News – Spotlights

A new approach enables, for the first time, the creation and control of photorealistic digital avatars based on input from a single, body-worn RGB camera.

A mathematical analysis of widely-used parliamentary seat apportionment methods provides detailed insights into their structural properties and possible adjustments.

A new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.

We use a combination of Inertial Measurement Units and a video camera to extract full-body human movement.

Extract 3D from 2D? How to obtain realistic human 3D models from 2D pictures.

How to make a computer algorithm "know" that its knowledge is limited.

Not all bytes of a video stream require reliable data transfer — We show how to optimize video streaming using a partially reliable transport.

How to streamline geometry processing operations from the ground up in an intuitive and platform-independent manner.

Optimized layout: The new french standard keyboard.

Robust gradient clock synchronization between direct communicating computers in networks.

In January 2018 Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D., formely professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, joined the Institute as the director of the research group: Internet Architecture.

Using distributed algorithms, one can reliably generate and distribute a clock signal in very large systems, enabling unfailing synchronization.

To reduce the energy consumption of flat panel displays one needs hardware-implementable algorithms that manage the pixel control. A patented solution is able to give results very close to the optimum.

The technique PrintScreen enables Jürgen Steimle to print touch-displays. The follow-up PrintSense captures also deformation of the sensor and hovering.

Understanding the meaning of a word in its current context is one of the big challenges when searching for information. STICS is a new kind of semantic search engine that not only searches for words, but for meaning: it understands concepts and categories.