The supplement for Statistical Signal Processing (StaSiP) given by Alexander Schmidt, M.Sc. was ranked second in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2017/2018, with an overall rating of 1.24 in the category ÜP5.
The 'Laboratory for Statistical Signal Processing (PrStaSiP)' given by Alexander Schmidt, M.Sc. was ranked first in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2017/2018, with an overall rating of 1.13 in the category P5.
The plenum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences has elected Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup as a full member of Section III: Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering.
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1759, is the largest and one of the oldest academies in Germany. The focus of its work is on long-term projects that provide the basis for further research and safeguard cultural heritage.
According to the statutes, only scientists whose achievements "represent a significant expansion of the knowledge base" in their subject can be elected as members. The academy has the right to self-addition, a self-application is not possible.
The supplement on 'Communication Networks' given by Dr.-Ing. Thomas Richter was ranked second in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2017/2018, with an overall rating of 1.15 in the category ÜW10.
The lab course 'Image and Video Signal Processing on Embedded Systems', supervised by Karina Jaskolka, M.Sc. and PD Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Seiler, was ranked third in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2017/2018, with an overall rating of 1.15 in the category lab courses (P5).
The 'lecture Signals and Systems I' given by Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup was ranked first among 44 modules in the teaching evaluation of the School of Engineering in the winter term 2017/2018, with an overall rating of 1.23 in the category requried subjects (VP20).
The supplement on 'Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing' given by Andreas Spruck, M.Sc. was ranked second in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2017/2018 in the category ÜW5, with an overall rating of 1.25.
The paper "Multizone Sound Reproduction in Reverberant Environments Using an Iterative Least-Squares Filter Design Method with a Spatiotemporal Weighting Function" by Michael Buerger, M.Sc., Dipl.-Ing. Christian Hofmann, Cornelius Frankenbach, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Kellermann has been awarded a 'WASPAA Student Travel Grant' for the 'IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics' (WASPAA) 2017 in New Paltz, NY, USA.
The lab course 'Multimedia Communications', supervised by Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Eichenseer and the tutors Marco Bader, Meng Chen, Parul Dhingra, Kristian Fischer und Bowei Li, was ranked first in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the summer term 2017, with an overall rating of 1.02 in the category lab courses (P5).
The supplement on 'Image and Video Compression' (IVC) given by Lanz, Daniela, M.Sc. was ranked second in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the summer term 2017, with an overall rating of 1.40 in the category ÜP20.
The lecture on 'Signals and Systems II' given by Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup was ranked first in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the summer term 2017, with an overall rating of 1.24 in the category required subjects (VP20).
Martin Pöllot M.Sc., Dr.-Ing. Dominic Springer, Ralph Schleifer, Monika Nitsch und Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup received a "Distinguished Paper Award" at the "International Conference on Consumer Electronics" (ICCE) 2017 in Berlin, Germany for the paper "Finger-Trace Generator for SWYPE Touch Screen Testing Applications".
Veit Pirkl, B.Sc., will receive the Siemens Master Award for his thesis entitled "Beschreibung der nichtregelmäßigen Abtastung und frequenzselektiven Rekonstruktion im Compressed Sensing Framework" which he wrote at the Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing. The award will be handed over during the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering on July 7, 2017.
Nils Genser, M.Sc., PD Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Seiler and Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup received a "Best Student Paper Award" at the "International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing" (IWSSIP) 2017 in Poznań, Poland for the paper "Local Statistics Estimation for Rapid Frequency Selective Extrapolation".
The supplement for Statistical Signal Processing (StaSiP) given by Alexander Schmidt, M.Sc. was ranked third in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2016/2017, with an overall rating of 1.22 in the category ÜP5.
The paper “An improved uncertainty decoding scheme with weighted samples for multi-channel DNN-HMM hybrid systems” by Christian Hümmer, M.Sc., Dr.-Ing. Ramón Astudillo und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Kellermann received a Best Paper Award at the Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA) 2017 in San Francisco, USA.
This conference is viewed as one of the globally most important conferences in multichannel microphone array signal processing and included more than 40 publications in 2017.
The Lecture Signals and Systems I given by Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup was ranked third in the teaching evaluation of the Technical Faculty in the winter term 2016/2017, with an overall rating of 1.35 in the category required subjects (VP20).
Die Doktorandin Sanjukta Ghosh, M.Sc. hat den Preis der Hans-Wilhelm- und Helga Schüßler-Stiftung 2016 erhalten. Sie stammt aus Indien und hat Computational Engineering mit Auszeichnung an der FAU studiert und promoviert derzeit am Lehrstuhl für Multimediakommunikation und Signalverarbeitung. Sie engagiert sich in verschiedenen sozialen Projekten und kümmert sich zudem um Studierende aus Indien, die neu an der FAU sind. Diesen hilft sie bei der Integration vor Ort. Ihr bemerkenswertes Engagement und ihre herausragenden Leistungen würdigt die Hans-Wilhelm- und Helga Schüßler-Stiftung mit einem Förderpreis in Höhe von 1000 Euro.