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Meiling Fang, research assistant in the department "Smart Living and Biometric Technologies" successfully defended her dissertation on 21 April 2023 - congratulations!

Julian von Wilmsdorff, research assistant in the department "Smart Living and Biometric Technologies" successfully defended his dissertation on 28 November 2022 - congratulations!

As every year, the Computer Graphics Night was looking for the brightest minds in visual computing. This year, however, the event had to take place completely virtually again.

On 14 September 2022 the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) awarded young researchers for their outstanding works in the area of biometrics. An international jury chose 3 candidates out of a broad range of submitted high quality papers to present their significant contribution in front of the jury, the EAB members and the public audience in a virtual meeting.

Fraunhofer IGD congratulates Professor Dr. Arjan Kuijper, Research Coach at the Institute! Professor Kuijper has been elected President of the Executive Committee of the IAPR. The IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) is a worldwide association of non-profit and scientific organizations broadly concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision (CV) and image processing.

Oral health issues like tooth decay affect billions of people worldwide. The early detection as well as the treatment of those problems is an important part of today's healthcare.

The thriving field of Smart Environments has allowed computing devices to gain new capabilities and develop new interfaces, thus becoming more and more part of our lives.

Today a widespread deployment of Augmented Reality (AR) systems is only possible by means of computer vision frameworks like ARKit and ARCore, which abstract from specific devices, yet restrict the set of devices to the respective vendor.

Biometric verification refers to the automatic verification of a person’s identity based on their behavioural and biological characteristics.

Fraunhofer IGD congratulates Professor Dr. Arjan Kuijper, Research Coach at the Institute! Professor Kuijper has been re-elected Secretary of the Executive Committee of the IAPR.