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The central contact point for AI at TH Köln
Latest News
4th KI-Forum at TH Köln
2026-04-29 – For the fourth time, the KI-Forum has taken place on Campus Deutz — with strong attendance and a notably large turnout of doctoral researchers from the THK-AI Research Cluster. The forum brings together students, cluster members, alumni, and guests from research and industry.
Master’s thesis “Tribraide”: Kai Altwicker develops a fusion-based detector for AI-generated images
2026-04-29 – With “Tribraide”, Kai Altwicker has developed a detector for AI-generated images in his master’s thesis at the Institute of Media and Imaging Technology at TH Köln. The method combines spatial-domain, frequency, and reconstruction analyses; through the fusion of complementary feature spaces it remains reliable even under compression and noise. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jan Salmen and Prof. Dr. Gregor Fischer.
Members
With more than 20 professors from TH Köln, the THK-AI Research Cluster is one of the largest AI research collaborations at a German university of applied sciences.
Why THK-AI?
Applied AI at scale
THK-AI combines powerful compute infrastructure with interdisciplinary expertise to bring AI from idea to deployable prototype.
Open for collaboration
The cluster supports joint projects between associations, companies, professors, and students from different disciplines.
THK-AI Example Project
The THK-KIplus project (TH Köln – Künstliche Intelligenz plus) was funded from June 2023 to November 2025 under the KI-Nachwuchs@FH programme by the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space. The initiative received around EUR 1.3 million in funding and has built one of the most powerful AI-oriented research infrastructures at German universities of applied sciences.
Focus areas
Critical infrastructure
Robust AI methods for autonomous and safety-critical systems.
CAIRNE Gold Member
The THK-AI Research Cluster is a Gold Member of the CAIRNE Research Network (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe).
CAIRNE is a European non-profit AI community with a human-centred focus. The network connects research institutions, industry, and policy stakeholders to strengthen European AI excellence, collaboration, and digital sovereignty.
Join and connect
If you are looking for collaboration, student projects, or partnerships in applied AI, THK-AI is your central contact point at TH Köln.
Socially interactive AI agents
Socio-empathic AI-based dialogue and hybrid avatars for social innovation.