WestAI - AI Service Center West

Förderprogramm KI7_Aufbau von KI-Servicezentren

Duration: 11/2022 - 12/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schmalenströer

SAIL: SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems

Current systems that incorporate AI technology mainly target the introduction phase, where a core component is training and adaptation of AI models based on given example data. SAIL’s focus on the full life-cycle moves the current emphasis towards sustainable long-term development in real life. The joint project SAIL addresses both basic research ...

Duration: 08/2022 - 07/2026

Funded by: MKW NRW

TRR 318 - Constructing Explainability

In unserer digitalen Gesellschaft nehmen die algorithmischen Ansätze (wie das maschinelle Lernen) rasant an Komplexität zu. Diese erschwert es den Bürger:innen, die Assistenz nachzuvollziehen und die von Algorithmen vorgeschlagenen Entscheidungen zu akzeptieren. Als Antwort auf diese gesellschaftliche Herausforderung hat die Forschung begonnen, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

TRR 318 - Technically enabled explanation of speaker traits (Subproject C06)

A voice might be described as hoarse, or it may be clear, deep, or breathy. Researchers in Project C06 are looking at issues of how different vocal traits sound, and how a voice can be represented in all of its many facets. Here, linguists and computer scientists are working to develop an intelligent system that professionals can use to explain the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

Technically Enabled Explaining of Speaker Traits

The speech signal is a rich source of informa­tion that conveys linguistic but also what is termed para- or extralinguistic content, revea­ling a speaker’s identity, gender, emotional or cognitive state, age, and health. These traits have been the subject of many investigations in phonetics, but due to the high complexity of the underlying ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG