The Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) is a central research unit of the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum. We aim to understand the fundamental principles
through which organisms generate behavior and cognition while linked to
their environments through sensory systems and while acting in those
environments through effector systems. Inspired by our insights into
such natural cognitive systems, we seek new solutions to problems of
information processing in artificial cognitive systems. We draw from a
variety of disciplines that include experimental approaches from
psychology and neurophysiology as well as theoretical approaches from
physics, mathematics, electrical engineering and applied computer
science, in particular machine learning, artificial intelligence, and
computer vision.