On 24th June, our senior researcher Thiago Gouvea attended the FONA-Forum 2026 in Berlin. Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, presented the new strategy “Research for sustainability”. A key objective is to bring cutting-edge research into practical application more quickly. To ensure that good ideas are turned into concrete solutions Read more
We are happy to announce that IML member Duy Nguyen received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026. This is Duy’s second reviever award this year after the one he received from ICML 2026. CVPR honours the high-quality reviews of the Read more
We are happy to announce that IML members Duy Nguyen and Tuan Tran received a Gold Reviewer Award from the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026! ICML is a leading venue for machine learning and AI. It awards the Gold Reviewer status to the top reviewers among thousands for Read more
Hannover Messe is held annually in Hannover on the world’s largest exhibition grounds. This year’s fair highlighted key advancements in industrial development, with a strategic focus on Artificial Intelligence. Representing the IML department at the DFKI booth, Robert Leist showcased the OphthalmoAI project alongside colleagues Siting Liang and Tuan Tran, Read more
We presented a full paper titled “Do You (Dis)agree With Me? Modelling Implicit User Disagreement in Human–AI Interaction Using Gaze Data” at CHI 2026 in Barcelona during the Inferring Human State session. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is generally considered the most prestigious conference in Read more
The No-IDLE project marks the successful launch of the first strategic corridor initiative by DFKI-IML, funded by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR). Completed on March 31, 2026, this three-year endeavor focused on making complex deep learning (DL) methodologies accessible to non-experts through interactive deep learning frameworks. Read more
Our IML department at DFKI was pleased to welcome VinRobotics, an emerging humanoid robotics company from Vietnam, for an exciting exchange on future collaboration and joint research initiatives. This visit marked an important step toward establishing a long-term partnership in research and development, with VinRobotics supporting the setup of advanced Read more
This year’s AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026 marks another important milestone for our group, with two papers accepted to the main conference, including one selected for an oral presentation. The AAAI conference is widely recognized as one of the premier venues in artificial intelligence, known for its competitive selection Read more
This year’s NeurIPS conference in San Diego, USA was a major triumph for IML as they had 4 contributions accepted, inclusive of three full papers and one workshop paper. Three members of the Intelligent Machine Learning (IML) department at DFKI, Duy Nguyen, Tuan Tran, and Md Abdul Kadir, proudly represented Read more
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