Artificial Intelligence in the Penal System Ensuring security and order in Austrian prisons is a core task of the penal system. In particular, the protection of persons directly involved in the prison system, i.e. inmates and staff, against physical and psychological violence is of essential importance. In 2019, there was an average of one physical … Continue reading KIIS
The Vienna City Library is one of the most important scholarly libraries with a special focus on Vienna. It has also 350,000 posters – the largest collection in Austria – as well as an extensive documentation in the form of newspaper clippings and historical photographs. For details see the Online Catalogue Plakatsammlung | Wienbibliothek im … Continue reading Poster Project
Learned Image Compression With more than 85% of all global internet traffic, image and video data make up the majority of information transmitted via the internet. In particular, the growing market of streaming services together with an increase in video quality are making the availability of highly efficient image and video compression methods a necessity … Continue reading aistream
The Time Machine Lower Austria project is a feasability study within the context of the Time Machine organisation. Its goal is to analyze the data landscape of cultural heritage institutions in Lower Austria and to show possibilities to access and visualize this data. The origin of the data can be from archives, museums, libraries and … Continue reading Time Machine Lower Austria
Sustainable shopping through real-time visualization of product information on mobile devices Unsustainable production practices and excessive consumerism are major drivers of the climate and biodiversity crises, which are two of the most significant challenges of our time. Although more and more people are concerned with the environmental and social impacts of their purchasing habits and … Continue reading EcoShop
Network on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living Europe faces crucial challenges regarding health and social care due to the demographic change and current economic context. Active and Assisted Living (AAL) are a possible solution to face them. AAL aims at improving health, quality of life, and wellbeing of older, impaired … Continue reading Good Brother
IT assisted search and comparison of handwritings IT based solution which allows for the search of similar handwritings to expedite the identification of unknown writers by handwriting experts. Law enforcement agencies possess an extensive collection of handwritten documents. This includes for example documents belonging to open cases and reference samples from suspects and prisoners. Yet, … Continue reading WRITE
Fairness, Bias und Transparenz von Computer Vision Algorithmen Datenbasierte Technologie hat das Ziel, nach gewissen Merkmalen zu diskriminieren, zu klassifizieren und zu unterscheiden. Hierbei muss jedoch zwischen erwünschten und unfairen Formen der Diskriminierung unterschieden werden. In aktuellen und weit verbreiteten Bilddatenbanken wie zum Beispiel dem IMDB Datenset wurde ein geschlechtsspezifischer Bias offengelegt. Das bedeutet, dass … Continue reading FairAlgos
Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications The care of people with cognitive impairment is demanding and requires a high level of personnel and nursing commitment. It is therefore of the utmost importance to develop solutions that can support caregivers in their daily work at an unprecedented level. The project DIANA improves the life and safety … Continue reading DIANA
Investigation of behaviour modelling on the toilet for supporting the autonomous use via guidance In the field of toileting (personal hygiene), there are surprisingly few AAL / supporting technologies and also few projects dealing with this topic. This is all the more surprising, as there is a great need and the visit to a toilet … Continue reading WCBuddy