Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics University of L

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Institute for Neuro- and BioinformaticsUniversity
of Lübeck, Germany

• Erhardt Barth and Martin Böhme
• http//www.inb.uni-luebeck.de

COGAIN Kick-Off 5.-6.9.2004 Tampere, Finland
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University of Lübeck

• Founded as a medical university in 1964
• Two colleges Medicine and Technical/Natural
  Sciences
• Courses
• Human Medicine
• Computer Science
• Molecular Biotechnology
• Computational Life Sciences
• 2,300 students, 160 professors, 100 private
  lecturers

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Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics

• Founded in 1999
• Director Prof. Thomas Martinetz
• 4 Postdoctorate Research Associates
• 5 Research Associates and PhD students

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Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics
Neural Networks Machine Learning Pattern
Recognition
Binding Site Recognition
Face Recognition
Computer Vision Human Vision Attention Control
Perception Space Analysis
Decision Support
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Involvement in EU-funded Projects

• COGAIN Communication by Gaze Interaction
• Decisive Models for Decision Support
• MEATSI Erasmus project on Module dEnseignement
  Avancé en Traitement du Signal et des Images

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Information Technology for Active Perception Itap

• In collaboration with
• Allgemeine Psychologie, Gießen(Karl
  Gegenfurtner)
• Sensomotoric Instruments GmbH,Teltow/Berlin
• Siemens AG, Munich

Itap is part of ModKog, a project funded by
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Visual Communication Today

• Same image, but different messages

Figure by M. Dorr, INB
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Itap Idea

• The scan-path and the active component of vision
  should become part of visual communication
  systems.
• Therefore, the scan-path must be sensed, process
  ed, and displayed
• Remote, user-friendly tracking one major
  challenge

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Applications

• Vision-based communications systems
• will be defined not only by brightness and color,
  but will be augmented with a recommendation of
  what to see, of how to view the images
• COGAIN
• Augmented-vision systems
• Attention is directed towards objects or
  features that have been detected by a
  computer-vision system

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Intelligent airbags

• Problems
• Deployment with kids and OoP (harm)
• Useless deployment (cost)

Solution video-based control
OoP Out of Position
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Fatigue and attention measurement
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People involved in COGAIN
Thomas Martinetz
Erhardt Barth
Cicero Mota
Michael Dorr
Christopher Krause
Martin Böhme
Amir Madany