ETRO Events
A list of events ETRO is organizing or participating in.
31.03.2022
PhD Defense by Mr Tobias Birnbaum
A GENERIC SOURCE CODING. METHODOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE OF DYNAMIC HOLOGRAMS
For wave phenomena, the holographic principle describes how, based upon lightpropagation laws and a recording of the amplitude and the phase of a wavefront in ...
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15.11.2021
PhD Defense by Mr. Panagiotis Tsinganos
Multi-channel EMG pattern classification based on deep learning
In recent years, a huge body of data generated by various applications in domains like social networks and healthcare have paved the way for the development of high ...
21.09.2021
PhD Defense by Mr Placide Shabisha
EFFICIENT SECURITY SCHEMES FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS AND DATA STORAGE ON THE CLOUD
The Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications have literally invaded our environment, home, cities, cars, etc. and there could be more than 40 billion IoT devices ...
17.09.2021
PhD Defense by Mr Jakub Ceranka
Advancements in Whole-Body Multi-Modal MRI: Towards Computer-Aided Diagnosis of ...
Cancer that begins in an organ, such as the lungs, breast or prostate, and then spreads to the bone or other organs, marks the beginning of metastatic disease. The ...
31.08.2021
PhD Defense by Mr. Ayyoub Ahar
PERCEPTUAL QUALITY PREDICTION AND ANALYSIS FOR DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY
Holography has held the promise to empower full-parallax 3D visualisation since its invention in 1948. Though, only in recent years it has returned to the forefront ...
PhD Defense by Mr Gobinath Jegannathan
Current-assisted SPAD sensors fabricated in conventional CMOS
A major revolution in light-detection is on-going. Whereas in the past, the electrical signal from light incident on a detector had to be amplified with a ...
02.07.2021
PhD Defense by Mr Abel Diaz Berenguer
Learning to predict human behavior in crowded scenes
Automatically understanding human behavior is one of the most fundamental research topic towards socially aware vision-based autonomous systems. There is an ...
12.03.2021
PhD Defense by Mrs Evgenia Papavasileiou
Towards more Efficient NeuroEvolution: Application on Feature Selection and Classification Problems
NeuroEvolution (NE) is a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence whose purpose is to optimize Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by modeling the biological evolutionary ...
05.02.2021
PhD Defense by Mr Alexander Soñora Mengana
COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION OF LUNG NODULES FROM CT IMAGING
Lung cancer is the first cause of cancer related death worldwide Early detection can have substantial impact on treatment outcome Computer aided detection (systems can ...
02.02.2021
PhD Defense by Mr Volodymyr Seliuchenko
ACTIVE PIXELS FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE AND 3D IMAGING APPLICATIONS
Our world is being reshaped by machines which are getting closer to humans in perceptive and cognitive abilities enabling previously unimaginable applications Autonomous ...
01.02.2021
PhD Defense by Mr. Tien Do Huu
Graph-based Deep Learning for Social Media and Smart City Data Analytics
We address the two challenges of big heterogeneous data originated from social media and smart cities, namely data quality enhancement and data exploitation. In the ...
23.12.2020
PhD Defense by Mr Steffen Thielemans
INTERNET OF THINGS AS FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING AUTOMATION. A FOCUS ON DC BASED SMART LIGHTING.
The lighting industry is undergoing drastic changes as solid-state lighting based on light emitting diodes (LEDs) is becoming more powerful, more efficient, and ...
27.10.2020
PhD Defense by Mr Sven Boulanger
USE OF CURRENT ASSISTED PRINCIPLES IN OPTICAL RECEIVERS
Can be followed by Zoom, using the following link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81391985380?pwd=R2R4V3hWTExOU2NZVkVFM2liT1RPZz09Meeting ID: 813 9198 ...
09.09.2020
PhD Defense by Mr Sander Stroobants
Crystallization and nucleation under constant shear conditions: A novel microfluidic approach
Protein crystallization is of major importance in several domains such as structural biology and pharmacy. Indeed, good quality protein crystals are a necessity for ...
21.02.2020
PhD Defense by Mr Minh Duc Nguyen
DEEP LEARNING FOR BIG DATA ANALYSIS
Recent years have witnessed massive growths in the amount of data generated from applications in various domains, spanning from smart cities and healthcare to ...
20.01.2020
PhD Defense by Mr Thanh-Long Nguyen
CROSS-LAYER DESIGN AND HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL - BASED WIRELESS ...
Internet of Things (IoT) allows physical environments to be connected to the Internet by means of billions or even, in the near future, trillions of IoT devices such as ...
12.11.2019
PhD Defense by Miss Athanasia Symeonidou
Efficient algorithms for high-quality computer-generated holygraphy
In recent years, three-dimensional display technology has seen huge advancements, targeting a more immersive 3D experience for a plethora of applications such as ...
04.09.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Linkun Wu
CMOS ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED BURST MODE IMAGERS
A full depleted high-speed photosensitive pixel is presented, where its depletion electrostatic profile and the back bias technique are discussed. A pixel test ...
27.08.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Bruno Tiago da Silva Gomes.
Acceleration of streaming applications on FPGAS: Architectures, performance strategies and models
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) increasingly assume roles as hardware accelerators which significantly speed up computations in a wide range of streaming ...
23.08.2019
PhD Defense by Mr. Oscar Elio Mattia
HIGH-SPEED CMOS CIRCUITS FOR MM-WAVE COMMUNICATION AND SENSING
The large bandwidth available at mm-wave frequencies presents an opportunity to dramatically improve wireless communications and remote sensing. In wireless ...
13.08.2019
PhD Defense by Mrs Aura Cecilia Alegría Caicedo
Analysis and Prediction of Risks Related to Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War
Landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) continue to affect the lives of people living in previously war-torn countries. A major challenge in humanitarian mine ...
29.05.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Eamonn Jalal Ahmad
Photonic Time-Stretch Enabled High Throughput Microwave and MM-Wave Interferometry ...
The research presented in this thesis is focused towards developing real-time, high-speed applications, employing ultrafast optical microwave generation and ...
03.05.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Mathias Becquaert
Compressed sensing for microwave in-depth imaging
Non-destructive testing (NDT) using cm- and mm-waves is an appealing technology, thanks to the attractive properties for in-depth imaging. The ...
02.05.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Jorge Lagos Benites
HIGH-PERFORMANCE, POWER-EFFICIENT ADCS BASED ON RING AMPLIFICATION
The ever-increasing demand for higher data throughput has fueled the development ofanalog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that seek to maximize both ...
29.04.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Matthias Carlier
Integration of a multicast framework in the Internet of Things.
The phenomena of connecting millions of different devices to the internet gave rise to the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). A subset of those IoT networks are ...
25.01.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Bruno Bonnechere
Functional assessment during physical rehabilitation exercises using serious games
Lack of motivation has been highlighted as a major cause of adverse patients outcomes during the rehabilitation process.Thanks to the evolution in the way video ...
22.01.2019
PhD Defense by Mr Guoqiang He
Controlling sub-THz waves with graphene based devices
Carbon nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, have attracted substantial interest in the electromagnetic domain due to their excellent electronical ...
12.12.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Meshia Cedric Oveneke
Towards Computational Empathy: Leveraging the Deep Learning Paradigm for Continuous Affect ...
Empathy is one of the most fundamental cognitive building blocks of human intelligence. What if empathy was as fundamental for artificial intelligence? Motivated by this ...
13.11.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Edison Cristofani
Compressed sensing as a tool for defense applications in the GHz frequency band
Perfect signal recovery from discretized continuous signals has been studied under the name of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. If a signal is sufficiently ...
30.10.2018
PhD Defense by Mrs Marie-Paule Uwase
Experimental Comparison of Radio Duty Cycling Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks are often battery powered and therefore their power consumption is of critical importance. Power requirements can be reduced by switching off ...
15.10.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Michel Perez-Gonzalez
From cell images to cellular dynamics: a Computer Vision and Machine Learning approach
The increasing application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to a wide range of fields has opened new possibilities to analyze large amounts of data. ...
02.07.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Badr Malki
Integrator-based Analog to Digital Converters for Wireless Applications
Emerging wireless technologies such as 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) push circuit designers to implement innovative circuits with more power efficiency and ...
28.06.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Beerend Ceulemans
Multiview Video Processing – Color Correction and View Synthesis
With the increasing interest in high-quality 3D multimedia content over the last decade, a great deal of research is dedicated to further improvement of already ...
11.06.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Nereo Markulic
Digital Subsampling Phase Lock Techniques for Frequency Synthesis and Polar Transmission
Wireless technology systems have intruded in almost every aspect of today’s communication. Technology scaling and innovation in the field of integrated circuits ...
23.05.2018
PhD Defense by Mr David Blinder
Efficient Representation, Generation and Compression of Digital Holograms
Digital holography is a discipline of science that measures or reconstructs the wavefield of light by means of interference. The wavefield encodes three-dimensional ...
02.05.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Alaaeldien Medra
CMOS mm-Wave Front-End Circuits of Phase-Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar
With many emerging applications in the fields of road safety, smart homes and person detection, there is an increasing demand for cheap and ubiquitous accurate ...
24.04.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Gabor Fodor
Multimedia Security with Applications in Traitor Tracing, Video Encryption and Art Investigation
Digital media security is an emerging cross-disciplinary research domain that combines elements of multiple fields, such as computer science, mathematics, law, ...
31.01.2018
PhD Defense by Mr Wagdy Gaber
CMOS Current-Based RF IQ Digital Transmitters
In the era of internet of things (IOT)s, machine to machine and 5th generation (5G) mobile communications, several hundred thousands of simultaneous connections with ...
19.12.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Gokarna Pandey
Ultra-sensitive millimeter wave sensor for material characterization
Materials are characterized by their properties such as moisture content, ice content, density, and volumetric fraction of other constituents. Accurate determination of ...
27.10.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Hans Ingelberts
Efficient CMOS Sensors for sub-nanosecond gated fluorescence lifetime imaging
Fluorescence imaging is a powerful technique with ever increasing importance in fields like microscopy and medical imaging. The new wealth of available fluorescent ...
19.10.2017
PhD Defense by Mr. Yuchen Zhang
Waveguide based Millimeter wave liquid sensors
In the frequency range from 30 to 300 GHz, the response of liquid materialsunder the illumination of electromagnetic waves is determined by the ...
13.10.2017
PhD Defense by Mrs Selma Yilmazyildiz
Semantic-Free Affective Speech Framework for Social Human-Robot Interaction
Recent developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are further accelerating the introduction of robots in our daily lives and the physical ...
02.10.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Jan Hanca
Lightweight image and video compression
Ranging from surveillance and environmental tracking to healthcare monitoring and industrial supervision, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have proven to be a useful ...
26.09.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Evangelos Zimos
Aggregation and Recovery Methods for Heterogeneous Data In IoT Applications
Recent advances on sensing hardware, wireless communications, cloud computing and data analysis have powered intelligent data acquisition systems, equipped with smart ...
11.09.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Felipe Reinoso Carvalho
T.A.S.T.E. - Testing Auditory Solutions towards the improvement of the Tasting Experience.
There is a common agreement among researchers about the involvement of multiple senses whenflavours are being experienced. In particular, there is a growing ...
07.06.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Qixian Shi
CMOS mm-Wave Frequency Synthesis for Communication and Radar Systems
This PhD thesis focuses on the frequency synthesis blocks for millimeter wave applications including the 60GHz IEEE 802.11ad high-speed wireless communications and ...
05.05.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Trong Huynh Bao
Design-technology co-optimization of vertical gate-all-around transistors for ...
For sub-20nm CMOS technology generations, conventional transistor and lithography scaling have hit significant difficulties. Other avenues such as alternative ...
03.05.2017
PhD Defense by Miss Tingting Liu
Demystification of hidden Markov Models: on Identifiability, learnability and Applicability
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are models based on unknown, hidden states for modeling dynamic systems. The main goal of my PhD is to increase our understanding of HMMs, to ...
19.04.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Barend Van Liempd
Tunable RF Front-End Circuits
Driven by the end-user's insatiable thirst for increased data throughput, wireless data networks today suffer from spectrum scarcity. As spectral resources ...
27.03.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Peng Long
EmSBoT: a modular software framework for networked robotic systems
A modern advanced robot or a multi-robot system can be regarded as a networked system equipped with diverse embedded processors ranging from microcontrollers to ...
PhD Defense by Miss Fei Guan
Reducing pessimism in mixed-criticality system designs
Embedded systems are more and more taking part in everyone’s daily live. In some industry standards, functions hosted by these embedded systems are classified into ...
03.03.2017
PhD Defense by Mr. Ali Pourkazemi
Transient Radar Method: A Novel Electromagnetic Illumination and Blind Analysis Technique for the ...
In the last few decades the industrial usage of many new (multi-layered) composite materials such as Glass Reinforced Polymers (GRP), Carbon Reinforced Polymers ...
23.02.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Bob Andries
Efficient wavelet-based 3D graphics rendering
The visual quality of interactive 3D rendering has taken huge leaps during the last few decades. Starting from simple wireframes, we currently witness immensely detailed ...
08.02.2017
PhD Defense by Mr Andrei Sechelea
Binary Source Coding with Side Information
Slepian-Wolf (SW) coding, which is concerned with separate lossless compression of correlatedsources with joint decoding, forms the basis of distributed source ...
20.12.2016
PhD Defense by Miss Ruxandra Florea
L-infinite-driven coding of semi-regular meshes
Providing users with an immersive viewing experience can prove useful in entertainment, medical care, military simulations, or education. This has been a focus of ...
14.11.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Lubos Omelina
Visual Human Recognition and Identification
As the smart home concept begins to take shape, alongside accessible biometric systems more broadly, an integrated and reliable identification may transform our home to ...
19.08.2016
PhD Defense by Mr. Viki Szortyka
CMOS circuits for mm-Wave wireless connectivity
The communication at millimeter-wave frequencies offers very large bandwidths that canbe used for multigigabit-per-second communication. The use of ...
PhD Defense by Mr. Khaled Khalaf
Towards CMOS Low-Power TX Architectures for High – Datarate mm- Wave Applications
The insatiable need of consumers worldwide for higher data rates in wireless communication brings the frequencies of operation towards the millimeter wave spectrum ...
29.06.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Tomas Dekens
Automatic prosodic analysis for computer-assisted therapy of dysarthric speech
Dysarthria refers to speech disorders that are characterized by a reduced control of the muscles that play a role in the production of speech. This impaired control ...
28.06.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Pedro Paro Filho
Charge based CMOS Digital RF Transmitters
The point where wireless communication and ubiquitous connectivity became an essential part of our lives is already past. Generation after generation communication speed ...
16.06.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Dave Geerardyn
Time-of-Flight sensing behind a primary confusing reflection
Introduction: Since the launch of the Kinect®, depth sensing cameras became known to the general public. Currently these type of systems mostly use structured light ...
28.04.2016
PhD Defense by Ms. Hameda Alkorre
Graphene plasmonics at millimeter wave and terahertz (THz) wave frequencies
The following fundamental intriguing question was raised: Can a one-atom thin graphene layer, whose carrier concentration can be easily modified, efficiently ...
13.04.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Petar Marendic
Distributed memory reduction operations in presence of process desynchronization
Decades of exponential growth in computational power have resulted in computers that can perform several million billion arithmetic operations per second. However, ...
18.01.2016
PhD Defense by Mr Georgios Athanasopoulos
Contributions to acoustic localization for robotic audition
Humans are known to perceive humanoid robots not as mechatronic devices but to attribute to them characteristics similar to those attributed to living organisms. ...
30.11.2015
PhD Defense by Mr. Adriaan Barri
A customized machine learning framework for objective visual quality assessment
Objective measures to automatically predict the perceptual quality of images or videos can reduce the time and cost requirements of end-to-end quality ...
14.10.2015
PhD Defense by Mr Lukas Latacz
High-Quality Personalized Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Belgian Standard Dutch
Human speech is quite diverse: there exist more than 7000 languages in the world, even more regional language variants, and humans apply – partly unconsciously ...
17.09.2015
PhD Defense by Ms. Isabel Gonzalez
The Art of Face Reading: Automatic Detection of Facial Expressions
Facial expressions play an important role in nonverbal communication. The face can show fleeting emotions or more enduring moods, even stable personality characteristics ...
14.09.2015
PhD Defense by Mr. Tim Bruylants
Advanced Coding Technologies For Medical and Holographic Imaging - Algorithms, Implementations ...
Medical and holographic imaging modalities produce large datasets that require efficient compression mechanisms for storage and transmission. This PhD dissertation ...
13.02.2015
PhD Defense by Mr. Francesco Cartella
Hidden semi-Markov Models for Online Failure Prediction of Industrial Machines
Predictive machine maintenance, where in real time the remaining useful lifetime of the machine is calculated, is of major importance for industrial and manufacturing ...
23.01.2015
PhD Defense by Mr. Giovanni Mangraviti
Injection Locking Techniques for CMOS-Based mm-Wave Frequency Synthesis
Mm-wave frequencies (30 GHz – 300 GHz) offer opportunities for many wireless applications involving two basic human activities: communication and sensing. ...
15.01.2015
PhD Defense by Miss Fengna Wang
Data Representation and Kernel-based Machine Learning Methods for Speech Emotion Recognition
This dissertation aims at highlighting potential solutions, from both the model aspect and the feature aspect, for recognizing the latent emotions of humans from their ...
12.01.2015
PhD Defense by Miss Xiao Lan Yao
Mobility Monitoring of the Elderly: towards an Automated iTUG Test Using a 3D Camera
The motor skills of a human being will inevitably decline over the human life span. Analyzing this slow decline and developing prediction models for associated fall and ...
13.10.2014
PhD Defense by Mr Bruno Cornelis
Image Processing for Art Investigation
Recent advances in digital image acquisition methods and the wide range of imaging modalities currently available have triggered museums to digitize their painting ...
08.09.2014
PhD Defense by Mr. Hasan FAYYAD-KAZAN
Benchmarking virtualization solutions (for business and embedded systems)
Over the last 10 years, virtualization has become much more widely popular as a result of fast and cheap processors. It is indeed one of the hottest trends in ...
21.08.2014
PhD Defense by Ms Thi Kieu Ha Phung
Schedule-based Multi-channel Wireless Sensor Networks – Protocol Design and ...
In the last decade, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved from the idea that a large amount of small wireless sensors can be used to collect information from the ...
29.04.2014
PhD Defense by Mr. Frederik Temmermans
Visual search in mobile and medical applications: feature extraction and classification, ...
Visual search is the task of identifying visually similar objects. In computer vision, and more specifically in the domain of still images, this task is typically ...
01.04.2014
PhD Defense by Mr. Federico Dominguez
Design and realization of a low-cost, location-aware sensor network for noise pollution ...
Modern sensor networks consist of spatially distributed sensor nodes that sense the surrounding environment and organize in a network. For environmental applications, ...
24.03.2014
PhD Defense by Mrs. Bin Zhu
Near-field microscopy in the mm and THz wave range: Aperture versus aperture-less scanning
Last decade, scanning near field Millimeter and Terahertz wave microscopy have attracted much attention due to its unique sub-wavelength focusing properties. ...
27.01.2014
PhD Defense by Miss Ilse Decoster
Spectral ageing model for the Meteosat First Generation visible band
Since more than 30 years, the Meteosat satellites of EUMETSAT have been measuring the thermal emitted and visible reflected outgoing radiation of the Earth. Due to their ...
27.11.2013
PhD Defense by Luca Dimiccoli
Sparsity patterns in the numerical solution of the inverse problems of ERT and ECT: a study on ...
Electrical resistance tomography and electrical capacitance tomography are two imaging techniques used in medical, process and geophysical exploration to image the ...
22.10.2013
PhD Defense by Ahmed Abdel-Hamid
Fine-grained near-failure timing-monitors’ insertion and data routing methods ...
This dissertation introduced novel methods to introduce digital delay timing monitors to a standard HDL flow at RTL. The core patented method of this dissertation named ...
18.09.2013
PhD Defense by Mr. Vladimir Matvejev
Terahertz Technologies for Integrated Bio-Sensor Devices
Electromagnetic waves at Terahertz frequencies (300-3000GHz) allow to probe weak inter- and intra-molecular interactions of biomolecules in physiological ...
10.07.2013
PhD Defense by Mr. Frederik Verbist
Advanced Hash-based Distributed Video Coding
Distributed video coding (DVC), also known as Wyner-Ziv video coding, provides low-complexity encoding solutions for video. In contrast to traditional ...
26.06.2013
PhD Defense by Mr. Antonio De La Piedra
Area Efficient Cryptographic Cores for Sensor Systems Based on FPGA
Typically, sensor nodes are constrained by size and energy consumption. Reducing the energy consumption of the network by decreasing the bandwidthis possible by ...
18.06.2013
PhD Defense by Mr Wesley Mattheyses
A Multimodal Approach to Audiovisual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Oral speech has always been the most important means of communication between humans. When a message is conveyed using oral speech, it is encoded in two separate ...
19.02.2013
PhD Defense by Sulaiman Rabbaa
Theoretical Study of the Electronic and Optoelectronic Characterization of GaN-based ...
Nitride-based materials still offer opportunities for the development of new electronic and optoelectronic applications. From the seventies of the 20th century, the ...
10.12.2012
PhD Defense by Halabi Wajdi
Routing, traffic grooming and service differentiation in multi-domain IP-based optical ...
Most of the service applications converge over the Internet Protocol (IP) and the amount of internet traffic is growing continuously. This has triggered the advent of IP ...
11.09.2012
PhD Defense by Leon Denis
Scalable coding of semi-regular and irregular triangular meshes
Computer graphics have evolved much since the early beginning of the digital era. In the last decades, we have witnessed a giant leap in graphical applications from the ...
24.08.2012
PhD Defense by Ala Hamarsheh
Breaking the deadlocks for transition to IPv6
About 15 years ago it was decided to introduce a new version for the Internet network protocol IP. The new version, IPv6, was to solve a number of issues with the ...
05.07.2012
PhD Defense by Shahid Satti
Scalable Single and Multiple Description Scalar Quantization
Scalable representation of a source (e.g., image/video/3D mesh) enables decoding of the encoded bit-stream on a variety of end-user terminals with varying ...
22.06.2012
PhD Defense by Nashat Abughalieh
Source and channel coding in wireless sensor networks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes equipped with sensors (temperature, light, humidity …etc.), a small scale processor and limited range radio ...
01.06.2012
PhD Defense by Nikolaos Deligiannis
Distributed Video Coding for wirelesslightweight multimedia multimedia applications
In the modern wireless age, lightweight multimedia technology stimulates attractive commercial applications on a grand scale as well as highly specialized niche markets. ...
20.01.2012
PhD Defense by Maxine Tan
Development of a feature-deselective neuroevolution method and its relevance in medical CAD ...
Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems have been receiving increasing attention inrecent years. CAD has been defined as a diagnosis made by radiologists with ...
16.12.2011
PhD Defense by Werner Vandermeiren
Detection and generation of CO2 laser pulses
The quality of laser-based material processing is, among others, strongly affected by the spatio-temporal characteristics of the incident laser radiation. As a ...
30.06.2011
PhD Defense by Alessandro Ipe
Cloud properties retrieval for climate studies from geostationary orbit
The climate system of the Earth is fundamentally determined by the Earth radiation budget (ERB) and its regional distribution. The Earth receives energy from the Sun and ...
25.02.2011
PhD Defense by Yanfeng Shang
Deterministic and probabilistic active contour models for medical image segmentation
In clinical applications, automatic medical object extraction is often a necessary preprocessing step for organ reconstruction, quantitative analysis and computer aided ...
12.01.2011
PhD Defense by Ir. Ward van der Tempel
Current-assisted sensor devices for 3D time-of-flight imaging
This dissertation presents a study on current-assisted sensor devices used for 3D Time-of-Flight Imaging.Firstly, a complete model of a ...
21.05.2010
PhD Defense by Ir. Amna Elhawil
(Meta)material Characterisation and Thin-film sensing Using Quasi-optical Technique in ...
The work presented in this thesis concerns exploring, developing and analysing methods and algorithms that are applied to material properties characterisation at ...
17.05.2010
PhD Defense by Ir. Walter Colitti
Multi-layer Traffic Engineering in the New Generation Internet based on IP/MPLS over ...
The convergence of most services over the Internet Protocol (IP) has triggered the implementation of Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Differentiated Service ...
29.03.2010
PhD Defense by M.Sc. Lixiao Zhang
Multi-parameter illumination techniques for millimeter wave imaging
Millimeter wave imaging is a very promising technology for concealed weapon detection that is becoming a compulsory measure to enhance aviation security. Millimeter wave ...
26.03.2010
PhD Defense by Islam Md. Saiful
Antenna elements and arrays for active millimeter wave imaging
This Ph.D. thesis deals with the study of the possible scenarios of integrating frequency selective surfaces based on slot antenna arrays as quasi-optical elements ...
02.03.2010
PhD Defense by Ir. Geert De Cubber
Variational methods for dense depth reconstruction from monocular and binocular video sequences
Een groot nadeel bij fotografie en videografie is dat het beeld, zoals waargenomen door de sensor van een camera, slechts een 2‐dimensionale projectie is van onze ...
26.01.2010
PhD Defense by Sabri Mekaoui
Total solar irradiance measurements during solar cycles 22 and 23
The Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) is a measure of the radiative output from the Sun. Its value and its long-term variability have a direct impact on the Earth ...
18.01.2010
PhD Defense by Bob Verbruggen
Hoge snelheid gekalibreerde analoog naar digitaal convertoren in CMOS
Analoog naar digitaal convertoren zijn een essentiële bouwsteen in vele elektronische systemen. Ze staan in voor de overgang van het storingsgevoelige analoge ...
09.12.2009
PhD Defense by Dan Costin Cernea
Scalable error-resilient coding of meshes
The dissertation mainly focuses on two topics in the field of scalable coding of meshes. The first topic introduces the novel concept of local error control in mesh ...
29.09.2009
PhD Defense by Wolfgang Jacquet
Focus Mutual Information for medical image alignment in dentistry, orthodontics and craniofacial ...
Medische beeldvorming is een van de peilers van diagnose, planning en opvol- ging van aandoeningen in de tandheelkunde, orthodontie en craniofaciale ...
11.06.2009
PhD Defense by Abdelbaset Rabaiah
Best-practice framework for developing and implementing e-government
Governments struggle to implement electronic government (e-government) seeking out some potential values. Such values have internal as well as external benefits. On ...
12.05.2009
PhD Defense by Ir. Thomas Geerinck
Visual attention framework: application to event analysis
One of the monolithic goals of computer vision is to automatically interpret general digital images or videos of arbitrary scenes. However, the amount of visual ...
31.03.2009
PhD Defense by Daniel Van Nieuwenhove
CMOS circuits and devices for 3D time-of-flight camera’s
This dissertation presents a study of novel circuits and devices for time-of- flight range finding applications, and describes their conception, implementation ...
16.12.2008
PhD Defense by Ir. Maryse Stoufs
Scalable joint source-channel coding of image and video signals
The generation of scalable encoded representations for image and video signals is considered nowadays to be essential as it allows for accommodating one single encoded ...
01.09.2008
PhD Defense by Ir. Gert Poesen
Towards an adaptable millimeter wave reflector: development of an antenna coupled ...
We present in this work the development of an adaptable reflector that can be integrated in an active millimetre wave imaging system to reduce typical noise artefacts ...
30.05.2008
PhD Defense by Ir. Ruben Lieten
Epitaxial growth of nitrides on germanium
The interesting physical properties of III‐Nitrides allow the fabrication of many devices such as high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and blue light emitting ...
19.12.2007
PhD Defense by Ir. Jan Lemeire
Learning causal models of multivariate systems and its value for the performance modeling of ...
Jan Lemeire's multidisciplinary work originated by the idea to introduce the causal learning algorithms into the world of performance analysis. Besides this practical ...
29.10.2007
PhD Defense by Fabio Verdicchio
Scalable error-resilient coding of video signals
Modern multimedia applications require coding techniques that are capable of adapting the transmitted stream to the needs of a variety of end-users with different ...
07.09.2007
PhD Defense by Thanh Trung Nguyen
INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY FOR THE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BURIED OBJECTS
Infrared (IR) thermography is a technique that uses an imaging system to measure the electromagnetic energy emitted from a surface in the IR radiation band. This kind of ...
19.12.2006
PhD Defense by Ir. Gaetan Koers
Noise suppression in active millimeter wave imaging systems
De voortdurende sociale en economische evoluties van de maatschappij zorgen ervoor dat technologische grenzen over heel de wereld steeds opnieuw en sneller worden ...
15.12.2006
PhD Defense by Ir. Joeri Barbarien
Advanced motion information coding and deblocking techniques for scalable video compression
Today, the increasing heterogeneity of play-back devices and networks poses substantial problems for multimedia content distribution applications, since different ...
01.09.2006
PhD Defense by Ir. Luc van Kempen
Ground penetrating radar for anti-personnel landmine detection
Introduction Detection of buried targets with a GPR is rather simple almost anything under the surface of the ground presents a return signal, which may be ...
30.06.2006
PhD Defense by Ir. Iris Vanhamel
Vector valued nonlinear diffusion and its application to image segmentation
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a generic approach for the automatic segmentation of vectorvalued images and in particular color images. The goal is to ...
08.05.2006
PhD Defense by Ir. Ilse Ravyse and Ir. Ilse Ravyse
Facial analysis and synthesis
Communication of the face motion is an important aspect of the human interaction. Its automatic extraction from an image sequence is a challenging task due to the ...
13.04.2006
PhD Defense by Antonios Katartzis
Markovian modeling and image classification
Bayesian estimation and Markov processes, like Markov chains or Markov random Fields (MRFs), constitute a popular branch in statistics that has been extensively used in ...
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