On November 30th, the renowned Zweibrücken Symposium on Financial Services, which was organized by the Association of Friends of the Study of Financial Services at the University of Zweibrücken e.V. (FFZ e.V.), took place for the 25th time. Under the guiding theme “Transformation and innovation – financial services are moving Read more…
Humans face dilemma because of AIARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Congress in Alte Fleiwa in Oldenburg addresses contradictions – Interview with an expert Whether in care, medicine or schools, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing our everyday lives. In this interview, Prof. Daniel Sonntag from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Read more…
We develop a modularized active learning framework within the Google Cloud Platform, facilitating large-scale medical image annotation in a cost-effective manner while ensuring data sovereignty and privacy. Our work emphasizes a federated learning use case for healthcare data, taking into consideration data protection and security aspects. Our goal is to Read more…
At the DFKI.AI Day, we presented our eye-tracking technology for extended reality headsets, which allows us to record objects viewed by the user. We use modern computer vision algorithms to recognize relevant objects in a scene and compare their position with the user’s gaze in real time. We also presented Read more…
The Software Campus is a prestigious training program for master’s and doctoral students in computer science, preparing them for leadership roles. The program, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is a collaboration between 21 universities, research institutions, and companies. Participants lead their own IT research project, managing Read more…
As one of the special agencies in the United Nations with 193 Member States, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has a Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) located in Geneva, Switzerland. Prof. Sonntag has been invited as an AI technology expert, together with Prof. Urbanke (EPFL) and Read more…
Michael Barz from IML presented the Late Breaking Results (LBR) paper “Detection of contract cheating in pen-and-paper exams through the analysis of handwriting style” by Konstantin Kuznetsov, Michael Barz, and Daniel Sonntag as a poster at ICMI 2023 in Paris. The conference took place at Sorbonne University. In their work, Read more…
The MICCAI Society is a professional organization dedicated to the fields of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions. It brings together researchers from various scientific disciplines such as computer science, robotics, physics, and medicine. The society is renowned for its annual MICCAI Conference, which allows for the presentation and Read more…
IML was represented with two full papers and a short paper at this year’s KI conference in Berlin. “Lost in Dialogue: A Review and Categorisation of Current Dialogue System Approaches and Technical Solutions” by Hannes Kath, Bengt Lüers, Thiago S. Gouvêa, and Daniel Sonntag provides a categorisation of dialogue systems according Read more…
Starting from 1969, IJCAI has remained the premier conference bringing together the international AI community to communicate the advances and achievements of artificial intelligence research. In addition to the main track, this year the authors were able to submit papers to the two multiyear special tracks (AI for Good and Read more…