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Chair of Computer Engineering Visiting Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Herglotz

Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Herglotz
Visiting Professor
VG1C, Room 1.38
T. +49 (0) 355 69 2026
E: christian.herglotz(at)b-tu.de

 

Curriculum Vitae
  • Substitute professor at BTU Cottbus, Department of Computer Engineering, since November 2023
  • Habilitation candidate at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing, April 2019-October 2023
  • PostDoc at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Canada, August 2018-March 2019
  • Doctoral candidate at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing, August 2012-July 2018
  • Diploma programme "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology", RWTH Aachen University, October 2005-July 2012
Research

My research topics deal with several aspects from the fields of Computer Science and Information Technology.

  • Efficient and resilient architectures for neural networks
  • Energy efficient video communication
  • Compression of visual data
  • 5G networks for distributed sensors
  • Signal processing for medical imaging

 

Publications

RL-agent-based early-exit DNN architecture search framework

Author(s)
Taheri, Mahdi, Patne, Parth, Cherezova, Natalia, Mahani, Ali, Herglotz, Christian, Jenihhin, Maksim
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Deep neural networks; Dynamic DNNs; Early exit
Source
IEEE 28th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) : proceedings, S. 145 - 148
ISBN
979-8-3315-2801-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/DDECS63720.2025.11006795

GENIE : GENetIc algorithm-based REliability assessment methodology for deep neural networks

Author(s)
Nazari, Samira, Taheri, Mahdi, Azarpeyvand, Ali, Afsharchi, Mohsen, Herglotz, Christian, Jenihhin, Maksim
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Deep neural networks; Parallel processing; Memory overhead; Reliability; DNN accelerator
Source
2025 11th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICCAI), S. 1 - 8
ISBN
979-8-3315-2492-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAI66501.2025.00049

Toward an energy-efficient and explainable neural network architecture for detection of breast cancer in mammography

Author(s)
Siyavashi, Alireza, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Breast cancer detection; Medical image analysis; Explainability AI; Deep learning; Energy efficiency
Source
International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) : conference proceedings, S. 1 - 7
ISBN
979-8-3315-5501-6
979-8-3315-5500-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI66578.2025.11339334

Multi-dimensional maturity framework for consumer ECG devices

Author(s)
Doe, Nina Pearl, Schmailzl, Kurt J. G., Rokohl, Florian, Reichenbach, Marc, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Medical devices; Correlation; Statistical analysis; Taxonomy; Medical services; Electrocardiography; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Consumer electronics; Systematic literature review
Source
2025 IEEE 14th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), S. 108 - 113
ISBN
979-8-3315-5381-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin67488.2025.11277704

Industrial use of private 5G-network : development of a mobile demonstrator to test network coverage

Author(s)
Levon, Johan, Ruffert, Christine, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Berlin : VDE VERLAG GmbH
Source
MikroSystemTechnik Kongress 2025 : Mikroelektronik, Mikrosystemtechnik und ihre Anwendungen - Nachhaltigkeit und Technologiesouveränität : proceedings : 27.-29. Oktober 2025, Duisburg, S. 430 - 432
ISBN
978-3-8007-6614-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.30420/456614033

Modular 5G-communication and radar based animal health monitoring system for smart live stock farming

Author(s)
Brockmann, Carsten, Uwe, Maass, Pasupuleti, Sriram Charan, Usha, Tamanna Yeasmin, Ndip, Ivan, Rotta, Randolf, Karnapke, Reinhardt, Herglotz, Christian Herglotz, Pearl Doe, Nina, Ulbricht, Markus, Wolpert, Ilonka, Ruffert, Christine, Scholles, Michael
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Berlin [u.a.] : VDE Verlag GmbH
Animal health; Research and development; Vital signs; Agricultural regions; Computer-aided diagnosis; Mesh network
Source
MikroSystemTechnik KONGRESS 2025 : Mikroelektronik/Mikrosystemtechnik und ihre Anwendungen – Nachhaltigkeit und Technologiesouveränität, S. 379 - 381
ISBN
978-3-8007-6614-7
URL
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11440214
DOI
https://doi.org/10.30420/456614018

Impact of Topology Manipulation on Digital Thread Functionality: A Case Study on Aerospace Engineering

Author(s)
Zargariasl, Hamid, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2024
Publisher name
IEEE
Measurement; Industries; Visualization; Network topology; Graph theory; Topology; Digital twins
Source
9th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
ISBN
978-953-290-135-1
979-8-3503-9079-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.23919/SpliTech61897.2024.10612419

Data Compression for Close-Range Radar Imaging

Author(s)
Rückert, Rainer, Ullmann, Ingrid, Herglotz, Christian, Kaup, André, Vossiek, Martin
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2024
Radar imaging; Radar; Image coding; Antenna measurements; Radar measurements; Image resolution; Data compression
Source
IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, S. 421 - 433
ISSN
2832-7357
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TRS.2024.3387288

Exploiting Change Blindness to Reduce Bitrate and Display Luminance in Video Streaming

Author(s)
Le Moan, Steven, Amiri, Mitra, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2024
Publisher name
IEEE
Video coding; Visualization; Image coding; Bit rate; Blindness; Streaming media; Observers
Source
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
ISBN
979-8-3503-4939-9
979-8-3503-4940-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10648096

Energy Reduction Opportunities in HDR Video Encoding

Author(s)
Herglotz, Christian, Le Moan, Steven, Mercat, Alexandre
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2024
Energy consumption; Visualization; Image coding; Image resolution; Single instruction multiple data; Bit rate; Energy conservation
Source
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
ISBN
979-8-3503-4939-9
979-8-3503-4940-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10647527
Standardisation
  • Since 2020 Co-Chair of the break-out group "Green Metadata" within the MPEG Working Group "MPEG Systems"(https://www.mpeg.org/structure/systems/)
  • Contributions to the MPEG-B standards "Part 11 - Energy-Efficient Media Consumption (Green Metadata)" and "Part 19 - Carriage of Green Metadata"
Scientific Associations

Committees

  • Active member of the "Visual Signal Processing and Communications (VSPC)" Technical Committees in the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society (since 2020).
  • Member of  ITG Fachausschuss MT 2 "Bildkommunikation und Bildverarbeitung".
  • Program Co-Chair of the 39th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Mainz, Germany, 2026. 
  • Publication Chair of the International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Klagenfurt, Austria, 2026. 

Reviewer

  • Assessor for Project Proposals within the Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation,DFG), since 2023. 
  • Reviewer for various conferences (IEEE ICIP, IEEE VCIP, Picture Coding Symposium, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICASSP, Int. Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience QoMEX).

Editorships

  • Guest-Editor of the IEEE Journal on Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Special Issue "Circuits and Systems for Green Video Communications", 2024. 
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), 2023-2024.
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), 2021. 

  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Special Issue on IEEE ISCAS 2021. 

Awards and Honours
  • Diversity and Societal Impact Award for the paper " Towards Video Codec Performance Evaluation: A Rate-Energy-Distortion Perspective", G. Ramasubbu, A. Kaup, C. Herglotz, Proc. Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Karlshamn, Sweden, 2024.
  • Teaching evaluation, best exercise "Exercise on Signals and Systems II", Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, 2023.
  • Sustainability Award of FAU, category Research, for the research team "Energy Efficiency Video Experts", June 2023.
  • Joint Research Incubator Award, ITG Technical Committee MT 2 "Image Communication and Image Processing", 2022.
  • Teaching Evaluation, second best exercise "Exercise on Signals and Systems II", Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, 2022.
  • Best Paper Award for the paper "Power Modeling for Virtual Reality Video Playback Applications", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Technology (ISCT), 2019.
  • Teaching evaluation, second best exercise "Exercise on Signals and Systems II", Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, 2018.
  • Teaching evaluation, second best exercise "Exercise on Signals and Systems II", Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, 2016.
  • Paul Dan Cristea Special Award for the paper "Modelling the Energy Consumption of HEVC Intra Decoding", International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2013.