Founded on January 1, 2010, the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB has grown to become Europe’s largest research institute in the field of image acquisition, processing and analysis.
Fraunhofer IOSB’s other areas of activity are control and automation technology, and information and knowledge management.
The institute has five locations in Germany (Karlsruhe, Ettlingen, Ilmenau, Lemgo and Görlitz) as well as a representative office in Beijing. It is defined by its three core competencies of optronics, system technologies and image exploitation.