Research- overview

We are engaged in several research projects in the area of AI, computer vision, computer architecture and chip design:

AORTA

AI-based traffic perception and digital twins for emergency response

Within AORTA, we developed an intelligent traffic infrastructure platform for automated emergency corridor formation using AI and real-time environmental perception.

The system combines edge AI cameras, digital twins, infrastructure sensors for cooperative traffic management to improve safety and reduce emergency response times.

Project description: AORTA Research Project – DC Vision Systems GmbH

VASCO

AI assistance system for visually impaired people

VASCO develops wearable AI-based perception systems combining 3D environment reconstruction, object recognition and multimodal feedback for mobility assistance.

Link to the project description VASCO

Technologies

  • Embedded AI
  • Visual SLAM
  • 3D reconstruction
  • Wearable computing
  • Real-time perception

DI-OWAS

Open hardware AI SoC platform

OWAS focuses on open and modular hardware architectures for embedded AI and camera-based perception systems.

The project investigates heterogeneous SoC architectures combining FPGA acceleration, AI processing and embedded vision pipelines.

Project page: DI-OWAS — Elektronikforschung

Technologies

  • FPGA acceleration
  • Embedded AI
  • Open hardware
  • Vision SoCs
  • ISP pipelines

COMPUTE4VISION

Heterogeneous RISC-V accelerator architecture

COMPUTE4VISION investigates massively parallel RISC-V based accelerator architectures for computer vision and spatial AI workloads.

The architecture combines GPU-style execution models with FPGA acceleration for real-time perception and reconstruction tasks.

Technologies

  • RISC-V
  • GPGPU architectures
  • eFPGA acceleration
  • AI acceleration
  • Computer vision