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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.

Rostock’s growth as a location and region for innovative, forward-looking research continues to gain traction.

As every year, the Computer Graphics Night was looking for the brightest minds in visual computing - but this year in an unusual form: The event had to take place completely virtually.

We congratulate Biying Fu on the successful defense of her PhD thesis "Sensor Applications for Human Activity Recognition in Smart Environment"!

We congratulate Christian Altenhofen on the successful defense of his PhD thesis "Volumetric Subdivisions for Efficient Integrated Modeling and Simulation"!

Face recognition has become essential in our daily lives as a convenient and contactless method of accurate identity verification.

Over July 1st and 2nd, a total of 27 representatives from maritime research and industry as well as their interest groups met in Northern Germany at the “Open Innovation” workshop to bring into focus the direction of the Ocean Technology Campus Rostock as a driver of innovation for the region.