“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)
Johan Stiens, the ETRO representative in the working group of “Digital for Climate” of the Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation, https://aioti.eu/
is co-author with a group of 20 people of a final report (+ 80 pages) on “IoT and Edge Computing Carbon Footprint Measurement Methodology”  (Release 1.1)
https://aioti.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AIOTI-Carbon-Footprint-Methodology-Report-Final-R1.1.pdf
The goals of this report are multifold:
• To help users of IoT and Edge Computing technologies and services, to understand and make informed choices on how to assess the carbon footprint of solutions and services they use, and to as well to measure how these methodologies support carbon footprint reduction of their use
• To present initiatives and standards, existing methodologies of measuring ICT carbon footprint and how they can be applied to IoT and Edge Computing
• To present selection methodology criteria and how to measure benefits of using them in reducing carbon footprint when using IoT and Edge Computing technologies and services for several industrial domains
• To propose a method of calculating the carbon avoided emissions in an industrial sector/domain, when ICT is used as an enabling technology
De Jonge Academie heeft elf nieuwe leden verkozen na een open oproep. Het is ons een genoegen u te mogen melden dat prof. dr. Jeroen Van Schependom de Jonge Academie binnenkort vervoegt als topwetenschapper.
Jeroen Van Schependom (VUB) onderzoekt hoe structurele en functionele beeldvorming van de hersenen kunnen bijdragen aan een betere opvolging van mensen met neurodegeneratieve aandoeningen zoals multiple sclerose en de ziekte van Alzheimer. Daarnaast onderzoekt hij of nieuwe niet-invasieve methodes van hersenstimulatie kunnen helpen om deze ziektes af te remmen
Jeroen blijft lid tot 31 maart 2027. Wij kijken binnen de Jonge Academie erg uit naar samenwerking met hem. Jeroen wordt plechtig geïnaugureerd op woensdagnamiddag 30 maart 2022 om 15u30 in het Paleis der Academiën in Brussel, een gelegenheid waarop wij u van harte uitnodigen. Deze inauguratiezitting is ook een thema-event over Homo Ludens: toeval, serendipiteit en spel(impuls) in de wetenschap — naast een lecture performance, inauguratie en afzwaai stellen we er ook de Maja #7 Homo Ludens voor en het kinderspel
Nicolas Ospitia Patino has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation obtaining the greatest honors and congratulations from the jury! It’s been an incredible journey of dedication, hard work, and personal growth. He did his PhD in collaboration between MeMC and ETRO, supervised by Prof. Dimitris Aggelis (MeMC) and Prof. Johan Stiens, (ETRO), Congratulations to Nicolas for this result.
Manuel Montoya received the best oral presentation award at the International Conference on Applied Physics & Imaging (ICAPI) 2025 in Tartu, Estonia, for the work “Efficient simulations of partially coherent light using the Generalized Van Cittert – Zernike Schell Propagator”, co-authored by Manuel Montoya, Maria J. Lopera Acosta, Yunfeng Nie, and David Blinder.
- Jan Cornelis becomes HoD.
- First Patent on an optical switch (IMOS) is filed.
- ETRO becomes co-founder of the International Postgraduate Course on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (University of Patras) – Erasmus/Tempus.
- ETRO’s first EU framework project, BIOLAB: An Integrated Biomedical Laboratory – AIM- Advanced Informatics in Medicine.
- Data collection, drafting and validation of the first ever table of sizes for the Belgian apparel industry.
Benyameen Keelson and Pieter Boonen sucessfully finished the LifeTech.brussels MedTech accelerator with their startup projects PADFLOW en KARMA.
Some extra infomation can be found here.
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lifetech-brussels_medtechaccelerator-juryprize-publicprize-activity-7250177652748169216-x5-_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- https://lifetech.brussels/en/medtech-accelerator/
- https://lifetech.brussels/en/innovation-in-progress/
The introductory movies for the projects:
Benyameen:
Pieter: