The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (German: ''Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz'', DFKI) is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes for

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based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of

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, Lübeck,

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, Osnabrück,

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and Berlin. DFKI shareholders include Google, Microsoft, SAP and

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. The directors are Antonio Krüger (CEO) and Helmut Ditzer (CFO).

Research

DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including

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and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics. DFKI led the national project

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, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.

Branches

There are different research departments.

Kaiserslautern

* Embedded Intelligence (Paul Lukowicz) * Augmented Vision (Didier Stricker) * Innovative Factory Systems (Martin Ruskowski) * Intelligent Networks (Hans Dieter Schotten) * Smart Data & Knowledge Services (Andreas Dengel) * Data Science & its Applications (Sebastian Vollmer)

Saarbrücken

* Cognitive Assistants (Antonio Krüger) * Institute for Information Systems (Peter Loos) * Agents and Simulated Reality (Philipp Slusallek) * Multilinguality and Language Technology (Josef van Genabith) * Algorithmic Business and Production (Jana Koehler) * Smart Service Engineering (Wolfgang Maaß)

Bremen

* Robotics Innovation Center (Frank Kirchner) * Cyber Physical Systems (

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)

Berlin

* Interactive Textiles (

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) * Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data - Smart Data ( Volker Markl) * Speech and Language Technology ( Sebastian Möller) * Educational Technology Lab (Niels Pinkwart)

Osnabrück

* Plan-Based Robot Control (Joachim Hertzberg) * Smart Enterprise Engineering (Oliver Thomas)

Oldenburg

* Marine Perception (Oliver Zielinski) * Interactive Machine Learning (Daniel Sonntag)

Lübeck

* AI in Biomedical Signal Processing (Alfred Mertins) * AI in Medical Imaging (Heinz Handels) * Stochastic Relational AI in Healthcare (Ralf Möller)

Darmstadt

* Systems Artificial Intelligence ( Kristian Kersting) * Systems AI for Robot Learning ( Jan Peters) * Systems AI for Decision Support (Carsten Binnig)

Notes

External links

Official website

Professor Wolfgang Wahlster Profile
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