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Professor André Kaup, Head of the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (LMS) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, has been appointed as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Fellow Evaluation Committee. This appointment recognizes Professor Kau...

On January 16, 2026, the LMS went with the support of EMSig e.V. on an excursion to the company solectrix in Fürth, which develops and manufactures as full-service provider embedded electronics and components on customers’ behalf. After lunch together, excursion concluded with a guided tour of Fürt...

The team consisting of Lokeshwar Ganesan, Fatima Kozhamkulova, Diwakara Reddy, Dat Thanh Nguyen from the LMS and Florian Fingscheidt from the Leibniz University Hannover won the third prize of the Munich Tech Arena Video Compression Challenge 2025 conducted by Huawei. The competition focused on eff...

The paper "TreeNet: A Light Weight Model for Low Bitrate Image Compression” by Mahadev Prasad Panda, Purnachandra Rao Makkena, Srivatsa Venkatachari Prativadibhayankaram, Siegfried Fößel, and André Kaup received the Best Paper Award at the Picture Coding Symposium 2025, which took place from Decembe...

Last month, the Machine Learning and Perception Group (MLP) hosted a KinderUni Nürnberg workshop titled “Discover the World with Machine Learning”. Aimed at children aged 8–12, the session introduced key machine-learning concepts in a fun...

The LMS was represented with three contributions at the Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), which took place from December 1 to 4, 2025, in Klagenfurt, Austria. Katja Kossira presented her paper entitled “Towards Object Segmentation Mask Selection Using Specular Reflections,” in a p...

On November 25, we bid farewell to Ms. Walburga Summersammer, who has managed the LMS secretariat for over 10 years. In addition to farewell gifts, she also received an “honorary doctoral had” by the staff as a special thanks for the nice cooperation and her constant support. We thank Ms. Summersamm...

Marina Ritthaler received the VDE Bayern Award 2025 for her outstanding master's thesis, which was awarded on November 20, 2025, during the VDE Bayern Abend at the Bayrischer Hof in Munich.

On October 25, the twelfth Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften took place in the Erlangen-Nuremberg-Fürth metropolitan region from 5 p.m. to midnight. Thousands of visitors took part, and the LMS was involved as well with two demonstrations. At the LMS booth, visitors could use VR glasses to virtually ta...

The chair congratulates Mr. Dat Nguyen on successfully passing his doctoral examination to become a Dr.-Ing. on October 24, 2025. In his dissertation entitled “Coding of Multimodal Point Cloud Data”, which has been supervised by Prof. André Kaup, he developed new methods for coding image data that c...

We are looking for a Research Associate (m/f/d) (EG 13 TV-L, 100%) with the possibility of a PhD in the context of foundation models, in-context learning, and earning in simulation. Your tasks: – Research on generative models, multimodal foundation models, e.g. VLMs, VLAs, and learning from sim...

On October 7 and 8, 2025, the LMS and the idc once again jointly organized the “Igel” seminar, which took place this year in Waischenfeld in Franconian Switzerland and served to strengthen cooperation between the two chairs. During this event, doctoral students from both chairs presented their resea...

Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists list is a prestigious ranking of the top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide across all disciplines. It is published annually in collaboration with Elsevier and based on data from Scopus. The latest edition was released in August 2025. We are de...

The LMS was represented also at this year's IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2025), which took place from Sept. 14 to 18 in Anchorage (Alaska, USA). ICIP is one of the largest conferences in the field of image processing and this year's theme was “Imaging in the Age of GenAI.”...

Prof. Sebastian Schlecht, Cristóbal Andrade and Jeremy Bai from the Artificial Audio Group at the LMS attended the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx25), which took place in Ancona, Italy from Sept. 2 - 5, 2025. At the conference, Cristóbal and Jeremy presented their papers on t...

This summer was an exciting and productive time for the Artificial Audio Group at the LMS, led by Prof. Sebastian Schlecht. In August, the group — including PhD students Cristóbal Andrade and Jeremy Bai — spent a full month at Aalto University in Finland, hosted by the Acoustics Lab at the Departmen...

Andreas Brendel received for his PhD thesis From Blind to Semi-Blind Acoustic Source Separation based on Independent Component Analysis, which he finished at the LMS under the supervision of Prof. Kellermann, the Best PhD Award of the European Association For Signal Processing (EURASIP). The award c...

The results of the exam "Signals and Systems II" from July 28, 2025 are now available on Campo. Examination records can be inspected at ...

The excursion of the LMS on 25.07.2025 led to Muggendorf in the Wiesenttal valley. There, in sunny weather, the participants had the opportunity to either complete the Muggendorf circular hiking trail or to take a canoe tour across the Wiesent river. The excursion ended with lunch together in Oberfe...