Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Image Research Unit, Ghent Campus" "Artistic research at Sint-Lucas Ghent comes in many shapes and forms: autonomous and applied, individual and collective, discipline-bound and interdisciplinary, theoretical and practical. Starting from a shared ambition to prepare and shape the art and artists of tomorrow, every artist, designer and researcher at the Ghent campus follows their own intuitions, expertise, subjects and visual languages. Creation, education and reflection on art and design are closely intertwined, time and time again differently. Nevertheless, a number of common threads can be discerned within the research unit Image.The research unit Image brings together researchers in the arts around three research nodes, all three closely connected to the academic programs at the Ghent campus (Visual Arts and the Educational Master in the Arts): the coming into being of the image, the interaction between image and discourse, and the relationship between image and society." "Department of Telecommunications and information processing" "Joris Walraevens" "The department consists of the following research groups Database Document and Content Management: Digital information sources are growing tremendously. 'Big Data' sets which are too large or too complex cannot be efficiently handled by traditional information management systems. More and more organizations nowadays put large efforts in efficiently collecting, organizing and managing their data. DDCM research aims to support these efforts by investigating and developing new technologies for coping with the many challenges that stem from 'Big Data' and from the natural heterogeneous and imperfect/uncertain character of information. Digital Communications: The topics studied in the DIGCOM research group are: Modulation/Demodulation, Coding/Decoding, Carrier and Clock Synchronisation, and Equalization. Image Processing and Interpretation: Within the IPI research group the following topics are being studied: Watershed Based Segmentation, Content Based Image Retrieval, Edges and Line Detection, Model-Based Image Interpretation, Motion Estimation and Motion-Based Segmentation, Scale Space, Stereo Vision, Texture segmentation, Image processing techniques for the detection of buried landmines, Techniques for restoration and quantitative image analysis of medical ultrasound images, Compression of medical images and video. Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Communication Systems: The main applications of the work done by this group are situated in the performance assessment of digital communication systems and networks. The research activities of the SMACS Research Group can be more or less divided in two parts. The major topic is the statistical analysis of buffers for the storage of digital information, by means of discrete-time queueing models. The second (minor) topic is the design, analysis and optimization of ARQ retransmission protocols." "Multidimensional signal processing and communication" "Adrian Munteanu" "The IRIS RESEARCH GROUP was founded in December 21, 1988. Image/video processing and machine vision always have been and remain central research activities. Our motivation is to stay ahead of the obvious R&D tendencies, which drives us towards in depth fundamental research. Our mission statement is to impact on the transformation processes of the knowledge society, which keeps us alert to continuously update our strategic R&D agenda and extend/generalize our background knowledge. We are often seeking inspiration in the unexplored engineering bottlenecks at the interface of various application domains. The specific goal of the group is FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, continued in Applied Research projects up to a stage where the results - when exploited - have an impact on society and/or ICT applications. - MULTIMEDIA R&D is focused on the design of various ICT modules, part of the E2E distributed and interactive system design chain: data representation, compression algorithms, transmission, forensics, visualization, computational models, complexity and power management. - In MACHINE VISION, new concepts are investigated for establishing a unified approach for various applications. The activity complements our E2E skills by providing modules for audiovisual signal analysis, motion estimation and segmentation, 3D reconstruction from motion & stereo, segmentation and classification, object tracking, ontology-based semantic scene analysis, event detection, robot navigation & sensing, 3D animation, positioning and tracking wireless devices. - In the area of TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK CONTROL, we focus on another competence needed for E2E system design: heuristic mechanisms and Artificial Intelligence. - In MEDICAL IMAGING and e-HEALTH, we have 3 specific foci: (i) robust mathematical solution methods, bridging the gap between inverse problems and numerical analysis, (ii) image processing and analysis, (iii) human motion with particular attention for frail and elderly people. TECHNOLOGY & KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, participation in various application value chains and collaboration with industry, public services, and hospitals. are priorities for us. Starting from the previously described fundamental research experience, the IRIS group regularly renews and extends its R&D activities towards various application domains of Information Technology. Besides medical imaging - the oldest application domain of the group, expertise is present in automotive applications, localization and tracking, mobile and fixed communication, new media, remote sensing, satellite image processing, anti-personnel mine and minefield detection, public safety and surveillance., ... Collaborative contracts are existing with different players in the value chain of these applications. A continuous effort goes towards strengthening the involvement of IRIS in collaborative contracts with industry, public services, and hospitals. We are actively searching for opportunities of industrial valorization. The group operates in the broader context of the department ETRO, ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATICS, where three main research groups are collaborating to cover a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- and Optoelectronics (LAMI), Speech & Audio Processing (DSSP) and Multidimensional signal processing and communication with emphasis on Image Processing & Machine Vision (IRIS), which cannot be dealt with separately when the real world applications of the Information Society are envisaged. The collaboration between the three participating research groups leads to integrated transdisciplinary R&D, e.g. (i) in speech/audio and image/video processing in the context of multimedia research, (ii) in the exploitation of new opto-electronic devices for applications of ambient intelligence, gaming and industrial processes, and (iii) in joint channel-source coding." "Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics (STADIUS)" "Toon van Waterschoot" "The Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics (STADIUS) is an academic research center, with a research focus on mathematical engineer- ing, where mathematical tools from numerical linear and multi-linear algebra, statistics and optimization are used for applications of dynamical systems and control, signal processing, data modeling and analytics. STADIUS offers recognized expertise in diverse application fields such as industrial automation, audio and speech communication, digital communications, biomedical signal and data processing, and bio-informatics." "Audio Visual Signal Processing" "Hichem Sahli" "The Audio-visual Signal Processing (AVSP) Lab investigates novel methods for the automated interpretation of social and affective behaviour. Research areas include social signal processing, multisensor fusion, computer vision, ubiquitous computing, and machine learning. Our expertise is mainly focused on developing automated methods to analyse social signals from verbal and non-verbal behaviour with multiple sensing modalities (e.g. wearables, video, speech, audio, physiological, etc). The overarching goal is to employ and advance intuitive and mathematically principled signal representations and machine learning models for understanding and describing human behavior. Emphasis is to devise novel personalized machine learning models that can accurately capture future changes in the key biomarkers and cognitive scores related to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other neurological conditions (Depression, Stress)." "ESAT - STADIUS, Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics" "The Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics (STADIUS) is an academic research center, with a research focus on mathematical engineer- ing, where mathematical tools from numerical linear and multi-linear algebra, statistics and optimization are used for applications of dynamical systems and control, signal processing, data modeling and analytics. STADIUS offers recognized expertise in diverse application fields such as industrial automation, audio and speech communication, digital communications, biomedical signal and data processing, and bio-informatics." "Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)" "Philippe Meers" "The Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) focuses on fundamental and applied research of culture and communication processes and issues, often but not exclusively with a visual dimension or pertaining aspects of visual media in many areas of society(e.g. scientific data gathering and communication, entertainment, education and news reporting). A wide range of media (film, television, print, internet) and aspects (production processes, representational issues, contexts of use) are being studied using a variety of specialized methods (textual analysis, audience research, structural analysis, visual ethnography, visual data production). Both historical and contemporary aspects are being studied, often from a combined vantage point of looking at the 'production' of media and images and its institutional, political and economic contexts, performing detailed analyses of the media and visual products themselves, and interrogating the users and the ways in which they construct meanings based on media and images. Our current research strands which we will continue to develop in the future are: • Visual media as tools and data sources for social and cultural research (visual sociology, visual anthropology, visual studies, cultural geography). • The study of the societal and scientific impact of new media technologies (internet, geo-media). • Media analysis, media literacy and visual literacy, multimodal research. • Analysis of non-fiction image cultures: from the private to the public sphere, from popular to scientific visualizations. • Application of visual methods to several fields of social research (health care, urban planning, poverty research, multiculturalism, politics…). • Historical research of cinema exhibition and film experience. • Contemporary cinema cultures: local, national and international contexts, texts and audiences." "Digital Mathematics" "Ann Dooms" "DIMA specializes in discrete and continuous techniques for data science. We focus in particular on the mathematical foundations for digital data acquisition, representation, analysis, communication and security.Research Tracks:Discrete mathematicsHarmonic and wavelet analysisSparse representations and other dimensionality reduction techniquesFractional stochastic processesMathematical and statistical aspects of AI and machine learningComputational aspects of parameter estimates in data-driven applicationsCoding theoryCryptographyApplications:Digital document analysisDigital painting analysisQuality assessment of digital imagesDigital forensicsGraph signal processing and learningFractional stochastic processes in insurance and big dataFractional order time series analysis originating from fractionalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes for dielectric spectroscopyPrivacy and secuirty in machine learning, distributed networks and cloud computingDevelopment and security of high-speed key distribution using chaos synchronisation of photonics sourcesPost-quantum cryptography" "Electronics and Informatics" "ETRO (Electronics and Information Processing) focuses on three major topics: devices and electronic technology (LAMI) on the one hand, and on the other hand the processing of information through electronic means in fields related to digital images and video (IRIS) and speech (DSSP). 1. IRIS studies how to map image processing algorithms on appropriate architectures for efficient implementation, image and video compression, data visualisation, pattern recognition, tracking based on visual cues and various aspects of machine vision in applications like satellite image analysis, medical imaging, industrial visual inspection, anti-personnel mine detection. 2. DSSP studies the analysis, modification, and (re-)synthesis of acoustic speech signals by digital processing equipment. It deals with diverse fields, among which are digital signal processing, pattern recognition, phonetics and software/hardware development. 3. In micro-electronic technology research (LAMI), the emphasis of the research is on optical/electrical interconnect technology, new opto-electronic/electronic devices and the design of mixed analog/digital circuits. Together, the three subunits within ETRO are covering a wide range of generic technologies in the field of Information Technology, which cannot be dealt with separately when the real world applications of the 'information society' are envisaged." "Ann Dooms" "Artistic Research, Mathematics, Digital Mathematics, Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality"