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…
The Hannover Messe (HM; “Hanover Fair”) is one of the world’s largest trade fairs, dedicated to the topic of industry development. It usually attracts 100,000-200,000 visitors every year. At the exhibition stand of DFKI Lower Saxony, Professor Sonntag demonstrated the role of applied AI in enhancing the regional innovative strength. He exchanged ideas with 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…
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…
The biodiversity crisis is maybe the most pressing issue of our time, which makes measuring the biodiversity an important precursor for improvement. Biodiversity assessment is limited by data management and analysis tools. Prior work has approached this problem by exploring the space of tools that can aide workflows of biodiversity Read more…
Detecting animal sounds is an essential aspect of scientific research and conservation efforts. It provides valuable insights into biodiversity, species behavior, and ecosystem health. Monitoring of terrestrial and marine wildlife is a way to decrease biodiversity loss and improve species conservation. To achieve this goal passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is Read more…