As the leaves begin to fall and the days grow shorter, the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg is delighted to usher in the winter term of 2023/24. We extend a warm and hearty welcome to all our students, both new and returning, as they embark on another aca...

Marcel Dreier earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his Master thesis he used diffusion models to generate offline handwritten text images and completed it in August 2023. Later on, he joined the Pattern Recognition Lab...

We are happy to announce that Mikhail Kulyabin, a Ph.D. student at the Pattern Recognition Lab, and Hilde Pedersen, University of South-Eastern Norway, are one of the winners of the ERA-Net NEURON video competition.The project focuses on developing innovative methods for early detection and accurat...

We are very happy to announce Dr. Sara Beery from MIT as an invited speaker at our lab! Title: Open challenges in generalizable computer vision for ecologyDate: Thursday, Sep. 28th, 2023, 2 PM CETLocation: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/65408653773?pwd=ZmVMaGZqYS9YSmpSd2tKOVFpU3RMUT09 Short Bio: Dr....

Deep Learning Applied to Animal Linguistics Even nowadays, people have only a very limited understanding about animal communication. Scientists are still far from identifying statistically relevant, animal-specific, and recurring linguistic paradigms. However, combined with the associated situat...

Recognition of Similarities and Abnormalities in Chest Radiographs In a medical sense, radiography is an imaging technique to produce a plain image of the human body. Radiography of the chest is the most commonly used medical image acquisition method. In contrast to other imaging techniques, rad...

Linda Vorberg completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Medical Engineering at FAU Erlangen. In addition to her studies, she worked as a working student at Siemens Healthineers as a software developer for MR and later in pre-development for CT imaging. She completed her master thesis in Augus...

Alexander Jung received his Master's degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He joined the Pattern Recognition Lab on July 2023 as an external Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Maier. His research project is funded by Deggendorf Institu...

Yipeng Sun received his Master’s degree in Medical Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. He joined the Pattern Recognition Lab in July 2023 as a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Maier. His research project is in collaboration with Fraunhofer IIS and focusses on the developme...

A significant achievement has been achieved by an international research consortium, comprising the University of Erlangen, Germany, York University, Toronto, and the University of Michigan, USA. Our paper, "Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron-Like Long-Short-Term-Memory Units as Model System in Comput...