“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)
Abel DĂaz 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.
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:
At the recent FTI open campus day the ETRO demos caught a lot of attention as the pictures show. A wide range of visitors were fascinated by discovering the brain from the inside to the maker engineer asking very technical questions and the Flemish Minister Benjamin Dalle was also present.
It seems the ETRO members had fun at the PK Galabal
At its 93rd meeting in October 2021, the JPEG committee – well-known for its omnipresent image compression standard – selected coding technology proposed by ETRO and IMEC as basis for the JPEG Pleno Holography standard. This will be the first international standard specifying a holographic coding solution. The standard is aspiring a versatile solution for efficient compression of holograms for a wide range of applications such as holographic microscopy, tomography, interferometry, printing and display. The final specification is planned to be published as an international standard in early 2024.
- The scope of ETRO widens and a separate department on Informatics (INFO- HoD Jacques Tiberghien) is created.
- Unit HART is created on Campus Jette, as an interface between ETRO and the Cardiology department in UZ.