The industrial sector is a highly challenging field of research and practice due to the digital transformation and rapidly evolving technological advances, making it necessary to bring together technology and human benefits efficiently and meaningfully. The European Digital Innovation Hub "AI5production" has thus set the goal of supporting manufacturing SMEs and mid-size companies in Vienna, Upper Austria, and Lower Austria by providing human-centric AI solutions and related key enabling technologies to strengthen their Industry 4.0 competencies and also to lead them into the age of Industry 5.0 successfully.
Industry 5.0 is a future concept that focuses more on the role and contribution of industry to society as well as the environment. The well-being of employees and the ecological production limits of the earth are as central to this as effectiveness and productivity. Research and innovation are essential drivers of the transformation towards a sustainable, human-centered, and resilient European industry.
Through the hub structure, companies from the EU are offered the opportunity to get in touch with various institutions specializing in artificial intelligence and human-centered digitalization in a very low-threshold way. The innovation services are free of charge for the companies thanks to funding from the European Commission and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labor and Economic Affairs. The research institutions involved in the EDIH provide companies with an established test-before-invest infrastructure and excellent services and support in artificial intelligence, design, digital production, and cybersecurity.
Artificial intelligence has been a buzzword for many years whenever it comes to describing the future of technologization. However, it often remains only this keyword until today, since many companies in business and industry do not really know how artificial intelligence can help them optimize their production processes. In order to change this, VRVis has been working for more than a decade to familiarize corporate and industrial partners with the opportunities and possibilities of AI-based solutions on the one hand, and to provide them with customized AI tools on the other, which they can trust and use responsibly for dealing with their production and other data. As an Austria-wide known human-centered AI lab, which stands out, especially with the combination of visual computing and AI for greater transparency of and trustworthiness in AI technology, for example, in the medical field, VRVis offers the following services for interested companies from all areas of research expertise:
AI5production makes a vital contribution to the goals of the Austrian National Digital Action Plan. One of the hub's primary goals in this regard is to build a robust and interconnected network of SMEs, mid-sized companies, research institutions, and intermediaries that will help the Austrian industry move forward in a sustainable and innovative way. The hub network will also help to share information, develop joint projects, and connect a wide variety of stakeholders. In addition to VRVis and TU Wien, whose Pilot Factory Industry 4.0 is the project coordinator, the following renowned institutions are also involved: JKU Linz, AIT, Ars Electronica Center, CDP, EIT Manufacturing, FILL GmbH, INiTs, LCM, PROFACTOR GmbH, RIC, SBA Research, SCCH, University of Vienna, and Verein Industrie 4.0 Österreich.
Scientific Director | Head of Biomedical Image Informatics Group, Biomedical Image Informatics
buehler(at)vrvis.at +43 1 908 98 92 401Start: 11.2022
End Date: 10.2025
TU Wien Pilotfabrik Industrie 4.0, JKU Linz, AIT, Ars Electronica Center, CDP, EIT Manufacturing, FILL GmbH, INiTS), LCM, PROFACTOR GmbH, RIC, SBA Research, SCCH , Universität Wien, Verein Industrie 4.0 Österreich
EC (Digital Europe Programme) und FFG (BMAW)
Within the framework of “AI for Green”-funded research project develops AI-based solutions aimed at optimizing free satellite data for monitoring agricultural areas of all sizes.
The project REINFORCE researches how reinforcement learning and human-centered visualization methods can be used to solve complex control problems in an efficient, fast, and flexible way.
The research project CognitiveXR focuses on developing a platform that enables cognitive augmentation in the smart city domain by seamlessly integrating augmented reality, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.
With the help of 3D printing (additive manufacturing), spare parts for defective trains can be produced more easily and in a sustainable way as well as faster and cheaper - a great potential for the climate-friendly future of train transport companies.
The aim of the application project IVC Multi is to research novel intelligent visual computing methods supporting decision-making in automotive industry, medicine, and life sciences based on ensembles of heterogeneous, multi-scale and/or multi-temporal data.
The aim of the project IVC Stream is to research novel visual computing solutions for simulation and measurement data.
This project aims at accelerating and automating image-based decision making with an application focus on medicine, recycling and quality assurance processes in manufacturing.
The strategic project of the area is the organizational and scientific hub for the realization of the area-wide intelligent visual computing approach for analytics and modelling based on ensembles of dense grid-based data, derived data, and digital embedding.
The "Mars-DL" project is investigating how a deep learning system can support the research work of planetary scientists through object and pattern recognition. For this project VRVis has extended the functionality of PRo3D to automatically render shatter cone training images.
VRVis a founding member of the Austrian BioImaging/CMI, which is a professional consortium of multiple Austrian science institutions and the official Austrian Euro-BioImaging initiative.