Save the date: The fifth NeuroSensEar workshop will take place from September 22 - 23, 2025.

The workshop will take place in Erfurt.

Successful spring meeting

The spring meeting of the NeuroSensEar consortium from March 24 to 26, 2025 at the University of Ulm focused on the development of neuromorphic acoustic sensor systems for future-oriented, context-aware hearing aids. Scientific presentations, specialist sessions and poster sessions highlighted advances in areas such as MEMS hardware, biologically inspired localization mechanisms, acoustic scene analysis and AI-supported learning. In addition to technical aspects, the medical perspective of auditory perception was also integrated.

Meeting report

The fourth NeuroSensEar workshop will take place from March 24 - 26, 2025.

The workshop will take place at the University of Ulm. You will find more information here soon.

The consortium meeting and second NeuroSensEar working meeting will take place on May 30, 2024.

Meeting place is the seminar room of the TU Ilmenau in the Erfurter Hof. Further information can be found here: https://intranet.tu-ilmenau.de/site/dgt/SitePages/Tagungsraum---Erfurter-Hof.aspx

Report on the meeting

The first NeuroSensEar workshop will take place on April 10, 2024 at the FSU Jena.

Report on the meeting

Maria Illing

Kick-off workshop NeuroSensEar will take place on October 18 & 19, 2023 at TU Ilmenau.

Registration and further information

Bio-inspired technology for highly efficient hearing aids - Carl Zeiss Foundation funds research group

TU Ilmenau / Michael Reichel
The smart sensor will be at the heart of innovative hearing aids.

In the large-scale collaborative research project NeuroSensEar, Ilmenau University of Technology is developing a biology-inspired technology that makes highly efficient hearing aids possible. People with hearing impairment should thus largely regain their ability to perceive hearing. The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding the five-year research project, which starts in October and has a total volume of more than 5.5 million euros, with almost five million euros as part of the "CZS Breakthroughs" funding program. In addition to TU Ilmenau, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT and the IMMS Institute for Microelectronic and Mechatronic Systems are involved in the project.

The aim of the NeuroSensEar project ("Neuromorphic acoustic sensor technology for high-performance hearing aids of tomorrow") is to increase the acceptance of hearing aids in the population and thus improve the care of hard-of-hearing people. At the heart of the innovativetechnology is an intelligent sensor that automatically adapts to the respective hearing situation and the individual hearing loss of the user. For this purpose, the sensor is equipped with a control system that reacts in real time to changing acoustic scenarios, for example in the living room or at the train station, and learns new hearing scenarios throughout its life.

More information can be found here.

News

New measurement technology for teaching

Expansion of the laboratory facilities in the Department of High-Frequency and Microwave Engineering to include two fully digital electronics test stations
TU Ilmenau/FG HMT

Thanks to a donation from Keysight Technologies, the Department of High-Frequency and Microwave Engineering has been able to expand its laboratory equipment with two complete digital electronics measurement workstations. Each workstation comprises a signal generator, an oscilloscope, handheld and benchtop multimeters, and a laboratory power supply.

The new measurement systems are ideal for teaching the fundamentals of measurement technology and enhance the curriculum by providing practical measurement stations closely aligned with industrial applications. This allows laboratory sessions to be organised more flexibly and enables students to familiarise themselves with other specialist measurement equipment used in the department at an early stage.

On behalf of all team members, the High-Frequency and Microwave Engineering Department would like to thank Keysight Technologies for its generous donation and the associated support for academic education at the Technical University of Ilmenau.