Year: 2020

DFG funding a FAU research project analysing killer whale sounds

FAU team develops cost-efficient and high-resolution multi-spectral camera Intelligent cameras are the next milestone in image and video processing A team of researchers at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at FAU has developed an intelligent camera that achieves not only...

An interview with FAU materials scientist Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec Sustainable energy is hard to imagine without photovoltaic technology. Photovoltaic cells have a particular advantage as they can be mounted on almost all surfaces, even inside window panes. Even older buildings can be retrofitted...

Over the next five years, the European Research Council (ERC) will support the excellent research projects of PD Dr. Benoit Merle, Chair of Materials Science I (General Material Properties, WW1) as one of three FAU junior scientists with one of the ERC Starting Grants, which are endowed with at leas...

An interview with Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke on the Green Factory Bavaria project The Green Factory Bavaria project was launched seven years ago. Twelve research institutes and more than one hundred companies jointly pursued the ambitious goal of minimising resource consumption in production. Prof. Dr. ...

FAU is a partner of the ‘Global Market Leaders Innovation Day’ initiative run by the German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche, which is to be held in Erlangen on 8 September 2020. Renowned researchers and young talents from FAU will present their research and ideas on the main focal topic ‘energy ...

FAU engineers supplies technological basis for multimedia forensics When solving crimes, even renowned forensics experts sometimes reach their limits, for example when the quality of video material from near the scene of a crime is very poor. A research project hopes to remedy this situation: In co...

Are you interested in study abroad in WS21/22 or SS22? You are invited to an online-information via Zoom. Subject: Information study or internship abroad: Prerequisites, possibilities, preparation, financing, application and short information about partner universities of the Faculty of Engineer...

Research at FAU into new applications for bioactive glass Bioactive glass is actually an old friend as it was developed around 50 years ago. Due to its properties that promote bone growth, it has often since been used in regenerative medicine as a material to replace bone or in dentistry. In addi...

How can you enable people who are no longer able to write themselves to write a personal note or continue to write a diary in their own handwriting? A team of researchers at FAU have now developed a method for imitating handwriting using artificial intelligence (AI). The more legible the writing, th...