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Facial recognition, gesture tech leads the way

Facial recognition, gesture tech leads the way

...can be tricky and imprecise. The Shore facial-detection system, from the Fraunhofer research organisation, is designed to identify and catalogue people's changing emotions... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Europe pumps £8.5m into hardware-agnostic apps

...in total. The international research consortium developing Webinos is led by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany and has more than 20 partners, including the University... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Jack Clark
Ultrasound Research Offline App by <endeca_term>Fraunhofer</endeca_term> IBMT 1.0

Ultrasound Research Offline App by Fraunhofer IBMT 1.0

...imaging. Existing solutions provide image display based on DICOM image data but Fraunhofer IBMT is raising the bar with full ultrasound signal processing done on... Read more

26 February, 2012
CeBIT: Portrait-drawing robot finds its muse

CeBIT: Portrait-drawing robot finds its muse

...take her photo before drawing a portrait.This story originally appeared as Fraunhofer's artistic robot at CeBIT (photos) on CNET News. Image credit: Stephen... Read more

8 March, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Researchers crack CMOS sensor ultraviolet problem

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have come up with a way to make CMOS image sensors... Read more

24 February, 2011

European cloud project plots OpenStack move

...include BT, Atos, Umea University, SAP, Universität Stuttgart, ICCS, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Fraunhofer SCAI, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Flexiant, City University London, Arsys and... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

£3m project seeks to define privacy for EC

...on 1 February, was announced on Thursday by German research body the Fraunhofer Institute. The project, which has a budget of €3.6m (Â... Read more

23 March, 2012

Photos: Print-at-home chocolate to robot snakes - 10 weirdest items made by 3D printers

...to use 3D printers to produce artificial blood vessels. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany want to print artificial blood vessels so they can... Read more

1 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

BBC lets listeners adjust Wimbledon sound balance

...match. The NetMix player, jointly developed by the BBC and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, was announced on Tuesday in a blog post by Rupert Brun... Read more

1 July, 2011

MPs: Tech hubs should be 'Turing Centres'

...under the aegis of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Fraunhofer Institute In a report laid before parliament on Thursday, the House of... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Researchers demo iPhone passwords hack

...needing to know the passcode. Researchers from German engineering and research firm Fraunhofer tested the hack on an iPhone 4 and iPad 3G running iOS... Read more

10 February, 2011

Government kickstarts push to turn R&D into products

...would support a network of technology and innovation centres, modelled on the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. A BIS spokesperson said on Friday that the department... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Photos: Gesture controls, eye-tracking tech and facial recognition

...looking through the front window. The interactive shop window, produced by the Fraunhofer research organisation, is an interactive computer system that allows shoppers to discover... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Nick Heath
TOURGAME 1.0

TOURGAME 1.0

...Dann haben wir eine Lsung fr Sie.Das Team der Verkehrslogistik des Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund hat fr die drei gngigsten Planungsprobleme der Logistik iPad... Read more

17 September, 2011
DISGAME 1.0

DISGAME 1.0

...Dann haben wir eine Lsung fr Sie.Das Team der Verkehrslogistik des Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund hat fr die drei gngigsten Planungsprobleme der Logistik iPad... Read more

17 September, 2011

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