In the beginning of 2024, the MASTER project launched its 1st Open Call, inviting extended reality (XR) technology developers, research institutes specialising in XR, and educational institutions from EU Member States, associated overseas countries and territories, and third countries linked to Horizon Europe. Applicants were tasked with addressing specific challenges Read more…
Duy Nguyen, from the Interactive Machine Learning department, and colleagues from the University of Stuttgart, Oldenburg University, University of California San Diego, Stanford University, and other institutions presented a full paper on accelerating transformer models at NeurIPS 2024. NeurIPS is considered one of the premier global conferences in the field Read more…
The Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) 2024, hosted in Hanoi, Vietnam, is a premier forum showcasing the growing influence of the Asian ML community on the global AI landscape. Renowned for its rigorous peer-review process, ACML features high-quality research with a strong emphasis on Asia’s dynamic and rapidly evolving Read more…
The team includes researchers from DFKI’s Interactive Machine Learning department and the University of Oldenburg. Together, they developed drone, sensor, and analytical technologies to collect biodiversity data and generate insights about tropical rainforests, obtaining an outstanding third place. The Brazilian Team is among the winners of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition Read more…
IML recently participated in two conferences in Trier, Germany, where they presented two posters and a demo paper. At the 12th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI’24), IML showcased a poster titled “Exploring Gaze-Based Menu Navigation in Virtual Environments” [1]. Concurrently, at the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software Read more…
Michael Barz and Professor Daniel Sonntag, in collaboration with Professor Cristina Conati from The University of British Columbia, hosted the inaugural HumanEYEze Workshop [1]. This event aimed to unite researchers from the fields of eye-tracking, multimodal human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. It was held on Monday, November 4, 2024, and Read more…
At the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024) in San José, Costa Rica, IML had several notable contributions. A full paper titled “Perceived Text Relevance Estimation Using Scanpaths and GNNs,” by Abdulrahman Mohamed [1], a workshop paper titled “Detecting when Users Disagree with Generated Captions,” by Omair Shahzad Read more…
In healthcare, language models are gaining increasing attention due to their ability to automatically process large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data. “With their emergence, our interest in understanding their capabilities for tasks such as inference with natural language as a data basis is growing,” says scientist Siting Liang, who Read more…
Starting from its inception in 1969, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) has been the premier venue for the global AI community to share and celebrate advancements in artificial intelligence research. This year’s edition took place in Jeju, South Korea (main conference acceptance rate 15%), and the Interactive Read more…
On 11 July, all partners of the MASTER project met in Saarbrücken at the DFKI premises for the first official General Assembly meeting. IML was represented in this meeting by Michael Barz, László Kopácsi, and Abdulrahman Mohamed. Important points of the agenda were status reports of the progresses made within Read more…