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Selected Topics in Communications Engineering

Institutes:
This seminar is jointly organized by the Institut für Nachrichtentechnik and the Institute of Communication Systems.

Contact: Sebastian Nagel, Erik Fleischhauer, and Christian Rohling

Type: Seminar with 3 or 4 SWS

Content:
In this seminar, advanced topics of communications technology and information transmission will be discussed. The focus will be on recent developments as well as aspects of system realization.

Organization:
Participating students work out different topics and present these in talks of about 25 minutes. Apart from the scientific and technical topics, the seminar also emphasizes on presentation skills. These are addressed in a Presentation Workshop which is held early in the semester.

Requirements:
Fundamental knowledge of communications engineering, e.g. from the lectures "Advanced Topics in Signal Processing and Communication", "Machine Learning for Speech and Audio Processing", "Digital Speech Transmission" or "Visual Media Communication". The number of participants is limited.

Materials: Starting material for the literature research will be provided.

Language: German / English

Dates

Introduction and topic assignment will take place on Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at 1:30 - 2:30 PM online. A formal registration in the RWTHonline system is required.

Presentation Workshop:

Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 09:00 AM - 4:00 PM at meeting room, IKS

Final presentations:

The final presentations are expected to take place at the end of June / beginning of July. The exact dates will be announced later. 

Attendance at all dates stated above is mandatory.

Topics

The seminar topics are based on current research. New topics are defined in each semester.

Topics in previous semesters have included:

  • Digital Voicing of Silent Speech
  • Multi-Modal Speech Enhancement for Earbuds
  • Binaural Reproduction of Head-Mounted Microphone Array Recordings
  • Perceptual Coding of Virtual Room Acoustics
  • Low-Rate Speech Coding Using Neural Autoencoders
  • Light-Weighted Temporal Evolution Inference for Generative Face Video Compression 
  • Progressive Coding for Deep Point Cloud Attribute Compression

Evaluation

The results of the evaluation of the last years are summarized below.

Winter Term 2025

Participants of the evaluation: 9 
Seminar concept: 1,3
Materials: 1,3
Teaching of course content: 1,2

Selected_Topics_in_Communications_Engineering_WS2526.pdf