Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB

Projects and products

Our research and development work happens within the framework of projects - these include equally R&D contracts with industrial customers, publicly funded (collaborative) research projects, and pre-competitive research projects funded by Fraunhofer. You can browse through many of these projects below - as well as products, i.e. results of our R&D activities that have reached a high level of technological maturity.

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  • Intelligent video surveillance enhances safety and privacy

    Pilot project in Mannheim: Algorithm-based video surveillance in public spaces to combat street crime

    For the “Intelligent Video Surveillance“ project, Fraunhofer IOSB's VID department is developing a system that can detect possible crimes based on movement patterns and alert police officers in the command and situation center. Facial recognition is not part of the solution approach.

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  • AI Development: Precision and Reliability for Sensitive Applications

    We develop and implement AI systems specifically designed for domains with strict security and compliance requirements. Our focus is on customized AI architectures that meet the highest standards of accuracy, transparency, and methodological traceability, enabling us to design data-driven processes that are both information-secure and efficient.

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  • ResilVerbund

    ResilVerbund – Digital resilience tools for interconnected systems as a contribution to a future-proof drinking water supply

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    The ResilVerbund project focuses on the AI-supported monitoring and forecasting of biodiversity and water quality in drinking water reservoirs.

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  • ARGoS - Augmented Retrieval and Generation Services

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    ARGoS is an Intelligent Information Management for Coalition Shared Data (CSD). Our ARGoS approach enhances the existing metadata search in CSD servers with a unified multimodal search over product content. This enables users to search directly for relevant information within, for example, reconnaissance reports and imagery.

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  • InnoTeer: Recycle material from roads sustainably

    Fraunhofer develops recycling process for tar-containing road debris

    In the "InnoTeer" project, the Fraunhofer Institutes IBP, IML, IOSB and UMSICHT are now developing a multistage process to efficiently process tar-containing road debris in decentralized plants, because about 3.3 million tons of tar-containing road debris are produced in Germany every year: Two million tons of it end up in landfills.

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  • 3D reconstruction

    Automatic support of situation detection with mini drones

    Correct decisions are the result of accurate, precise knowledge of the situation and correct assessment of the options for action. The more urgent the situation is, the more difficult it is to react to and the less a second chance is to be expected.

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  • Eur3ka – Manufacturing as a Service for fast pandemic reaction

    Repurposing and networking of available production capacities and capabilities to cope with global production crises

    Manufacturing as a Service – Eur3ka – Network for Fast Pandemic Reaction
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    The aim of the H2020 project is the digital management of production capacities for the development of flexible supply chains between consumers and producers - especially for rapid response to pandemics.

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  • Sorting with AI

    How deep learning is already revolutionizing sensor-based sorting

    Our research focuses on optimizing sorting systems through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which outperform conventional image processing algorithms.

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