EMSig Events
EMSig Members’ Meeting 2025
The members’ meeting for the account year 2024/2025 takes place on July 4, 2025 at 14:00.
Exkursion to Valeo
On October 18, 2024, an excursion to the Valeo research and development center in Kronach-Neuses took place. At the Valeo Brain Division, the participants were given an insight into the latest developments in driver assistance systems through presentations and demonstrations. The participants also had the opportunity to drive a car remotely around the factory premises using a telematics system. After lunch in Kronach, the group visited Rosenberg Castle. During a guided tour, the participants of the excursion learned how the baroque fortress has withstood military attacks over the centuries.
EMSig-Colloquium 2024
On June 28, 2024, the EMSig colloquium 2025 took place at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing with the following program:
15:00 Introduction
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup und Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann
Room Acoustics in Coupled Spaces
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schlecht, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hexagonal Array for Hyperspectral Imaging
M.Sc. Frank Sippel, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
16:15 Coffee break
16:30 EMSig Student Awards
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
16:45 Ermittlung von funktionalen digitalen Zwillingen thermischer Schutzschalter
Dr.-Ing. Christian Strobl, E-T-A Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH
Audio Coding in the Era of AI
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Brendel, Fraunhofer IIS
On Annotation-free Optimization of Video Coding for Machines
M.Sc. Marc Windsheimer, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
18:30 Closing
19:00 Come together at Entla´s Keller
Exkursion zu Dallmeier electronics
On Nov. 10th 2024, an excursion to Dallmeier electronic in Regensburg, which develops and manufactures video-based surveillance system, took place. The excursion was completed by a visit of the Hofbräuhaus Regensburg and a guided city tour.
EMSig-Colloquium 2023
On June 30, 2023, the EMSig colloquium 2023 took place at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing with the following program:
15:00 Introduction
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup und Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann
Fahrerassistenz Forschung und Entwicklung bei Valeo in Kronach
Dr.-Ing. Eugen Wige, Valeo
Spatial Information in Neural Spatiospectral Filtering
M.Sc. Annika Briegleb, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
16:15 Cofee Break
16:30 EMSig Student Awards
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
16:45 Neuronal Networks in Continuous Operation
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Vasileios Belagiannis, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Learned Wavelet Video Coding using Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering
M.Sc. Anna Meyer, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
17:45 Closing
19:00 Get together at Entla‘s Keller
EMSig Thesis Awards 2023
As part of the EMSig Colloquium 2023, the EMSig Thesis Awards have been awarded for outstanding thesis works at the LMS.
Marc Windsheimer received the Best Master Thesis Award 2023 for his master thesis entitled „A Multiscale Approach for Augmented Normalizing Flows for Image Compression“.
Paul Wawerek-López received the Best Bachelor Thesis Award 2023 for this bachelor thesis entitled „Emulation of Image Artifacts by Learning in the Frequency Domain“.
EMSig Members’ Meeting 2023
On Feb. 24, 2023 started at 14:00 the EMSig members’ meeting for the account year 2022/2023 online via Zoom.
EMSig Colloquium 2022
On Aug. 19., 2022 EMSig Colloquium took place (after a longer pause due to the Corona pandemic) as a face-to-face event with the following program:
15:00 Introduction
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup und Dr.-Ing. Heiner Löllmann
MPEG-I Audio: About Virtual Acoustic Worlds, Quality Evaluation and More
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Herre, AudioLabs, Fraunhofer IIS
Artificial Intelligence in Heathcare
Dr.-Ing. Christian Hümmer, Siemens Healthcare
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 EMSig Student Awards
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
17:15 Rate Distortion Optimized End-to-End Image Compression
M.Sc. Fabian Brand, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Detection of Bearing Faults based on Vibration and Sound
M.Sc. Matthias Kreuzer, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Advancements in the Field of Non-Regular Sampling: From Grayscale Images to Colored Videos
M.Sc. Simon Grosche, LMS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
18:30 Closing
19:00 Get together at Entla’s Keller
EMSig Thesis Awards 2022
As part of the EMSig Colloquium 2022, the EMSig Thesis Awards have been awarded for outstanding thesis works at the LMS.
Anna Meyer received the Master Thesis Award 2022 for her Master thesis entitled „Deep Learning-Based Camera Adaptive Image Enhancement“.
Felix Bogner received the Best Bachelor Thesis Award 2022 for his Bachelor thesis entitled „Evaluation of a Deep Neural Network-Supported Beamforming Algorithm for Multichannel Speech Enhancement“.
EMSig-Mitgliederversammlung 2022
The members’ meeting for the account year 2021/2022 takes place on April 20, 2022 via Zoom (due to the Corona pandemic)
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.