EMSig Events

Annual EMSig Meeting 2020

The annual members’ meeting 2020 took place on December 4th as an online event via zoom due to the ongoing corona pandemic. Afterwards, the sixth EMSig colloquium took place, via zoom as well, with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:00  Introduction
            Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

15:10  Review of the years’s events at the LMS
            Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann

15:30  Lens Projection-Aware Motion Compensation for Fisheye Video
            M.Sc. Andy Regensky

16:00  EMSig Student Awards
             Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

16:10  Informed Source Separation and Extraction
            M.Sc. Andreas Brendel

16:40  Closing with chats in various break-out rooms


Excursion to Audi

On November 29th 2019, a visit to the car manufacturer Audi in Ingolstadt took place. The 22 participants attended a factory tour which provided insights about the just-in-time production process at Audi.

 


Annual EMSig Meeting 2019

The annual members’ meeting 2019 took place on July 5 at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (Cauerstr. 7, Erlangen). Afterwards, the fifth EMSig colloquium started in the seminar room 05.025 with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:00    Introduction and Welcome
              Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup and Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann

              Multifocal-Sensorsystem Panomera
              Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schnurrer, Dallmeier electronic GmbH

              Channel Selection in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
              M.Sc. Michael Günther, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

16:30   Coffee break

17:00    EMSig Student Awards
              Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

17:15    Graph-Based Compensated Wavelet Lifting for Scalable Lossless Coding of Dynamic Medical Data
              M.Sc. Daniela Lanz, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

               Nonlinear System Identification using Machine Learning
               M.Sc. Modar Halimeh, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

18:30     Closing

19:00     Come together with barbeque.

 


EMSig Thesis Awards 2019

The EMSig Thesis Awards were awarded as part of the Annual EMSig Meeting 2019 for outstanding thesis works at the LMS.

Annika Briegleb received the Best Master Thesis Award 2019 for her Master thesis entitled “Deep Clustering for Spectral Ego-Noise Classification in Robot Audition”.

Anna Meyer received the Best Bachelor Thesis Award 2019 for her Bachelor thesis entitled “Chroma Sub-Sampling of Screen Content Data in the Transform Domain”.

 


Excursion to Airport Nuremberg

On November 22nd 2018, a visit to the airport Nuremberg took place. The 21 participants attended a guided tour which provided insights about the internal processes of the airport.

 


EMSig Thesis Awards 2018

The EMSig Thesis Awards were awarded as part of the Annual EMSig Meeting 2018 for outstanding thesis works at the LMS.

Viktoria Heimann received the Best Master Thesis Award 2018 for her Master thesis entitled “Analysis of Various Preprocessing Methods of Image Data in Order to Increase the Detection Rate of a Neural Network”.

Toni Wachter received the Best Bachelor Thesis Award 2018 for his Bachelor thesis entitled “Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Test Environment for Frequency Selective Reconstruction of Image Data”.

 


Annual EMSig Meeting 2018

The annual members’ meeting 2018 took place on June 22 at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (Cauerstr. 7, Erlangen). Afterwards, the fourth EMSig colloquium started in the seminar room 05.025 (former N5.17) with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:00   Introduction and Welcome
             Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup and Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann

            Beyond Human Vision – Polarization Imaging
             Dr.-Ing. Michael Schöberl, Fraunhofer IIS

            Filter Design for Multizone Sound Rendering in Reverberant Environments
            M.Sc. Michael Bürger, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

16:30   Coffee break

17:00   EMSig Student Awards
             Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

17:15    Super-Resolution of Positive Sources and One More Thing …
Prof. Dr. Veniamin Morgenshtern, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

             Physical Modelling in Molecular Communications
             M.Sc. Maximilian Schäfer, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

18:30    Closing

19:00    Come together with barbeque.

 


Visit at Bayrischer Rundfunk

An excursion to the BR in Nuremberg took place on Sept. 5th,2017. The 21 participants got thereby an insight into the production of the local radio and TV program for the region of Franconia.

 


EMSig Thesis Awards 2017

The EMSig Thesis Awards were awarded for the first time as part of the Annual EMSig Meeting 2017 for outstanding thesis works at the LMS.

Nils Genser received the Best Master Thesis Award 2017 for his Master thesis entitled “Developing a Fixed-Point Realization of Frequency Selective Extrapolation”.

The Best Bachelor Thesis Award 2017 recieved Jan-Nico Zäch for his Bachelor thesis entitled “The Ghost Source Phenomenon in the Image Plane of the SKA” as well as Jasper Podschus for his Bachelor thesis entitled “Extension of a Robust Freqeuency-invariant Beamformer Design to Three-dimensional Microphone Arrays”.

 


Annual EMSig Meeting 2017

The annual members’ meeting 2017 took place on June 23 at 14:00 at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (Wetterkreuz 15, Erlangen-Tennenlohe). Afterwards, the third EMSig colloquium started at 15:00 in the seminar room 00.071 with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:00   Introduction and Welcome
             Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup and Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann

            Face Analysis for Emotion Recognition and More
            Dr.-Ing. Jens-Uwe Garbas, Fraunhofer IIS

            Robust Beamformer Design for Robot Audition
Hendrik Barfuss, M.Sc., LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

16:40    Coffee break

17:10     EMSig Student Awards

17:20    Image and Video Super-Resolution
              Dipl.-Ing. Michel Bätz, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

              Dolby Atmos – A Look Behind the Scenes
              Dr.-Ing. Alexander Stenger, Dolby

18:40     Closing

19:00     Come together with barbeque.

 


Annual EMSig Meeting 2016

The annual members’ meeting 2016 took place on June 26 at 14:00 at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing. Afterwards, the second EMSig colloquium started at 15:30 in the seminar room 5.17 with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:30    Introduction and Welcome
              Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

              Signal Processing in Hearing Instruments: Getting Algorithms Running
              Dr.-Ing. Stefan Petrausch, Sivantos, Erlangen

              Multi-view Image Processing – Fundamentals, Representations, and Rendering
              Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Richter, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

16:50    Coffee break

17:10     Recent Advances and Challenges for Quality Experience Assessment
              Dr.-Ing. Marcus Barkowsky, Université de Nantes

              Efficient Identification of Acoustic MIMO Systems
              Dipl.-Ing. Christian Hofmann, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

18:30    Closing

19:00    Come together with barbeque.


Annual EMSig Meeting 2015

The annaul members’ meeting 2015 took place on June 26 at 14:00 at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing. Afterwards, the EMSig colloquium started at 15:30 in the seminar room N5.17 with the following program:

Colloquium Multimedia Communications und Signal Processing

15:30         Introduction and Welcome
                    Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup

                    Visualisation Functions in Advanced Camera-based Surround View Systems
                    Dr.-Ing. Markus Friebe, Continental, Kronach

                     Can you hear me? – Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction
                     Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

16:50           Coffee break

17:10            Innovations in Oscilloscopes
                      Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Herbordt, Rohde & Schwarz, Munich

                      Compensated Wavelet Transform
                      Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Schnurrer, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

18:30            Closing

19:00            Come together with barbeque.