DFKI Researchers Win Big with 20-Year Impact and Best Paper Awards in AI and Wearable Technology

Congratulations to the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) and its collaborators for winning two prestigious awards, highlighting groundbreaking contributions to AI and wearable technology.

🎉 20-Year Impact Award
Principal Investigator Paul Lukowicz, alongside co-authors Helene Brashear, PhD, Thad Starner, and Holger Junker, received the 20-Year Impact Award for their seminal paper, “Using Multiple Sensors for Mobile Sign Language Recognition.” This pioneering work set a strong foundation for sign language recognition using multi-sensor technology, establishing frameworks that continue to influence mobile and AI-assisted accessibility.

📰 Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/edJBVkJD
📽 Announcement video: https://lnkd.in/e_4dmM4S

🎉 Best Paper Award
The DFKI and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau team, including Lala Ray, Dr. Bo Zhou, Sungho Suh, and Paul Lukowicz, won the Best Paper Award for their innovative research titled “Selecting the Motion Ground Truth for Loose-fitting Wearables: Benchmarking Optical MoCap Methods.” This paper addresses a key challenge in wearable technology, offering a robust benchmarking approach for motion tracking in loose-fitting wearables, which promises to enhance accuracy and usability in real-world applications.

📰 Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/efYqvPW4
📽 Announcement video: https://lnkd.in/ec4Mrw7e

Kudos to all the winners for their outstanding work in advancing AI and wearable tech research!