There is a significant growth of interest in adopting advanced contentbrrepresentations allowing for higher resolution, richer portrayals of thebrreal world. Currently deployed modalities aim at offering richerbrexperiences: point clouds are providin...
Holography is a discipline of science that measures or reconstructs the wavefield of light by means of interference. The wavefield encodes three-dimensional information and thus has many applications in metrology. Moreover, a planar hologram can recr...
This project aims to explore novel highly-adaptable deep learning solutions for automotive and traffic monitoring applications.
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This project aims at the development of representation and streaming technologies in order to provide hyper-realistic windowed 6-degrees-of-freedom immersive experiences.brKeywords: Light field coding, quality of experience, quality metrics
Holography is a discipline of science that measures or reconstructs the wavefield of light by means of interference. The wavefield encodes three-dimensional information and has many applications in metrology. Moreover, a planar hologram can recr...
lensfree microscopy, holography, cell classification, machine learning, leukocytes
Increasing health and environmental awareness of European citizens has led to an urgent demand for spectral analysis of matter. However, what is missing are novel and cost-effective methods to sense the desired analytes with high sensitivity and...
For years industry was the driving engine of gaining welfare in the Flemish region. It is clear that this driving force is decreasing since multiple years: employment in industry is declining and the competitiveness of our region decreases. A second ...
Flow cytometry is a work horse in life sciences as it is the only tool that can inspect and sort single cells with high throughput and minimal hands on time. Instruments on the market are large and expensive, resulting in long queuing times and preve...
High Dynamic Range (HDR) video is taking center stage as a next generation visualization technology. In 2015, the first HDR movies are expected to be released. Moreover, various television makers announced HDR capable sets. Over-the-top (OTT) content...
The goal of BAHAMAS is to develop a toolset to perform high-throughput data collection, processing, compression and analysis for life and materials science applications.
Since its invention in 1948 by Dennis Gabor holography has held the promise to empower full parallax 3D visualisation. Though the trajectory has been significantly longer than expected, recent developments in photonics, microelectronics and computer ...
Focusses on i) the data modeling, (ii) the exploitation of sparsity, (iii) the associated data analysis and fusion, (iv) the sensor design. Signal, image and video processing, compression, data analysis, end-to-end system design.Cross-disciplinary: m...
The rapid growth in terms of communication bandwidth, resolution, display modalities and mobility is calling for new types of multimedia communication systems. One of these new solutions, called Distributed Video Coding (DVC), has attracted attention...
This project investigates (1) the exploitation of spatial directionality in video, utlizing spatial prediction and directional transforms, (2) the improvement of rate-distortion performance of current standards for high definition content, (3) a...
This project investigates (1) the exploitation of spatial directionality in video, utlizing spatial prediction and directional transforms, (2) the improvement of rate-distortion performance of current standards for high definition content, (3) a...
In this research project the robustness and the security of perceptual hash functions is investigated for
different media types. Research is conducted on semi-fragile watermarking techniques that - in
combination with perceptual hash ...
The OptiMMA project will enable the mapping of emerging, dynamic software applications on complex Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MP-SoC). This will be achieved through the use of Middleware components, which will be able to medi...
New services for wired and mobile user are offering an increasing amount of video content. Recent examples are news websites or video on mobile devices (such as mobile television). A second important evolution is the usage of the Internet protocol fo...
This project addresses three goals:first of all, the development of new distortion-rate models for SVC that take into account SVC specific properties and inter-layer spatio-temporal dependencies, both in an error-free and and an e...
Erection and exploitation of a living lab on the basis of an open innovation platform to develop and test mobile, community and location-based services, based on wireless network technology: service delivery platform.
This research community is a scientific network, financed by the Scientific Research Fund of Flanders (FWO), for the period 2006-2010. The community is a continuation of a 2 similar networks, which have been successively running under the name &...
The explosive growth of digital content and of new multimedia applications expanded over heterogeneous networks has produced a pressing need for data representations that simultaneously support high-quality scalable image and video compression a...
The explosive growth of digital content and of new multimedia applications expanded over heterogeneous networks has produced a pressing need for data representations that simultaneously support high-quality scalable image and video compression a...
Current standard technologies for video compression based on the discrete cosine transformation (MPEG 1-2-4, H.26-x) miss a natural support for simple bit-rate control and resolution and quality scalability. Several wavelet-b...
In the proposed project 'Social aspects of technologically mediated environments and pervasive computing', sociological research on the use of emerging technologies and actual technology research is designed to take place in parallel, but also ...
This project aims at studying innovative techniques for protecting commercial products against counterfeiting. Two kinds of products will be considered within the project: textile fibers and fabrics on one hand and manufactured goods made of thermopl...
The proposed research proposal aims at the realization of a wavelet-based video coding scheme that defeats current state-of-the-art scalable video coding technologies (MPEG-4, H.26L). Therefore, several realization possibili...
The basic challenge of the RESUME-project is to combine the know-how of the four participating partners in their respective research domains to perform generic basic research that will result in a new platform-based solution for runnin...
In general, the purpose of this project is to perform fundamental research that will result in a new platform for the development of metadata-based multimedia applications by using active networks. A format for the use of metadata in this conte...
The main objective of this project is to perform fundamental research on the possibilities for reconfigurability and scalability of multimedia applications and content, as well as of the underlying terminal hardware. In the end, this fundamental rese...
The proposed research proposal aims at the realization of a wavelet-based video-coding scheme that defeats current state-of-the-art scalable video coding technologies (MPEG-4, H.26L). Therefore, several realization poss...
One of the key technological challenges to advance our knowledge-based society is the development of mobile multimedia communication systems and networks. Some general trends we observe today are : the increasing importance of multimedia service...
This project aims at studying innovative techniques for protecting commercial products against counterfeiting. Two kinds of products will be considered within the project: textile fibers and fabrics on one hand and manufactured goods made of ther...
The explosion of multimedia applications leads to a great expansion of video transmission over heterogeneous channels. These developments increase the need for highly flexible and scalable video compression systems. For all currently available inter...
The field of visualization studies transformations that aim to augment the understanding and the information contents of multidimensional data for a typical end-user. An important source of such data are multidimensional digital images. These im...