Prof. Dr. Eddy Ilg, Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to support his research project “4DLang”. The project investigates how language and vision can be combined in artificial intelligence, addressing a central challenge in the field: integrating the symbolic and abstract nature of language with the spatial and distributed representations of vision. “4DLang” will run for four years and is funded with a total amount of €1.5 million.
While large language models such as ChatGPT have made significant progress and computer vision has advanced rapidly through large-scale training, their integration is still weak. The project develops a framework that links symbolic abstraction with spatio-temporal scene understanding, enabling AI systems to represent and reason about the world more efficiently and accurately. In doing so, it seeks to take a major step towards more general and human-like artificial intelligence, with potential applications in fields such as AI assistants, robotics, and autonomous driving.
About the ERC Starting Grant
With a total budget of €761 million, the ERC Starting Grants are among the most competitive European funding schemes for early-career researchers. This year, 478 scientists across Europe were selected to receive support that enables them to establish their own teams, pursue independent projects, and further develop their scientific careers. Since its establishment in 2007, the ERC has funded frontier research across all scientific disciplines, providing resources for work that often opens new directions and contributes to major scientific advances.
Learn more about the Computer Vision and Machine Perception Lab at UTN.
Learn more about ERC Starting Grants.
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Prof. Dr. Eddy Ilg (c-Eye-D-Fotodesign)
About the University of Technology Nuremberg
The University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), founded in 2021, is the first newly established public university in Bavaria since 1978. The UTN is a living laboratory building a university for the age of AI and the rapidly advancing changes in technology, business and society. The UTN strives to become a strong regional force in research, teaching and transfer and an internationally leading university of the 21st century with regional roots and a global outlook.
The 37-hectare, sustainable UTN campus will form the center of the new Lichtenreuth district in Nuremberg, close to the historic city center. Around 6,000 students, 200 professors and at least 2,000 employees will study and work there. Study programs will integrate aspects of technology, liberal arts, social sciences and natural sciences to ideally prepare students for the interdisciplinary requirements of the new world of work.
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Prof. Dr. Eddy Ilg, Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to support his research project “4DLang”. The project investigates how language and vision can be combined in artificial intelligence, addressing a central challenge in the field: integrating the symbolic and abstract nature of language with the spatial and distributed representations of vision. “4DLang” will run for four years and is funded with a total amount of €1.5 million.
While large language models such as ChatGPT have made significant progress and computer vision has advanced rapidly through large-scale training, their integration is still weak. The project develops a framework that links symbolic abstraction with spatio-temporal scene understanding, enabling AI systems to represent and reason about the world more efficiently and accurately. In doing so, it seeks to take a major step towards more general and human-like artificial intelligence, with potential applications in fields such as AI assistants, robotics, and autonomous driving.
About the ERC Starting Grant
With a total budget of €761 million, the ERC Starting Grants are among the most competitive European funding schemes for early-career researchers. This year, 478 scientists across Europe were selected to receive support that enables them to establish their own teams, pursue independent projects, and further develop their scientific careers. Since its establishment in 2007, the ERC has funded frontier research across all scientific disciplines, providing resources for work that often opens new directions and contributes to major scientific advances.
Learn more about the Computer Vision and Machine Perception Lab at UTN.
Learn more about ERC Starting Grants.
Pressmaterial:
Prof. Dr. Eddy Ilg (c-Eye-D-Fotodesign)
About the University of Technology Nuremberg
The University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), founded in 2021, is the first newly established public university in Bavaria since 1978. The UTN is a living laboratory building a university for the age of AI and the rapidly advancing changes in technology, business and society. The UTN strives to become a strong regional force in research, teaching and transfer and an internationally leading university of the 21st century with regional roots and a global outlook.
The 37-hectare, sustainable UTN campus will form the center of the new Lichtenreuth district in Nuremberg, close to the historic city center. Around 6,000 students, 200 professors and at least 2,000 employees will study and work there. Study programs will integrate aspects of technology, liberal arts, social sciences and natural sciences to ideally prepare students for the interdisciplinary requirements of the new world of work.
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Agnes Pelzl
Communication Unit