Are you interested in taking part in our research survey on the topic of deepfakes detection, and become a contributor in the creation of a new human perception dataset? 

We invite you to visit our new website http://qxviz.ai and answer a short and fun survey to test your skills at identifying fake human faces.

Despite the great success of AI models to detect deep fakes, it remains difficult to explain how these models perceive the content of the images they are presented with. To this end, our website allows you to draw your reasoning to why you think an image is fake. You will discover if visual explanations generated by existing explainable AI techniques match with your own perception. 

Visit http://qxviz.ai/  and help us advance towards more transparent and human-friendly artificial intelligence! 

Abel Díaz Berenguer (Cuba) joined ETRO in 2017 and obtained his PhD in 2021. His father was a Civil engineer, and during his childhood, he spent a lot of time with him in construction works. This triggered his curiosity to build and create things. Since Abel was a kid, he wanted to study ¨something¨ with computers and never had any doubt about studying engineering in informatics sciences.

The PhD program made him feel thoroughly responsible for your research project. Advisors progressively introduce you into the research environment and educate you on digging deeper into fundamental theories by promoting critical thinking. Abel noticed a lack of motivation to participate in dissemination activities that promote science communication. Students also did not feel the need to communicate and to encourage more collaboration between other fellows working in the same or different fields.

Abel enjoyed the Writing Bootcamp of the doctoral Training program very much. The three days course about writing scientific articles offered mainly many good tips about approaching the scientific writing process, which was a great help during the PhD.

Abel has great memories of chats, coffees, and plenty of amusing moments with colleagues. Those moments allowed him to overcome challenging days. The collaboration with close colleagues has been outstanding. Research is a process of knowledge sharing and co-creation with excellent colleagues that became family that stood by my side on long working days and nights.

Abel grew during his PhD into a person with more critical thinking towards solving any problem in life. Be enthusiastic and passionate about your research. Enjoy the learning process with perseverance, dedication, engagement, and curiosity for innovating. Push boundaries and never give up share knowledge and be a team player.

Abel wants to land in an academic environment, help others learn and learn from them. In a position to benefit society, share knowledge and contribute to building a better world for our children.

On June 21 2023 at 16.00, Nicolas Ospitia Patino will defend his PhD entitled “UNRAVELING TEXTILE-REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES BY MEANS OF MULTIMODAL SENSING TECHNIQUES”.

Everybody is invited to attend the presentation at the Room D.0.08.

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Textile Reinforced Cementitious (TRC) sandwich composites are innovative construction materials composed of two slender TRC facings, and a thick thermal and acoustic insulating core. Their non-corrosive nature allows for slender structures, resulting in a reduction of the cement used, and therefore a decrease of the negative impact on the environment. The sandwich technology brings superior bending resistance while enforcing the lightweight nature of the composite. Despite the numerous advantages of TRC sandwich composites, they present a complex and possibly unpredictable fracture behavior, and manufacturing issues such as a weak interlaminar bond and therefore, need status verification in the different stages of their service life: at manufacturing stage (curing), final product quality (manufacturing defects), deterioration during use (damage accumulation). Up to the moment, there is no reliable non-invasive inspection protocol that assesses the curing of the cementitious facings, provide quality control, and damage monitoring.

Along this study, a combination of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques is employed to provide a protocol that allows to monitor the composite from the hardening of the cementitious facings, quality control, and finally, damage characterization. Electromagnetic millimeter wave (MMW) spectrometry is employed for the first time in this kind of material to monitor the hydration of cementitious media, quality control, and damage characterization. Additionally, passive, and active elastic wave-based NDT techniques, like Acoustic Emission (AE) and Ultrasound, respectively, are also used in combination with Digital Image Correlation(DIC) to characterize the material along its lifetime, and benchmark MMW spectrometry. This thesis summarizes the results of an extensive experimental campaign, highlighting the innovative contributions. Previously unknown relations between electromagnetic properties measured by MMW and mechanical properties by ultrasound are revealed owing to the common origin of hydration reaction that dictates the permittivity and stiffness development. AE during proofloading reveals the effect of manufacturing defects due to the local stress field variations they impose under mechanical test. In addition, cracking and debonding leave a strong fingerprint on the electromagnetic transmission, enabling a multi-spectral methodology for the structural health monitoring (SHM) of such innovative components during their lifetime.

Front cover of the June issue of Neurosurgery for the joint research of Taylor Frantz with UZBrussels! High-Accuracy Augmented Reality Guidance for Intracranial Drain Placement Using a Standalone Head-Worn Navigation System: First-in-Human Results

Article link : https://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/fulltext/2025/06000/high_accuracy_augmented_reality_guidance_for.8.aspx

Journal issue link: https://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/pages/currenttoc.aspx

It seems the ETRO members had fun at the PK Galabal

ETRO contributes via Johan Stiens, as member of the  AIOTI Digital for Climate Task Force, to the second release of the carbon footprint measurement methodology for users of IoT and Edge Computing technologies and services

The Report is structured to present rules and regulations of the European Green Deal, the initiatives and standards, and existing methodologies of measuring ICT carbon footprint. The report also includes how those methodologies can be applied to IoT and Edge Computing, the description of the methodologies, selection criteria and how to measure benefits of using them in reducing carbon footprint by using IoT and Edge Computing technologies and services for several industrial domains.

This second version of the report updates the equations that were introduced in version (Release 1.1) of the Report, which address the calculation of avoided carbon emissions in industrial sectors when ICT is applied by focusing on:

• a baseline (industrial) scenario that is supported by an ICT solution and a green enabled (industrial) scenario that apply an advanced ICT solution to reduce carbon emissions in the same industrial scenario,
• the impact that a closed loop recycling/allocation process has on these equations.

Weblink to the full report: https://aioti.eu/iot-and-edge-computing-carbon-footprint-measurement-methodology-report-release-2/