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This semester's Deep Learning Course starts on Monday, April 20th. The lecture will be taught entirely online. Please enroll in StudOn. As in previous semesters, there is no limit to the number of participants. In order to accommodate the special needs of online teaching and to contain the newest d...

During the COVID-19 lockdown, FAU will switch to teaching online. Of course, the Pattern Recognition Lab follows this call and organizes all of its lectures completely online. You can find a complete overview of all our classes on our StudOn page. Please enroll now. All further details to the onlin...

For this year's ICFHR'20, we organize a large-scale image retrieval competition. The task is to find fragments of the same image/from the same writer given a query fragment. To train your system, we created a 100k large training set of fragments. This competition is co-organized by the IRHT/CNRS. F...

The 2nd workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents (SUMAC) is going to be held in conjunction with ACM Multi-Media Conference 2020. In the 1st SUMAC workshop,  Prathmesh Madhu and Ronak Kosti gave an oral presentation of their work on Recognizing Characters in Art H...

The clock is ticking to apply to 12 professorships at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg! Apply until April 15th at the FAU Application Portal! In the Bavarian High-Tech Agenda, FAU was chosen to become the hub in Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering and Medicine. In ...

You’re probably creating notes and presentations for yourself or for lab meetings anyways - consider submitting your educational materials to help the community! The first prize winner will receive a $500 prize, sponsored by the MICCAI society, with the possibility for second and third place prizes...

In order to feature our research to a broad audience, we started the Pattern Recognition Blog. Here you will find reports on projects at the lab, described in an accessible way. The first two entries highlight Known Operator Learning and the recent history of AI. Furthermore, you will also find lin...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier was formally appointed as a full tenured professor on March 31st, 2020. He is now a professor in Machine Intelligence at the Computer Science Department at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and will start on this position on April 1st, 2020. At the same ...

The television transmitter 3sat will broadcast the documentary "Die Sprache der Wale" by Volker Barth for the first time on Thursday 14 May 2020 at 20:15 in "Wissen hoch 2". Over a period of 3 years, an interdisciplinary research team consisting of marine biologists, computer scientists and psycholo...

Due to the current pandemic of COVID-19, this year’s BVM (German Conference on Medical Image Processing) was converted into a video venue. All authors submitted their work as videos and they are available now on YouTube in the newly created BVM Channel. In the description of the video, you can find ...