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

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• 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

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• Energy-, Latency- & Resilience-aware 5G+ Networking
• Deep Learning in Telecommunication
• Computational Videography
• High-Mobility in OFDM-Systems

Engagements

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• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2026
• Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2026
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ZINC 2025
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE APWiMob 2025
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2025
• 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

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• 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

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Patents and Patent Applications

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Projects

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Positions

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Supervised Phd Theses

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• Pablo Gil Pereira : Predictable Data Transport: A Delay and Energy Perspective (PhD Thesis)
• 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

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• 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)