Author: Paul Stöwer

Concepts to Computational Constructs: Advanced Scene Understanding for Heterogeneous Artworks Using Deep Learning Due to the mass digitisation of paintings, manual examination and understandingof individual images is a cumbersome task. Developing automatic methods usingcomputer vision and machin...

Acquisition- and Reconstruction-Techniques for Sodium Quantification in the Skeletal Muscle using Sodium Magnetic Resonance Imaging (23Na MRI)

Log File Processing - Changes, Challenges, and Chance Log files are plain text files written by any modern computer system. Their content is determined by logging statements during software development. Thus, any kind of event can be collected during runtime. As a result, logs contain a wealth o...

Analysis of Pathological Speech Signals The present thesis addresses the automatic analysis of speech disorders resulting from Parkinson's disease and hearing loss.For Parkinson's disease, the progression of speech symptoms is evaluated considering speech recordings captured in the short-term (4...

Using Contextual Information to Process Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Spoken Dialog Systems Speech is a very efficient channel for communication, but it is a challenge to cope with words which are unknown to one of the dialogue partners. Human beings are very good at dealing with words that are not...