On 26 and 27 August 2026, the Growmorrow Festival 2026 took place in Oldenburg. The innovation festival combines high-profile keynotes, inspiring talks and regional success stories. Topics include artificial intelligence, New Work, sustainability, digitalization, energy, health, education and mobility. The DFKI also contributed research from Oldenburg, presenting the Digital Product Read more
The KI2026 conference took place in Bremen from 11–14 August 2026, bringing together researchers, developers, and decision-makers from academia, industry, and public administration to discuss current developments in artificial intelligence. Novruz Mammadli from the University of Oldenburg’s Chair of Applied Artificial Intelligence and the Interactive Machine Learning group, presented “Multi-species Read more
On May 12, 2026, the 16th Career Day—the University of Oldenburg’s internship and job fair—brought together around 50 companies and organizations, offering students valuable insights into student assistant positions, internships, and career opportunities after graduation. The Interactive Machine Learning (IML) and Marine Perception (MAP) research departments participated in the event, Read more
The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) took place from April 23–27, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the world’s leading conferences on deep learning and AI research, showcasing advances in machine learning, computer vision, language processing, and robotics. Trung Nguyen from the Interactive Machine Learning Read more
As part of our research project on trustworthiness of AI and machine learning, we have successfully handed over our cross-domain event extraction system to our partners at Atos SE. The event extraction system is designed to transform unstructured text into structured event representations. Our cross-domain event extraction system effectively handles Read more
László Kopácsi from the Interactive Machine Learning (IML) Department at DFKI presented three demos and a workshop paper at the 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), which took place from March 21 to 25, 2026, in Daegu, Korea. IEEE VR is a leading international venue Read more
In December 2025, our IML member Duy Nguyen conducted a series of invited visits and technical discussions with leading academic and national research institutions in the United States. These visits focused on advancing foundational AI research and establishing long-term collaborations spanning robotics, AI for science, and healthcare AI. Stanford University 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
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