Our former colleague Shuo Liu successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Deep learning approaches for adaptive audio processing and binary classification in digital health’ on the 16th of August 2023. The examiners were Shuo's supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schlesner (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg), and Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg). Congratulations!

The universities of Augsburg, Bamberg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Munich (LMU), and Würzburg have spent four years researching the healthy use of digital technologies and media. ForDigitHealth has presented its findings in academic publications as well as in an online guide accessible to the public.

Das Unternehmen recoro, das aus einem Forschungsprojekt der Universit?t Augsburg am Lehrstuhl für Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing (EIHW) hervorgegangen ist, hat im Münchener 7. Digital Innovation Award den 1. Platz gewonnen. Das IT-Startup hat einen intelligenten Assistenten für Vertriebsteams entwickelt, um den Verkaufserfolg in virtuellen Gespr?chen zu erh?hen und Mitarbeitende datenbasiert zu schulen.?

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On the 20th of October 2022, our former colleague Alice Baird successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Computer Audition for Emotional Wellbeing’. The examiners were Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller (Alice’s supervisor), Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André, Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (both 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg) and PD. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ronald B?ck (Genie Enterprise Inc.). Congratulations, Alice!

Our former colleague Lukas Stappen successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Videos’ on the 19th of October 2022. The examiners were Lukas's supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg) and PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ronald B?ck (Genie Enterprise Inc.). Congratulations!

Forscher der Universit?t Augsburg und internationale Partner*innen sprechen
über die Anwendung von Robotern und automatischer Emotionserkennung als
Hilfsmittel in der Therapie autistischer Kinder.

Essen und Getr?nke werden kostenfrei gestellt

At the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg there is now a position at the Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing (Prof. Dr. Bj?rn Schuller) as

Research Associate (m / f / d)

Das junge Unternehmen Recoro wird durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz mit einem EXIST-Stipendium gef?rdert. Es ist aus einem Forschungsprojekt an der Universit?t Augsburg entstanden und wird von ihr sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch bei der Unternehmensgründung beraten. Rocoro nutzt künstliche Intelligenz, um Vertriebsprozesse zu optimieren.

On the 18^th of March 2022, our former colleague Max Schmitt successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Bag-of-Words?Representations?for?Computer?Audition’. The examiners were Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller (Max’s supervisor), Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (Universit?t Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (Universit?t Augsburg) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Kolossa (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum). Congratulations, Max!

Our former colleague Zhao Ren successfully defended her PhD thesis ?Deep?Learning?Techniques?for?Computer?Audition“ on the 22^nd of February. The examiners were Zhao’s supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André and Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (both 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg) as well as Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Maier (FAU Erlangen). Congratulations!

Congratulations to former EIHW researcher Vedhas Pandit on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis! Vedhas defended his PhD, ?Time-?and?Value-continuous?Explainable?Affect?Estimation?In-the-wild‘ on the 23th November. The examiners were Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller — Vedhas’ supervisor, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg) and Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg).

The chair for Embedded Intelligence in Healthcare and Wellbeing is looking for two students to support our research.

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Topic: emotion recognition from facial and physiological information.

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Qualification: skills in Machine Learning and Data Analysis

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Workload: 40h/month (no degree yet) bzw. 36h/Monat (bachelor degree)

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Duration: June 1 2021 to Dec 31 2021?