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FAU Guest Professor Dr. Rachel Warnock on paleontology, study and research in times of corona Many people think of paleontology as field research, digging for fossils and Jurassic Park. A large part of the research is computer-aided. One paleontologist who does most of her research on computers is ... Continue

FAU Computer Center receives 7 million euros in DFG funding for high performance computing FAU's Regional Computer Center Erlangen (Ger. Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, RRZE) is further expanding its leading position in high performance computing: The German Research Foundation (Ger. Deutsche Fo... Continue

This work exploits style transfer in combination with transfer learning to recognize characters in art historical images. Our approach focuses on recognizing two central characters in the “Annunciation of the Lord” scene from Art history, Mary and Gabriel across varied art-works from different artists, times and styles.  Continue

To the best of our knowledge, it is the first paper that synthesizes realistic Western cursive handwriting by mimicking the actual temporal writing process. Our method works nearly fully automatic, e.g. no manual cutting out of characters, and is able to render full lines instead of glyphs/words as in other works. Continue

FAU has been researching artificial intelligence for more than 40 years, always in close connection with medical technology. Now the AI health node has been established in Erlangen. FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger reported on this in a BR2 interview on May 25. "AI will change medicine very... Continue

The Frankenschau will report on April 20 about the digital start of the semester at FAU. Sónia Hetzner from the Institute for Innovation in Learning talks about the challenge of offering the entire FAU course online. However, this also poses difficulties for students who lack the financial means for... Continue

University receives four new professorships in the field of artificial intelligence FAU once again demonstrates its excellence in the field of artificial intelligence (AI): In the second round of the AI competition of the High-Tech Agenda Bayern, it will receive four new professorships in this fiel... Continue

Right now, most people are working from home. Videoconferencing tools are part of everyday life. How does this situation change the future of work? Is home office now becoming the standard? Or will everyone go back to the office after the crisis? Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, Chair of Sociology with a ... Continue

New research unit "Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering" strengthens AI health node Erlangen On May 1, 2020, FAU founded its own department for research and teaching of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of health at its Faculty of Technology under the name Artificial Intelligen... Continue

In the summer semester of 2020, FAU will have to make an almost complete switch to digital teaching formats due to the corona pandemic. To this end, FAU has already established infrastructures within a very short time that enable the expansion and implementation of digital teaching formats (see www.... Continue