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Latest News and Past Events
Assoc Prof Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig (Director) will be speaking at the innagural ArtScience Prize. Theme: Virtual Worlds.
St Joseph's Institution
2 June 2012
Fraunhofer IDM@NTU at ASPAC 2012
Singapore Science Centre
16-21 April 2012
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November 2012
Fraunhofer IGD celebrates its 25th year anniversary
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Joint PhD Degree Programs: NTU–TU Darmstadt, NTU–TU Graz
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Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD, Germany)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Graz University of Technology (TUG, Austria)
These exciting new joint PhD degree programmes are coordinated by Fraunhofer IDM@NTU.
The 4-year scholarship assumes that the applicants will become full-time PhD students of NTU, TUD or TUG while having two supervisors - one from the host university and a co-supervisor from the respective overseas partner university. The joint-degree programs also assume that the students will spend the third year of project in the overseas partner university in the co-supervisor's lab. Please note: The project topics have to be approved by Fraunhofer IDM@NTU to fit its R&D scopes.
For NTU students, there is also an opportunity to get employed as research associates in Fraunhofer IDM@NTU and work on the PhD projects part-time. All the involved institutions will be offering attractive job opportunities for the graduated students both in Singapore and overseas.
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The Fraunhofer Project Centre for
Interactive Digital Media at Nanyang
Technological University Fraunhofer
IDM@NTU) was set up mid of year 2010
by Nanyang Technological University
(NTU) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft -
Europe’s largest institution for applied
research. Facilitated by the multi-agency
Interactive Digital Media R&D Programme
Office at Media Development Authority
(MDA) and funded by the National
Research Foundation, the centre forms a
part of the International Research Centres
that Singapore is establishing (IRCs@SG).
Fraunhofer IDM@NTU focuses on the
promotion of applied research as well as
the commercialisation of IDM innovations.
It will join the ranks of top IDM centres as
Singapore expands its international network
of IDM R&D institutions. The centre
will help strengthen local capabilities in
research and promote commercialisation
opportunities in IDM.
Fraunhofer IDM@NTU evolves from the
Centre for Advanced Media Technology
(CAMTech).
This long-standing collaboration
between NTU and Fraunhofer’s Institute
for Computer Graphics Research
(Fraunhofer IGD) has created the basis
that allows a sustainably positive development
of research in interactive digital
media. The centre’s emphasis on applied
research in interactive and digital media
complements the current university focus
on basic research. In other locations
within the network of Fraunhofer IGD,
this combination of Fraunhofer’s applied
research with basic research at universities
has made significant scientific and
economic impact. In Singapore, the link
with NTU will be the cornerstone for the
research centre.
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Fraunhofer IDM@NTU develops technologies
and applications based on visual
computing. Visual computing describes
image and model based information technology
comprising the interrelated fields
computer graphics, computer vision, virtual
and augmented reality. Currently, one
major challenge is the magnitude with
which the digital universe grows spanning
from complex simulation models, sensor
data to visuals such as images, video clips
etc. Here visual analytics comes in to better
understand this data jungle.
Fraunhofer IDM@NTU also possesses an
international interface through various
international projects, and its major
research alliances. The centre participates
with its expertise in real time rendering,
visualisation, virtual & augmented reality
currently in prestigious international
initiatives such as MIT SMART CENSAM
(Centre for Environmental Modelling and
Sensing), Future Urban Mobility and ETH
Future Cities Laboratory.
Through the centre’s close collaboration
with Fraunhofer IGD, it has gained
leverage and provides instant access to
many years of R&D effort and leading edge
technology. In particular with the
Technische Universität Darmstadt, the
partner university of Fraunhofer IGD,
Fraunhofer IDM@NTU will build a bridge
for the exchange of students between
Germany and Singapore. A joint PhD
programme between TU Darmstadt and
NTU is in preparation. Both directors Dr. Wolfgang Müller-Wittig
and Dr. Yeow Meng Chee are also Assoc
Prof in the School of Computer Engineering
and School of Physical & Mathematical
Sciences at NTU respectively.
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