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 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
The first Open Call in the MASTER project from the beginning of 2024 is now followed by the second one, published on 7 April. The MASTER project partners are seeking educational institutions and SMEs interested in creating XR-based educational content and testing the MASTER platform and technologies with real learners. 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 30th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2025 took place in Cagliari (Italy) from 24th to 27th March. The IUI is the premier venue for research and developments on intelligent user interfaces. With nine contributions, IML was very prominently represented at this year’s conference. At the workshop Read more