Finnish CoE in Adaptive Informatics Research

Adaptive informatics is a field of research within information technology where the aim is to discover relevant and informative concepts, components and their mutual relations from large amounts of data. The goal is to make information more compact and accessible for the end user. Automated learning algorithms are used to handle the large amounts of data. The CoE will be aiming to build systems that process multimodal contextual information including spoken and written language, images, videos, and explicit and implicit user feedback. Refining these kinds of data requires not only pattern recognition, image processing and speech recognition, but also cognitive scientific procedures. The CoE will also develop and apply its algorithmic methods to problems in neuroinformatics and bioinformatics together with experts in brain science and molecular biology. The methods will also be introduced in practice with the help of national business companies. Many of the methods are based on research conducted during the previous centre-of-excellence term in 2000-2005. The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics Research consists of five research groups.