Prof. Dr. Karsten Lambers

Lehrstuhlinhaber
Image Processing and Visualization in the Digital Humanities
Telefon: +49 (0)821 598-4900
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Raum: 1027 (BCM)
Sprechzeiten: Im Semester: per Terminbuchung im Digicampus. In der vorlesungsfreien Zeit: nach Absprache per E-mail.
Adresse: Alter Postweg 101 (Büro Center Messe), 86159 Augsburg

Lebenslauf

Seit 9/2025    Professor für Image Processing and Visualization in the Digital Humanities, Philologisch-Historische Fakultät, Universität Augsburg

2024 - 2025    Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeoloy, Leiden University, NL

2017 - 2023    Associate Professor of Archaeological Computer Science, Faculty of Archaeoloy, Leiden University, NL

2015 - 2016    Assistant Professor of Archaeological Computer Science, Faculty of Archaeoloy, Leiden University, NL

2010 - 2015    Juniorprofessor für Informationsverarbeitung in der Geoarchäologie, Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Bamberg

2008 - 2013    Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz

2008 - 2010    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz

2005 - 2007    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Kommission für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Bonn

2004                Promotion (summa cum laude), Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Zürich, CH

2004                Doktorand, Abteilung Urgeschichte, Universität Zürich, CH

1999 - 2004    Akademischer Gast und Doktorand, Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie, ETH Zürich, CH

1998 - 1999    Mitarbeit bei archäologischen Ausgrabungen in Deutschland und Peru

1998                Magister Artium, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Bonn

1992 - 1998    Studium der Altamerikanistik, Lateinamerikanischen Philologie und Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Bonn

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Archäologische Fernerkundung
  • Bildbasierte Dokumentation und Erforschung des kulturellen Erbes
  • Anwendungen von maschinellem Lernen im Kulturerbebereich
  • Landschaftsgeschichte

Lehrveranstaltungen

Keine Vorlesungen vorhanden.


Publikationen

2025

Lambers K., Bennett R. & Verschoof W.B. (2025), Citizen science and crowdsourcing. In: Bennett R. & Cowley D. (Eds.), Guidlines for the use of airborne laser scanning (Lidar) in archeology. EAC Guidlines no. 10. Brussels: European Archaeological Council. 68-73.

 

Verschoof W.B., Kaptijn E., Bourgeois Q.P.J. & Lambers K. (2025), Using citizen science to map hollow roads in LIDAR data from the Netherlands: results from the Heritage Quest project. In: Sarti L. & von Trott zu Solz H. (Eds.), Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, and Beyond - Mobilität im Frühmittelalter und Darüber Hinaus: Interdisciplinary Approaches - Interdisziplinäre Zugänge. Europa im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen und Beiträge zur historischen Komparatistik no. 46. Berlin: De Gruyter. 271-286.

 

 

2024

Karimi Moayed N., Vandenberghe D., Deforce K., Kaptijn E., Lambers K., Verschoof-van der Vaart W., De Clercq W. & De Grave J. (2024), Optical dating of charcoal kiln remains from WWII: a test of accuracy, Quaternary Geochronology 83: 101582.

 

Kaptijn E., Bourgeois Q., Verschoof-van der Vaart W. & Lambers K. (2024), Erfgoed gezocht: grafheuvels, zichtbare restanten van een prehistorisch landschap. In: Amkreutz L. & Vaart-Verschoof S. van der (Eds.), Bronstijd: vuur van verandering. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 109-110.

 

Bourgeois Q., Kaptijn E., Verschoof-van der Vaart W. & Lambers K. (2024), Assessing the quality of citizen science in archaeological remote sensing: results from the Heritage Quest project in the Netherlands, Antiquity 98 (402): 1662-1678.

 

Abderhalden-Raba A., Della Casa P., Kothieringer K., Lambers K., Maechtle B., Ranzinger M. & Roepke A. (2024), TERRA: zur longue durée der Kunstlandschaft im Raum Ramosch. In: Prähistorische Archäologie Universität Zürich & Archäologischer Dienst Graubünden (Eds.), Die Mottata bei Ramosch: Aspekte einer prähistorischen Siedlungslandschaft im Unterengadin. Archäologie Graubünden Sonderheft no. 12. Chur: Somedia Buchverlag. 118-135.

 

 

2023

Nieuwenhuyse O., Hiatlih K., Hakki R., Al-Fakhri A., Verlinden J., Lambers K., Joosten K., Mara H. & Ngan-Tillard D. (2023), Focus Raqqa: inventory of Museum collections and reconstruction of missing tablets. Hayajneh H. (Ed.), Culutral Heritage: At the Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences: Proceedings of the International Humboldt-Kolleg (Jordan, 16-18 April 2019). Cultural Heritage: At the Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences 16 April 2019 - 18 April 2019. Berlin: Lit-Verlag. 495-505.

 

Lambers K. (2023), Introduction: Leiden perspectives on digital archaeology. In: Kalayci T., Lambers K. & Klinkenberg V. (Eds.), Digital Archaeology: Promises and Impasses. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no 51. Leiden Sidestone Press. 9-15.

 

Kalayci T., Lambers K. & Klinkenberg V. (Eds.) (2023), Digital Archaeology: Promises and Impasses. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no 51. Leiden Sidestone Press.

 

Kosanic A., Lambers K., Galata S.,  Kothieringer K. & Abderhalden A. (2023), Importance of cultural ecosystem services for cultural identity and wellbeing in the Lower Engadine, Switzerland, Land 12: 2156. 

 

Kaptijn E., Verschoof-van der Vaart W., Lambers K., Bourgeois Q. & Kramer R. (2023), Burgerwetenschap in de Gelderse archeologie. In: Verhoeven D., Gubbels M., Bierens de Haan J.C., Brusse P., Cruyningen P. van, Egeraat M. van, Kastelein D., Noordzij A. & Verstegen W. (Eds.). Bijdragen en Mededelingen Gelre no 114. Arnhem: vereniging Gelre. 55-74.

 

Kothieringer K., Seregély T., Jansen D., Steup R., Schäfer A., Lambers K., & Fuchs M. (2023), Mid- to Late Holocene landscape dynamics and rural settlement in the uplands of northern Bavaria, Germany, Geoarchaeology 38(2): 220-245.

 

Schneider A., Gussone M., Müller-Wiener M., Lambers K., Ullrich B., Kniess R., Kniess S. & Dorrestein J.P. (2023), Understanding complexity: the case-study of al-Hīra, Iraq. Wunderlich T., Hadler H. & Blankenfeldt R. (Eds.), Advances in on- and offshore archeological prospection: proceedings of the 15th international conference on archaeological prospection. Kiel: Kiel University Publishing. 253-256.

 

 

2022

Bubenzer O., Casselmann C., Faßbinder J., Fischer R., Forbriger M., Hecht S., Lambers K., Linzen S., Machtie B., Schlütz F., Siart C., Sonnemann T.F., Stolz C., Vott A., Werban U., Werther L. & Zielhofer C. (2022), Feldmethoden. In: Stolz C. & Miller C.E. (Eds.), Geoarchäologie. Berlin: Spirnger Spektrum. 255-286.

 

Brandsen A., Verberne S., Lambers K. & Wansleeben M. (2022), Can BERT dig it? Named entity recognition for information retrieval in the archaeology domain, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 15(3): 1-18.

 

 

2021

Verschoof-van der Vaart W.B. & Lambers K. (2021), Applying automated object detection in archaeological practice: A case study from the southern Netherlands, Archaeological Prospection 29(1): 15-31.

 

Brandsen A., Verberne S., Lambers K. & Wansleeben M. (2021), Usability evaluation for online professional search in the Dutch archaeology domain. arXiv. Leiden: Leiden University.

 

Lambers K. (2021), The geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru: documentation, analysis and interpretation, Forschung zur Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen no. 2. Bonn: Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen.

 

Lambers K. & Sauerbier M. (2021), Virtual flight over the Palpa geoglyphs and geoglyph database (data file). Berlin: IANUS - Forschungsdatenzentrum Archäologie & Altertumswissenschaften. [dataset].

 

Abderhalden-Raba A., Della Casa P., Kothieringer K., Lambers K., Mächtle B., Ranzinger M. & Röpke A. (2021), Neue Untersuchungen zu den (prä-)historischen Terassen von Ramosch, Archäologie Graubünden 4: 61.70.

 

 

2020

Dietre B., Reitmaier T., Walser C., Warnk T., Unkel I., Hajdas I., Lambers K., Reidl D. & Haas J.N. (2020), Steady transformation of primeval forest into subalpine pasture during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (2300-1700 BC) in the Silvretta Alps, Switzerland, The Holocene 30(3): 355-368.

 

Lambers K. (2020), Walking and marking the desert: geoglyphs in arid South America. In: Klinkenberg M.V., Oosten R.M.R. van & Driel-Murray C. van (Eds.), A Human Environment. Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 50. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 89-106.

 

Verschoof W.B., Lambers K., Kowalczyk W.J. & Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2020), Combining Deep Learning and Locations-Based Ranking for Large-Scale Archaeological Prospection of LiDAR Data from The Netherlands, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9(5): 293. 

 

Brandsen A., Verberne S., Lambers K. & Wansleeben M. (2020), Creating a Dataset for Named Entity Recognition in the Archaeology Domain. Calzolari N., Béchet F., Blache P., Choukri K., Cieri C., Declerck T., Goggi S., Isahara H., Maegaard B., Mariani J., Mazo H., Moreno A., Odijk J. & Piperidis S. (Eds.), Conference Proceedings LREC 2020. The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020. Marseilles: The European Language Resorces Association. 4573-4577. 

 

 

2019

Brandsen A., Lambers K., Verberne S. & Wansleeben M. (2019), User Requirement Solicitation for an Information Retrieval System Applied to Dutch Grey Literature in the Archaeology Domain, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 2(1): 21-30

 

Verschoof-Van der Vaart W.B. & Lambers K. (2019), Learning to Look at LiDAR: The Use of R-CNN in the Automated Detection of Archaeological Objects in LiDAR Data from the Netherlands, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 2(1): 31-40.

 

Lambers K., Verschoof-Van der Vaart W.B. & Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2019), Integrating Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science in Dutch Archaeological Prospection, Remote Sensing 11(7): 794.

 

Scherjon F., Romanowska I. & Lambers K. (2019), Digitally teaching Digital Skills: Lessons Drawn from Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) on 'Modelling and Simulating in Archaeology' at Leiden University, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 2(1): 79-88.

 

 

2018

Lambers K. (2018), Airborne and spaceborne remote sensing and digital image analysis in archaeology. In: Siart C., Forbriger M. & Bubenzer O. (Eds.), Digital Geoarchaeology: New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research. Natural Science in Archaeology. Cham: Springer. 109-122.

 

Verschoof W.B., Lambers K. & Lew M. (2018), The use of R-CNNs in the automated detection of archaeological objects in remotely sensed data. LCDS meeting, Leiden. 19 October 2018 - 19 October 2018. 

 

Lambers K. (2018), Die Geoglyphen von Nasca und Palpa: Neue Ansätze zu ihrer Interpretation, Antike Welt 2018(1): 20-23.

 

Kothieringer K., Seregély T., Lambers K. (2018), Settlement and landscape history of the northern Franconian Jura during the Bronze and Iron Ages, Archäologisches korrespondenzblatt 48(1): 57-69.

 

 

2017

Dietre B., Walser C., Kofler W., Kothieringer K., Hajdas I., Lambers K., Reitmaier T. & Haas J.N. (2017), Neolithic to Bronze Age (4850-3450 cal. BP) fire management of the Alpine Lower Engadine landscape (Switzerland) to establish pastures and cereal fields, The Holocene 27(2): 181-196.

 

Lambers K. (2017), Los geoglifos: imágenes y escenarios en el desierto de Nazca y Palpa / The geoglyphs: images and settings in the desert of Nazca and Palpa, In: Pardo C. & Fux P. (Eds.), Nasca. Lima: Asociación Museo de Arte de Lima. 112-123, 363-366.

 

Lambers L.S.L., Fassbinder J.W.E., Lambers K. & Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2017), The Iron-Age burial of Epe-Niersen, the Netherlands: results from magnetometry in the range of +/- 1nT. Jennings B., Gaffney C., Sparrow T., & Gaffney S. (Eds.), 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection. International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 12 September 2017 - 16 September 2017. Oxford: Archaeopress. 132-134.

 

Lambers K. (2017), Die Geoglyphen: Bilder und Bühnen in der Wüste. In: Pardo C. & Fux P. (Eds.), Nasca - Peru. Archäologische Spurensuche in der Wüste. Zürich: Scheiddegger & Spiess. 108-119.

 

 

2016

Zingman I., Saupe D., Penatti O.A.B. & Lambers K. (2016), Detection of fragmented rectangular enclosures in very high resolution remote sensing images, IEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54(8): 4580-4593.

 

Lambers K. & Traviglia A. (2016), Automated detection in remote sensing archaeology: a reading list: Aerial Archaeology Research Group, AARGnews - The newsletter of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group 53: 25-29. 

 

Traviglia A., Cowley D. & Lambers K. (2016), Finding common ground: human and computer vision in archaeological prospection: Aerial Archaeology Research Group, AARGnews - The newsletter of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group 53: 11-24.

 

 

2015

Kenzler H. & Lambers K. (2015), Challenges and perspectives of woodland archaeology across Europe. Giligny F., Djindjian F., Costa L., Moscati P. & Roberts S. (Eds.), CAA2014 21st Century Archaeology: Concepts, Methods, and Tools. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 22 April 2014 - 25 April 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress. 73-80.

 

Zingman I., Saupe D. & Lambers K. (2015), Detection of incomplete enclosures of rectangular shape in remotely sensed images, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). Computer Vision Foundation. Boston: IEEE. 87-96. 

 

Kothieringer K., Walser C., Dietre B., Reitmaier T., Haas J.N. & Lambers K. (2015), High impact: early pastorialism and environmental change during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Silvretta Alps (Switzerland/Austria) as evidence by archaeological, palaeoecological and pedological proxies, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementbände 59(suppl. 2): 177-198.

 

Dietre B., Walser C., Reidl D., Kappelmeyer T., Hajdas I., Kothieringer K., Lambers K., Haas J.N. & Reitmaier T. (2015), Vegetation history, landscape development, and archaeology of the Lower Engadine, Switzerland. Innsbruck: Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, austria, Palyno-Bulletin 3: 75-78. 

 

 

2014

Kothieringer K., Lambers K., Seregély T. & Schäfer A. (2014), Settlement and landscape history of the Northern Franconian jura during the Bronze and Iron Ages, Geophysical research abstracts 16: 13941. 

 

Zingman I., Saupe D. & Lambers K. (2014), A morphological approach for distinguishing texture and individual features in images, Pattern recognition letters 47: 129-138.

 

Dietre B., Walser C., Lambers K., Reitmaier T., Hajdas I. & Haas J.N. (2014), Palaeoecological evidence of Mesolithic to Medieval climatic change and anthropogenic impact on the Alpine flora and vegetation of Silvretta Massif (Switzerland/Austria), Quaternary International 353: 3-16.

 

 

2013

Zingman I., Saupe D. & Lambers K. (2013), Automated search for livestock enclosures of rectangular shape in remotely sensed imagery. Bruzzone L. (Ed.), Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIX. Proceedings of SPIE. no. 88920F. Dresden: SPIE

 

Lambers K. & Zingman I. (2013), Texture segmentation as first step toward archaeological object detection in high-resolution satellite images of the Silvretta Alps. Neubauer W., Trinks I., Salisbury R.B. & Einwögerer C. (Eds.), Archaeological Prospection: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference - Vienna, May 29th - June 2nd 2013. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 327-329.

 

 

 

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