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At April, 1, 2024 we say go bye to retirement to Prof. Rigoll. We are glad to welcome Prof. Hemmert. He is appointed to the provisional Head of the institute. [read more]

As explained in the appointment letter: "This special honor is reserved for individuals who have truly distinguished themselves through their sustained and lasting contributions to IEEE". [read more]

Stefan Hörmann has been awarded the lecturer prize for especially good teaching in the category "Best Assistant" by the student body of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. [read more]

For EI-students we offer a double degree master program at CDHK in China. Participants can be financed by a scholarship. Lectures are offered in German at CDHK as well as in English at CEIE at the Tongji University. More information [read more]

At the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2019 in Shanghai, Mikhail Startsev received the Grand Challenges Winner Award for "Best Paper Track 2: ASD Classification" for his contribution "Classifying Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on Scanpaths and Saliency" to… [read more]

Okan Köpüklü got the Best Student Paper Award for his work "Real-time Hand Gesture Detection and Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks", which is presented on the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019) . … [read more]

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Rigoll was made an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to multimodal human-machine communication". The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an international professional association of engineers in the fields of electrical… [read more]

At the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2017 in Hong Kong, Mikhail Startsev received the "Award for Best Head and Eye Movement Prediction" for his contribution to the "Salient360! Grand Challenge". Congratulations! [read more]

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl wurde für seine unermüdliche Arbeit auf den Gebieten der Akustik mit dem EAA AWARD for Lifetime Achievements in Acoustics geehrt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! [read more]

Philipp Tiefenbacher got the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for his work "Biomechanics of Thumb Touch Gestures on Handheld Devices", which will be presented on the CHI 2016 LBW. Of all sumbissions accepted only less than 5% earned a Best Paper status of some form! … [read more]