Consortium meeting 2024

Yesterday the second annual meeting of the consortium for our research project took place in beautiful Klagenfurt (Carinthia, Austria). We had some great discussions about the work done over the past months and finalised the planning of steps for the upcoming final year of the project. We are looking forward to some really promising results …

EUROCAST2024

Back in October 2023, we had the opportunity to present initial insights into our side project with the Austrian Road Safety Board to a broad audience during the EU Safety Conference. There we presented the basic BAMBI-based methodology using drones to detect, count and geo-reference wildlife near roads. At this year’s EUROCAST (International Conference on …

Online-Talk: AI for Good

David Schedl will be presenting our research project at the “AI for Good Discovery” webinar, which is open to the public and will be live-streamed. The focus of the talk will be the Airborne-Light-Field-Technology, the foundation of our BAMBI research project. David will not only shed light on the technology behind BAMBI but also share …

ZDF Terra X

We are pleased to announce that our research project can now be seen in the two-part Terra X documentary “Sebastian Ströbel – My Alps”. The actor already met Leopold Böss and Christoph Praschl, two employees of the FH project, in the first part “Extreme der Berge” (Extreme Mountains): Climate changes also influence the living conditions …

EUSafety2023

As part of an exciting side project in collaboration with the Austrian Road Safety Board (Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit), we are using the ground-breaking findings and technologies from our BAMBI project to determine the risk of wildlife accidents on public transport. By integrating drone-based computer vision into road safety, we can not only better understand the …

SESDE2023

Our colleague Christoph Praschl had the opportunity to present the process from our research project BAMBI for modelling animal biodiversity in forests (“Towards an Automated Biodiversity Modelling Process for Forest Animals using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles”) at the “International Workshop on Simulation for Energy, Sustainable Development & Environment” in Athens, Greece. In a world facing the …

Landwirtschafts- & Herbstmesse Ried 2023

At the Agriculture & Autumn Fair in Ried im Innkreis, Christoph Praschl was able to present our BAMBI research project at the stand of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. In addition to other drone-based projects in the field of agriculture and forestry (such as Digiherb or DigiWald), we were able to present wildlife …

3rd International Workshop on Camera traps, AI, and Ecology

During the third international workshop on camera traps, artificial intelligence and ecology (https://inf-cv.uni-jena.de/camtrap-ws/), our colleagues David Schedl and Christoph Praschl had the opportunity to present the BAMBI research project and the methodology for using light fields with the help of drones. During his keynote at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany), David explained the …

SUMMER RECEPTION FH OÖ CAMPUS HAGENBERG

The Faculty of Computer Science, Communication and Media invited again this year to the annual FH summer reception at the faculty in Hagenberg on 28.06.2023. During this event, David Schedl was able to present the research project Bambi to a broad audience from business and science. We would like to take this opportunity to thank …

Visit Lr. Markus Achleitner

Landesrat Markus Achleitner recently visited the Hagenberg campus of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. During this visit, David Schedl was allowed to present our research project BAMBI and show the use of drone-based light field technology, which for the first time makes what is happening on the forest floor visible and thus enables …