Toshiyo Tamura a leading expert in the field of wearable, remote photoplethysmography and blood pressure monitoring from Waseda University in Japan will be our guest from the 24th to 26th June. He will give a talk about video-based blood pressure monitoring at SNNU for the master class in neural engineering and for all who are interested in the topic.
Visiting Professor: Steven Hillyard
Steven Hillyard, an expert on visual and auditory attention from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), visited SNNU from September 29 to October 6, 2023. During his visit, he worked on collaborating projects in the field of selective auditory attention along the auditory pathway in humans. Some recent results of this collaboration can be found here:
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.14.548994v1
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.23.581747v1
For more information about Steven Hillyard, you can visit his UCSD profile at:
https://profiles.ucsd.edu/steven.hillyard
Saarland University Virtual Open Doors Day 2020
In the course of the Saarland University’s Virtual Open Doors Day 2020, the SNNU gives a brief overview of our latest research projects on remote monitoring of physiological parameters for applications in neuroscience, healthcare and neuroergonomics:
Link to the video [German]
Remote detection of COVID-19
A few weeks ago, we started a new study on the corona virus at the testing center in Saarbrücken (Messegelände Saarbrücken). In cooperation with the ZF AG, the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Saarland (KV) and the Bundeswehr we are investigating whether symptoms of COVID-19 can be detected contactlessly with a battery of cameras and microphones. We expect the first results in summer 2020.
The applied methodology allows no reliable diagnosis, but could help to reduce the number of unnecessary laboratory tests by the early identification of suspected cases of SARS-CoV2 infections.
On May, 12 2020, local and regional political representatives (Christian Seel – Saarland State Secretary, Peter Gillo – director of the regional association Saarbrücken and Uwe Conradt – Mayor of Saarbrücken), as well as a delegation of the Bundeswehr (Generalleutnant Schelleis, Oberst Schirra and Oberst Heisner) visited our research setup. A short film interview about this visit can be found in the SR media center:
Studie zu kontaktlosen Corona-Tests angelaufen.
Also, the regional newspaper published two articles with additional information about our COVID-19 study:
Forscher aus dem Saarland wollen COVID Symptome mit Kameras finden ,
Saarländische Forscher untersuchen neues COVID-19 Testverfahren.
Visitor: Lars Thomsen (future matters)
Futurologist and founder of the Swiss think tank ‘future matters’, Lars Thomsen, visited SNNU for an exchange about current research on the future of human machine interaction. A small report about his visit and our driving simulator based research projects was presented by SR: https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=81008&startvid=8
Visiting Professors: José Luis Urrusti and Jorge Martínez
Profs. José Luis Urrusti and Jorge Martínez, Universidad Iberoamericana, MX, visited SNNU from September 30 to October 6, 2019, see https://ibero.mx/about-ibero
Visiting Professor: Malcolm Slaney, Alphabet Inc.
Prof. Malcolm Slaney, Machine Hearing Group at Google Research and Stanford CCRMA, CA, gave a talk about “Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Attention” at SNNU on Septebmber 19th, 2019, see https://ai.google/research/people/105191/
ZF – SNNU joint research on motion sickness
Video clip of the global technology company ZF documents the joint research with SNNU on motion sickness, see https://www.zf.com/site/magazine/de/articles_20160.html
Invited talk
“The Systems Neuroscience of Spatial Auditory Attention”: Prof. Strauss talks about the neuroscience of auditory attention at the University of Hawaii, 18 July 2019, Room: Sakamaki c204b, Manoa Campus
Visiting Professor: Alexander L. Francis
Prof. Alexander L. Francis, Purdue University, IN, visited SNNU from June 13 to June 18, 2019, see https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/directory/faculty/francis_alexander.html