At the KI2025 Conference in Potsdam, Hannes Kath from the Chair of Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oldenburg and the Interactive Machine Learning department presented the research paper “Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning for Bioacoustic Data”. KI2025 is one of the premier European conferences on artificial intelligence bringing together researchers, Read more
The 5th edition of ACM GoodIT took place from 3 to 5 September 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium. The International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good is a premier international conference focusing on research and developments of Information Technologies for social good. Hannes Kath presented the work “Speeding Up Bioacoustic Data Analysis: Fine-Tuning Read more
On 21 and 22 August 2025, the GROWMORROW FESTIVAL 2025 took place in Oldenburg. Once again, the festival focused on the central question of how to create a sustainable future. Across several stages, experts from science, business and society discussed technological and social developments -covering topics such as artificial intelligence, Read more
DER KLEINE KREIS is a business association based in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, that is committed to actively advancing the region through projects, events, funding, foundations, and the annual awarding of the Oldenburg Business Prize. As a sponsor, they feature AAI, the Endowed professorship and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the Read more
On 11 June, the partners of the MASTER project met in Eibar, Spain, at the facilities of consortium partner Tekniker, organised jointly with ALECOP, for the second official General Assembly meeting. IML was represented by Michael Barz and László Kopácsi. The productive meeting included status reports of the progresses made Read more
From 3rd to 5th June 2025 the 5th Helmholtz AI conference 2025 took place in Karlsruhe. The Helmholtz AI Conference is an annual event focusing on AI in science and research, featuring leading experts discussing advancements and their potential across various fields. Our senior researcher and CST group leader, Dr. Read more
On May 14, 2025, László Kopácsi successfully defended his dissertation before the examination committee of the Doctoral School of Informatics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). His supervisors were Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Sonntag and Dr. habil. András Lőrincz (ELTE). The chair of the examination committee was Dr. Sándor Fridli (ELTE). László Read more
On May 13th, IML senior researcher and CST group leader Dr. Thiago Gouvêa delivered a keynote at the Digital Green Talents Spring School 2025 in Steinbach, sharing insights into interactive machine learning for biodiversity conservation and his team’s achievements in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition. The Spring School, part of the Read more
On April 11, 2025, Michael Barz from IML successfully defended his dissertation before the examination committee of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oldenburg, which included his supervisor Professor Sonntag as well as Professor Krüger and Professor Boll. In his dissertation, he researched new methods for eye-tracking-based Read more
Hasan Alam from the Interactive Machine Learning (IML) Department at DFKI presented our paper, “Towards Interpretable Radiology Report Generation via Concept Bottlenecks using a Multi-Agentic RAG”, at the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), held from April 6–10, 2025 in Lucca, Italy. ECIR is one of the premier Read more