Portfolio
Our work is part of networked thinking and creating!
We act worldwide since we are living in a world of digital media and networked working practices. Together with researchers, artists, cultural institutions, the free scene and local decision-makers we are in a permanent process of brainstorming about the next big things, killer apps, disruptive technologies and cultural changes.
If we find something interesting to work on, we put it on our research agenda which we share with you right here and now.
Think Tank
Bluetuna
A bluetooth-based ad-hoc music sharing application, something like an iPOD + Bluetooth + AI matchmaking technology.
Projects
The C4 is a horizontal unit within the DFKI. We are collecting and promoting projects of the different research labs of DFKI which are related to Computational Culture. Furthermore we undertake projects on our own within C4. The following lists contains projects prior to the foundation of C4 as well as running activities at DFKI.
2006 - 2007 - Amplog
The project aims at developing a visual configuration tool to aggregate weblogs. The manual usage of blog search engines, the subsequent scanning of postings according to structural preferences (short postings, audio included, etc.) and the aggreagtion via standard RSS readers will be obsolete by using the AMPLOG configuration. Furthermore the resulting topic-related metablogs may be converted to portable formats such as podcasts.
2005 - 2007 - Smartweb
The project Smartweb is a BMBF-funded joint project of several academic and industrial partners. It aims at natural-language based mobile access to multimedia assets. The development of a multimedia ontology and (semi)automatic annotation tools is especially interesting for the C4 with respect to applications within media and video arts.
2004 - 2005 - Contigo
Contigo is an R&D-project in the field of pervasive communication. The objective is to provide users with relevant information selected depending on their personal profiles and their current context (in particular their current location). Typical application areas include marketing, gaming, and community building. Contigo has been sponsored by the Deutsche Telekom / T-Labs. Besides DFKI, also T-Systems, cognIT (Oslo), and m-lab (St. Gallen) are working on this project.
2001 - 2005 - Peach
The objective of Peach is that of studying and experimenting with advanced technologies that can enhance cultural heritage appreciation by creating an interactive and personalized guide. The project is funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento under the Fondo Unico program. The two major partners are ITC-irst and DFKI. The DFKI is developing a life-like character technology working on both stationary- and mobile systems in a coherent way.
2004 - 2005 - MP3 Konzert Archiv
The project mp3 konzert archiv was a research study that was held together with students at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2005. The goal of the project was to do inspirational brainstorm and to realise an exhibition on the condition of music and digital audio of today. AI and beauty of design were key issues.
2003 - 2004 - MPeer
We developed a mobile music recommendation system in the project MPeer. The underlying research approach is documented in a german Ph.D Thesis (S.Baumann, Artificial Listening Systems and the Ecological Evaluation of Multimodal Music Similarity Models). The online demonstration is available after registration at site.
Offering
Technology
Tools, Software Development Kits, Media Authoring
. Java
. Matlab
. JavaScript
. Flash
. Processing
. Mobile.Processing
. vvvv
. Reason
. maxMSP
. Lua
Application areas
Typical application areas are centered around digital objects and media assets which are under access by artists, scientists, rightholders and distributors and everyday people, i.e.
. tools to support creative work (e.g. semantic VJing)
. enabling people to interact with cultural heritage (e.g. museum guides)
. access points in the value chain of large-scale entertainment and media consumption (e.g. next generation mobile music players)
. and many more …
Consulting
We offer strategic and creative consulting in each phase of product or project definition including innovative business models and the knowledge about the power of disruptive technologies.
Playground
We offer diverse interactive applications to be included in your event.
Our research has been integrated into music, video browsing, games and
motion-detection devices.
Feel free to send your inquries to stephan.baumann[at]dfki.de.
