The focus of our teaching is in the areas of signal processing and multimedia communication. Our chair offers lectures on signals and systems, communication engineering, multimedia communication systems, multimedia content protection, and radar systems. The team of lecturers includes Prof. J.-R. Ohm and three visiting lecturers, Dr. D. Cerutti-Maori, Prof. F. Hartung and Dr. M. Wien. The team is enforced by Dr. C. Rohlfing and the researchers employed at the chair. Besides the lectures, we provide tutorial exercises and laboratory courses on the respective topics. We frequently offer seminars on selected areas of our field, partly in collaboration with other chairs and institutes of our faculty. Our focused research topics are in the area of information compression and signal analysis, with emphasis on multimedia data, and more recently, biological data. In Video Coding, our research interests include future higher-compression coding algorithms, neural networks and machine learning approaches for compression, scalable coding, and coding based on 3D scene structures as well as video panoramas. In Signal Analysis, we work on deep learning approaches for efficient indexing and identification of imagery, scenes and objects, e.g. for retrieval applications, and for nonlinear prediction of irregular time series and events. The research interests in biological signal processing are focusing on compression and analysis of signals expressing genomic information. We frequently contribute to the major conferences dedicated to our area. The research work is framed by long-term involvement in standardization activities and by projects with industry and academic partners all over the world. In this context, we continue contributing to compression standards like Advanced Video Coding, High Efficiency Video Coding, and Versatile Video Coding.
