Suchan, M Bhatt, J Monsen 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2025) (Accepted) |
| Probabilistic Answer Set Programming Driven Ranking of Dynamic Space-Time Belief Models J Monsen, J Suchan, M Bhatt The 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2025) (Accepted) |
| How do Naturalistic Visuo-Auditory Cues Guide Human Attention? Insights from Systematic Explorations in Visual Perception of Embodied Multimodal Interaction V Nair, M Bhatt, J Suchan, E Billing, P Hemeren ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 2025 (Accepted) |
| Assessing Drivers Situation Awareness in Semi-Autonomous Vehicles: ASP based Characterisations of Driving Dynamics for Modeling Scene Interpretation and Projection J Suchan, J-P Osterloh 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023) |
| How do drivers mitigate the effects of naturalistic visual complexity? On attentional strategies and their implications under a change blindness protocol V Kondyli, M Bhatt, D Levin, J Suchan Cognitive research: principles and implications 8 (1), 54, 2023 |
| Artificial visual intelligence: Perceptual commonsense for human-centred cognitive technologies M Bhatt, J Suchan ECCAI Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence, 216-242 |
| Commonsense visual sensemaking for autonomous driving–On generalised neurosymbolic online abduction integrating vision and semantics J Suchan, M Bhatt, S Varadarajan Artificial Intelligence 299 (AIJ), 2021 |
| Driven by commonsense J Suchan, M Bhatt, S Varadarajan ECAI 2020, 2939-2940. |
| Cognitive vision and perception M Bhatt, J Suchan ECAI 2020, 2881-2882 |
| Out of sight but not out of mind: an answer set programming based online abduction framework for visual sensemaking in autonomous driving J Suchan, M Bhatt, S Varadarajan 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) |