Member of the DLR Executive Board visits Ulm
Last week, Prof. Dr Karsten Lemmer, DLR Executive Board Member for Innovation, Transfer and Science, and his team visited the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security in Ulm. The focus was on the strategy and development status of our institute - we are currently in our third year of existence. Using the ongoing Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project as an example, we looked at the research area of Safety-Critical Data Infrastructures and Privacy Enhancing Technologies, discussed planned transfer activities and presented a Knowledge Graph Live Demonstrator.
Using camera images of moving traffic as an example, Maximilian Stäbler, a doctoral researcher at the Institute for AI Safety and Security, showed how pre-trained neural networks can be used to classify objects and also gain a contextual understanding of the individual objects in relation to each other. The time-dependent knowledge graph built for this purpose takes into account every single frame of the video sequence, i.e. it not only provides explicit descriptions, but also dynamically maps the positions of the objects. On this basis, dangerous situations (possible collisions) can be predicted, traffic can be regulated by traffic lights or a rescue operation can be automatically coordinated in an emergency. In principle, the principle of the Knowledge Graph can also be applied to other areas of application to correlate different types of dynamic sensor data - traffic is just one example.
Under the direction of Frank Köster, the Institute for AI Safety and Security coordinates the Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project family, an international Gaia-X lighthouse project consisting of 6 projects funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). In addition to horizontal networking to create synergies, the Institute actively pursues external international networking and transfer to industry.