Each year since 2015, DAGM honors an "outstanding dissertation in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, machine vision, and machine learning" sponsored by the MVTec Software GmbH. Receiving this DAGM MVTec dissertation award feels particularly rewarding since my academic career started at GCPR 2015 held in Aachen. I had just finished my bachelor thesis in 2014 when my advisors, Bastian Leibe and Alexander Hermans, suggested to submit the results as a sort of to the young researcher forum of GCPR. It so happened that my work was accepted and I attended GCPR to present a poster. This very much motivated me to continue doing research in computer vision which eventually led me to pursue a PhD.