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March 15, 2023The European (and Italian) road to a new artificial intelligenceThe European challenge for the artificial intelligence to come: being less muscular than the "made in the U.S.A." or "made in China" ones, more creative and above all capable of integrating skills and technologies to make people and machines work together. It is Integrative AI capable of creating solutions that will have an impact in many areas of our daily lives: health, cities, local areas, work. -
March 13, 2023WildDrone: autonomous drones to monitor and preserve wild animalsA new European project dedicated to environmental sustainability for the protection and study of wild animals using drones and artificial intelligence is to kick off. -
February 27, 2023FBK 3DOM Unit participates in the European project 5DCULTUREHigh-quality 3D digital content will be created for use in the cultural, tourism, and fashion sectors -
February 3, 2023An innovative online platform based on virtual reality to facilitate training of rescue teamsFBK's 3DOM Unit is a technology partner in the European project TRACENET, led by the Trentino Civil Protection -
January 31, 2023THE AGRIFOODTEF EUROPEAN PROJECT IS KICKING OFFWith a total budget of 60 million euros and a time horizon of 5 years, AgrifoodTEF aims to develop testing and experimentation infrastructure to facilitate the adoption of services and products based on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the European agrifood sector. The project’s kick-off will take place in Trento on February 1 and 2, hosted by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, the project’s coordinator. -
January 23, 2023FBK for the National Recovery and Resilience PlanThe section that monitors and provides information on FBK projects for the PNRR is available as of today on www.fbk.eu -
December 20, 2022FBK will coordinate the FEROX European Project to support the work of wild berry pickersIt will be based on AI, data and robotics technologies and will be tested in Finnish forests. -
December 2, 2022Open Innovation for the Riedl Phasys automated warehouse systemTogether with FBK, University of Trento and Dolomiti Robotics, an innovative solution was created to make the GPI Group's Riedl Phasys warehouse system more globally competitive. -
November 10, 2022Equality and inclusion in translation techniquesLuisa Bentivogli, FBK received an Amazon Research Award -
October 15, 2022Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design: pushing boundariesThe ES unit of Digital Industry Centre (FBK) co-organized this year edition of the International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD). It's the 22nd in a series of conferences on theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The conference has been held in Trento last Oct. 18th and 19th -
August 23, 2022FBK and Extended PartnershipsThe results of the call on the Extended Partnerships of the MUR, based on the PNRR, have rewarded FBK, protagonist of 5 proposals among those that have passed the first selection, dedicated to 14 topics of national interest. -
July 22, 2022AUGMENTED REALITY AT MUSEO DEGLI ALPINIThanks to technologies developed by FBK researchers, 3D models of several archaeological finds on Doss Trento can now be viewed by the public -
July 19, 2022Also FBK and UNITRENTO in the project of the supercomputing centerThe new National Research Center in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, led by INFN has the participation of Fondazione Bruno Kessler and UniTrento among its 51 founding members spread across the country. -
July 6, 2022An international recognition for semantic video understandingThe FBK TeV Unit made a significant contribution to the team that came in first in the EPIC-KITCHENS competition on egocentric vision. -
June 14, 2022Marco Gaido received the Best Student Paper Award at IWSLT 2022His work, titled "Who Are We Talking About? Handling Person Names in Speech Translation", adds up to the strong record of recent publications of the Machine Translation Unit in the area of Speech Translation. -
May 23, 2022“Can che ha bias non morde?”In the new episode of Radio FBK, an interesting conversation about the relationship between discriminations and technology. Protagonists of the dialogue, Luisa Bentivogli and Marco Guerini, respectively Researcher of the Machine Translation unit of the Digital Industry Centre and Head of the Language and Dialog Technologies Research Unit of the Digital Society Centre. -
May 20, 2022HUBCAP Call #1.5 – PULL is now open for applications!HUBCAP european project ecosystem will create new opportunities for SMEs in the vast domains of Cyber-Physical Systems -
December 27, 2021The “AI-TN” project – Artificial Intelligence at Trento is hereWith an additional act, the Province of Trento has allocated 1.2 million to FBK for the new "AI-TN" project aimed at carrying out activities in connection with artificial intelligence, including activities in collaboration with the University of Trento. -
December 20, 2021So it was, if you likeTOTEM: A dip into the past through the eyes of the present and with the help of 3D -
September 28, 2021AUSTRIAN-ITALIAN COLLABORATION PROMOTES RESEARCH ON SMART ELECTRONIC BASED SYSTEMSThe Austrian research center Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) and the Italian research institute Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) are launching a bilateral research collaboration to develop methods and processes that increase the dependability of electronic based systems. -
July 26, 2021Alessandro Cimatti and Roberto Sebastiani win the Computer-Aided Verification Award 2021The two researchers, from FBK and the University of Trento respectively, received the prize awarded by CAV 2021, the most important international conference on the verification of correctness of hardware and software systems and one of the most prestigious in computer science. -
July 20, 20213D Metrology in industry3D optical measurement techniques allow to inspect industrial components for quality control analyses, being very flexible, accurate and, sometimes even low cost -
June 15, 2021Language in the ‘human-machine era’: How will new forms of language technology change our communication, and language itself?The ‘human-machine era’ is coming soon: a time when technology is integrated with our senses, not confined to mobile devices. It means that the hardware will move from our hands into our eyes and ears. Intelligent eyewear and earwear will be able to translate another person’s words, and make it look and sound like they were talking to you in your language. But not only will technology mediate what we see, hear and say in real time – it will be having increasingly complex conversations with us. -
June 14, 2021Giving meaning to 3D pointsThey are able to represent the shape, size, position and orientation of objects and scenes in space for applications such as 3D city modeling, land monitoring, power line inspection, autonomous navigation in indoor and outdoor spaces, industrial monitoring, documentation and restoration of cultural heritage -
March 31, 2021HIT joins EIT MANUFACTURINGThe Trentino system of research and innovation in the main initiative that promotes advanced manufacturing in Europe -
March 30, 2021PAST TO PRESENT: rediscovering history through augmented realityChiese Valley in Trentino combines tradition and innovation to rediscover the history of Fort Larino and the Great War -
February 23, 2021Digital technologies for the enhancement and reuse of historical and cultural heritageThe possibility of visualizing and requalifying sites through three-dimensional technologies favors the rediscovery of the air-raid shelter in Piazza Venezia in Trento, the scene of a piece of city history of the Second World War -
February 4, 2021Cystic Fibrosis: new image processing methods accelerate studies on drugsA research project on cystic fibrosis, halfway between medicine and computer science, appears promising in increasing the chances of fighting this genetic disease.
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January 27, 2021Drug logistics, the GPI-HIT-FBK-UNITN project’s prototyping phaseThe collaboration started in February 2020 and the next step will be to improve the performance of the Riedl Phasys robotic cabinet -
January 7, 2021Gender bias and human language technologySteps forward to resolving "gender bias" in machine translation systems -
January 4, 2021MiMEX, Micro-Market ExperienceMiMEX, the Micro-Market Experience project funded under the EIC Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) measure, is now underway. A consortium with roots in Italy, Spain and Turkey has been created to spread the smart retail experience at a European level over the next two years.
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December 30, 2020A new organization for the Bruno Kessler FoundationStarting from January 1, 2021, the statute of FBK has changed: there are now 6 new Research Centres and a Management dedicated to Marketing and business development will be soon inaugurated. -
December 15, 2020FBK researchers among the most cited in the worldWe highlighted the scientific results of Francesca Bovolo, Alessandro Cimatti, Manlio De Domenico, Paolo Massa, Fabio Remondino and Carlo Strapparava. The Scopus data analysis was published in the international journal Plos Biology -
November 24, 2020FBK to coordinate the AIPLAN4EU project: artificial intelligence for European small and medium-sized enterprisesWith a total funding of 5 million euros, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in partnership with 15 international partners, will bring "automated planning" to the AI4EU platform -
October 27, 2020A new effort not to leave idle prior results obtained in EU projectsA new effort not to leave idle prior results obtained worldwide. -
October 26, 2020TOTEM – 4D Trento Time MachineICT technologies, archive data, space-time analyses of the urban area, apps and Artificial Intelligence to enhance Trento, its history and its archives -
October 2, 2020FBK has chosen who will lead the new Research CentersCimatti will lead the digital industry center, Crema the one for sustainable energy, Pistore the one for the digital society and Ranise the one for cybersecurity. As for health, there will be three new centers: health and wellness services will be entrusted to Forti, health emergencies to Merler and artificial intelligence for health and well-being to Ghidini. -
August 5, 2020EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OF TRANSLATED, FBK AND PERVOICE FOR REAL-TIME TRANSLATION OF DEBATESA contract was signed to transcribe and translate the speeches of parliamentarians with an innovative system. The new technology preserves human sensitivity towards the nuances of language incomprehensible to machines -
June 24, 2020FBK contributes to the valorization of the hidden heritage on Mount CalisioThanks to the European VirtualArch project, FBK has valorized 8 archaeological heritage sites through 3D renderings, virtual reality, visualizations and Apps. -
May 20, 2020OnePlace: the new online platform to improve energy efficiency of our citiesThe restoration of existing buildings and the improvement of energy management are among the targets required by the European Union. These goals led FBK to coordinate the BOOSTEE-CE project in collaboration with 13 other partners from 7 European countries -
December 20, 2019New platform to help SMEs get started with cyber-physical systemsSmall and medium-sized enterprises need better opportunities to exploit the benefits of computer-based models for cyber-physical systems; this is the objective of a new, large-scale, pan-European development project headed by Aarhus University. FBK is part of the consortium
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October 11, 2019AGRIOT: artificial intelligence applied to agricultureOn SKY TG 24, within the NOW show, the story on the FBK project aimed at water saving in agriculture -
October 2, 2019ICIAP 2019 conference proceedingsThe conference traditionally covers both classic and the most recent trends in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, addressing both theoretical and applicative aspects, promoting connections and synergies among senior scholars and students, universities, research institutes, and companies. -
September 12, 2019Amazon gives FBK the AWS Machine Learning Research AwardAn advanced AI-based solution studied by Fondazione Bruno Kessler has received the award given by Amazon
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May 29, 2019Future drones for emergency managementThe first flight tests have already been carried out this spring in Trentino
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January 22, 2019Riplaid, the first plastic-to-fuel plant is made in TrentinoFrom non-recyclable plastic to Eco Fuel, a fuel oil that meets transportation standards, can be used in existing engines or in industrial plants
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October 16, 2018SATT2018: the Annual School for Translators Sells Out in Milan as WellHeld for the first time outside our Region, SATT has proven to be an international event for industry experts and translators
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October 9, 20183D Reconstruction: the Algorithm of 3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) Unit AwardedThe Best Paper Award went to the work co-authored by Fabio Remondino (FBK-3DOM) presented at the ECCV 2018's International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose in Munich -
September 14, 2018“Being a Researcher is complicated, but I hope it will be my future job” | A Researcher’s StoryGunel Jahangirova comes from Baku (Azerbaijan) and worked in a private company before entering the research world. She's encountered some difficulties in changing, but she's also found many positive aspects -
July 16, 2018Alessandro Cimatti wins the “CAV 2018” international awardThe prestigious award concerned studies for the realization of the so-called Bounded Model Checking, an algorithm used in the electronic circuit and software design systems -
July 2, 2018From books to augmented reality: artificial intelligence for art history teaching 2.0The students of the Maffei High School in Riva del Garda have virtualized sites and objects that are artistically relevant to the town. To do this they used REPLICATE, an app developed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler that allows the creation of 3D models of objects and buildings, thanks to photographs taken with just a smartphone
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May 14, 2018Running an Open Innovation Platform for IoT-Big Data in Sub-Saharan AfricaEmpowering Digital Transformation of Africa by WAZIUP and WAZIHUB initiative - a project coordinated by Open IoT research unit of CREATE-NET center at FBK -
April 16, 2018ProM Camp: full immersion in INDUSTRY 4.0 for studentsOver 20 students from six schools, five from Trentino and one from Verona, participated in the technology and prototypes "full immersion" in the Polo Meccatronica laboratories -
April 13, 2018The most influential paper of the past 10 years award of the ICST 2018 has been awarded to Paolo TonellaTen years after the publication of the Most Influential Paper Award conferred by ICST 2018. -
March 8, 2018RELIGION TO GO! Religion in the virtual worldFrom the discovery of fire to the printing of the Bible, technology has never stopped involving religion. FBK's ICT and Humanities Centers work in synergy on the implications of an app that can virtualize objects and places of worship. -
February 26, 2018Religion and Video Games. ISR Workshop on religion and innovation.On February 6, at the Center for Religious Studies, has taken place a workshop dedicated to the little explored theme of the relationship between religions and video games
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February 22, 2018FBK’s mission Russia: agreement signed with Moscow-based SkoltechInnovative solutions for 3D city modeling and energy are the first areas on which the Trentino based research center and the Russian university will collaborate -
January 26, 2018VIRTUAL ARCH – Visualize to ValorizeFor a better use of hidden archaeological heritage in Central Europe -
November 23, 2017Underwater 3D SurveyingDocumenting, mapping and monitoring the underwater world with photogrammetry -
November 16, 2017Replicate: 3D rendering and augmented reality with a smartphoneThe project, which makes 3D rendering of objects and environments easy through a simple smartphone, is undergoing experimentation in a number of local settings, including Muse and the Buonconsiglio Castle -
October 25, 2017ProM Facility Innovation and Technology Transfer Champion at SMAU MilanoThe Polo Meccatronica Lab awarded as a model of innovation. The visit and congratulations by Minister Giuliano Poletti to the Trentino-based experience -
September 21, 2017The second edition of the School of Advanced Technologies for Translators (SATT) sold outA huge success of the school dedicated to professional translators organized by the HLT-Machine Translation Research Unit of the FBK ICT Center -
September 11, 2017Jeff Kramer at the SEFM conference organized by FBKThe fifteenth edition is being held in Trento from September 6 to 10, and aims to bring together leading researchers and professionals from academia, industry and administration to advance the state of the art in Formal Methods.
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September 5, 2017Safety and reliability in software-controlled systemsTrento is hosting three international conferences in September
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September 4, 2017Do machines learn?Marco Cristoforetti, a researcher at FBK's MPBA Unit who prepared a space at the Rimini Meeting, speaks of the important role played by machines and machine learning techniques in biomedical applications. With a look at ethics and the future
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June 30, 2017PROM FACILITY, OPEN HOUSE FOR THE MOST ADVANCED RAPID PROTOTYPING LABORATORY IN ITALYOver 200 companies and researchers on Friday, June 30 at Polo Meccatronica, the Mechatronics Hub, to exchange views on the challenges of Industria 4.0 and learn about the Trentino model that combines training, innovation and enterprises. -
June 22, 2017FABIO REMONDINO, FBK RESEARCHER, FEATURED IN THE NEW SEASON OF THE “SUPERQUARK” TV SHOWOn Wednesday June 21, the new "Superquark" season started on Italy's national public broadcasting network. "A pixel world" is a story about new technological challenges focusing on "photogrammetry" -
June 1, 2017Double recognition for the Software Engineering Unit at the Buenos Aires International Conference on Program Comprehension.Best Paper Award and ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award. The FBK Software Engineering Unit led by Paolo Tonella came back with two prestigious awards from Buenos Aires, where they participated in the twenty-fifth International Conference on Program Comprehension on May 22 and 23. -
April 27, 2017Alessandro Cimatti wins ETAPS “Test of Time Award”In an ever-changing and fast-moving field like software is, not everybody gets to make an internationally ground-breaking and far-reaching scientific work that will influence the industry for years to come. Alessandro Cimatti, with Fondazione Bruno Kessler's ICT Center, has succeeded: he received the "Test of Time Award" from ETAPS in Uppsala, Sweden.
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April 11, 2017Breuckmann Award – The winner is Erica NocerinoHer project explores the issue of 3D acquisition and modeling of small museum objects.
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April 4, 2017Augmented reality: the “Replicate” and “Spark” projects at FBKWhat if we could simply pick up our cell phones, capture the interesting stuff around us and bring take it into our future 3D virtual lives? To find out more about it, we interviewed two experts in this kind of technology: Paul Chippendale, from FBK, and Gaetano Cascini, from the Polytechnic University of Milan. -
April 4, 2017POLO MECCATRONICA: THE PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PROM FACILITY, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, SIMULATION AND RAPID PROTOTYPING LABS SIGNED ON APRIL 4, 2017Open to companies and to technical and specialized training programs, they can count on unparalleled technological equipment in Italy. Promoted by the Province and financed with European funds, the labs will be managed by Trentino Sviluppo, FBK and the University of Trento, in cooperation with Confindustria Trento -
March 27, 2017Software Security: excellent results for the ASPIRE projectThe ASPIRE (Advanced Software Protection: Integration, Research and Exploitation) scientific project, in which FBK participated, was rated excellent.
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March 8, 2017SUPERSEDE – for the software of the futureThose of you who lose your patience in front of your PC or your smartphone because its software does not work properly will certainly be glad to learn that in the near future complaints and suggestions will not fall on deaf ears, but will be collected and forwarded directly to the engineers who developed the application, so that they can make any necessary changes. -
January 30, 2017FBK in “The Economist”Technology of language and religions. Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler mentioned twice this month in the worldwide reknown weekly magazine. -
September 6, 2016Trento hosting over 60 translators for the update school organized by FBKA training opportunity on the development of machine translation technologies that have become essential tools for the translator profession today.
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September 1, 2016Andrea Micheli was awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of artificial intelligenceHis name is Andrea Micheli; he was born in 1987 and has just won the EurAI European Award for the best PhD thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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May 15, 2016FBK-BOEING CollaborationA joint scientific study by the Trentino based Research Center and the aerospace giant has been presented in San Francisco during the most important world conference in the area of formal verification and validation.
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January 4, 2016The Marr Prize goes to FBKThe Marr prize, awarded every two years to the best scientific article on artificial vision, was won in the last edition by Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler for a study conducted in collaboration with Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University.