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Objectifying Assessment of Human Emotional Processing and Expression of Clinical and Psychotherapy Applications (EMO-App) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hichem Sahli
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy, Experimental and Applied Psychology, Electronics and Informatics
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. Emotional functioning and dysfunctioning has been found to play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology and many neurodegenerative disorders. Evidence is growing that ...

Optimized render quality based on scalable texture coding. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Adrian Munteanu, Jan Lemeire
Multidimensional signal processing and communication, Electronics and Informatics
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 parameters. These techniques will aim for maximal visual quality. Scalability of the 2D artwork resources, providing both classical texture mapping as additional geometric detail, will be ensured by ...

Interoperable Sensor Networks (ISN) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Kris Steenhaut
Electronics and Informatics
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 platform from the Leonardo platform to a wireless sensor world and secondly to valorise its power to a real-world wireless sensor context.

Multiterminal Source Coding for Self-Organizing Networks Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Adrian Munteanu
Electronics and Informatics
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 systems, smart surveillance and remote participation applications. The networks for these use cases are distributed real-time systems consisting of (i) nodes that run on a very limited power budget, perform ...

Frequency synthesis for CMOS-based millimeter-wave communication systems. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Piet Wambacq
Electronics and Informatics
In the past few years, the interest in the millimeter-wave spectrum at 30 to 300 GHz has drastically increased. The emergence of low cost high performance CMOS technology and low loss, low cost organic packaging material has opened a new perspective for system designers and service providers because it enables the development of millimeter-wave radio at the same cost structure of radios operating in the gigahertz range or less.

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Automatic and individualized bio-inspired hearing technologies. Ghent University

Sarah Verhulst
Department of Information technology

With the rise of speech and audio steered automatic systems (e.g., speech recognition, speech-to-text), also the limitations of these technologies have become apparent. Automatic speech recognition fails when the acoustic conditions are sub-optimal due to background noise, and applications are not tailored to the pathologies of individuals interfacing with them (e.g. speech or hearing-impairments). To improve the application range and ...

Addressing Limitations of Language Models KU Leuven

Patrick Wambacq
ESAT - PSI, Processing Speech and Images

Addressing Limitations of Language Models

Applications that automatically process language and/or speech are numerous, including, but not limited to: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation, Speech Translation, Spelling Correction, Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation. Every application typically needs a special-purpose system and datasets with task-specific labels, but there is one common ...

Strategic Research Programme: Processing of large scale multi-dimensional, multi-spectral, multi-sensorial and distributed data (M³D²) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Peter Schelkens
Engineering Technology, Industrial Sciences and Technology, Computational Modelling, Audio Visual Signal Processing, Laboratorium for Micro- and Photonelectronics, Electronics and Informatics
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: multi‐dimensional signal theory, system theory & design, and physical engineering sciences

Speech Encoding in Impaired Hearing Ghent University

Sarah Verhulst
Department of Information technology

The prevalence of hearing impairment amongst the elderly is a stunning 33%, while the younger generation is sensitive to noise-induced hearing loss through increasingly loud urban life and lifestyle. Yet, hearing impairment is inadequately diagnosed and treated because we fail to understand how the components that constitute a hearing loss impact robust speech encoding. A recent and ground-breaking discovery in animal physiology demonstrated ...