Publications related to Mass 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

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

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

Communication: Mean-field theory of water-water correlations in electrolyte solutions

Michele Ceriotti, Sylvie Roke, David Mark Wilkins

Long-range ion induced water-water correlations were recently observed in femtosecond elastic second harmonic scattering experiments of electrolyte solutions. To further the qualitative understanding of these correlations, we derive an analytical expressio ...

American Institute of Physics2017

A Robust Relative Positioning System for Multi-Robot Formations Leveraging an Extended GM-PHD Filter

Alcherio Martinoli, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

We propose a multi-robot tracking method to provide state estimates that allow a group of robots to maintain a formation even when the communication fails. We extend a Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density filter to incorporate, firstly, absolute ...

2017

Multiple Objectives of Lawful-Surveillance Protocols

Bryan Alexander Ford

In recent work on open, privacy-preserving, accountable surveillance, we have proposed the use of cryptographic protocols that enable law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain actionable information about targeted users of mass-communication syst ...

2017

Temporal and Inter-view Consistent Error Concealment Technique for Multiview plus Depth Video Broadcasting

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Multiview plus depth (MVD) is an emerging video format with many applications, including 3-D television and free viewpoint television. During the broadcast of a compressed MVD video, transmission errors may cause the loss of whole frames, resulting in sign ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

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

Efficient Communication and Synchronization on Manycore Processors

Darko Petrovic

The increased number of cores integrated on a chip has brought about a number of challenges. Concerns about the scalability of cache coherence protocols have urged both researchers and practitioners to explore alternative programming models, where cache co ...

EPFL2015

Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing

Dario Floreano, Bixio Rimoldi, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Alberto Jimenez Pacheco, Yannick Gasser

This paper describes the implementation and characterisation of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) of ultra-light intelligent flying robots. The flying nature of the network makes it suitable to collect or disseminate content in urban areas or challenging ter ...

2012

Broadcasting Private Messages Securely

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, László Czap, Vinod Malathidevi Prabhakaran

Consider a source, Alice, broadcasting private messages to multiple receivers through a broadcast erasure channel; users send back to Alice public feedback that she causally uses to decide the coding strategy for her following transmissions. Recently, the ...

IEEE2012

Dissent in Numbers: Making Strong Anonymity Scale

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Current anonymous communication systems make a trade-off between weak anonymity among many nodes, via onion routing, and strong anonymity among few nodes, via DC-nets. We develop novel techniques in Dissent, a practical group anonymity system, to increase ...

2012

Impact of video transcoding artifacts on the subjective quality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Mauro Lattuada, Frédéric Dufaux, Lutz Goldmann

Video transcoding is an important step to enable interoperability between different networks, terminals, applications, and services for video communication. This paper studies the influence of typical video transcoding artifacts due to frame rate reduction ...

2010

Stereo Acoustic Echo Control Using A Simplified Echo Path Model

Christof Faller, Christophe Tournery

In handsfree tele- or video-communication, acoustic echoes arise due to the coupling between the loudspeakers and microphones. It is much more challenging to remove the undesired acoustic echoes for stereo or multi-channel tele-communication systems than f ...

2006

Network coding for efficient communication in extreme networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jörg Widmer

Some forms of ad-hoc networks need to operate in extremely performance- challenged environments where end-to-end connectivity is rare. Such environments can be found for example in very sparse mobile networks where nodes ”meet” only occasionally and are ab ...

2005

Power, Spatio-Temporal Bandwidth, and Distortion in Large Sensor Networks

Martin Vetterli, Michael Christoph Gastpar

For a class of sensor networks, the task is to monitor an underlying physical phenomenon over space and time through an imperfect observation process. The sensors can communicate back to a central data collector over a noisy channel. The key pa- rameters i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2005