Jenny Schmalfuss is a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) within the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology at the University of Stuttgart. She is also a scholar of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). Her research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, specifically investigating robustness of deep learning methods against distribution shifts and adversarial attacks. Her primary research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and the intersection of these fields with robustness analysis. She has made significant contributions to understanding weaknesses in vision language models and motion estimation techniques like optical flow. Her work explores how to quantify and improve model robustness through adversarial testing frameworks. Her publication record shows a strong focus on adversarial robustness in motion estimation, with multiple papers at top-tier conferences including CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. Recent work includes the PARC framework for analyzing vision language models (CVPR 2025), Distracting Downpour for weather-based adversarial attacks (ICCV 2023), and foundational work on adversarial snow attacks (ECCV AROW 2022). Poster Award at ICVSS 2023 Best Paper Award at ECCV AROW Workshop 2022 Best SimTech Bachelor's thesis 2021 (supervised) Jenny actively supervises numerous Master's theses, Bachelor's theses, and research projects annually, focusing primarily on optical flow robustness, adversarial attacks, and motion estimation. She has also completed an internship with NVIDIA's Autonomous Vehicle Perception Research Group in Santa Clara, CA, USA from April to November 2024, and previously worked as a research intern at the National University of Singapore and University of Houston. She teaches regularly in the Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems program, organizing colloquia and supervising seminars on Recent Advances in Computer Vision since 2021. Her teaching portfolio includes coordinating tutorials for Computer Vision and Imaging Science courses.













