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It’s a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Liangrui Peng as a speaker at our lab! Title: Exploring Representation, Attention, and Memory Mechanisms for Text RecognitionDate: Friday, December 19th, 2025, 9 AM CETLocation: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/61781168039?pwd=PV8PLP5qScT6aGBphxevrPu3OXPucB.1Abstrac...

Even experts sometimes reach their limits when deciphering historical documents, for example when ancient wooden tablets are charred, scrolls have weathered, or notes are written in a rare form of shorthand. In two new projects, Vincent Christlein and his team aim to develop AI-supported technologi...

The Pattern Recognition Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) reports exceptional success in this year’s submission round for “Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM) 2026”. Out of 19 submitted contributions, 18 have been accepted, corresponding to an impressive acceptance r...

The Pattern Recognition Lab and Profile Center Medical Engineering (FAU MT) are now part of the COST Action European Network to Advance the Development and Implementation of Vocal Biomarkers (eVoiceNet) (COST Action CA24128 – eVoiceNet). eVoiceNet brings together more than 80 partners from over ...

Hello everyone,my name is Sebastian Baum. I completed my Master’s degree in Medical Engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg this September, and I will be  starting my PhD on November 1st as part of a collaboration between FAU and Siemens Healthineers.My research will focus on tissue...

Hello Everyone, My name is Christopher Hauer and I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science here at FAU back in March 2025. I already started my Ph.D. back in May 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Dr.Ing. habil. Andreas Maier and Prof. Dr. Christian Bergler. My research topic is ...

We are pleased to announce the signing of a strategic partnership between Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and West China Hospital (WCH) on September 25, 2025, at KI Park Berlin. The ceremony was followed by a joint scientific workshop, where both institutions presented the...

The Pattern Recognition Lab (Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5, Mustererkennung) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is proud to announce that its proposal “Hyb_Mod_Netz – Hybride Netzmodelle als Basis für den optimalen Betrieb von Fernwärmenetzen” has been selected for funding by t...

It's a great pleasure to announce Prof. Dr. Karl Friston as a speaker in our lab! Title: The physics of sentienceDate: Oct 24th, 2025, 10 AM CETLocation: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/62249702322?pwd=z08nBcKqhOGLkGeLwbNfbofiv2zmkm.1 Abstract: how can we understand ourselves as sentient creatur...