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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.
https://www.utn.de/en/2025/09/04/erc-grant-eddy-ilg/
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