The offices and labs at the Darmstadt location occupy over 8,000 square meters of floorspace. Here, more than 100 full-time staff members work on research assignments and are aided in their work by about 250 research assistants. Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt is organized by topic into eight competence centers and one service center.
more info The Rostock location can look back on almost 30 years of research work. Since its founding in January 1992, Rostock has consistently built on its already well-established expertise in Visual Computing, which covers the areas of multimedia communication, systematic handling of knowledge, mobile multimedia applications, and entertainment. It also provides solutions and applications that aid the interaction between humans and computers.
more info The Fraunhofer family welcomed a new member in November 2008. The project office of Fraunhofer IGD founded at the Technical University of Graz in 2007 has now been transferred to the “Visual Computing” business unit of Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH. The Fraunhofer Graz location is therefore now a fellow subsidiary of Fraunhofer IGD. In the fields of graphic data processing, computer vision and augmented reality, researchers are developing targeted solutions and new products to make working with the computer easier for users.
more info Since May 2010, the Fraunhofer Project Centre for IDM@NTU (Fraunhofer IDM@NTU) has formed the new Fraunhofer Research Center in Singapore. Back in 1998, Fraunhofer IGD, together with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), founded the Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAMTech) at the university's campus in Singapore. The project center is a fellow subsidiary of Fraunhofer IGD. With this center, both founding organizations have continued the successful tradition of collaboration.
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