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 Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

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

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, Oldenburg,

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and

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. DFKI shareholders include

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

Research

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

image An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensio ...

and

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphics ...

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

, intelligent

visualization Visualization or visualisation may refer to: * Visualization (graphics), the physical or imagining creation of images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message * Data visualization, the graphic representation of data * Information visuali ...

and

simulation A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of Conceptual model, models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or proc ...

, deduction and

multi-agent system A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Jang, I.; Arvin, F.; Lanzon, A.,A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework fo ...

s, speech- and

language technology Language technology, often called human language technology (HLT), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. Working with language technology often requires broa ...

, intelligent

user interface In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine f ...

s, business informatics and

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

. DFKI led the national project

Verbmobil Verbmobil was a long-term interdisciplinary Language Technology (esp. Machine Translation) research project with the aim of developing a system that could recognize, translate and produce natural utterances and thus "''translate spontaneous speech r ...

, 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 Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher. Career In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral researc ...

) * Speech and Language Technology (

Sebastian Möller Sebastian Möller (born 1968) is an expert for quality of experience and speech technology. Biography Sebastian Möller studied electrical engineering at the universities in Bochum (Germany), Orléans (France) and Bologna (Italy). From 1994 to 20 ...

) * 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 Kristian Kersting (born November 28, 1973 in Cuxhaven, Germany) is a German computer scientist. He is Professor of Artificial intelligence and machine learning, Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt, Department of ...

) * 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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