Imagine being able to try on different clothes on a virtual avatar and see how they look from every angle. Or adjusting the direction your pet is looking in your favorite photo. You could even change the perspective of a landscape picture. These types of photo edits have always been…
AI tools like ChatGPT are currently taking the world by storm, but these systems come with risks of their own. They can, for example, reinforce racial prejudice, they can be used for novel forms of cyberattacks or they can simply generate inaccurate responses or misleading information. Due to the complexity…
It's a mind sport that many people don't know about, but which is easily comparable to well-known disciplines such as chess or Go in terms of excitement and complexity - competitive programming. It involves solving highly complicated algorithmic problems under time pressure. A team of computer science students from Saarland…
Joint press release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google Germany In June, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and Google have announced a strategic research partnership to start the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the Max Planck…
Hans-Peter Seidel, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Honorary Professor at Saarland University, has been honored by the world's largest computer science association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his seminal contributions to the research field of computer graphics. To be elected into…
