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2021 
Unified Sparse Representation for Plenoptic Modalities (UniMode)

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...

 
2019 
Transform design and codec development for digital holographic video displays (Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship Blinder David)

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...

ICON cREAtIve

This project aims to explore novel highly-adaptable deep learning solutions for automotive and traffic monitoring applications.

Peter has been added as a promoter for the report purposes!

 
2018 
ICON ILLUMINATE (INTERACTIVE STREAMING AND REPRESENTATION FOR TOTALLY IMMERSIVE APPLICATIONS)

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

Time-Frequency Transform Design and Coding for Dynamic Digital Holography

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 Cell Sorting

lensfree microscopy, holography, cell classification, machine learning, leukocytes

 
2017 
Xclass: Next generation Compact Lightsource And Spectrometer Systems

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...

 
2016 
ICON ARIA (Augmented Reality for Industrial Applications)

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 ...

 
2015 
Advanced Sensing, Representation and Classification Methodologies for Interference-based Real-time Sorting

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...

ICON HD2R (HIGHLY DELIGHTFUL DYNAMIC RANGE FOR NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL CINEMA AND TELEVISION)

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...

ICON BAHAMAS (BIG DATA AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS IN LIFE AND MATERIAL SCIENCES)

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.

 
2014 
ERC Consolidator Grant: Sparse Signal Coding for Interference-based Imaging Modalities (INTERFERE)

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 ...

 
2013 
 
2012 
SRP: Processing of large scale multi-dimensional, multi-spectral, multi-sensorial and distributed data (M³D²)

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...

Advanced techniques for distributed video coding

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...

 
2011 
Advanced Scalable Video Coding

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...

 
2010 
Advanced Scalable Video Coding

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...

 
2009 
 
2008 
Perceptual hashing and semi-fragile watermarking for the discovery, detection, recognition and ive authentification of multimedia material

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 ...

OptiMMA: Optimized MP-Soc middelware for event-driven applications

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...

 
2007 
Thin Client network management with distributed source coding

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...

Model based rate optimisation for scalable videocoding: theory and applications

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...

Design of a research program (on Wi-Fi architecture) to obtain a functional infrastructural model

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.

 
2006 
Scientific Research Groups: Audiovisual Systems

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 &...

Adaptive and scalable coding and restoration of video

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...

Scalable and error resistant representation of multimedia signals

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...

 
2005 
Scalable wavelet-videocoding with controlable time delay

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...

 
2004 
GOA Pegasus: Social aspects of technologically mediated environments and pervasive computing.

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 ...

Traceability Rules and Actions agaianst Counterfeiting

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...

 
2003 
Algoritmic- and implementation aspects of wavelet-based video coding

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...

RESUME

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...

Design and Management of Metadata-based Multimedia Systems using Active Networks

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...

Reconfigurable Hardware for inbedded systems

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...

 
2002 
Scalable wavelet-based videocoding, post doc FWO position Peter Schelkens

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...

IUAP: Mobile Multimedia Communication Systems and networks

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...

TRACING : Traceability rules and actions against counterfeiting for international normalization groups


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...

 
2001 
MASCOT

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...

 
1999 
Supervisie - Image Processing for integrated and immersive visualisation

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...