Projects Future Applications and Media

In the EXPAND+ER WB³ project, the vision of educator Otto Herz is applied to the field of vocational education. The technology partners of the BMBF-funded EXPAND+ER WB³ project develop a scalable platform that protects privacy and enables users to search for and receive recommendations for further education courses.

With CleanFeed, we explore how trust in digital media can be preserved in the age of AI generated and manipulated content. Images, videos and texts can now be altered or synthesized with little effort, often in ways that make their origin and authenticity difficult to assess for users. CleanFeed addresses this challenge by making the origin, processing and trustworthiness of digital media transparent and verifiable across the entire media chain – from capture to distribution. In doing so, the project contributes to strengthening trust, informed decision making and democratic processes in the digital public sphere.

In TRIPLEADAPT, an adaptive, interoperable professional education platform will be created via the development of a digital triplet. Digital learning environments will then be extended by learning concepts with the aim of increasing learning success.

The National Education Platform, initiated by the BMBF, aims to provide a technical meta-platform based on open standards that creates the foundation for a interconnected, powerful and interoperable teaching-learning infrastructure. The Common Learning Middleware (CLM) developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS was selected by the BMBF as a prototype of the National Education Platform within the framework of the “mEDUator” project.

The aim of the project is to digitally complement or even replace classic event formats by using new immersive media formats when physical presence is not possible. The new media formats, include for example 3D audio, 360° videos, light fields and volumetric videos.

No product is safe from counterfeiters, whether it's sneakers, chainsaws, medicines, or FFP2 masks. At the same time, consumers hardly have a chance to detect such pirated products. Especially in medical products and pharmaceuticals, there is also a considerable health risk from counterfeit products. Therefore, the Smart ID project is developing a novel labeling system that can be used to verify the authenticity of products.

Web App DRM by Fraunhofer FOKUS allows developers of web applications to define innovative licensing conditions for their applications in a flexible manner. At the same time, the privacy concerns of users are suitably addressed by sandboxing the licensing process.

The PADGETS project aims at bringing together two well established domains, the mashup architectural approach of web 2.0 for creating web applications and the methodology of system dynamics in analyzing complex system behavior.

REEVALUATE project will provide a holistic solution to the challenges of Cultural Heritage (CH) digitisation management, enabling collaboration, boosting creative reuse and promoting democratic and inclusive prioritisation and contextualisation.

360° video got quite popular and we have been working on solutions for efficient delivery of high-resolution content, especially also to TV devices (in addition to Head-Mounted Displays).