Publications related to Media (communication)

Get More for Less in Decentralized Learning Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pereira Pires, Akash Balasaheb Dhasade, Rishi Sharma, Milos Vujasinovic, Jeffrey Wigger

Decentralized learning (DL) systems have been gaining popularity because they avoid raw data sharing by communicating only model parameters, hence preserving data confidentiality. However, the large size of deep neural networks poses a significant challeng ...

IEEE2023

Combating Online Scientific Misinformation

Panagiotis Smeros

The drastic shift towards digital communication in our mediasphere has caused a profound change in the production and consumption of information, which in turn has substantial implications on the social and political landscape. Misinformation, as a side ef ...

EPFL2022

Learning-based Image Coding: Early Solutions Reviewing and Subjective Quality Evaluation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

Nowadays, image and video are the data types that consume most of the resources of modern communication channels, both in fixed and wireless networks. Thus, it is vital to compress visual data as much as possible, while maintaining some target quality leve ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Hybrid integrated photonics using bulk acoustic resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Junqiu Liu

Integrated photonic devices based on Si3N4 waveguides allow for the exploitation of nonlinear frequency conversion, exhibit low propagation loss, and have led to advances in compact atomic clocks, ultrafast ranging, and spectroscopy. Yet, the lack of Pocke ...

Nature Research2020

Dynamic media content categorisation method

Sabine Süsstrunk, Mahmut Sami Arpa, Gabriel Albert Autes

The present invention concerns a method of classifying a media item into a user profile suitability class in a classification system comprising a set of pre-trained artificial neural networks. The method comprising: receiving (101) a media file; extracting ...

2020

From Polarizability to Effective Permittivity of Time-Varying Materials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

In this talk, we describe excitation of time-varying dipolar particles (time-modulated meta-atoms) by external time-varying fields from a nonstationary and causal perspective. For a time-harmonic excitation, we introduce a complex-valued function, called t ...

IEEE2020

The Fake News Vaccine

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Matej Pavlovic, Oana Maria Balmau

While spreading fake news is an old phenomenon, today social media enables misinformation to instantaneously reach millions of people. Content-based approaches to detect fake news, typically based on automatic text checking, are limited. It is indeed diffi ...

2019

Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect

Alessandro Crespi, Laurent Keller

Animal social networks are shaped by multiple selection pressures, including the need to ensure efficient communication and functioning while simultaneously limiting disease transmission. Social animals could potentially further reduce epidemic risk by alt ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Testbed for subjective evaluation of omnidirectional visual content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Martin Rerabek

Omnidirectional visual content is a form of representing graphical and cinematic media content which provides subjects with the ability to freely change the direction of view. Along with virtual reality, omnidirectional imaging is becoming a very important ...

IEEE2016

BNCI Horizon 2020: towards a roadmap for the BCI community

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Anton Nijholt

The brain-computer interface (BCI) field has grown dramatically over the past few years, but there are still no coordinated efforts to ensure efficient communication and collaboration among key stakeholders. The European Commission (EC) has recently renewe ...

2015

Mining Conversational Social Video

Joan Isaac Biel Tres

The ubiquity of social media in our daily life, the intense user participation, and the explosion of multimedia content have generated an extraordinary interest from computer and social scientists to investigate the traces left by users to understand human ...

EPFL2013

Outtweeting the Twitterers - Predicting Information Cascades in Microblogs

Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Zoran Despotovic

Microblogging sites are a unique and dynamic Web 2.0 communication medium. Understanding the information flow in these systems can not only provide better insights into the underlying sociology, but is also crucial for applications such as content ranking, ...

2010

Source coding in sensor networks

Robert Konsbruck

Wireless sensor networks have emerged as versatile tools to monitor the evolution of physical fields over large areas by means of self-powered and low-cost sensing devices. Although their development was originally motivated by military applications, they ...

EPFL2009

Distributed and Component Oriented Tools for Communication Networks Using Web Services

Sébastien Rumley, Christian Gaumier, Christophe Trefois

Modern communication networks are reaching a high level of complexity. As their global dimensioning and performance evaluation are very hard tasks, a multi-layer approach is generally applied to divide them in smaller problems easier to tackle. Within this ...

ARGESIM2007