The Proceeding of the annual joint workshop of the Fraunhofer IOSB and the Vision and FusionLaboratory (IES) 2018 of the KIT contain technical reports of the PhD-stundents on the status of theirresearch. The discussed topics ranging from computer vision and opticalmetrology to network security and machine learning.This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the research program of the IESLaboratory and the Fraunhofer IOSB.