Name Activity "ESAT - PSI, Processing Speech and Images" "CENTER FOR PROCESSING SPEECH AND IMAGES (PSI) In this division research is concentrated on solving real world problems of image and speech processing: * The first research domain is image processing (2D as well as 3D). Research is done on the analysis and processing of satellite images (teledetection), robot vision, visual inspection for industrial automation, medical image computing and analysis, image-guided surgery, 3D visualization and animation, processing of color images and image compression, and virtual and added reality. * Speech processing is the second research domain. The main focus is the development of a speaker independent recognizer for continuous speech with large vocabulary. This includes research on acoustic modeling, new techniques for preprocessing, search strategies and language modeling. In addition research is situated in the domain of corpus building, dialogue systems, speech coding and speech modification." "Processing Speech and Images (PSI)" "Frederik Maes" "CENTER FOR PROCESSING SPEECH AND IMAGES (PSI) In this division research is concentrated on solving real world problems of image and speech processing: * The first research domain is image processing (2D as well as 3D). Research is done on the analysis and processing of satellite images (teledetection), robot vision, visual inspection for industrial automation, medical image computing and analysis, image-guided surgery, 3D visualization and animation, processing of color images and image compression, and virtual and added reality. * Speech processing is the second research domain. The main focus is the development of a speaker independent recognizer for continuous speech with large vocabulary. This includes research on acoustic modeling, new techniques for preprocessing, search strategies and language modeling. In addition research is situated in the domain of corpus building, dialogue systems, speech coding and speech modification." "Administrative Information Processing" .2 "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)." "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." "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." "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." "Laboratorium for Digital Speech and Audio Processing" """The laboratory for Digital Speech and Audio Processing is rooted in seminal research on speech signal analysis and synthesis that was initiated more than twenty-five years ago. Since that time the laboratory has acquired international recognition for its achievements, especially in the field of speech modification systems where we have introduced the well-known time-scaling algorithm WSOLA, as well as several contributions on voice modification, and many other subjects. In the last decade, we continued to strengthen and expand our core competences in the area of speech processing and we entered the neighbouring domains of audio processing and modelling with a special interest in sinusoidal modelling of musical signals and animal sounds. We are currently active in both the fields of speech technology and audio processing with several research projects in cooperation with scientific institutes as well as commercial companies. Together with the IRIS Research Group, we have recently begun to structure our common efforts in the field of audiovisual signal processing in view of a future strengthening of our international participation in research and development programs on multi-modal signal processing systems.""" "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." "Psychopathology and Information Processing in Older Adults" "Research alliance between VUB (head Prof. Dr. Rossi) and UG (head Prof. Dr. De Raedt) on psychopathology and information processing in olders adults"