CHRISTOPHER PLACHETKA received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Ostfalia Hochschule Wolfenbüttel, Germany, in 2015, and the M.Sc. degree in electronic systems from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, in 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Physics, in collaboration with Volkswagen, in 2024. His research interests include neural networks for computer vision, high-definition (HD) maps, and automated labeling. He received a scholarship from Volkswagen, financing the master’s degree, and is the creator of the large-scale HD map dataset 3DHD CityScenes.