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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...

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 2024. We are...

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...

The results of the exam “Signals and Systems II” from July 22, 2024 are now available on Campo. Examination records can be inspected…

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...