News – DFKI – Interactive Machine Learning Lab

IML presented paper at AlpCHI 2026

Christoph Albert Johns presented our paper “Heads Up!: Towards In Situ Photogrammetry Annotations and Augmented Reality Visualizations for Guided Backcountry Skiing”, at the AlpCHI conference which took place from March 1-5, 2026 in Ascona, Switzerland.  AlpCHI is the inaugural Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conference of the Alpine region which brings together researchers, industry professionals, and academics to exchange ideas and explore new developments in Read more

By Anika Heinen-Hilgemeyer, 1 monthMarch 5, 2026 ago

IML Team Visiting Collaborations & Invited Talks

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 Read more

By Anika Heinen-Hilgemeyer, 4 monthsDecember 22, 2025 ago

Great success for IML at this year’s NeurIPS conference

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 4 monthsDecember 8, 2025 ago

IML on IQON stage at the Growmorrow Festival in Oldenburg

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

By Anika Heinen-Hilgemeyer, 8 monthsAugust 22, 2025 ago

DER KLEINE KREIS features the Endowed Chair AAI

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 9 monthsJuly 9, 2025 ago

MASTER project: General Assembly meeting in Eibar, Spain

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 10 monthsJune 13, 2025 ago

Helmholtz AI conference 2025: IML poster presentation on Coral project

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

By Anika Heinen-Hilgemeyer, 11 monthsJune 3, 2025 ago

Dissertation defense László Kopácsi

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 11 monthsMay 14, 2025 ago

Dissertation defense Michael Barz

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 1 yearApril 11, 2025 ago

ECIR 2025: IML presented new research on interpretable radiology report generation

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

By Franziska Scheurer, 1 yearApril 10, 2025 ago