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Günther Koliander schloss 2011 das Studium der technischen Mathematik an der TU Wien mit ausgezeinetem Erfolg ab (Diplomarbeit “Hilbert Spaces of Entire Functions in the Hardy Space Setting”). Von 2011 bis 2017 war er Mitarbeiter am Institute of Telecommunications der TU Wien wo er sein Doktorat im WWTF Projekt NOWIRE im April 2015 mit Auszeichnung abschloss (Dissertation "Information-theoretic analysis of noncoherent block-fading channels and singular random variables").
Er besuchte zweimal die Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Schweden sowie einmal die Georg August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Deutschland als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter.

Seit Juli 2017 ist er Mitglied des Fachbereichs "Mathematik und Signalverarbeitung in der Akustik" des Instituts für Schallforschung, mit kurzer Unterbrechung einer Anstellung an der Fakultät für Mathematik der Universität Wien von Juli bis Dezember 2021.

Derzeitige Forschung

Günther Koliander ist einer der Projektleiter des Projektes "Digitization, Recognition and Automated Clustering of Watermarks in the Music Manuscripts of Franz Schubert" und arbeitet in dem Projekt "Zeit-Frequenz Analyse, Zufälligkeit und Abtastung" mit.

Aktuelle Themen:

  • Information Theory
  • Machine Learning
  • Compressed Sensing
  • Point Processes
  • Time-frequency and Time-scale Analysis

Publikationen

  • Hyperuniformity and non-hyperuniformity of zeros of Gaussian Weyl-Heisenberg Functions. / Feldheim, Naomi; Haimi, Antti; Koliander, Günther et al.
    in: Probability Theory and Related Fields, 27.06.2026.

    We study zero sets of twisted stationary Gaussian random functions on the complex plane, i.e., Gaussian random functions that are stochastically invariant under the action of the Weyl-Heisenberg group. This model includes translation-invariant Gaussian entire functions (GEFs), and also many other non-analytic examples, in which case winding numbers around zeros can be either positive or negative. We investigate zero statistics both when zeros are weighted with their winding numbers (charged zero set) and when they are not (uncharged zero set). We show that the variance of the charged zero statistic always grows linearly with the radius of the observation disk (hyperuniformity). Importantly, this holds for functions with possibly non-zero means and without assuming additional symmetries such as radiality. With respect to uncharged zero statistics, we provide an example for which the variance grows with the area of the observation disk (non-hyperuniformity). This is used to show that, while the zeros of GEFs are hyperuniform, the set of their critical points fails to be so. Our work contributes to recent developments in statistical signal processing, where the time-frequency profile of a non-stationary signal embedded into noise is revealed by performing a statistical test on the zeros of its spectrogram (“silent points”). We show that empirical spectrogram zero counts enjoy moderate deviations from their ensemble averages over large observation windows (something that was previously known only for pure noise). In contrast, we also show that spectrogram maxima (“loud points”) fail to enjoy a similar property. This gives the first formal evidence for the statistical superiority of silent points over the competing feature of loud points, a fact that has been noted by practitioners. In the same vein, our second order asymptotics for spectrogram maxima show that certain heuristic proxy models used in signal processing are inaccurate at large scales.

  • Novel Approach to Inter-Onset-Interval Ratio Uncovers Music-Like Rhythmic Patterns in Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) Warble Song. / van der Aa, Jeroen; Koliander, Günther; Fitch, W. Tecumseh et al.
    in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Jahrgang 2025, Nr. 1, 16.12.2025.
  • On Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Thermograms of Watermarks in Manuscripts - A First Proof-of-Concept. / Hauser, D; Beckmann, M; Koliander, G et al.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. Athens, 2024.
  • Online Learning of Model Parameters and Object Classes in Extended Multiobject Tracking. / Bucco, T; Koliander, G; Kreidl, B et al.
    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Fusion. Venice, I, 2024.
  • Efficient computation of the zeros of the Bargmann transform under additive white noise. / Escudero, L; Feldheim, N; Koliander, G et al.
    in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Jahrgang 24, 10.02.2024, S. 279-312.
  • Rotated time-frequency lattices are sets of stable sampling for continuous wavelet systems. / Holighaus, N; Koliander, G.
    14th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications. Yale, 2023.
  • Lossy Compression of General Random Variables. / Riegler, E; Koliander, G; Bölcskei, H.
    in: Information and Inference, Jahrgang 12/3, 05.06.2023, S. 1759-1829.
  • Grid-Based Decimation for Wavelet Transforms With Stably Invertible Implementation. / Holighaus, N; Koliander, G; Hollomey, C et al.
    in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Jahrgang 31, 13.01.2023, S. 789-801.
  • Grid-like wavelet sampling for audio processing applications. / Hollomey, C; Holighaus, N; Koliander, G.
    Proceedings: A16, Numerical, Computational and Theoretical Acoustics, ICA 2022. Gyeongju, 2022. S. 208-214.
  • A Differential Entropy Estimator for Training Neural Networks. / Pichler, G; Colombo, P; Boudiaf, M et al.
    Proceedings of the 39 th International Conference on Machine Learning. Baltimore, 2022. S. 17691-17715 (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) 162).
  • Zeros of Gaussian Weyl-Heisenberg Functions and Hyperuniformity of Charge. / Haimi, A; Koliander, G; Romero, J.
    in: Journal of Statistical Physics, Jahrgang 187/3, 15.04.2022, S. Paper Nr. 22.
  • Fusion of Probability Density Functions. / Koliander, G; El-Laham, Y; Djurić, P et al.
    in: Proceedings of the IEEE, Jahrgang 110/4, 01.04.2022, S. 404-453.
  • Modelling the Utility of Group Testing for Public Health Surveillance. / Koliander, G; Pichler, G.
    in: Infectious Disease Modelling, Jahrgang 6, 20.08.2021, S. 1009-1024.
  • Non-iterative phaseless reconstruction from wavelet transform magnitude. / Holighaus, N; Koliander, G; uša, Pr et al.
    Proceedings of the DAFx19. 2019.
  • Lossless analog compression. / Alberti, G; Boelcskei, H; Lellis, De et al.
    in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Jahrgang 65, 01.12.2019, S. 7480-7513.
  • Characterization of Analytic Wavelet Transforms and a New Phaseless Reconstruction Algorithm. / Holighaus, N; Koliander, G; uša, Pr et al.
    in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Jahrgang 67, 01.12.2019, S. 3894-3908.
  • Minimal achievable sufficient statistic learning. / Cvitkovic, M; Koliander, G.
    Proc. Mach. Learn. Res. (ICML 2019). Band 97 Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019. S. 1465-1474.
  • Filtering the continuous wavelet transform using hyperbolic triangulations. / Koliander, G; Abreu, L; Haimi, A et al.
    Proc. Int. Conf. Samp. Theory and Appl. (SampTA-19). Bordeaux, France, 2019.
  • Information Bottleneck on General Alphabets. / Pichler, G; Koliander, G.
    2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). Vail, CO, 2018. S. 526-530.
  • Rate-Distortion Theory for General Sets and Measures. / Riegler, E; Koliander, G; Bölcskei, H.
    2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). Vail, CO, 2018. S. 101-105.