Research and application of artificial intelligence within the context of visual computing and data analysis is a central theme at VRVis. Through our in-house basic research and the development and implementation of numerous AI-based solutions for the real challenges f our business partners at home and abroad, we have accumulated extensive expertise and already have several patents and a large number of publications in high-impact scientific journals under our belt.
Our strength is our versatility and experience in different sectors and in the most varied applications: Covering medicine and life sciences, business and industrial manufacturing. In addition to new, general approaches for machine learning and deep learning in data analysis, we are also conducting research into AI-supported image-based decision-making, as well as methods for interpretable AI (e.g. for AI-supported assistance systems). The link between AI and visual computing establishes a bridge between computer graphics, visual data analysis and AI. Human beings lie at the heart of all our AI applications, giving the machine instructions (human-centred AI).
Artificial intelligence brings new technological dynamics into many sectors – AI-based applications are currently transforming whole markets. The VRVis portfolio covers the complete pipeline for AI supported data analysis:
Data preparation: The quality of training data in the context of each application is decisive for the quality of the result. Our experience and the use of elementary data sciencemethods, as well as tools that simplify data annotation by experts, are the basis for preparing a sufficient volume of big data and compiling adequate training sets.
Development of tailor-made AI solutions: We developdeep learning and machine learning technologies in close cooperation with our partners and customers in order to design targeted solutions for processing, analysing and visualising large volumes of data and for analyzing images.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Decisions that are made by machines must remain intelligible, reliable and transparent for humans, particularly in sensitive areas such as medicine or in self-driving vehicles ("ethical AI"). We develop methods that make machine behaviour explainable and consequently provide transparency for complex decisions that are made with the aid of artificial intelligence. Our methods therefore also support the evaluation of security and stability of trained networks.
Our research centre has already produced several AI-based applications and patents, as well as high-impact publications in the fields of image analysis and data science, and the areas of application of digital radiology, neuroscience, life science and manufacturing.
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.
The long-term vision of this applied research project is to use available data resources to improve image-based diagnostics based on complex data in daily clinical routine.
In this project we develop new methods from the field of Visual Analysis and Machine Learning to automate the quality control and quality assurance of glass articles.