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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 ...

The Pattern Recognition Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is pleased to announce that its interdisciplinary research initiative, “Next-generation AI for Integrated Diagnostics,” has been awarded €125,500 in funding from the STAEDTLER Foundation a...

It’s a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. Mirabela Rusu, the head of the Personalized Integrative Medicine Laboratory at Stanford University to our lab! Title: From pathology to ultrasound via MRI: multimodal learning for cancer detection Date: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025, 16:30 CET Location...

Franziska Weber received her Master's Degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in March 2025. Previously, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. In April 2025, she joined the Pattern Recognition Lab as a Ph.D. student under the supervisio...

Daiqi Liu received his Master’s degree in Medical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since April 2025, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. at the Pattern Recognition Lab, under the supervision of Dr.-Ing. Paula Andrea Pérez Toro and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Maier....