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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

Towards Video Codec Performance Evaluation: A Rate-Energy-Distortion Perspective

Author(s)
Ramasubbu, Geetha, Kaup, André, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2024
Performance evaluation; Video coding; Three-dimensional displays; Fitting; Rate-distortion; Rate distortion theory; Distortion
Source
16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), S. 96 - 99
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598269

Exploiting Change Blindness for Video Coding: Perspectives from a Less Promising User Study

Author(s)
Amiri, Mitra, Le Moan, Steven, Herglotz, Christian
Type
Conference Proceeding refering
Year of publication
2024
Publisher name
IEEE
Accuracy; Biological system modeling; Semantics; Bit rate; Blindness; Predictive models; Observers
Source
16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)- 43
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598281
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.