“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)
A full immersive experience of Augmented Reality for neurosurgical planning and real-time intervention, demonstrated by Taylor on the FARI immersive CAVE during the Agoria HealthTech roundtable event June 17th , 2024.
An Innoviris-funded project, called eTailor with Treedy’s and ETRO-VUB for full-body scanner that extrapolates your size without you even having to take your clothes off. It will be deployed in the Decathlon shops (and not only) worldwide.
The IP behind this tech is for a part shared IP between VUB and Treedy’s. A VUB-Treedy’s patent was recently accepted covering the technology that enables estimating the body shape under clothing and taking automatically measurements on each scanned person.
eTailor is an example of how an industrial project should run: one could achieve both academic and industrial excellence.
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/
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Five young academics have been chosen to take on administrative tasks for a year in addition to their academic work to support the rector and vice-rectors. From ETRO, civil engineer Jeroen Van Schependom will take care of the vice-rectorate Research Policy.
These five academic staff members will have the opportunity, with the current management team, to develop their leadership potential and inspire the rectoral policy team. They will devote one day a week within their current tenure to this new role. Each will work closely with the rector or a vice-rector in a specific policy area to gain a tangible view of what leadership and policymaking means in practice.
“By giving young academics the opportunity to hone their policy competencies and weigh in on VUB policy, the university aims to increase its policy capability. The voice and views of our younger colleagues are absolutely essential. After all, they are also the leaders of the future,” says rector Caroline Pauwels.
- Third PhD in biomedical Engineering – Edgard Nyssen.
- After the creation of IMEC, the semiconductor technology is extended with LPCVD, e-beam processing, sputtering, plasma deposition, etching, lithography mask alignment up to 0.25 µm and measurement equipment. Technical personnel are recruited. The semiconductor technology team counts 5 members.