Prof. Dr-Ing. Thorsten Herfet
Chair of the Telecommunications Lab since August 2004
| Phone: | +49 681 302-70852 |
| Fax: | +49 681 302-70857 |
| Mail: | herfet@nt.uni-saarland.de |
| Location: | Campus C6 3, Room 10.02 |
Adjunct Affiliations #
- Vice President Research & Technology Transfer, Saarland University, 2014–2017
- Director of Research & Operations, IVCI, 2009–2017
- Dean of Computer Science & Mathematics, 2006–2008
Research Areas #
- Energy-, Latency- & Resilience-aware 5G+ Networking
- Deep Learning in Telecommunication
- Computational Videography
- High-Mobility in OFDM-Systems
Engagements #
- Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2025
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2024
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ZINC 2024
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2024
- Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2024
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2023
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ZINC 2023
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2023
- Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the NEM Summit 2008–2023
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2023
- Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2023
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2022
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2022
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2022
- Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2022
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia Asia 2021
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2021
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2021
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM GoodIT 2021
- Technical Program Committee Member of Frugalthings2020 at the ACM MobiCom 2020
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2020
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Fall2020
- Program Committee Member of the MMB2020
- Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2019, 2020 & 2021
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM MMSys2019
- Technical Program Committee Member of the 3ICT2019
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICST2019
- Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE2019
- Technical Program Committee Member of the ICCC2016 and ICCC2018
- International Advisor & Technical Program Committee Member, 2nd–8th IEEE ICCE-Berlin
- Program Committee Member of the 13th–15th ITG Symposium on Electronic Media
- Technical Program Committee Member of ACM Multimedia 2005
- Keynote speaker and Session Chair on WiCOM 2007
- Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal of Adv. in Signal Proc. Special Issue on Video Quality
- Guest Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting Special Issue on IPTV
- Guest Editor of the Int. Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS)
- Reviewer for the Journal on Entertainment Computing
- Reviewer for the International Journal of Electronics & Communications
- Reviewer for the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal
- Reviewer for the IEEE Access Journal
- Reviewer for the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters
- Reviewer for the Journal of Network and Computer Applications
- Reviewer for the ETRI Journal
- Reviewer for the Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014
- Reviewer for the SIGGRAPH 2012
- Reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
- Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
- Reviewer for the Proceedings of the IEEE
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer IAIS
- Project Reviewer in the European Commission H2020 Program
- Evaluator for projects funded by the BMWi
- Auditor for Research Institutes within the FhG
- Member of the Jury for NextGeneration Media
Awards #
- Busy Beaver WS12/13 (Student Award for the best lecture in CS)
- BITKOM e.V. Innovators’ Pitch 2009 Academic
- Intel EMEA Recognition Award 2009
- Intel Labs Recognition Award 2009
- Busy Beaver WS08/09 (Student Award for the best lecture in CS)
- Intel Corporate Technology Group Division Recognition Award 2005
- Rudolf-Urtel Award 1993
Publications #
Patents and Patent Applications #
Projects #
Positions #
| From | Until | Position | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/04 | Today | Full University Professor | Saarland University |
| 8/04 | 7/18 | CE Standards Representative | Intel Deutschland GmbH, Munich |
| 11/03 | 7/04 | Manager CE Standards | Intel GmbH, Munich |
| 10/99 | 10/03 | Director “Advanced Research & Development” | GRUNDIG AG, Nuremberg |
| 7/97 | 9/99 | Department Manager “Research & Innovation” | GRUNDIG FV GmbH, Nuremberg |
| 6/96 | 6/97 | Department Manager “Digital TV-Systems” | GRUNDIG E.M.V. Fuerth |
| 1/92 | 5/96 | Associated Professor | University of Dortmund |
| 10/88 | 12/91 | Graduate Assistant | University of Dortmund |
| 6/87 | 8/87 | Student Trainee on VLSI Qualification | SIEMENS AG, Munich |
| 4/87 | 9/87 | Student Assistant (Chair of Electronics) | University of Dortmund |
| 2/86 | 4/86 | Student Trainee on VLSI Qualification | SIEMENS AG, München |
| 11/85 | 12/87 | Student Assistant (Chair of Telecommunications) | University of Dortmund |
| 2/84 | 3/84 | Industrial Placement | RAG, Gelsenkirchen |
Supervised Phd Theses #
- Harini Priyadarshini Hariharan : Non-Disruptive Use of Light Fields in Image and Video Processing (PhD Thesis)
- Tobias Lange : Provision of Multi-Camera Footage for Professional Production and Consumer Environments (PhD Thesis)
- Kelvin Chelli : High Mobility in OFDM based Wireless Communication Systems (PhD Thesis)
- Andreas Schmidt : Cross-layer Latency-Aware and -Predictable Data Communication (PhD Thesis)
- Yongtao Shuai : Efficient Dynamic Adaptive Streaming with minimal Buffer Sizes (PhD Thesis)
- Christopher Haccius : Towards a Synthetic World (PhD Thesis)
- Michael Karl : Optimized Wide Area Media Transport Strategies (PhD Thesis)
- Jochen Miroll : Scalable and Rate Adaptive Wireless Multimedia Multicast (PhD Thesis)
- Goran Petrovic : Efficient 3D Video Streaming (PhD Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Manuel Gorius : Adaptive Delay-constrained Internet Media Transport (PhD Thesis)
- Zhao Li : Multicast MAC Extensions for High Rate Real-Time Traffic in Wireless LANs (PhD Thesis)
- Sylvia Kümmel : Adaptive Time-Frequency Analysis for Cognitive Source Separation (PhD Thesis)
- Aleksej Spenst : A User-Centric QoS Management System for Wireless Home Networks (PhD Thesis)
- Guoping Tan : Optimum Hybrid Error Correction Scheme under Strict Delay Constraints (PhD Thesis)
Reviewed Phd Theses #
- Georg Tamm : Architectures for Ubiquitous 3D on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms (PhD Thesis, Saarland University)
- Matthieu Deru : Swoozy: Intelligente und benutzerzentrierte Interaktionen für das semantische Fernsehen (PhD Thesis, Saarland University)
- Marco Lohse : Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware, Services, and Applications (PhD Thesis, Saarland University)
- Gregor Schewior : Algorithmen und Hardwarearchitekturen zur modellbasierten Bewegungsbestimmung in videobasierten Fahrerassistenzsystemen (PhD Thesis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover)
- Günther Schatter : Beiträge zur Entwicklung von Nutzungskonzepten für den Digitalen Hörfunk (Habilitation Thesis, Technische Universität Ilmenau)
- Michael Knitter : Efficiency Improvement in Decentrally Organized Interfering Wireless LANs (PhD Thesis, TU Dortmund)
- Stefan Hommes : Fault Detection and Network Security in Software-Defined Networks with OpenFlow (PhD Thesis, University of Luxembourg)
- David Jimenez Bermejo : High definition video quality assessment metric built upon full reference ratios (PhD Thesis, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
- Jürgen Sven Wünschmann : Verbesserung der Videoqualität mit Hilfe einer neuartigen Repräsentation von Videomaterial (PhD Thesis, Universität Ulm)