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Assessing Cognitive Test Performance Using Automatic Digital Pen Features Analysis at UMAP’21

Double or nothing – Alexander Prange will present a paper on “Assessing Cognitive Test Performance Using Automatic Digital Pen Features Analysis” at this year’s ACM UMAP conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In contrast to the paper presented at this year’s CHI, we analyze cognitive assessments solely based on digital pen features, without additional content analysis.

German Standardization Roadmap AI

The German Standardization Roadmap Artificial Intelligence has been published recently in November 2020. In medicine, secure framework conditions have to be created; and the legal context, economy, technical aspects, acceptance, privacy, data security, and ethical aspects have to be taken into account.

In the pAItient project, where DFKI is responsible for secure framework conditions of AI systems, we have now published our first paper that explicitely addresses these aspects and standardisation needs of image preprocessing guidelines which are naturally subject to GDPR and DSGVO.

Tomorrow, “The effects of masking in melanoma image classification with CNNs towards international standards for image preprocessing” will be presented at EAI MedAI 2020 – the International Symposium on Medical Artificial Intelligence.

KI-Para-Mi Kick-off

KI-Para-Mi: Kick-off of the KI-Para-Mi Project (BMBF) as webinar in Munich and Saarbrücken. In KI-Para-Mi, we develop an intelligent personnel planning system for flexible shift scheduling in nursing, which above all takes into account the interests of the employees.

Multimodal Multisensor Interface Trilogy published

Multimodal Multisensor Interface Trilogy published

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces-user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces. This three-volume handbook is written by international experts and pioneers in the field. It provides a textbook, reference, and technology roadmap for professionals working in this and related areas.

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Daniel Sonntag becomes member of the Artificial Intelligence of the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Inc.

Daniel Sonntag becomes member of the German Delegation of Artificial Intelligence of the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Inc.

Main scientific partner institutes include the Future Skills Centre – Ryerson University, the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute, main industrial partners include Element.AI, Zoom.AI, and Roche Canada.

Invited talk at The Future of Work & AI Conference, where experts from Germany and Canada discussed the newest developments in this field, took place on September 18th at the Ontario Investment and Trade Centre.

Contact:
Canadian German Chamber of
Industry and Commerce Inc.
480 University Ave, Suite 1500
Toronto, ON, M5G 1V2 Canada

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces Vol. 2

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Signal Processing Architectures, and Detection of Emotion and Cognition. Volume 2 EDITORS: Oviatt, Sharon; Schuller, Bjorn; Cohen, Philip R; Sonntag, Daniel; Potamianos, Gerasimos; Krueger, Antonio PUBLISHER: Order link at Morgan and Claypool /ACM entry. This is a THREE volume series that presents the definitive state of the art and future directions of the field of Multimodal and Multi-Sensor interfaces.

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KDI closing event

KDI: The KDI project’s closing event took place on September 29, 2017 in the Berlin Museum of Medical History. The ruin of the former Rudolf Virchow Lecture Hall, with its historic charm, presented a unique event location that has made for an unforgettable experience.

Programme:

  • 10:00 – Introduction to clinical data intelligence
  • 11:00 – Organisation of clincial data, data security
  • 12:00 – Application scenarios
  • 15:00 – External speakers
  • 16:00 – Official Demo Event / Internal meeting with DLR and BMWi
  • 17:00 – Farewell

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces

Interakt: The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations. Volume 1 EDITORS: Oviatt, Sharon; Schuller, Bjorn; Cohen, Philip R; Sonntag, Daniel; Potamianos, Gerasimos; Krueger, Antonio PUBLISHER: Morgan and Claypool/ACM Press. This is a THREE volume series that presents the definitive state of the art and future directions of the field of Multimodal and Multi-Sensor interfaces.

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Kognit Science Events in 2015

KDI: in The science events that shaped 2015 (Nature)

US President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative:
Tailoring treatments to individual patients has long been a goal in biomedicine, but US President Barack Obama gave this effort a big boost with his announcement in January of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). As part of the US$215-million programme, which will award its first grants next year, the NIH and partner organizations will recruit one million people across the country, collecting genetic information, health records and even data from electronic health-monitoring devices. Researchers will use the information to look for links between disease risk and genetic and environmental factors.

Medical CPS architecture

EIT MCPS: Presentation of full Medical CPS architecture at CBMS 2014 in New York, Mount Sinai Hospital
The Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Activity at EIT: A Look under the Hood
Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), IEEE 2014
Contact: Daniel Sonntag, DFKI

ERmed: Evaluation

ERmed: First evaluation on the ability to accurately focus on virtual icons in each of several focus planes despite having only monocular depth ques, confirming the viability of these methods for interaction.

ERmed Evaluation ELTE

ERmed: Second evalution at ELTE in Budapest focussing on self-calibrating eye-tracking, robust gaze-guided object recognition and how “artifical salience” can modulate the gaze (un)consciously.

ERmed Eye Gaze ELTE

ERmed: In Budapest, Takumi and Jason work on a combination of eye gaze and dynamic text management that allows user centric text to move along a user’s path in realtime.

First Demo of THESEUS MEDICO Radpeech at ISI Erlangen

First Demo of THESEUS MEDICO Radpeech at ISI Erlangen.

Professor Alexander Cavallaro’s vision of the educated lymphoma patient of the future is very different from today’s patient, who carries the computed tomography (CT) images of his lungs and abdomen home on a CD or DVD after a routine radiological examination.

How semantic technologies can be applied to medicine was illustrated by the THESEUS MEDICO research project, which brought together radiologists from the University of Erlangen, experts from the German Research Center on Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), as well as researchers from Siemens, the Fraunhofer Society, and TUM (Technische Universität München). “MEDICO” was one of several cases put forward for the use of the THESEUS research program, which was initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2007, in order to support technologies for an “Internet of services.

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Radspeech, the radiology workstation on the iPad (in German)