The objective of this PhD project is to challenge the widely accepted premise that single-microphone audio analysis cannot rely on spatial or wavenumber domain signal representations. This premise implies that the spatial diversity of acoustic environments (e.g. spatial spreading of sound sources) cannot be exploited in single-microphone devices, hence limiting their applicability in a wide variety of speech and audio applications, including ...
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is the use of modern technology in sensors, sensing systems (e.g. image, sound, etc.) and real-time modelling to realize the continuous automatic monitoring and management of livestock farming. This project aims to monitor health, behavior, welfare and productivity of animals in real-time. The objective of this project is to investigate if there is a possibility of monitoring vital, physiological and ...
This thesis aims at performing crowd monitoring by exploiting signals of opportunity from existing Wi-Fi access points to build a passive radar. Radar processing will be applied on signals that bounced on people (targets) in an environment to obtain a so-called range-Doppler map (RDM) containing the distance and speed information of the targets, as well as an angle spectrum (from MUSIC method) containing the angle-of-arrival of the signals ...
The project is based on the observation that radar and communication systems share many similarities in terms of hardware and software, which poses the question: can massive MIMO systems, intended for communications, be reconfigured for the task of localization and imaging? The purpose of this thesis is to investigate topics such as system design aspects and signal processing schemes in the objective of jointly operating high performance ...
Since World War II, Radars have gone a long way from bulky and expensive military/space radars to miniaturized radars for various applications in the consumer, automotive and smart environments domains. The trend over the last decade has been to move to millimeter wave, supported by the constant improvement in semiconductor technology and supported by a strong demand in the automotive domain. IMEC started several years ago the development of ...
Mini remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) are imposing threats to national security. In recent years, the threat has become increasingly vivid due to the wide availability of drones. Several illicit incidents at several security-sensitive places like airports, national campaigns and international sports events have been recorded. The small radar cross section of mini drones makes them difficult to be detected by the existing radars. ...