On this page you will find information about the participants of this programme.

TNO

TNO was established by law in 1932 to support companies and governments with innovative, practicable knowledge. As a statutory organization TNO has an independent position that permits it to provide objective, scientifically-founded recommendations to the Dutch government and other representatives of the Dutch people.

Today, TNO is a knowledge organization for companies, government bodies and public organizations. The daily work of approximately 5,400 employees is to develop and apply knowledge. The organization also provides contract research and specialist consultancy as well as grants licenses for patents and specialist software. TNO tests and certifies products and services, and issues an independent evaluation of quality. Moreover, TNO sets up new companies to market innovations.

Areas of expertise for AMI projects
Multimodal information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, human factors, HCI, audio analysis, user-centered design, usability testing, group decision making, computer supported collaborative work.

DFKI

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH  also known as DFKI GmbH) is Germany´s leading research center in the area of innovative software technology for commercial application.

In the international scientific community, DFKI is recognized as one of the most important "Centers of Excellence" in the world for its proven ability to rapidly bring leading edge research to commercially relevant application solutions. DFKI handles Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in an elegant and straightforward way: Results of contract research projects belong to the contractor.

DFKI was founded in 1988 as a nonprofit organization by several renowned German ICT companies and two research facilities. Since then, DFKI GmbH has established a reputation for proactive and customer oriented work and is known both nationally and internationally as a competent and reliable partner for commercial innovation.

Currently, DFKI has 274 employees and 225 student assistants working in its facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and a project office in Berlin. The circle of DFKI industrial partners includes, among others, Daimler AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, SAP AG, IDS Scheer AG, Bertelsmann AG, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Deutsche Post AG and BMW AG. In 2007, the circle has been expanded, adding the participation of Deutsche Messe AG, EADS Astrium GmbH and Ricoh Ltd.

see http://www.dfki.de for more information

Researchers

Tilman BECKER
DFKI GmbH
Saarbrücken Germany

Erik BOERTJES
TNO
Delft NL

Hervé BOURLARD
IDIAP
Martigny CH

Roald DIJKSTRA
University of Twente
Enschede NL

Gerald FRIEDLAND
ICSI
Berkeley USA

Sebastian GERMESIN
DFKI
Saarbrücken Germany

Benedikt HÖRNLER
TUM
Munich Germany

Peter POLLER
DFKI
Saarbrücken Germany

Andrei POPESCU-BELIS
IDIAP
Martigny CH

Marianna PRONOBIS
IDIAP
Martigny CH

Steve RENALS
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh UK

Simon TUCKER
University of Sheffield
Sheffield UK

Vincent WAN
University of Sheffield
Sheffield UK

Community of Interest members

Joanne CELENS
Synthetron
Brussels BE

Jeanette KALTHOF
Synthetron
Gouda NL

Lucas NOLDUS
Noldus Information Technology
Wageningen NL

Herman ROOSKEN
Noldus Information Technology
Wageningen NL

Arjan VAN HESSEN
Telecats
Enschede NL

Friends of AMI

Iddo BANTE
University of Twente
Enschede NL

Paul BURGHARDT
DECIS
Delft NL

Patrick ESSERS
Ericsson Telecommunicatie
Rijen NL

Mael GUILLEMOT
Klewel
Martigny CH

Wim HOFLAND
Sogeti Nederland
Rotterdam NL

BalaKrishna KOLLURU
Candidate for Hire
University of Sheffield

Tuen LUCASSEN
Candidate for Hire
TNO

Gabriel MURRAY
University of British Columbia
Vancouver CANADA

Mark  VAN STAALDUINEN
TNO
Delft NL

Stephen VON RUMP
HeadThere
San Francisco USA