Welcome to the Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) -
a central research institute at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum in
Germany.
Neurocomputing is concerned with fundamental problems of information processing that are solved by organisms and their nervous systems. Artificial autonomous systems are confronted with these same problems. Our goal is to understand the organizational principles through which nervous systems solve these problems and to form these principles into new solutions to problems of information processing in technical systems. We do this around the exemplary areas of artificial action (autonomous robotics), artificial perception (computer vision) and artificial cognition. Industrial applications are pursued in driver assistance systems, face recognition, medical engineering, and geophysical remote sensing. Our methods come primarily from the mathematical theory of neural networks, the theory of stochastic dynamical systems, and the theory of learning.
The goal of this group is to lay the foundations for a theory
of embodied cognition through a number of exemplary studies.
These are chosen so as to provide access to important basic properties
of embodied cognitive systems.
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This group focuses on principles of self-organization in neural systems,
mainly the visual system but also the hippocampus. It also has a side
track in signal processing, e.g. blind source separation.
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Once fully developed, Organic Computing will be a conceptual framework, indeed a branch of science, that will form the basis for understanding the organic structure of Life on its molecular, organismic, cognitive and societal levels, and for building an organically structured information technology.
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This group works on the developement of algorithms in the field of medical image processing. The focus is three-dimensional image
registration for intraoperative navigation, especially ultrasound based navigation.
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This group has a long and successful history at the chair.
Its current focus is the development of technologies for driver
assistance systems that the automobile industry pursues to enhance their
products.
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