Exploiting plasma etching processes for micro/nanotexturing of metal surfaces to enable novel chemical, analytical, optical, and medical applications

1/ A sanitary challenge, an economic opportunity. COPD is considered by the World Health Organization as the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019 (5.3% of all deaths) and this even though underdiagnosis and unde...

Basic physiological parameters to measure for 3 hospitals in Senegal:
◦ HR(V), RR, body temperature, SpO2

Smoltcp is a TCP/IP library written in the Rust programming language. The Rust language offers many advantages, such as memory safety. The smoltcp library recently gained support for the 6LoWPAN protocol, enabling IPv6 for IEEE802.15.4 devices. Howev...

Real-time oscilloscope 110 GHz

Transient radar, Construction industry, European green deal, renovation

In Ecuador, healthcare services and infrastructure in the form of fully equipped and staffed hospitals and clinics tend to be concentrated in large cities and are largely unavailable in marginalized remote and rural areas. Telemedicine has been used ...

3D Human pose estimation (HPE) is a computer vision task that estimates the configuration of human body parts in the 3D space. HPE is the main technology behind markerless motion capture, which is usually preferred to a marker based one as it is more...

The overall goal of this project is to expose the benefits and gaps of the Rust programming language and to work with Investigate the guidance group where Rust can fit into existing or new software stacks. The focus here is on Internet of Things (IoT...

The security of IoT (Internet of Things) is done at different levels, ranging from hardware over software to network communication. The Trusted-IoT project will mainly focus on security at the hardware level. Existing and new techniques for hardware-...

A cell has two main engines (metabolic pathways) to generate energy, i.e. the glycolytic pathway and the mitochondrial respiration. Depending on the available fuel (carbohydrates, proteins or lipids) these engines will operate at different power to e...

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...

The project will develop an innovative, multimodal computer vision solution that relies on skeleton-based representation and Doppler radar. The solution offers significant efficiency and accuracy improvements and runs using edge intelligence, which e...

This project aims to gain insight into the factors that lead to degradation of the turbine blades ofbroffshore wind farms, in particular the erosion of the attack edge, which is related to the material fatigue by impact ofbrprecipitation and lightnin...

Venturing into future health technologies is the focused thematic of the Gear consortium Tech4Health comprises team members of two departments: departments of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) and Industrial Engineering (INDI) of the faculty of Engi...

This project focuses on a combination of wireless multi-modal sensor solutions for the objective follow-up of the physiological condition of patients in different (network) environments: from the operating theater with specific measurement ...

Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common cause of visual disability in developed countries (one to two cases per 1000 live births). A person with CVI usually has normal eye function but processing visual information in the brain is hindere...

The aim of this IRP theme is to develop a system for the non-invasive, in-vivo, intra-articular
kinematic assessment of human skeletal structures and soft tissues in real-time movement. We want to achieve this by combining dynamic 4D CT scanning w...

Since fall 2017, a multidisciplinary team worked on an augmented reality (AR) solution for surgical navigation for orthopedic and neurosurgery in the context of the imec.icon SARA. Unique technical building blocks have been developed, which allowed f...

The (human) brain has a remarkable innate capacity to self-repair when demyelination occurs. This endogenous mechanism, however, fails in diseases like multiple sclerosis leading to reduced intracortical communication and cognitive disabilities. Curr...

Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is the steady-state pressure inside brthe abdominal compartment. Based on literature, approximately more brthan half of the critically ill patients develop intra-abdominal brhypertension (IAH) within their stay in the i...

Outreach to society, wearables, STEM, preventive healthcare, PPG sensor systems

The main aim of AGRISAT is to facilitate SMART agriculture that contributes to a more sustainable environment while also tackling climate change in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar

In this Innoviris Joint R&D project, Collibra N.V. teams up with UZ Brussel and three VUB research groups in order to develop a clinical-value-driven data-sharing ecosystem that enable the collection and processing of big clinical data, for the purpo...

moveUP is a digital health start-up that offers a personalised rehabilitation track/journey to patients with indication for a hip or joint arthroplasty due to arthritis. There is a strong need to improve standard of care, as currently 20-30% are diss...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown tremendous performance improvement in a wide range of applications. However, they havebrone important shortcoming: they are often considered as black boxes, as their inner processes and generalization capabiliti...

A cell has two main engines (metabolic pathways) to generate energy, i.e. the glycolytic pathway and the mitochondrial respiration. Depending on the available fuel (carbohydrates, proteins or lipids) these engines will operate at different power to e...

SiO2-based substrates (Borofloat, quartz, …) are essential for a wide range of optical, chemical, sensory, diagnostic and many other applications due to their generally chemically inert nature, optical transparency, dielectric properties, electroph...

In this project proposal, we build upon a unique consortium of expertise and recent advances and insights inbrnon-invasive brain stimulation to develop an innovative non-invasive treatment to promote remyelination inbrdemyelinated mice. If successful...

This icovid project is the continuation of the pro bono icovid initiative that developed the CE-marked and FDA permitted AIbased CT analysis software, icolung, and made it available in over 65 hospitals worldwide.

Air pollution has become a world-wide concern due to its negative impact on the population's health and well-being. To mitigate its effects, it is essential to accurately monitor pollutant concentrations across regions and time. Traditio...

Deep neural networks achieve high performance in many signal processing tasks. However, they are often considered as black-box models. To address this issue, there is a growing interest in developing interpretable models, along with methods to e...

Spin-off creation fund for Transient Radar Methodology.brThe Transient Radar Methodology comprises a novel and unique high-frequency electromagnetic methodology for the non-destructive testing of non-conductive materials, comprising also visibly opaq...

This PhD research proposal aims to provide a monitoring system that by using photoplethysmography (PPG), enables automated, noninvasive and continuous vital signs detection of patients.
PPG is a low-cost technique that by means of light inter...

Sustainable development Medical devices

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...

The project aims at a procedure for quality control of modern civil engineering components based on millimeter wave electromagnetic methods (MMW). It involves textile reinforced cementitious (TRC) composites which are increasingly used in industry fo...

The project aims at developing a multilane traffic monitoring system for vehicle recognition, tracking and situational classification based on a multi-modal, visual network of distributed colour, grayscale, Lidar and radar cameras along the road.

Summary of the project:brMachining (i.e. metalworking operations such as milling or drilling) is still one of the most important and challenging processes in the fabrication of high-quality parts. This project brings together research and industrial ...

Surgery remains an effective treatment for many cancers and is often the only curative treatment option. During surgery, it is very important that all malignant tissue is removed but also that vital structures are left intact. Recognizing the maligna...

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women worldwide. The main indicators of an early breast cancer are micro calcifications (MCs) which are found during a mammography screening. They are not always restricted to malignancies as they ap...

medical image analysis

This project aims to study, implement and evaluate OpenStack, for a minimum of two case studies br at least one of which is IoT related. These case studies are situated in both private and hybrid cloud environments in order to allow an investigation ...

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

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The overall objective of this mobility project is an explorative visit to the KCMC hospital (Moshi, Tanzania) to have a plurality of discussions with people having a medical, technical, educational and business background. These discussion sessions w...

The ageing population will put an increasing burden of neurodegenerative diseases on our society1.Yet, the effect of these different pathologies on brain functioning is difficult to measure objectively due a difficult interpretation of neurophysiolog...

Keywords

CLinical decision support, oncology, melnoma, prostate cancer.

Abstract
In current oncological practice, disease management is commonly organized through multidisciplinary oncology consultations (MOCs). With the emergence of...

AUvio video emotion Speech to Text

Project subsidized by the Brussels-Capital Region - Innoviris.
The Team Up initiative was developed by the region to encourage collaboration between research institutions and companies on Brussels territory. This program was developed in the form ...

Free viewpoint (multiview) video aims at enabling virtual navigation in a dynamic 3D scene from arbitrary camera locations and orientations. The associated technologies also signify the solution to the problem of providing genuinely immersive “glas...

A Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera acquires 3D information about a scene, which can be represented as a depth map or re-projected to a point cloud. Any ToF camera suffers from a significant amount of noise, which is non-stationary and ...

A major goal of this project is to devise sparse representations that allow for efficient representation and processing of point cloud data. To cope with the noise occurring during the acquisition process, a first major problem to be solved is accura...

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

Iris Recognition is the scientific domain dealing with the detection of the human iris in images and processing the detected iris in such a way that computed properties of the iris can be used to uniquely identify a person. Given the uniqueness of ea...

The addition of security features to IoT devices is becoming of essential importance. The three main features that a security protocol should provide to the communication between constrained devices are privacy, integrity and authentication. Well est...

An essential measurement instrument for R&D activities in the frequency range from 10 GHz – 750 GHz of the electromagnetic spectrum, a subdision of the loosely defined THz spectrum, is the so-called vector network analyzer (VNA), which a...

international projects - JOINTPHD

Super-resolution image reconstruction has been utilized to overcome the problem of spatial resolution limitation in hyperspectral imaging. To improve spatial resolution of hyperspectral image, this paper proposes a hyperspectral-multispectral fusion ...

Because of sensor malfunction and poor atmospheric conditions, remotebrsensing imagery usually suffers from missing information. Missing information inbrremote sensing imagery reduces the usage rate and hinders the follow-upbrinterpretations, making ...

SARA focuses on developing next generation computer-assisted surgery (CAS), including technology for surgical planning, guidance during surgical procedures and training for surgical procedures. CAS relies to a large extent on per-operative visualizat...

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...

Public security involves visual surveillance of mass crowd, in public facilities and mass gatherings. Crowd analysis depends heavily on the experience and concentration of the observer.Video monitoring by security personnel is a daunting task due to ...

IOF-NLITE: A consortium has been set up consisting of Prof. Tony Lahoutte, Prof. Sophie Hernot, Prof. Maarten Kuijk and Dr. Hans Ingelberts to bring together multidisciplinary and complementary expertise on the development, validation and clini...

UAV 3D reconstruction

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...

Human evolution is a “hot” research topic which fascinates both the media and the general public. The opening of the New gallery of Man and the Evolution of Man in RBINS in May 2015 showed the enormous interest that both scholars and families hav...

Dictionary Learning Techniques and Distributed Algorithms for the Processing of Massive Heterogeneous Image Data (DOLPHIN)

4D imaging and cardiac modelling for improved simulations of interventions and in-silico trials of medical devices

Millimeter wave Sensing

In this project, we focus on sensor modules using electromagnetic waves (EMW) in the 30 to 330 GHz range to probe in a non-destructive, label-free and immobilization-free way the weak chemical interactions that occur in biophysical pro...

Problem definition and objectives Nowadays there is a trend towards high dimensional datasets resulting from the simultaneous measurement of a high number of characteristics (features) of a small number of samples. In classification tasks this pheno...

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 ...

internationale projecten - JOINTPHD

Machine learning data fusion Radar Camera

Machine learning anomaly detection in weather dada

The Internet consists of an increasing number of small devices, connected in most cases via a wireless network to the Internet backbone. Important use cases in this respect are smart cities, inter-vehicle communication and smart transport system...

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...

wE-MOVE aims to deliver a proof-of-concept platform for gaming based on body movements, that allows for promotion of fine and gross motor activities in typically developing children, exercises for children rehabilitation and athletic youth training. ...

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.

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 most widely publicized architecture for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) consists of microprocessor based motes, running the Tiny OS (mostly in the USA) or Contiki (mostly in Europe) operating systems, communicating via low power rad...

Testing Auditory solutions towards the improvement of Tasting Experience

The global burden of stroke and multiple sclerosis (MS) is immense, both in medical and in economic terms. Acute stroke management is a time-critical emergency requiring specialized treatment. Likewise, long-term professional support helps ...

The RehabGoesHome Rehabilitation Guardian project for YOung and Elderly Patients at Home, from the LABO (Faculty of Medicine) and ETRO (VUB) will build on the technology developed during the ICT4Rehab project (funded by Innoviris until February). ICT...

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 ...

Micro- and nanotechnology are becoming increasingly important in top research, in fields such as fundamental physics, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, micro- and nanomechanics, as well as in the bio- and medical sciences and in advanced...

Het agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie, of het IWT is een overheidsinstelling die in 1991 werd opgericht door de Vlaamse Regering ter ondersteuning van innovatieprojecten in Vlaanderen. Hiervoor beschikte het IWT over verschille...

Het agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie, of het IWT is een overheidsinstelling die in 1991 werd opgericht door de Vlaamse Regering ter ondersteuning van innovatieprojecten in Vlaanderen. Hiervoor beschikte het IWT over verschille...

Micro- and nanotechnology are becoming increasingly important in top research, in fields such as fundamental physics, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, micro- and nanomechanics, as well as in the bio- and medical sciences and in advanced...

internationale projecten - JOINTPHD

The SAFEDEM project has three main objectives.

The first one is to define a concept for a system and its associated services based on existing space assets - namely Earth Observation, Navigation, Communication - to support the va...

This project aims at fostering the interdisciplinary convergence between the engineering, physical and life science community, and paving the way to a new scientific discovery in drug screening and medical diagnostics. The paradigm that water might b...

Human beings process and express emotions in everyday interactions with others. Emotions are reflected on the face (via facial expression), in the voice (e.g. via arousal), and in hand and body gestures, to express our feelings in social interactions...

The pilot project aims to support innovative care initiatives that pay attention to all aspects of care for the elderly, including prevention (including combating social vulnerability, increasing the quality of the housing situation), awareness, dete...

High Performance Computing (HPC) plays a vital role for the European economy. However, new HPC hardware architectures and hardware features, especially at the embedded system level, are hitting the market earlier and in much shorter time intervals th...

The research institute 'VUB' and the 'Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel' have entered into a service-agreement concerning the project' Onderzoeksovereenkomst'. The research results can be transferred to the company, there can be a rea...

Cell imaging

Research cooperation agreement BHG / VUB / Xi'An: cooperation in the field of education, research and new technologies.

The research institute 'VUB' and the 'Softkinetic NV' have entered into a service-agreement concerning the project' Project Partner Agreement
3D Time-Of-Flight Image Processing Enhancement'. The research results ca...

The EDISON Pilot Actions aim to demonstrate, under real operational conditions, that a smart lighting system improves energy efficiency, reduces CO2 emissions and encourages the use of small-scale renewable energy sources in European public buil...

The proposed interdisciplinary project deals with the design of original and advanced electromagnetic sensor configurations in the frequency range from 40 to 600 GHz, aiming at extending the detection modalities in the field of pharmaceutical separat...

We aim in this project to improve the current intravascular imaging modalities by combining anatomical information with molecular characterization. Hereto, fluorescent tracers will be used directly at different biomarkers of vulnerable plaques. For t...

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...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of autonomous intelligent sensor nodes, usually powered by battery, which can measure certain characteristics of their environment, such as temperature, pressure, noise level, acceleration etc. These sensor node...

The EDISON Pilot Actions aim to demonstrate, under real operational conditions, that a smart lighting system improves energy efficiency, reduces CO2 emissions and encourages the use of small-scale renewable energy sources in European public buil...

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 ICT4Rehab project addresses a new rehabilitation paradigm. Designing and building demonstrators in the domain of muscle spasticity rehabilitation as Proof-of-Concepts requires the integration of various data sources, the development of ...

This project aims to cover Brussels, metaphorically speaking of course, with a cloud of structured and interlinked information elements produced by "atomizing" a collection of relevant databases and other resources. Linked Data is a global init...

The goal of the European ISN project is the creation of a semantic interoperable platform based on a wireless sensor network, and to test and validate this platform on a selected set of vertical applications. The aim is to expand the application plat...

Sub-THz CMOS sensors for electromagnetic aquametrics

This projects targets companies which are in need of more processing power for executing their applications in a reasonable time. The project focuses on image processing in the medical sector, but the generic results will be widely applicable. The pr...

The goal of the project is to develop a 3D rendering system which provides optimal visual quality for the given hardware at a fixed frame rate. This will be achieved by designing highly scalable rendering techniques and calculation optimal rendering ...

Millimeter wave sensing

Sensors offer opportunities for both food and technology companies to increase their innovation capacity and their gap and competitiveness in an international context.

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...

The idea for elaborating this project was to keep up the gear in this cooperation while using it as a leverage for developing education and the starting point for good research at Thai Nguyen University at the Faculty of Information Technology in the...

The European ISN project has the ambitious aim to create a wireless sensor network based semantic interoperabilities platform and to test this platform, as well as to validate it on a selected set of vertical applications.

This project will have the following objectives:
- to evaluate land use change under the impact of socio-economic development using novel techniques.
- to assess its effect on environmental services as well as on local climate