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The HumanTech project, under the coordination of DFKI Augmented Vision – Dr. Jason Rambach, has reached another key milestone with a highly productive General Assembly Meeting held from 5 to 6 September 2024 at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus, Ireland. As the project is on its final path toward completion next year, this meeting marked an important step in aligning strategies and objectives for the remaining phases.

The overall status of the project shows that everything is progressing as planned, with the pilots well on track and providing a solid foundation for both achieving the current project goals and supporting future research and development initiatives. Additionally, participants enjoyed a guided tour and live demonstration at TUS’s state-of-the-art robotics department, showcasing cutting-edge technology that will play a crucial role in advancing AI applications in the construction industry.

For more on HumanTech: https://humantech-horizon.eu/news/

Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach

We are glad to announce that our paper, Text2CAD: Generating Sequential CAD Models from Beginner-to-Expert Level Text Prompts has been accepted as a spotlight presentation at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024. The project page is available here. Our research introduces the first AI framework to generate sequential CAD designs from text prompts that include numerical parameters. We look forward to presenting our work in Vancouver, Canada.

Contact: muhammad_zeshan.afzal@dfki.de , mohammad.khan@dfki.de

Dr. Jason Rambach, coordinator of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech , participated in the “Digital Twins for Sustainable Construction” session at the Sustainable Places conference in Luxembourg (23.9-27.9) organized by projects of the Tech4Construction cluster.

Dr. Rambach presented results from the Project HumanTech, focusing on the automated Scan-to-BIM problem. In addition, he was a panel member for the ensuing discussion together with coordinator and members of other ongoing projects in construction and building management such as RobetArme, Beeyonders, InCube and Reincarnate.

Workshop schedule: https://www.sustainableplaces.eu/sp2024/exploring-digital-twins-machine-human-collaboration-and-sustainable-construction/

HumanTech project:     https://humantech-horizon.eu/                                                           

Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach

The Network of Excellence dAIEDGE held its General Assembly meeting on September 5^th and 6th, looking back at the achievements of the last 12 months, and preparing the next steps of the network! It’s been two days full of inspiration and breakthroughs in Heraklion, Crete!

The 36 dAIEDGE partners gathered to share achievements and define the roadmap towards our big goal: To make Europe a world leader in AI and data economy!

During this event, we reinforced our strategic partnerships and strengthened our joint commitment to take technological innovation to another level.

A big thank to our partner ICS-FORTH for being exceptional hosts and making this assembly an unforgettable experience.

We continue to move forward together towards a bright future of innovation and growth!

Coordinator: Dr. Alain Pagani

Project Manager : Dr. Mohamed Selim

We are very happy that our paper “CLEO: Continual Learning of Evolving Ontologies” has been accepted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). A preprint of our work can be found here. The paper is a joint work with ZF Friedrichshafen AG and describes some results of our collaboration.

We are proud to announce that our paper “RMS-FlowNet++: Efficient and Robust Multi-scale Scene Flow Estimation for Large-Scale Point Clouds” by Ramy Battrawy, René Schuster, and Didier Stricker has been published in the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). The online version of the paper can be found here a preprint is available here. The paper extends our previous work on efficient scene flow estimation in dense point clouds that has been published at ICRA 2022.

The team of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech , consisting of Mahdi Chamseddine and Dr. Jason Rambach from DFKI Augmented Vision as well as Fabian Kaufmann from RPTU Kaiserslautern – department of Civil Engineering, received the 3^rd place prize in the Scan-to-BIM challenge of the (Computer Vision in the Built Environment) CV4_AEC Workshop of the CVPR 2024 conference.

On the 18.6, the team presented their solution and results as part of the workshop program. Scan-to-BIM solutions are of great importance for the construction community as they automate the generation of as-built models of buildings from 3D scans, and can be used for quality monitoring, robotic task planning and XR visualization, among other applications.

HumanTech project:     https://humantech-horizon.eu/

CV4AEC Workshop page: https://cv4aec.github.io/                                                     

Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach  , Mahdi Chamseddine

The 6th workshop on Safe Artificial Intelligence for All Domains was held this year in conjunction with CVPR in Seattle. René Schuster is a permanent member of the program committee since 2020.

We are excited to share that the Augmented Vision group got two papers accepted at the IEEE conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024), the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. FG 2024 took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from the 27^th to 31^st of May. 

Homepage: https://fg2024.ieee-biometrics.org/ 

The accepted papers are: 

1. SynthSL: Expressive Humans for Sign Language Image Synthesis 

Jilliam Maria Diaz Barros, Chen-Yu Wang, Jameel Malik, Abdalla Elsayed Abdou Elsayed Mohamed Arafa, Didier Stricker 

2. In-Domain Inversion for Improved 3D Face Alignment on Asymmetrical Expressions 

Jilliam Maria Diaz Barros, Jason Raphael Rambach, Pramod Murthy, Didier Stricker 

Contact: Jilliam Diaz Barros, Dr. Jason Rambach 

The 4^th IEEE Workshop On AI Hardware: Test, Reliability And Security (AI-TREATS) held on May 23^th and 24^th 2024 was a great success!

The event, co-located with the 29th IEEE European Test Symposium, explored the recent advances in edge AI under the aspects of security, trust and testing. The workshop gathered many researchers with 15 presented papers, and a keynote by Prof. Yanjing Li (University of Chicago, USA).

On the opening day, Alain Pagani participated to a Panel Discussion about Networks of Excellence on Edge AI in Europe. Together with Mateo Sonza Reorda (Politecnico di Torino Italy, FAIR project) and Ovidiu Vermesan (SINTEF, Norway, EdgeAI project), he could present dAIEDGE  and the main aspects of the Network of Excellence on Edge AI.

The workshop chaired by Annachiara Ruospo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Haralampos Stratigopoulos (Sorbonne Universtié, France) was co-sponsored and co-organised by FAIR, dAIEDGE and EdgeAI

Many thanks to the all participants!