Welcome everybody, my name is Andreas Meyer and I'm the host of this video channel.

So today I want to start something new which I call Beyond the Patterns.

So I want to show you some things that are beyond machine learning, pattern recognition

and artificial intelligence.

So we will have various topics within this kind of series of talks that go into science

and that are relevant for scientists, yet they touch different fields and they also

touch interdisciplinary work.

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And today I want to show some first presentations.

So this is really maybe not so much about science, it's more about science presentation.

So I want to show you some things about how to prepare a good scientific presentation.

You can see that this video is actually quite a bit funny because during the recording,

which I actually did this morning in our seminar session, there were quite a few things that

went wrong.

So you can see that except for the things that I'm actually telling you to do for good

presentations in this video, I'm also kind of hit by the things that can occur to you

anytime in home office.

So we will see.

The video is kind of funny and I don't want to hide it from you.

So please go ahead and enjoy pitfalls of presentations.

This is actually a set of slides that we have in use for quite a long time.

So this has been created by my colleague Stefan Steidl.

And this is a really nice introduction into scientific presentation.

So I want to run through these slides with you today, such that everybody knows what

we think is a good scientific presentation and there's not a big disagreement.

So what's the motivation?

Giving good presentations is of course essential for your career.

And I know you are studying now a field where you essentially want to focus on the engineering

and go into depth here.

But at some time you will also have to present what you're doing to a larger audience.

And presentations, I can tell you, if you don't like presentations, presentations will

haunt you for your entire career.

So the number of presentations and the audience will increase rapidly in the near future.

So now you do a seminar talk and maybe there's 10 people in the audience.

If you do a presentation of your bachelor's or master's thesis, it's going to be something

like 20 people in the audience.

And if you decide to work as a tutor and a kind of student assistant, then you see that

the exercise groups are already 30 people.

So already a student, you have rather large audiences.

Now if you go towards a PhD, but also if you go towards industry, you will very likely

have to give presentations and there you then simply have increasing numbers.

So we have every semester a talk at the Pattern Recognition Symposium.

There you have like 50 people in the audience and your PhD defense, you will have like 70

people in the audience.

And at international workshops and conferences, you have 100, but also up to a thousand people

in the audience.

So you may have really large audiences already in your PhD life, in your professional life.

You will have weekly status reports with 20 people.