Author: Andreas Maier

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...

The clock is ticking to apply to 12 professorships at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg! Apply until April 15th at the FAU Application Portal! In the Bavarian High-Tech Agenda, FAU was chosen to become the hub in Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering and Medicine. In ...

You’re probably creating notes and presentations for yourself or for lab meetings anyways - consider submitting your educational materials to help the community! The first prize winner will receive a $500 prize, sponsored by the MICCAI society, with the possibility for second and third place prizes...

Written by Andreas Maier. In the age of deep learning, data became an important resource to build powerful smart systems. In several fields, we already see that the amount of data that is required to build competitive systems is so large that it is virtually impossible for new players to enter t...

Written by Andreas Maier. Deep learning is one of the most successful methods that we have seen in computer science in the last couple of years. Results indicate that many problems can be tackled with this method and amazing results are published every day. In fact, many traditional methods in p...