Prof. Dr. Matthias Rosenthal

Work at ZHAW

Management role

Head of Research/Focus Area, Realtime Platforms

Position at the ZHAW

Professor for Multiprocessor Systems IEM-InES

www.zhaw.ch/ines

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Multiprocessors, Hybrid Multicore Systems, Distributed Digital Signal Proccessing, Audio, Video,
Embedded Computing

Professional milestones

Since 2018: Expert for Innosuisse
Since 2014: Senior Lecturer and Head of Research Area, ZHAW
2002-2014: Cofounder and Head of Research & Development, sonic emotion AG, Oberglatt
1999-2002: Project Manager Video Traffic & Scheduling, Nagravision, Kudelski SA, Cheseaux
1996-1999: System Architect, Studer Professional Audio (Harman International), Regensdorf

Educational background

2015: CAS Didactics, ZHAW
2005: CTI Startup Label with sonic emotion AG
1997: PhD from ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
1993: MSc (Dipl. El. Ing.) from ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Projects

• Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Highly Parallel Processing Platform for safe and secure AI (REBECCA) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• DISTRAL: Industrial Process Monitoring for Injection Molding with Distributed Transfer Learning / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• SAVEDGE: Scalable AV Platform for Edge AI Computing / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Pilot study machine learning for injection molding processes / Team member / Project completed
• Density measurement device / Project leader / Project completed
• High speed communication link for atomic force microscope instrumentation / Project leader / Project completed
• AFM with PORT: Atomic force microscope with photothermal off-resonance tapping / Project leader / Project completed
• FWA: Visual Food Waste Analysis for Sustainable Kitchens / Project leader / Project completed
• Collision prevention for laser cutting machine / Project leader / Project completed
• New high-performance platform for digital dynamic signal processing / Project leader / Project completed
• Audio Processing in OpenCL / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Wegmann, Marcel; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2022.

  Real time motion tracking for augmented reality with TOF camera and vulkan rendering [paper].

  In:

  Sikora, Axel, ed.,

  Proceedings of Embedded World Conference 2022.

  Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, 21-23 June 2022.

  WEKA.

  pp. 661-665.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26948

• Zingg, Raphael; Andermatt, Philipp; Mazloumian, Amin; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2021.

  Smart food waste management : embedded machine learning vs cloud based solutions [paper].

  In:

  Mugellini, Elena; Carpanzano, Emanuele, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 2nd FTAL Conference 2021 Sustainable Smart Cities and Regions.

  FTAL Conference 2021 – Sustainable smart cities and regions, Lugano, Switzerland, 28-29 October 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23847

• Simmler, Niclas; Sager, Pascal; Andermatt, Philipp; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Rosenthal, Matthias; Stadelmann, Thilo,

  2021.

  A survey of un-, weakly-, and semi-supervised learning methods for noisy, missing and partial labels in industrial vision applications [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 8th SDS.

  8th Swiss Conference on Data Science, Lucerne, Switzerland, 9 June 2021.

  IEEE.

  pp. 26-31.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS51136.2021.00012

• Huber, Philipp; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2020.

  Direct data exchange between FPGAs and GPUs using GPUDirect [paper].

  In:

  Embedded World Conference 2020, Nürnberg, 25.-27. Februar 2020.

• Zingg, Raphael; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2020.

  Artificial intelligence on microcontrollers [paper].

  In:

  Embedded World Conference 2020, Nürnberg, 25.-27. Februar 2020.

• Welti, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2018.

  Partitioning of computationally intensive tasks between FPGA and CPUs [paper].

  In:

  Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, 27 February - 1 March 2018.

  Haar:

  WEKA.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3523

• Welti, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  Ultra low latency wireless video streaming system for medical endoscopes [poster].

  In:

  CTI Micro-Nano Event, Basel, 30. Juni 2016.

  Basel:

  CTI.

• Welti, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  A low-latency yet highly reliable wireless video transfer system [poster].

  In:

  Electronic Displays Conference, Nürnberg, Deutschland, 24.-25. Februar 2016.

  Nürnberg:

  WEKA.

• Kammacher, Tobias; Frei, Matthias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  4K HEVC video processing with GPU optimization on Jetson TX1 [poster].

  In:

  GPU Technology Conference Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28. September 2016.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3693

• Gelke, Hans-Joachim; Rosenthal, Matthias; Kammacher, Tobias; Mazloumian, Amin,

  2016.

  Using mobile processors for general purpose industrial signal processing [paper].

  In:

  Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, 23-25 February 2016.

• Huber, Philipp; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2020.

  Echtzeit-Datenaustausch zwischen FPGA und GPU.

  Aktuelle Technik.

  2020(2), pp. 32-33.

  Available from: https://issuu.com/blverlag/docs/at_2020-02/34

• Mazloumian, Amin; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  A Wi-Fi direct system architecture for proximity-based applications [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings.

  Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, 23-25 February 2016.

• Isztl, Dávid; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2023.

  Ultra-low power car plate recognition at the edge.

  In:

  European Conference on EDGE AI Technologies and Applications – EEAI, Athens, Greece, 17-19 October 2023.

• Delafontaine, Thierry; Rosenthal, Matthias; et al.,

  2023.

  Efficient mapping of neural networks on FPGA with generated VHDL code.

  In:

  European Conference on EDGE AI Technologies and Applications – EEAI, Athens, Greece, 17-19 October 2023.

• Huber, Philipp; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2019.

  FPGA – GPU Co-Design.

  In:

  Enclustra and Avnet seminar: Jump-start your AI based FPGA application, November 21th 2019.

• Huber, Philipp; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2019.

  FPGA GPU Co-Design.

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference 2019, Winterthur, 3. September 2019.

• Zingg, Raphael; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2019.

  Neuronale Netze auf Cortex-M mit keras, CMSIS-NN und X-Cube-AI.

  In:

  Forum Künstliche Intelligenz, Stuttgart, Deutschland, 14. Mai 2019.

• Gromov, Alexey; Rosenthal, Matthias; Welti, Tobias,

  2018.

  General purpose MIPI interface.

  In:

  ECC Winterthur - swissT.net, Winterthur, 5. Juni 2018.

• Rosenthal, Matthias; Weiss, Armin; Mazloumian, Amin,

  2018.

  Realtime signal processing on embedded GPUs.

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2018), Winterthur, 5. Juni 2018.

• Weiss, Armin; Rosenthal, Matthias; Mazloumian, Amin,

  2018.

  Realtime signal processing on NVIDIA TX2 using CUDA.

  In:

  Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC), San José, USA, 26-29 March 2018.

• Welti, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2017.

  Partitionierung von rechenintensiven Aufgaben zwischen FPGA und CPUs.

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2017), Winterthur, 5. September 2017.

• Kammacher, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2017.

  4K Video Processing and Streaming Platform on TX1.

  In:

  GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, USA, 10. May 2017.

• Weiss, Armin; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2017.

  OpenCL streaming platform on FPGA.

  In:

  Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, 14-16 March 2017.

• Weiss, Armin; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  OpenCL streaming platform on FPGA.

  In:

  VISION: Exhibition VDMA, Stuttgart, Deutschland, 8.-10. November 2016.

• Welti, Tobias; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2016.

  Highly interactive wireless video transfer based on WiFi.

  In:

  Intel SoC Developer Forum, Entwicklerforum, Frankfurt, Deutschland, 8. Juli 2016.

• Rosenthal, Matthias; Mazloumian, Amin,

  2016.

  General purpose processing using embedded GPUs : a study of latency and his variation..

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2016), Winterthur, 31. Mai 2016.

  Available from: http://www.swisst.net/files/swisstnet/de/dokumente/ECC/ECC16/Referate/S4R2_Matthias%20Rosenthal.pdf

• Welti, Tobias; Gelke, Hans-Joachim; Rosenthal, Matthias,

  2015.

  A low-latency yet highly reliable wireless video transfer system.

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2015), Winterthur, 2. September 2015.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Compact Loudspeaker Array for enhanced stereophonic Sound Reproduction
E. Corteel, M. Rosenthal in 2nd International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics (2010)

A Case Study on Sound Reproduction and Acoustic Enhancement in Concert Halls Using Wave Field Synthesis
M. Casdorff, C. Kuhn-Rahloff R. Moser, M. Rosenthal in 124nd AES Convention, Nr.7466 (2008)

Simulation und Untersuchung subjektiver Fahreindrücke mit Hilfe von Wellenfeldsynthese
C. Kuhn, R. Pellegrini, M. Rosenthal, G. Seitz in DAGA (2006)

Wave Field Synthesis: Open System Architecture using Distributed Processing
R. Pellegrini, M. Rosenthal, C. Kuhn in Forum Acusticum (2005)

Auditory Sound Scene Creation using Wave Field Synthesis
E Corteel, M. Rosenthal, T. Caulkins, Warusfel O., C. Kuhn, R. Pellegrini in design sonore, IRCAM (2004)

Wave field synthesis with synchronous distributed signal processing
Matthias Rosenthal, Renato Pellegrini in IEEE 6th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (2004)

Concept and design of a reconfigurable parallel processing system for digital audio
Matthias Rosenthal, Dissertation, Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1997, ISBN-10: 389649158X

Programming Environment for a High Performance Parallel Supercomputer with Intelligent Communication
M Rosenthal, A Gunzinger, B Bäumle, M Frey, M Klebl, P Kohler in Scientific Programming, Wiley, Volume 5 Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 25-32

Digital Audio Processing in a Scalable System
Matthias Rosenthal in 102nd AES Convention, Nr.4449 (1996)

A Freely Configurable Audio-Mixing Engine with Automatic Load Balancing
Matthias Rosenthal, Marcel Klebl, Anton Gunzinger, Gerhard Tröster in 98th AES Convention, Nr.3979 (1993)

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