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The National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) has appointed Prof. Dr. André Kaup as a new scientific member. The National Academy of Science and Engineering is a national academy funded by the German federal and state governments and the voice of science and engineering in Germany and...

Prof. Walter Kellermann receives the 2024 IEEE SPS Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award for exemplary service to and leadership in the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The award will be presented at the Award Ceremony of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing...

The chair congratulates Matthias Kränzler on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 6.12.2024. In his dissertation entitled “Modeling and Optimization of the Energy Demand for Hybrid Video Decoding”, supervised by Prof. André Kaup, he investigated energy-efficien...

We are looking for a Research Associate (m/f/d) (EG 13 TV-L, 100%) with the possibility of a PhD in the field of deep learning, including generative models. Your tasks: - Research on deep learning, generative models, robustness and resilience of deep neural networks. - Independent scientific co...

Last month, the Machine Learning and Perception Group (MLP) hosted a workshop titled “Discover the World with Machine Learning” as part of KinderUni Nürnberg. This event was designed to introduce children aged 8–12 to the fundamental principles of machine learning in an engaging and accessib...

As part of the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the summer semester 2024, the lecture “Image and Video Compression” by Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup achieved with an  overall grade of 1.42 the second place out of 30 evaluated courses in the category compulsory course VP10. In addition, hi...

The paper Efficient Learned Wavelet Image and Video Coding by Anna Meyer, Srivatsa Prativadibhayankaram and André Kaup received the ICIP 2024 Best Paper Award (2nd Runner-up) sponsored by Google. The contribution was presented at the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024) which too...

Seven paper contributions with latest research results of the LMS have been presented at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). The ICIP, which took place from October 27 to 30 in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), is one of the largest conferences in the field of image...

A few weeks ago, the Machine Learning and Perception Group (MLP) participated in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) by co-organising a workshop and publishing a conference paper. Our workshop More Exploration, Less Exploitation (MELEX) attracted a large audience and resulted in fruitf...

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...