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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

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

Comparison of bluetooth low energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, serial and 5G in IoMT

Author(s)
Doe, Nina, Scharoba, Stefan, Reichenbach, Marc, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Setúbal, Portugal : Scitepress - Science And Technology Publications Lda.
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), Performance Evaluation, Wireless Communication, Electrocardiogram (ECG) Monitoring, Real-Time Systems
Source
Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on biomedical engineering systems and technologies (BIOSTEC 2025), Porto, Portugal : Volume 2, S. 859 - 866
ISBN
978-989-758-731-3; ISSN: 2184-4305
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5220/0013321500003911

Optimizing sensor placement for event detection : a case study in gaseous chemical detection

Author(s)
Suawa, Priscile Fogou, Herglotz, Christian
Editor(s)
Fu, Haoran
Type
Scientific Article ref.
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Basel : MDPI
Event detection; Gaseous substances; Industrial monitoring applications; Influence of sensor location; Multi-objective optimization; Sensors; Sensors fusion; Supervised learning
Source
Sensors, S. 1 - 19
Volume
25
Issue/Journal number
8
ISSN
1424-8220
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25082397

A width-configurable hardware approach for accelerating fixed-point simulation

Author(s)
Shahin, Keyvan, Hübner, Michael, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Fixed-Point Simulation, Width-Configurable Hardware, Hardware-based Acceleration, High-Level Synthesis (HLS)
Source
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
ISBN
979-8-3315-3477-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI65124.2025.11130205

Analysis of methods for predicting H2 sensor responses

Author(s)
Sarif, Raduan, Tiebe, Carlo, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Wunstorf : AMA Service GmbH
Source
SMSI 2025 Conference - Sensor and Measurement Science International : proceedings, S. 169 - 170
ISBN
978-3-910600-06-5
URL
https://www.smsi-conference.com/assets/2025/2025-SMSI-ebooklet.pdf
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5162/SMSI2025/C6.3

Towards complete open-source environments : FPGA-based GPU overlay controlled by RISC-V

Author(s)
Muñoz-Hernandez, Hector Gerardo, Ali, Muhammad, Shahin, Keyvan, Siyavashi, Alireza, Göhringer, Diana, Reichenbach, Marc, Herglotz, Christian, Hübner, Michael
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2025
Publisher name
Berlin : Springer
FPGA; Soft-core GPU; System-On-Chip; RISC-V; HBM
Source
Architecture of computing systems : 38th International Conference, ARCS 2025Kiel, Germany, April 22–24, 2025, proceedings, S. 94 - 108
ISBN
978-3-032-03280-5
DOI
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03281-2_7
Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 15839
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