“Signal Processing in the AI era” was the tagline of this year’s IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, taking place in Rhodes, Greece.
In this context, Brent de Weerdt, Xiangyu Yang, Boris Joukovsky, Alex Stergiou and Nikos Deligiannis presented ETRO’s research during poster sessions and oral presentations, with novel ways to process and understand graph, video, and audio data. Nikos Deligiannis chaired a session on Graph Deep Learning, attended the IEEE T-IP Editorial Board Meeting, and had the opportunity to meet with collaborators from the VUB-Duke-Ugent-UCL joint lab.
Featured articles:
- De Weerdt, B. et al., “Designing Transformer Networks for Sparse Recovery of Sequential Data Using Deep Unfolding” (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10094712)
- Yang X. et al., “Relevance Propagation through Deep Conditional Random Fields” (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10095075)
- Stergiou A. et al., “Play it back: Iterative attention for audio recognition” (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10096532, developed at the University of Bristol)
The I Love Science Festival at Tour & Taxis in Brussels on October 13-15 was a great success, drawing over 150000 science and technology enthusiasts of all ages. ETRO.RDI enchanted attendees with interactive exhibits, including light-based physiological readings, acoustic camera art, a crypto escape room challenge, and an AI-driven urban climate model.
For those who missed out on this year’s event, mark your calendars for the next I Love Science Festival, and be sure to check out ETRO.RDI’s booths.
Fawaz Sammani obtained the Honourable Mention award at the ICCVW on Vision and Language Algorithmic Reasoning (VLAR 2023) for the paper: F. Sammani, N. Deligiannis, “Unifying Textual Explanations for Vision and Vision-Language Tasks”, ICCV Workshop and Challenge on Vision and Language Algorithmic Reasoning (VLAR 2023
First VUB building (Transitorium) on brand new VUB Campus (old exercise field for the gendarmerie).
Start of the ETRO – Electronics Lab. Founder Prof. Oscar Steenhaut (two tracks: electronic circuits and systems and semiconductor technology and devices); lots of empty cupboards, two transistor testers and 1 oscilloscope.
4D CT scanners add the dimension of time to three-dimensional images and visualise the movement of the heart in detail. The imec.icon project DIASTOLE, involving VUB, UZ Brussel and imec, is paving the way to safely implement 4D scans in heart surgery.
Researchers from the radiology department of VUB-UZ Brussel developed a model to calculate the radiation dose of 4D scans on the skin, and immediately applied it to draw up a safe protocol. For a usable 4D scan, on the one hand the quality has to be sufficient, on the other hand you want to avoid the radiation dose being too high at certain places on the body. Unlike classic CT scans, a 4D scan repeatedly irradiates the same region of the body, so we need to specifically monitor the dose to the skin.
https://press.vub.ac.be/cardiology-prepared-for-the-fourth-dimension
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- From 1990 onwards, publications and PhDs are regularly produced, and two world firsts are realised: an electro-optical switch (optical thyristor) with a sensitivity of 18aJ and a surface-emitting LED with a quantum efficiency larger than 50 %. Research themes are now in Photonics and Opto-electronics and Artificial Life. LAMI counts approximately 20 collaborators.
- First integrated circuit design and realization: a median filter for image processing in collaboration with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin