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Peter S.
Last position:
Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous Client
Project: Defect Generation on Test-Bench Images of Metal Surfaces Environment: Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing
- Objective & Implementation: Designed, architected, and trained Generative Adversarial Networks (Pix2PixHD / SPADE) for image-to-image transformation. Targeted generation of synthetic material defects (e.g., cracks, inclusions, scale) on rough metal surfaces under real test-bench lighting conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (data augmentation).
- Technical Design: Implemented robust Generative AI and computer vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Used semantic segmentation approaches for mask-controlled defect synthesis and subsequent evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.
- Business Impact: Massive dataset upscaling (10x) without time-consuming and costly physical test-bench runs, while significantly improving the detection performance of automated inspection systems.
Technologies & Skills Used: Python | PyTorch | SPADE | Pix2PixHD | EfficientDet | Machine Learning | Semantic Segmentation | Computer Vision
Stefan O.
Last position:
Founder at ProtocolEngine.io
Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.
- Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
- Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
- Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
- Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
- Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
- Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.
Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.
Martin H.
Last position:
Lead Product Owner at Energy
- Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
- Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
- Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
- Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
- Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
- Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
- Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.
Sven W.
Last position:
Simulation of Photometric-Stereo Setups at ID Engineering
- Role: Simulation Engineer
- Environment: Mechanical Engineering / Visual Inspection
- Goals & Implementation: Simulation of photometric-stereo setups to determine the best positions for cameras and light sources for each specific part.
- Business Value: Enabled a low-cost and scalable solution for determining part-specific hardware setups.
- Tech Stack: Python, Blender
Ajay C.
Last position:
Software Engineer & Cloud AI Developer at TANGILITY GmbH
Built Python-based AI microservices and integrations for an AEC/VR Unity-based SaaS app, focusing on LLM/VLM capabilities, retrieval-backed systems, RESTful APIs, containerized deployment, and an automation microservice for the CAD-to-Unity pipeline.
- Developed a custom Hybrid A* based algorithm in C# to simulate hospital scenarios and detect early-stage design conflicts from collision/spatial data and generate structured reports.
- Solved and automated the time-consuming problem of converting CAD files to usable Unity environments with a custom-engineered and real-time pipeline using a ZeroMQ-based communication layer to distribute workloads across multiple processes and achieve real-time performance.
- Built a Dockerized FastAPI pipeline for CAD-to-Unity automation, combining vision-based object matching, image embeddings, and precomputed metadata to automatically map CAD objects to Unity behavior scripts, assign properties, and reduce repeated AI inference calls.
- Created documentation and examples to help technical users understand, configure, and extend the AI automation pipeline.
Nemanja M.
Last position:
AI Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer at Intelycx
Manufacturing intelligence platform with enterprise workflows, RAG, real-time AI assistant features, and multi-repository backend architecture.
- Built and extended production AI/backend services with Django, DRF, FastAPI, GraphQL, Celery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and WebSockets across a modular multi-repository platform.
- Contributed to ARIS V2, a real-time manufacturing AI assistant using LangChain, LangGraph, MCP tool orchestration, planning/execution flows, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch-backed retrieval.
- Supported rollout expansion from ARIS V1 in 4 of 17 client production plants to ARIS V2 currently active in 13 of 17 plants, increasing real-world deployment coverage to more than 50% of the client footprint.
- Worked on document-grounded RAG functionality including ingestion, OCR, chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, and grounded answer generation for industrial workflows.
Stack: Python, Django, DRF, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, GraphQL, Celery, WebSockets, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker.
Nenad B.
Last position:
Safety Video Analytics Project for Airbus at Airbus
- Developed a real-time video analytics proof-of-concept for deployment on NVIDIA Jetson edge devices.
- Implemented DeepStream pipelines including object detection, tracking, human pose estimation, face anonymization, and zone intrusion detection.
- Built a Qt/Python demonstration UI interfacing with the AI pipeline via REST APIs.
Danny-Michael B.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer at Just Add AI GmbH
- Automatic detection of content on various documents
- Recommendation Engine
- Dynamic Pricing
Benjamin M.
Last position:
Founder, system architect, and main developer at Institute for Artificial Study (IAS)
- Expert-supervised AI systems for scientific reasoning, model evaluation, and research workflows.
- Built the IAS Problem Solver, an orchestrated system for difficult mathematical reasoning; it achieved 84% in one submitted answer set on the Leipzig mathematics benchmark.
- Built a resumable state-machine pipeline for research-grade mathematics benchmark generation: source selection, LLM-agent-based phenomenon discovery, task synthesis, gold-answer and certificate generation and validation, probing, repair, human feedback, and quality gates, targeting tasks that are difficult, natural, verifiable, and cost-effective.
- Current work extends this into budget-aware AI research workflows for real scientific problems with expert review.
Tech stack: Python, OpenAI/OpenRouter-compatible APIs, embeddings, RAG, SQLite.
Lino G.
Last position:
Senior Data Scientist at VinFast Germany GmbH
- Led strategic software development of fusion algorithms for precise object tracking, trajectory prediction, and environment modeling based on multimodal sensor data (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar, GNSS, IMU)
- Developed and implemented navigation algorithms for autonomous vehicles, including path planning, obstacle avoidance, and sensor fusion of visual, inertial, and distance-based sensor sources
- Automated extraction and training processes with CI/CD
- Developed and optimized data pipelines and processes in Microsoft Azure using Apache Spark, Databricks, and PySpark
- Developed and optimized embedded software for automotive control units
- Designed latency-critical software for real-time control in robotic systems with RTOS (freeRTOS, SAFERTOS)
- Used the Vector toolchain (CANdela, DaVinci, CANoe) for configuration and diagnostics
- Optimized existing data pipelines and processes (ETL, data warehouse, SQL)
- Developed and trained machine learning models using PyTorch
- Created deep-learning-based object detection and visual SLAM algorithms, trained on combined data from camera, LiDAR, and IMU sensors
- Implemented computer vision algorithms for object detection and classification in robotic systems using OpenCV and YOLO, utilizing synchronized image and depth data
- Implemented behavior-based control systems for autonomous robots using ROS2 Behavior Trees
- Performed testing, release, and integration of sensor fusion algorithms into automotive production programs
- Ensured adherence to proper software development processes and safety standards to guarantee high data quality (MISRA, ISO 26262, ASPICE)
Shanna T.
Last position:
Problem Resolution Manager at CARIAD SE (VW AG), formerly CARMEQ GmbH (VW AG)
- Automotive SPICE®: all assessments fully achieved
- Agile transformation: V-model → SAFe successfully implemented
- Series release: on-time, quality-assured software delivery for key Volkswagen Group models (including ECE homologation)
- Stakeholder management: internal & external
- Process optimization: implemented a continuous improvement process (CIP) with a tracking system
Afaq A.
Last position:
Master’s Thesis Researcher – Multiview Perception Evaluation at Volkswagen AG
- Developed an evaluation framework for AI-generated multiview driving videos intended for perception and embodied-AI/VLA-related training workflows.
- Designed automated checks for temporal coherence, cross-camera consistency, semantic correctness, and multiview geometric quality, exposing failure modes relevant to autonomous systems.
- Combined classical computer vision, learned visual representations, and vision-language models to convert complex video artifacts into measurable engineering signals.
- Built repeatable benchmarking and failure-analysis workflows to support model comparison, data-quality decisions, and system-improvement discussions.
Sunish B.
Last position:
AtlasMind - Production AI assistant for Jira at Mercedes Benz Innovation Labs Gmbh
- Converts natural language into JQL using RAG and pgvector. Returns structured JSON with a query, chart spec, and plain-text answer. A two-stage router answers general questions without touching the JQL pipeline at all.
- Interchangeable LLM backends: Ollama, vLLM, Groq, Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock - switchable at runtime, no code changes. Self-healing JQL: on Jira validation failure, feeds error back to LLM, retries up to 4 times. OCI Vault for secrets. Deployed on Oracle Cloud A1 with GPU inference over Tailscale private network. Open source.
Rutger B.
Last position:
Partner & Managing Director at AI.IMPACT
- Building an AI & Data Consultancy Practice with the goal of helping European companies adopt Artificial Intelligence and modern data platforms
- End-to-end further development of a production system using modified coding agents (OpenCode). Tech stack: Kubernetes, Argo, Keycloak, Typescript, Grafana, GitOps, DevOps, Playwright
- Internal research project on the use of coding agents in the field of mathematical logic for creating formal models. Use of Cursor IDE and Codex, Codex CLI. Architecture design, quality control and refactoring, as well as writing code and tests. Repository (open source) available pre-launch
- Research on the role of mathematical logic as a formal language that connects IT and AI with business processes
- Project lead for collecting and deploying parking recommendations for rail vehicles with significant savings potential based on real-time data in a mobility and transport company
- Project lead for collecting and distributing process measurement points for real-time control in a mobility and transport company
- Deputy application owner for an app used for communication in the dispatching and provision of rail vehicles
Sascha M.
Last position:
Senior eCommerce & AI Engineer at UNIQBIT AG
Re-platforming an e-commerce shop to a microservice architecture
- Goal: Replace an outdated Shopware system with a scalable, future-proof solution based on microservices and a headless architecture.
- Led a full architecture consulting process and defined the microservice boundaries based on a headless architecture with commercetools as PIM/OMS and Next.js as the frontend solution.
- Developed and integrated several decentralized services (e.g. internationalization, personalization).
- Took over the configuration of central third-party systems such as Contentstack and Algolia.
- Built a stable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud with monitoring via Grafana.
Technologies: commercetools, Next.js, Contentstack, Algolia, Google Cloud, Grafana, TypeScript, Shopware
Development of an international e-commerce platform
- Goal: Build a high-performance, user-friendly and international e-commerce platform.
- Defined a scalable, high-performance and maintainable software architecture that served as the foundation for the platform's international expansion.
- Selected a best-of-breed technology stack that enabled the development of an industry-leading shop and reduced development effort for new features by 30%.
- Ensured seamless integration of critical third-party systems (PIM, CRM, ERP) to guarantee end-to-end business processes and a consistent data foundation.
- Implemented comprehensive tracking and analytics tools for continuous performance monitoring and optimization of the customer journey.
Technologies: React.js, Next.js, commerceTools, Algolia, Salesforce, Heroku, CI/CD, PHP, Google Analytics
AI-powered personalization and customer data platform in e-commerce
- Goal: Replace static content with a dynamic, AI-based personalization strategy to increase user relevance and automate marketing processes.
- Designed and built a customer data platform to aggregate and combine customer and analytics data from distributed sources.
- Implemented automated categorization of customer profiles as the basis for delivering personalized content and product recommendations in the Shopware frontend.
- Developed a semantic similarity algorithm based on Python and OpenAI to calculate product and content similarity from user profiles.
- Built the technical connection to retail media platforms to control external ad placements along the customer journey.
Technologies: Shopware 6, Python 3, OpenAI, Elasticsearch, PHP, Symfony, Twig
Shopware tracking & consent architecture (GDPR) for 4 online shops
- Goal: Build a unified, GDPR-compliant tracking infrastructure across multiple shops with central consent management across several Shopware instances.
- Defined a comprehensive tracking guide and developed a modular architecture compatible across multiple Shopware versions.
- GDPR-compliant integration of Usercentrics and Adobe Launch through a central tag manager.
- Full tracking setup (page, order, product, user) incl. partner-specific tracking (Emarsys, Channelpilot, etc.).
- Detailed event and error tracking to proactively identify technical drop-offs.
Technologies: Shopware, Adobe Analytics, Usercentrics, Tag Manager, PHP, MySQL, GDPR
AI/LLM search engine with RAG and hybrid search (Python, Elasticsearch)
- Goal: Build an AI-powered search engine with RAG architecture and hybrid search to accurately match service providers from over 500,000 company records.
- Developed an automated data pipeline (web scraping + LLM) that continuously crawls company data and converts it into structured formats using LLMs.
- Implemented a RAG workflow incl. vectorization for semantic search to increase search accuracy and relevance.
- Configured and fine-tuned Elasticsearch for hybrid search (vector + keyword search).
- End-to-end development of backend API, frontend and deployment on live servers.
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, LLM, RAG, React, Docker, Web Scraping
AI/computer vision system (Python, ML) – object detection under difficult conditions
- Goal: Develop an AI-powered recognition system with reliable performance even in rain, fog, snow and darkness.
- Built and annotated a large training dataset incl. difficult conditions.
- Trained a YOLO-based object detection model; carried out systematic error analysis and improved data quality and preprocessing.
- Coordinated with stakeholders through regular status updates.
Technologies: Python, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, PyTorch, YOLO, OpenCV
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Statistics of experts using Object Detection
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
14 years

Position duration
1.8 years

Positions per freelancer
9

Top business areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Research and Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Research and Development, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
98%
Master's degree or higher
84%
Doctorate
15%

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Object Detection
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Object Detection experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (86%)
- Manufacturing (55%)
- Automotive (54%)
- Healthcare (48%)
- Education (42%)
- Banking and Finance (25%)
- Transportation (25%)
- Professional Services (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Object Detection Does
Object Detection identifies objects within images or video and locates them with bounding boxes, labels or confidence scores. Unlike image classification, it can recognize several objects and their positions in one frame. Typical outputs support real-time decisions, visual inspection and automated monitoring.
Models and Methods
Professionals choose architectures based on accuracy, latency, hardware and data quality. Common approaches include YOLO, Faster R-CNN, RetinaNet and transformer-based detectors. Work may involve transfer learning, anchor-free detection, instance segmentation, object tracking and calibration for difficult lighting or camera angles.
Data and Tooling
A dependable system starts with representative image data and consistent annotations. Specialists work with labeling workflows, augmentation, dataset versioning and evaluation metrics such as precision, recall and mean average precision. Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV and GPU runtimes often form the surrounding stack.
Where Companies Use It
Object Detection becomes valuable when software must interpret visual scenes and trigger a defined action.
- Detect defects, missing parts or unsafe conditions on production lines
- Count products, pallets, vehicles or people in camera streams
- Support warehouse, retail, logistics and mobility workflows
- Identify equipment, safety gear or events in changing environments
When Freelance Expertise Helps
Companies often bring in freelance specialists when an experiment must become a robust service, when internal teams lack computer vision capacity or when an existing model misses important cases. In Germany, projects may also require close coordination with manufacturing, automotive, logistics or retail teams. Remote delivery works well for data, training and evaluation; on-site sessions can help with camera installation and production testing.
What Strong Specialists Deliver
Strong professionals connect model quality with operational needs. They define useful labels, prevent data leakage, test across devices and lighting conditions, and explain trade-offs clearly. They also package inference services, monitor drift, document limitations and integrate results with APIs, edge hardware, cloud workloads or existing business software.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Object Detection.
Object Detection is used to find and classify objects in images or video while also estimating their locations. Companies apply it to quality inspection, warehouse automation, traffic analysis, retail monitoring, safety systems and many other visual workflows.
Object Detection identifies objects and places a box around each instance, while image classification assigns labels to an entire image. Segmentation goes further by marking the precise pixels belonging to an object. The right choice depends on whether location or exact shape is needed.
A strong Object Detection specialist often also works with Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, OpenCV, data annotation and model evaluation. Experience with tracking, deployment APIs, Docker, GPU optimization and edge devices is useful when the model must run in production.
The required experience depends on the data, safety impact, target hardware and number of object classes. A focused prototype may need a specialist who can prepare data and fine-tune a proven model, while production systems require deeper skills in evaluation, optimization, monitoring and integration.
Object Detection work can usually be done remotely when image data, environments and deployment access are available. On-site collaboration may still help with camera placement, factory validation or edge-device testing. German or English communication should match the project team and operational context.
YOLO models are commonly chosen for fast inference and simpler real-time deployments, while R-CNN variants can offer strong accuracy with a different speed and resource profile. The best approach depends on image conditions, hardware, latency targets and the cost of missed detections.
Ask a Object Detection specialist to explain dataset design, class definitions, false positives, false negatives and performance on unseen environments. Review a practical project example, the evaluation method and how the model was deployed and monitored rather than relying only on a demo.
A capable Object Detection professional should provide a documented dataset process, trained model, evaluation results and reproducible training or inference setup. Depending on scope, deliverables can also include an API, edge deployment, integration tests, monitoring guidance and clear instructions for future retraining.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects is 82 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 657 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects, 98% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 84% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects are English (98%), German (94%), and French (18%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects are Information Technology (86%), Manufacturing (55%), and Automotive (54%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Object Detection in their recent projects are Product Development (97%), Information Technology (94%), and Research and Development (89%).
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