Bluetooth-Erfinder Sven Mattisson from Ericsson will be guest speaker at the 2nd IEEE Forum on Signal Processing for Radio Frequency Systems organized in cooperation with ACCM on May 22, 2012 at Tech Gate Vienna. Mattisson will give a keynote about "Wireless Communication Receiver ICs: trends and performance issues for 3G and LTE". Registration still possible!
Scientific Advisory Board at FTW
The Scientific Advisory Board consisting of Prof. Dr. Angela Sasse, Professor Dr. Helmut Bölcskei, Prof. Dr. Ernst Biersack and Prof. Dr. Noel Crespi was held for the 3rd time on May 3 and 4 2012 at FTW to discuss issues of the future research strategy together with the FTW team. The SAB was established as board to advise the FTW management on matters of research strategy and research development.
Lange Nacht der Forschung 2012
With the stations RHEA, SESAME-S, KOFLA, and PRIAMUS FTW was represented at the Lange Nacht der Forschung on April 27, 2012. In addition to numerous visitors Federal Minister Doris Bures and Hannes Androsch could be welcomed at the FTW booth.
Girls Day 2012 - Gallery
At April 26 the 11th Viennese Töchtertag took place. FTW also participated in the event organized by the City of Vienna and invited 10 girls to give them the possibility to get a close insight into a resaercher's life. In addition to the KOFLA project presentation by Jesper Groenbaek and a tour through the i:lab by Theresa Stürmer the girls learnt interesting facts about the world of researchers and even could participate in the planning of a research project.
FTW at the Lange Nacht der Forschung
It takes place again, the "Lange Nacht der Forschung". In Vienna alone, universities, colleges and companies will present fascinating science, research and technology at 35 locations and more than 200 stations. On Friday, April 27 2012, from 16.30 to 23.00 o'clock at Tech Gate Vienna FTW is represented with 4 stations and will present research highlights out of the projects RHEA, SESAME-S, KOFLA, and PRIAMUS.
11th Viennese Girls Day at FTW
As every year FTW takes part in the Viennese Girls Day and is happy to welcome girls aged 12-17 at FTW and inspire them for research.
Project Start for EDGE
The goal of the project EDGE (Efficient Distribution of Green Energy) is to increase the penetration of wind energy in the power grid. It will be achieved through improved management of dynamic elements (production units, storages and loads) connected to the power grid. EDGE is a non-COMET project funded by the Danish Council of Strategic Research (DCSR).
Joint PhD program with Aalborg University
The Department of Electronic Systems of Aalborg University Denmark and FTW have signed an agreement on a joint PhD program. The completion of this PhD program is leading to a PhD title from Aalborg University. This PhD program is a further step towards the intensification of cooperation with FTW's international scientific partners. The first FTW PhD student in this program is Thomas Paulin.
FTW Organizer of the ACM 3rd International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation in September in Vienna
FTW is pleased to announce the 3rd Edition of the FAA 2012 (The ACM 3rd International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation) on September 21, 2012 in the Museum of Young Art in Vienna. The objective of this scientific conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of computer graphics, animation and communication technology to advance the State of the Art in Facial Animation and Analysis. Amongst others it was possible to win sponsors like Disney or Speech Graphics.
Speech Graphics multilingual facial animation demo
A new technology for the automatic generation of multilingual lip synchronization animation causes great excitement in the gaming community. The technology makes it possible to automatically create a real-looking synchronization. Gregor Hofer, senior researcher at FTW within the project AVDS, is a co-founder of Speech Graphics, a startup company in Edinburgh, which focuses on speech technology.
