The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)


The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) was founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership. It has research facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken and Bremen, Niedersachsen, laboratories in Berlin and Darmstadt, and branch offices in Lübeck and Trier. In the field of innovative commercial software technology using Artificial Intelligence, DFKI is the leading research centre in Germany. 

Based on application-oriented basic research, DFKI develops product functions, prototypes and patentable solutions in the field of information and communication technology. Research and development projects are conducted in 27 research departments, nine competence centres and eight living labs. The department Augmented Vision focuses on the development of new approaches in the areas of body pose tracking, sensor fusion, XR, and neural rendering. 

Project members

Didier Stricker

Scientific Director

Bertram Taetz

Senior Researcher

Hamoun Heidarshenas

Researcher

Pragati Jaiswal

Researcher

Marcel Rogge

SResearcher

Johanna Goerzen

Research Assistant