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The Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts has approved funding for a further phase of the International Doctoral Program “Measuring and Modelling Mountain Glaciers and Ice caps in a Changing Climate” (IDP M³OCCA) as part of its Elite Network of Bavaria. The Institute of Geography at F...

The editorial team behind the open access textbook Medical Imaging Systems – An Introductory Guide (Springer LNCS 11111) is proud to announce that the book has officially surpassed 500,000 downloads via the SpringerLink platform:🔗 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-...

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming Pattern Recognition Symposium. Our symposium will take place from Sunday, July 27th to Thursday, July 31st. This is an exciting opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and students to come together and explore the latest advancements in the field of patt...

We are pleased to announce that Dr.-Ing. Paula Andrea Perez-Toro and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier have joined the board of the Profile Center Medical Engineering (FAU MT). Dr. Perez-Toro and Prof. Maier bring a wealth of experience in medical engineering, artificial inte...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for a new research project at the Pattern Recognition Lab (Chair of Computer Science 5) of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Led by Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier, the project will investigate the theor...

We are pleased to share that Fei Wu of the Computer Vision group has won third place in the “ICDAR 2025 Competition on Few-Shot Text Line Segmentation of Ancient Handwritten Documents”, where participants faced the difficult challenge of accurately segmenting text lines across three distinct a...

Berlin, June 2025 – We are proud to announce that Max Rohleder, a PhD researcher at the Pattern Recognition Lab, has been honored with the prestigious “Bench-to-Bedside Award” at this year’s International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI 2025) for his w...

NUREMBERG, Germany – June 4, 2025 – A team of four students from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) received the "Overall Best" award at the Zollhof HackBay hackathon last week. Their winning project, "DevHero," is an AI multi-agent designed to improve efficiency in so...

End of May, our team - led by Prof. Andreas Maier - traveled to Fully3D 2025, the 18th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. Over four days of talks and workshops, we shared our latest CT-reconstruction advances and forged new c...

Odeuropa is the first major European research project dedicated to estimating the role of smell and olfactory practices in building cultural identity, collective memory, and enhancing the interpretation of both tangible and intangible heritage. The project’s ambition was to position smells and ...