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

Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Herglotz
Substitute 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

A cybersecurity approach for visual data flow in digital twins : areal-world case study

Author(s)
Zargariasl, Hamid, Faraj, Aghaali, Borck, Christian, Behm, Martin, Arnouk, Annamria, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding no refering
Year of publication
2026
Publisher name
Wunstorf, Germany : AMA Service GmbH
Source
iCCC2026 - iCampus Cottbus Conference, S. 244 - 247
ISBN
978-3-910600-10-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5162/iCCC2026/P31

Adaptive 5G gateway for smart livestock monitoring

Author(s)
Doe, Nina Pearl, Zargariasl, Hamid, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding no refering
Year of publication
2026
Publisher name
Wunstorf, Germany : AMA Service GmbH
Source
iCCC2026 - iCampus Cottbus Conference, S. 276 - 279

Integrating an open-source soft-GPU overlay with RISC-V control and high-bandwidth memory

Author(s)
Muñoz Hernandez, Hector Gerardo, Taheri, Mahdi, Ali, Muhammad, Shahin, Keyvan, Syavashi, Alireza, Göhringer, Diana, Reichenbach, Marc, Herglotz, Christian, Hübner, Michael
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2026
Publisher name
Amsterdam : Elsevier BV
FPGA; Soft-core GPU; System-on-chip; RISC-V; HBM; Roofline
Source
Journal of systems architecture, S. 1 - 13
Volume
175
ISSN
1383-7621
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2026.103736

Energy-aware frame rate selection for video coding

Author(s)
Ramasubbu, Geetha, Kaup, André, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2026
Publisher name
New York, NY : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Encoding; Videos; Energy consumption; Decoding; Visualization; Energy measurement; Video coding; Bit rate; Video sequences; Quantization (signal)
Source
IEEE access, S. 37553 - 37564
Volume
14
ISSN
2169-3536
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3672053

Multi-protocol redundancy and adaptive sampling for safety-critical IoT communication using clinical ECG monitoring as case study

Author(s)
Doe, Nina, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2026
Publisher name
Setúbal, Portugal : SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications
Safety-Critical IoT; ECG Monitoring; Multi-Protocol Redundancy; 5G Communication; Wireless Coexistence
Source
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1 BIOSIGNALS: DEMS, S. 588 - 597
ISBN
978-989-758-802-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5220/0014707700004070

Circuits and Systems for Green Video Communications: Fundamentals and Recent Trends

Author(s)
Herglotz, Christian, Palomino, Daniel, Le Meur, Olivier, Jay, Kuo
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2025
Source
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, S. 4 - 15
Volume
15
Issue/Journal number
1
ISSN
2156-3365
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2025.3540360

FORTUNE : a negative memory overhead hardware-agnostic fault TOleRance techniqUe in DNNs

Author(s)
Nazari, Samira, Taheri, Mahdi, Azarpeyvand, Ali, Afsharchi, Mohsen, Ghasempouri, Tara, Herglotz, Christian, Daneshtalab, Masoud, Jenihhin, Maksim
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Source
2024 IEEE 33rd Asian Test Symposium (ATS), S. 1 - 6
ISBN
979-8-3315-2917-8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS64447.2024.10915463

Reliability-aware performance optimization of DNN HW accelerators through heterogeneous quantization

Author(s)
Nazari, Samira, Taheri, Mahdi, Azarpeyvand, Ali, Afsharchi, Mohsen, Herglotz, Christian, Jenihhin, Maksim
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Source
2025 IEEE 26th Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), S. 1 - 6
ISBN
978-1-6654-7763-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/LATS65346.2025.10963948

Foundations of measuring power and energy consumption in video communication

Author(s)
Herglotz, Christian, Katsenou, Angeliki, Wang, Xinyi, Kränzler, Matthias, Schien, Daniel
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Energy measurements, Energy consumption, Power draw, Video communications, Video codecs, Live streaming, Cloud gaming, Video on demand, Sustainability
Source
IEEE access, S. 45142 - 45156
Volume
13
ISSN
2169-3536
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3545814

Do we need 10 bits? : assessing HEVC encoders for energy-efficient HDR video streaming

Author(s)
Mercat, Alexandre, Sainio, Joose, Le Moan, Steven, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Energy efficiency, High-dynamic range, High-efficiency video coding (HEVC), Tone mapping, Video coding
Source
IEEE journal on emerging and selected topics in circuits and systems, S. 31 - 43
Volume
15
Issue/Journal number
1
ISSN
2156-3357
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2025.3533041
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.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Hübner (currently VP)

Main Building, Room 1.37

T: +49 (0) 355 69 3467
michael.huebner(at)b-tu.de
https://www.b-tu.de/universitaet/die-btu/praesidium/vizepraesident-fuer-forschung-und-transfer