Projects
Latent Variable Models for Language and Image Understanding in Social Media and E-Commerce Data KU Leuven
More content has been created in the past few years than in the entire history of humankind. With the exponential growth of user-contributed content, it becomes increasingly important to develop systems capable to intelligently process both language and images.
While understanding language appears effortless for humans from a young age, for computers, this is quite a challenging task. Inherently, languages are ambiguous and rich. Many ...
Deep Learning Models for Generating Text Summaries from Videos KU Leuven
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in bridging different modalities in the deep learning community. This project aims at developing deep learning models for automatically generating text summaries from videos. Through this project, we expect to find better ways to integrate textual and visual modalities into an end-to-end model. Apart from that, text summarization techniques, including abstractive text summarization and ...
Discovery of Antiseizure Compounds in Zebrafish Models for the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy KU Leuven
With 70 million people affected worldwide is epilepsy one of the most common neurological diseases characterized by unpredictable, unprovoked, recurrent seizures. Moreover, the disease is often accompanied by psychiatric and cognitive comorbidities, affecting dramatically the quality of life of patients. So far, pharmacological intervention is the first-line treatment for epilepsy. Unfortunately, about 30% of patients experience seizures that ...
TransBio:Biogas Versie 2.0:Â Technological transition of the Flemish biogas sector towards innovative business models with increased profitability and reduced support dependence Biogas-E - Anaerobic digestion platform for Flanders npo
The biogas sector in Flanders counts approx. 40 large scale installations, and 50 to 75 small scale (farm sized) installations. Biogas, as a renewable energy technology, produced 602 GWh of renewable electricity and 850 GWh of renewable heat in 2013. Yearly, 1.3 million tons of organic waste is converted to biogas, alongside hundreds of thousands of tons of manure. The biogas technology is therefore responsible for the valorisation of a large ...
Development and validation of active and passive immunotherapy targeted at protein Tau in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
Personalized decision support models KU Leuven
Decision support systems are essential for managing an organization's operational and strategic processes. Although many of these systems model individual human beings, they do not take into account those individuals' unique characteristics. As a result, solutions generated are often infeasible for reasons such as ignoring personal habits. This dissertation explores two real-world cases in which accommodating such personalization is ...
Development of roughness models for multiscale topography in neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layers KU Leuven
The research concentrates on the development of next generation multiscale roughness models for the neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layers. The development of such models and new physical insight is based on wind-tunnel experiments (in stable and neutral conditions) and direct numerical simulations (at moderate Reynolds number) of situations including wind veer that cannot be constructed in the wind tunnel. As a first part of the PhD ...