The competence center “Interactive Engineering Technologies” develops concepts and software for supporting the virtual product development process. Over the past years, capabilities of virtual product development tools increased dramatically, allowing for increasingly complex product ideas and designs. However, new questions continuously arise in the area of computer-assisted product development:

Visual analytics, semantics visualization and real-time – these are the topics of our department „Information Visualization and Visual Analytics“ (formerly „Real-time Solutions for Simulation and Visual Analytics“). The interdisciplinary team around Dr. Jörn Kohlhammer conducts research and develops solutions for the interactive visualization of big data, so called visual analytics technologies, solutions for semantics visualization and real-time solutions for the simulation, visualization and rendering of data.

Since over 15 years our team of more than 20 researchers is developing technology in the field of “Virtual Reality” (VR) and “Augmented Reality” (AR). Thereby we are integrating our research results into the VR/AR system instantReality which is used by many industrial and academic customers. A test version of instantReality as well as documentation of the software framework is available on www.instantreality.org.

Digital geographic data constitutes an indispensable basis for our information society. The Spatial Information Management competence center offers expertise and innovative technologies that enable successful communication and efficient cooperation with the help of geographic information.

The “Cognitive Computing and Medical Imaging” Competence Center develops innovative processes and prototypes in the medical field. New software solutions have greatly changed medicine in the last few years. Imaging procedures in particular make the daily work of doctors easier and have earned a firm place in everyday hospital routines.

Not least due to the change in ID laws and the inclusion of biometric characteristics in IDs, the topic of biometrics has become increasingly important in the past years. We have been developing and working in this seminal technology field since the mid 1990's. Biometrics deals with recognition of humans by a machine: the machine draws on certain physical characteristics with which it recognizes any person already known to the machine.

The goal of the team's research and development work is to create solutions for the needs-based and context-related provision of documents − the right document just when it is needed − and the work with these documents.

Fraunhofer IDM@NTU is a project center that is operated jointly by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Fraunhofer IGD in Singapore. Back in 1998, Fraunhofer IGD together with NTU founded the Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAMTech), which has since been converted into Fraunhofer IDM@NTU.

Fraunhofer IGD's “Maritime Graphics“ Competence Center develops solutions for the maritime economy. Under the expert direction of Dr. Uwe von Lukas, we help design and apply interactive computer graphics in all areas of the maritime industry.

Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH is a not-for-profit research organization serving the public good. The "Visual Computing" business unit of Fraunhofer Austria operates in Graz.

Visual Computing means the image- and model based IT Science. Subitems are virtual- and augmented reality, computer graphics and computer vision. Fraunhofer IGD is the world leading research facility for allied visual computing. The VCST team was founded with the aim of bringing the basic technologies of Fraunhofer IGD to other researchers and also to industrial partners.