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
Researchers from IML Oldenburg, together with doctoral students from the Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) department at the University of Oldenburg, have reached the finals of XPRIZE Rainforest, a global competition that promotes innovative technologies for researching, assessing and conserving biodiversity in tropical rainforests. As part of the Brazilian Team, they Read more
Sara-Jane Bittner, from the Interactive Machine Learning department, presented a demo paper at the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024). UMAP is an annually held premier conference for researchers and working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, Read more
Artificial Intelligence will increasingly change our healthcare system. To prepare doctors for this change and involve them in the process, the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) will develop a positioning on the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (“Entwicklung der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Gesundheitsversorgung”). The expert talks serve to accumulate Read more