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Multimedia and graphics

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The Multimedia and Graphics group in the Faculty of Computer Science develops and coordinates the range of courses and research activities in the areas of multimedia, current web technologies and development approaches, mobile application development, user-centred design and user experience, human computer interaction, graphical data processing and computer vision.

The group's current research focuses include semantic web technologies in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, Linked Open Data for a Web of Data (aka Semantic Web), didactics of computer science, virtual and augmented reality.


Courses

Bachelor

  • .Net Framework and C#
  • Development of web-based applications
  • Advanced Web Development
  • Project Fundamentals of Computer Science
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Realisation of multi-touch and multi-user interfaces
  • Semantic knowledge management in the company
  • Bachelor thesis preparation seminar
  • Visual Computing

Master

  • Chaos and fractals
  • Computer Geometry
  • Computer Vision
  • Foundations of Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  • Shader concepts for game development
  • Augmented and Virtual Reality

projects

DDiT (veterinary medicine)

Multimedia Billiard Table

AI foosball table

SMEBT (chatbots)

VR-Koni-Trainer (human medicine)


Laboratories and infrastructure

The courses in multimedia and graphics take place either in the two laboratories below or as a notebook practical course.

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The Multimedia and Graphics group in the Faculty of Computer Science develops and coordinates the range of courses and research activities in the areas of multimedia, current web technologies and development approaches, mobile application development, user-centred design and user experience, human computer interaction, graphical data processing and computer vision.

The group's current research focuses include semantic web technologies in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, Linked Open Data for a Web of Data (aka Semantic Web), didactics of computer science, virtual and augmented reality.


Courses

Bachelor

  • .Net Framework and C#
  • Development of web-based applications
  • Advanced Web Development
  • Project Fundamentals of Computer Science
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Realisation of multi-touch and multi-user interfaces
  • Semantic knowledge management in the company
  • Bachelor thesis preparation seminar
  • Visual Computing

Master

  • Chaos and fractals
  • Computer Geometry
  • Computer Vision
  • Foundations of Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  • Shader concepts for game development
  • Augmented and Virtual Reality

projects

DDiT (veterinary medicine)

Multimedia Billiard Table

AI foosball table

SMEBT (chatbots)

VR-Koni-Trainer (human medicine)


Laboratories and infrastructure

The courses in multimedia and graphics take place either in the two laboratories below or as a notebook practical course.

D15/102

D15/107

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Members

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Elke Hergenröther

Prof. Dr. Elke Hergenröther


Graphical data processing and fundamentals of computer science

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Portrait of Thomas Hofmann

Thomas Hofmann

Laboringenieur(in)
Web development, graphics & multimedia

Web developer, teacher and laboratory engineer

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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Yvonne Jung

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Jung


Media informatics, application development

Professorship in Application Development and Fundamentals of Computer Science

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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi

Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi


Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Visual Analytics

Kawa Nazemi has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science since 2016. There, he teaches and conducts research in the areas of HCI,...


visual analytics and artificial intelligence.

Between 2007 and 2016, Professor Nazemi conducted research at Fraunhofer IGD in the Information Visualisation and Visual Analytics department. From 2011, he headed the Semantic Visualisation group, which developed user-centred visualisation solutions, and was deputy head of department. He received his doctorate in adaptive and intelligent visualisation from the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt. He was responsible for a large number of national and European projects and various research contracts for industry. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and a member of various programme committees. His research has been recognised by the Academia Europaea with the Burgen Scholarship Award and by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, among others.
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