Christian Bartz is currently a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he received his master degree in IT-Systems Engineering from HPI in 2016. His current research interests revolve around computer vision and deep learning, especially text recognition in scene images, handwriting recognition for automated analysis of archival material, and automated generation of suitable training data for the training of machine learning algorithms.