FAUdigital

New Data Science course at FAU The FAU is continuously expanding its range of courses. In the winter semester 2020/21, the new Bachelor's program in Data Science will begin. A corresponding Master's program will follow one year later. This makes FAU one of the few locations in Germany where student...

Inspired from the pioneer work of Max Imdahl [1], our work focuses on generating image composition canvas (ICC) diagrams based on two central themes: (a) detection of action regions and action lines of an artwork (b) pose-based segmentation of foreground and background.

Dr. Ruth Stadler has even switched over to "fully digital" plant determination exercises in the biology course. The lecturer at the Chair of Molecular Plant Physiology realizes interactive teaching formats this semester via StudOn. In the interview she tells how she digitized a presence practical co...

How digital elements were quickly implemented in everyday teaching The FAU without a presence? This was the question that suddenly confronted the teachers, but also the university management, administration and service facilities with the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. Alternatives to classroom t...

Celebrate together online instead of the Schlossgartenfest 2020, many things are different - even at the FAU Schlossgartenfest. Although the event is not taking place this year, there's something very special for all fans: the #FAUSommernacht on Saturday, 11th July from 7pm - an evening with music,...

The Corona semester has been a great challenge for the FAU lecturers: The online teaching had to be planned and implemented quickly. Despite the short available time, many of them developed very well thought-out formats and support services for their students. With the ALEX Teaching Award 2020, FAU ...

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 ...

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...

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. 

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.