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 (University of Augsburg), and Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (University 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.

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 University 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 (University of Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (University of Augsburg) and PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ronald B?ck (Genie Enterprise Inc.). Congratulations!

At the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the University 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)

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 University 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 (University of Augsburg) and Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart (University 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?

German public TV broadcaster NDR featured the chair EIHW in the health magazine ?Visite“.

Prof. Schuller was featured on ,,P.M. Wissen" by Austrian TV station ServusTV.

In January, Professor Schuller was interviewed on the Augsburg a.tv program “Zeit zu reden”, on which he spoke about the chair’s Corona-App.