Module Catalogue
Module Book
Essentials:
- two-year full-time postgraduate program (4 semesters)
- 120 ECTS, including 30 ECTS for master’s thesis
List of Modules:
Mandatory Modules (35 ECTS):
- Information Theory and Coding (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Digital Communications (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Mobile Communications (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Digital Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Statistical Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Image and Video Compression (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Speech and Audio Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ SS)
Note: Mandatory courses can be replaced by mandatory electives if equivalent courses have been completed in earlier studies.
Elective Mandatory Modules:
Technical Courses (choose 5 ECTS):
- Multiuser Information and Communications Theory (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Transmission and Detection for Advanced Mobile Communications (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- MIMO Communication Systems (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Machine Learning in Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Advanced Communication Networks (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Equalization and Adaptive Systems for Digital Communications (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Speech Enhancement (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Advanced Topics in Perceptual Audio Coding (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Auditory Models (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Architectures of Digital Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Transforms in Signal Processing (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Signal Analysis (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Advanced Optical Communication Systems (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Optical Communication Networks (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Linear and Nonlinear Fiber Optics (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Pattern Recognition (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Pattern Analysis (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Music Processing – Synthesis (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Music Processing – Analysis (2.5 or 5 ECTS/ WS)
Lab Courses (choose 3 for 7.5 ECTS):
- Mobile Communications (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Digital Communications (2.5 ECTS/ WS/SS)
- Image and Video Compression (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Digital Signal Processing (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Statistical Signal Processing (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Image and Video Signal Processing on Embedded Systems (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Audio Processing (2.5 ECTS/ WS/SS)
- Machine Learning in Signal Processing (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Communications Systems Design (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
Seminar (2.5 ECTS)
- Selected Topics in Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (2.5/ WS+SS)
- Selected Topics in Communications (2.5/ WS)
- Audio Processing Seminar (2.5/ WS+SS)
Non-Technical Elective Mandatory Modules:
- Language courses (for international students)
- Language courses and Soft Skills (for German students)
Elective Modules (choose 15 ECTS):
Technical Electives
- Convex Optimization in Communications and Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Channel Coding (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Computer Graphics (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Diagnostic Medical Image Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Communications Systems Design (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Advanced Networking (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Advanced Topics in Deep Learning (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Advanced Programming Techniques (2.5/ VHB)
- Molecular Communications (5 ECTS/ WS)
- 4G/5G Communication Systems (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Pattern Recognition (5 ECTS or 7.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Pattern Analysis (5 ECTS or 7.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Computer Vision (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Deep Learning (5ECTS/ WS)
- Channel Coding on Graphs (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Machine Learning in Communications (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Radar Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Random Matrices in Communications and Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Mathematical Optimization in Communications and Signal Processing (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Game Theory with Application to Information Engineering (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Machine Learning for Time Series (5 ECTS/ WS)
- Circuits and Systems of Transmission Techniques (5 ECTS/ SS)
- RF and Digital Architecture of Radio Systems (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Selected Topics in ASC (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Virtual Vision (2.5 ECTS/ WS)
- Selected Topics of Deep Learning for Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Audio Processing for the Internet of Things (2.5 ECTS/ SS)
- Reinforcement Learning (5 ECTS/ SS)
- Cognitive Neuroscience for AI Developers (5 ECTS/ SS and WS)
- Self-organized Networks (5 ECTS/ SS)
- …. and all Elective Mandatory Technical Courses