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...

Written by Andreas Maier. Traveling in time has always been a dream of mankind. Imagine being able to experience ancient Rome first hand or to move back to the days of our ancestors to experience how people were living at that time. Obviously, such time travel goes well beyond our physical limit...

In order to feature our research to a broad audience, we started the Pattern Recognition Blog. Here you will find reports on projects at the lab, described in an accessible way. The first two entries highlight Known Operator Learning and the recent history of AI. Furthermore, you will also find lin...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier was formally appointed as a full tenured professor on March 31st, 2020. He is now a professor in Machine Intelligence at the Computer Science Department at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and will start on this position on April 1st, 2020. At the same ...

Written by Andreas Maier. Machine learning and in particular deep learning revolutionize the world as we know it today. We have seen tremendous advances in speech and image recognition, followed by the application of deep learning to many other domains. In many of those domains, deep learning is...

Every model is wrong, but some models are useful Written by Andreas Maier. We have seen tremendous progress by artificial intelligence (AI) over the past decades. This progress, however, was not achieved steadily. There were significant ups and downs on the way. In some of these phases, peopl...

The television transmitter 3sat will broadcast the documentary "Die Sprache der Wale" by Volker Barth for the first time on Thursday 14 May 2020 at 20:15 in "Wissen hoch 2". Over a period of 3 years, an interdisciplinary research team consisting of marine biologists, computer scientists and psycholo...