Author: Andreas Maier

Seven common mistakes that break your machine learning experiments' credibility Written by Andreas Maier Machine learning is a great tool that is revolutionizing our world right now. There are lots of great applications in which machine and in particular deep learning has shown to be way supe...

The German Research Council (DFG) funds our Project Grant "Deep Animal Linguistic Analysis (DALA) - Decoding Animal Communication using Bioacoustics and Machine Learning"! In total, FAU will receive 260.000 EUR for 24 months in the first project phase. The total project volume is 400.000 EUR. ...

Give Known Operators a try! Written by Andreas Maier. I am sure that all of you love Deep Learning. A major issue is though that most cool Deep Learning solutions require vast amounts of data. It easily goes into millions of training examples. I particular, if you work in medical image proces...

It is a great pleasure to announce that colleagues at the Pattern Recognition Lab won several awards on this year's virtual Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2020 conference: Best Scientific Paper 1st Place: Alexander Preuhs Deep Autofocus with Cone-Beam CT Consistency ConstraintPRS Video Best...

We want to express our gratitude to FAU's "Schnell Digital" Program that supports the conversion of traditional classes into online courses. More than 600 students will benefit from this in the current semester. FAU supports three students that will support our online activities. If you have a back...

The Bavarian Government has announced on April 16th that exams at Bavarian Universities will become possible starting from April 27th, 2020. Of course, many of you have been waiting eagerly for this announcement. We are also very happy that we will soon be able to take the exams again. Obviously...

The Medical Engineering Lecture "Medizintechnik II" will start next week. The class will be taught entirely online. Please enroll now in StudOn. You can already access the first lecture recordings in FAU's video portal (where you can also find instructions on how to enroll via StudOn). Thanks to al...

This semester's Deep Learning Course starts on Monday, April 20th. The lecture will be taught entirely online. Please enroll in StudOn. As in previous semesters, there is no limit to the number of participants. In order to accommodate the special needs of online teaching and to contain the newest d...

During the COVID-19 lockdown, FAU will switch to teaching online. Of course, the Pattern Recognition Lab follows this call and organizes all of its lectures completely online. You can find a complete overview of all our classes on our StudOn page. Please enroll now. All further details to the onlin...

Written by Andreas Maier. In the time of Corona Virus Quarantine, we have to spend much time at home and for many of us, it is difficult to entertain our kids. Often, we choose digital media as a means for distraction in order to survive the quarantine. Many parents are in fear that algorithms o...