Organisations
Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research unit Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. It studies not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes ...
Laboratory for Experimental Psychology KU Leuven
* Problems concerning knowlegde-based visual information processing: visual extraction of information in situations where much information is available. Equipement for monitoring the eye-movements of a viewer in a free visual field, at a 50 or 1000 Hertz sampling rate. * Artificial intelligence and vision: research on object recognition as embedded in a visual scene. Computational approaches of perception where low and high-level vision are ...
Centre for Political Research KU Leuven
The members of the Center for Political Research focus on the central institutions and processes of decision-making, inherent in contemporary democracies. Therefore, four major domains are central in their research strategy: elections, political parties and social organisations, parliaments and governments. In the analyses and publications both structural and cultural determinants of the functioning of democracies and its patterns of ...
Computational and Applied Mathematics Programme Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1) mathematical and computational physics -study of sparse representations of functions -application to inverse problems (L1-penalization) -regularization methods for linear ill-posed problems -stability of inverse problems -design of fast reconstruction algorithms 2) Inverse problems in imaging and image processing -tomographic image reconstruction in nuclear medicine -related problems in applied mathematics -2D or 3D tomographic image ...
Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NUMA) KU Leuven
NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION AND NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA GROUP (A. Bultheel): * Fast and stable algorithms to solve many problems in mathematics connected to continued fractions, orthogonal functions, rational approximation & interpolation, etc. with applications in signal processing, linear systems, etc.. * Numerical solution of recurrence relations with continued fractions. * Fast and stable algorithms to solve structured linear systems of ...
Archaeology, Leuven KU Leuven
PREHISTORY - Settlement structure of Late Palaeolithic and Early Holocene sites. - Microwear analysis (microscopic use traces) of prehistoric flint tools.- The introduction of agriculture in northern Belgium. - Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project: the prehistory of the Nile Valley. - Chert quarrying and mining techniques. - Methodological approach of Palaeolithic stone technology. ANCIENT NEAR EAST - Egyptian and Coptic art: iconological ...
Center for European Philosophy University of Antwerp
Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multi-Level Politics (ACIM) University of Antwerp
Theatricality and Reality Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Theatricality and Reality Association Working Group (THEA) wants to combine the scientific and artistic research expertise in theater and theater science within the University Association Brussels and explicitly aims to build bridges between artistic practice, artistic research and scientific research in the field of theater , performance and theatricality. Both contemporary artistic practices and historical forms of theatricality are ...