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It's a great pleasure to announce our next guest in our invited lecture series "Beyond the Patterns". Guest: Prof. Dr. Jochen Hoffmann, FAU Erlangen-NurembergTitle: Information exchange as an infringement of competition lawDate: April 15th 2021, 12h CETLocation: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69095471924... Continue

Prof. Nöth's team is covered again with their work on animal linguistics on German television. This time, we went Prime Time with "Terra X - Die Sprache der Tiere". If you missed the live broadcast, you can still the documentary for another week as online stream:https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/ter... Continue

Alicia Fornes is performing ground-breaking research in hand-written document analysis at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain. So, it's a great pleasure to welcome her in Erlangen virtually next week! Title: Computer vision applied to historical handwritten documents: Oportunities and c... Continue

We welcome Dr. Anton Batliner back to the Pattern Recognition Lab. In his presentation, he will inform us on the problems of worshipping the excessive use of significance testing. Title: Magic Numbers vs. Sound Reasoning or: „Moving to a world beyond p < 0.05“Speaker: Dr. Anton BatlinerLocati... Continue

It's a great pleasure to welcome Udaranga Wickramasinghe from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland at our lab for an invited talk! Title: Voxel2Mesh: 3D Mesh Model Generation from Volumetric DataLocation: https://fau.zoom.us/j/99090380459Date & Time: March 31st 2021, 14h CET Abstract: CNN-based vo... Continue

Florian Willomitzer is former PhD graduate of FAU and is now back to report on his latest exciting research that he conducted during his time as research assistant professor at Northwestern University. Title: Fundamental Limits in Computational 3D Imaging - From Novel 3D Cameras to Looking aroun... Continue

Prof. Dr. Schnabel has been shaping the world of medical imaging like few other persons. It's great pleasure to have her here in Erlangen for an invited talk! Title: Smart Medical Imaging – from sensors to informationDate: March 17th, 15h CETLocation: https://fau.zoom.us/j/94670845563?pwd=dmFsTD... Continue

It's a great pleasure to announce that colleagues of the Pattern Recognition Lab were again successful at the German Conference for Medical Image Processing "BVM 2021". In this year, our group was able to win two awards at this exciting German conference. Katarina Breininger won the Best Present... Continue

We are pleased that the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded our project "Font Group Recognition for Improved OCR". It will be part of Phase III of OCR-D, the German initiative for OCR development. In total, FAU will receive 210.000 Eur for 24 months. This project aims to improve OCR for book... Continue

It is a great pleasure to announce Timothy Odonga as speaker at our lab! Timothy will present his latest research on fairness of classifiers that was already featured on MICCAI and NeurIPS Fair ML for Health. Title: Fairness of Classifiers Across Skin Tones in DermatologyPresenter: Timothy Odong... Continue