Spotlights
PICASSO – Soundtrack Recommendation for Images
PICASSO recommends the most appropriate soundtrack, fully automatically, from a user-provided music collection.
YAGO: a Collection of Digital Knowledge
The "YAGO-NAGA" project is an approach to make computers understand data as knowledge, thus extending the abilities of data base search.
Flow Analysis
We developed a novel mathematical approach that allows streak and time lines to be described using ordinary differential equations therewith…
Protein structure and interactions: Bioinformaticssupported fight against viral diseases
Olga Kalinina combines genomic-, modeling-, and biophysics-based methods to assess the mutations observed in given sequences of viral proteins and…
Exact Solving of Polynomial Systems and Applications in Geometric Computing
We could improve the bounds of numerical steps needed to find an exact solution for polynomial systems by multiple orders of magnitude. Given present…
Stereo and HDR Imaging: Display Quality Measurement and Enhancement
For anaglyph 3D pictures we provide a backward compatible solution that is not unpleasant to look at without proper anaglyph glasses.
Computation of Equilibrium Prices
The interrelation between supply and demand is easily described as long as you have just one good. For the complicated calculations in an economy with…
Scalable Analysis of Very Large Datasets
Processing "Big Data" poses new challenges to computer science. At the Max Plack Institute for Informatics, we are investigating algorithms and…
Markerless Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes
Capturing motion pictures and representing them as 3d objects could until now only be efficiently performed by utilizing marker-based camera systems.…
Multiple People Detection in Real-World Scenes
Finding and following people is a key technology for many applications such as robotics and automotive safety, human-computer interaction scenarios,…