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The project of the Multispectral Imaging Group, consisting of Katja Kossira, Frank Sippel and PD Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Seiler, has won the Sustainability Award of the FAU in the category RESEARCH. The project aims to increase the raw material recycling rate and promote the reuse of plastics, which can ...

On October 18, 2024, the LMS went on an excursion to the Valeo research and development center in Kronach-Neuses, supported by the EMSig e.V. association. At the Valeo Brain Division, the participants were given an insight into the latest developments in driver assistance systems through presentatio...

On October 10 and 11, 2024, the LMS and the idc jointly organized the “Igel" Seminar, which took place this year in Schnaittach in the Hersbrucker Alb and served to strengthen the cooperation between the two chairs. As part of this event, doctoral students from both chairs presented their research t...

From Sept. 22 to Oct. 4, 2024, this year's Ferienakademie took place in the Sarntal Valley in South Tyrol and thereby celebrates its 40th anniversary. Together with the Chair of Media Technology at TU Munich and the Institute for Signal Processing and Systems Theory at the University of Stuttgart, t...

The results of the exam “Introduction to Deep Learning” from August 1, 2024 are now available on Campo. Examination records can be inspected at the following date: Tuesday, October 1, at 10 am in room 05.025 (Cauerstraße 7) To participate in the inspection please register in the correspondin...

The contribution "Spatially Constrained vs. Unconstrained Filtering in Neural Spatiospectral Filters for Multichannel Speech Enhancement" of Annika Briegleb and Walter Kellermann was awarded the 3rd prize in the compition for the Student Best Paper Award at the 32nd European Signal Processing Confer...

Description Thermographic data recorded by thermal imaging cameras offers a valuable opportunity to monitor and analyze the thermal properties of people, objects and buildings. Compared to conventional video data, thermographic data differs in its special representation of heat distributions, wh...

Andy Regensky received the Best Presentation Award for his presentation"Analysis of Neural Video Compression Networks for 360-Degree Video Coding" which was presented at the ITG/VDE Graduate Summer School on Video Compression and Processing, which took place from June 30 - July 2, 2024 at the RheinM...

The Finalist Academic Paper Award was awarded to the paper "Classification of Rotor Imbalance in Trains using Airborne Sound with Real-World Data" of Matthias Kreuzer, David Schmidt, Simon Wokusch and Walter Kellermann. The paper was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and ...

On June 22, 2024, the FAU honored all doctoral candidates who recently received their doctorates, as well as those who received their doctorates 15, 25, 50 or even 60 years ago, at a ceremony in the Heinrich-Lades-Halle in Erlangen. Viktoria Heimann and Andreas Spruck, who both completed their docto...

The paper entitled Towards Video Codec Performance Evaluation: A Rate-Energy-Distortion Perspective authored by Geetha Ramasubbu, André Kaup and Christian Herglotz received the Best Paper Award in the category Diversity and Societal Impact. The contribution was presented at the 16th International Co...

Automatic extraction and interpretation of information from documents is crucial in many fields, ranging from financial to medical. It streamlines tasks, enhances decision-making, and also improves accessibility for individuals with visual impairments. Visual Document Understanding (VDU) offers a solution by automating this process, making it more efficient and enabling quick retrieval of relevant data.

As part of the student teaching evaluation of the Faculty of Engineering in the winter semester 2023/24, the lecture "Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing" by Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup was awarded the second best with an overall grade of 1.12 out of 56 courses evaluated in the catego...

Eigth technical contributions with latest research results of the LMS have been presented at this year's EEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). The ICASSP took place from April 14 to 19, 2024 in South Korea and is the biggest conference worldwide in the ar...

On April 1st, 2024, Prof. Sebastian Schlecht joined the LMS. He holds the professorship for Signal Processing and succeeds Prof. Walter Kellermann, who retired officially by March 31st, 2024. Sebastian Schlecht works in the research area of audio processing and acoustics and will give the lectures o...

On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Walter Kellermann, who worked at the LMS since 1999 as holder of the professorship for communications, the LMS arranged a farewell event on March 25, 2024. It opened with a colloquium chaired by Prof André Kaup starting at 1:30 pm in the lecture hall H6 wit...

Join us at the prestigious Ferienakademie 2024 (22.09.2024 – 04.10.2024) located in the picturesque Sarntal Alps of South Tirol. This comprehensive course provides an in-depth overview of classical image and video processing algorithms, a foundational understanding of deep learning principles, and a detailed exploration of practical applications.