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OFAI hosts student intern
Lukas Kornprobst, a local Gymnasium (secondary school) student, joins OFAI this week on a work experience program. OFAI scientific staff will be meeting with him …
Michael Pucher joins OFAI
OFAI welcomes Michael Pucher, who will be project manager of the Vokquant project where methods for dialect speech synthesis will be investigated.
Michael Pucher is …
Remembering "Netizens" in Internet Histories
The 25th anniversary of Netizens, the influential book about Usenet and the Internet, has been commemorated in an article in the journal Internet Histories.
Netizens …
Events
Lecture
Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Christoph Scheepers, University of Glasgow
The “Crossword Effect” in Free Word Recall: A Retrieval Advantage for Words Encoded in Line with their Spatial Associations
Word concepts are known to modulate sensori-motor responses, but it is less understood how sensori-motor actions influence access to word concepts in memory. This phenomenon …
Lecture
Dr. Raphael Deimel, BSc, MSc, TU Wien
Fluent and Intuitive Human–robot Object Handover
Watching humans hand over things, the skill seems trivial. But the smoothness and the ease of interaction is deceiving, as complex, fast and nonverbal communication …
Lecture
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Roman Pflugfelder, TU München / Technion
Fragmented Occlusion in Computer Vision
Computer vision algorithms are stymied by occlusion, the result of information loss when a three-dimensional scene is projected onto a two-dimensional image. A new video …