Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT
The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT is one of 76 institutes and research facilities of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the world's leading organization for application-oriented research.
The director of the institute is Professor Joachim Bös.
Headquarters Ilmenau
The institute's headquarters are located on the campus of the Technical University in Ilmenau, Thuringia. The institute has more than twenty years of internationally recognized expertise in the fields of psychoacoustics and electroacoustics, audio technology, multimodal analysis of audio and video data, media forensics and machine learning methods.
Under the claim “Where AI means Audio Intelligence”, everything at the headquarters in Ilmenau revolves around the secure and efficient AI-based recognition and classification of audio and video data. Our solutions are used, for example, in industrial sound monitoring, media forensic analysis, music classification and recommendation, broadcasting and media applications as well as environmental and biodiversity monitoring. An important aspect in the collection, evaluation, storage and transmission of data is the trustworthy handling of this information. To this end, the institute develops the necessary tools to ensure the protection of sensitive company and machine data as well as personal data.
Another focus is the development of customized solutions for the production and reproduction of authentic and spatial sound experiences for the professional audio, entertainment and automotive sectors. In addition, the institute is working on processes for the active improvement and targeted generation of sound fields, which can be used, for example, in the lightweight construction of vehicles to reduce unwanted noise.
Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA
At the Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA, located in Oldenburg, researchers are working to transpose scientific findings related to hearing perception and man-machine interaction into technological applications.
In Oldenburg, the Institute’s applied research focuses on the enhancement of sound quality and speech intelligibility, personalized audio reproduction, automatic speech recognition and acoustic event detection based on artificial intelligence. Another focus is on the use of mobile neurotechnologies, which facilitate the recording of brain activity and the use of its resulting data outside the laboratory, too.
Application fields include consumer electronics, transport, the automotive sector, industrial production, security, telecommunications, and healthcare.
More than 200 employees, doctoral candidates, students and trainees from more than 18 nations currently work at the Ilmenau headquarters and the Oldenburg branch of the Institute for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA.
The Fraunhofer IDMT maintains close research collaborations with various universities, works in several Fraunhofer-internal research networks and is a member of over 50 regional, national and international associations and committees.