Publications related to Personal computer

Tumescense monitoring system for diagnosing erectile dysfunction and methods of use

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva

Systems and methods for monitoring penile tumescence are provided that overcome the drawbacks of previously known systems by providing a wearable formed of a flexible and elastic tube having a plurality of sensors disposed on or embedded within it, the wea ...

2023

DyNCA: Real-time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata

Sabine Süsstrunk, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu, Tong Zhang

Current Dynamic Texture Synthesis (DyTS) models can synthesize realistic videos. However, they require a slow iterative optimization process to synthesize a single fixed-size short video, and they do not offer any post-training control over the synthesis p ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures

Dusan Licina

Cities today encounter significant challenges pertaining to urbanization and population growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are generated through Internet of Things (IoT) sensing implemented at urban, buil ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate

Michaël Yannick Juillard

Active Debris Removal missions consist of sending a satellite in space and removing one or more debris from their current orbit. A key challenge is to obtain information about the uncooperative target. By gathering the velocity, position, and rotation of t ...

EPFL2022

Longitudinal assessment of personal air pollution clouds in ten home and office environments

Dusan Licina, Maria Viviana Gonzalez Serrano

Elevated exposure to indoor air pollution is associated with negative human health and well-being outcomes. Inhalation exposure studies commonly rely on stationary monitors in combination with human time-activity patterns; however, this method is susceptib ...

WILEY2022

Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry

Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between res ...

2021

The open EEGLAB portal Interface: High-Performance computing with EEGLAB

Fiorenzo Artoni

EEGLAB signal processing environment is currently the leading open-source software for processing electroencephalographic (EEG) data. The Neuroscience Gateway (NSG, nsgportal.org) is a web and API-based portal allowing users to easily run a variety of neur ...

2021

Perceptual Quality of Point Clouds with application to Compression

Evangelos Alexiou

Modern information technologies and human-centric communication systems employ advanced content representations for richer portrayals of the real world. The newly adopted imaging modalities offer additional information cues and permit the depiction of real ...

EPFL2021

Byzantine machine learning

Rachid Guerraoui, Mahsa Taziki, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

The present invention concerns computer-implemented methods for training a machine learning model using Stochastic Gradient Descent, SGD. In one embodiment, the method is performed by a first computer in a distributed computing environment and comprises pe ...

2020

PokeME: Applying Context-Driven Notifications to Increase Worker Engagement in Mobile Crowd-Sourcing

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

In mobile crowd-sourcing systems, simply relying on people to opportunistically select and perform tasks typically leads to drawbacks such as low task acceptance/completion rates and undesirable spatial skews. In this paper, we utilize data from TASKer, a ...

ACM2020

Interactions between Personality, Depression, Anxiety and Cognition to Understand Early Stage of Alzheimer's Disease

Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey

The multifaceted nature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can lead to wide inter-individual differences in disease manifestation in terms of brain pathology and cognition. The lack of understanding of phenotypic diversity in A ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2020

Scalable Convex Optimization Methods for Semidefinite Programming

Alp Yurtsever

With the ever-growing data sizes along with the increasing complexity of the modern problem formulations, contemporary applications in science and engineering impose heavy computational and storage burdens on the optimization algorithms. As a result, there ...

EPFL2019

Recent advances in the metallurgy of aluminium alloys. Part I: Solidification and casting

Michel Rappaz

The goal of these review papers is to summarize the recent advances in the metallurgy of aluminium alloys and from this analysis, to try to outline future developments in this field. Part I deals with the transformation of aluminium alloys from the liquid ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2018

Plug&Play brain-computer interfaces for effective active and assisted living control

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Nicolas Mora Parra

Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI) rely on the interpretation of brain activity to provide people with disabilities with an alternative/augmentative interaction path. In light of this, BCI could be considered as enabling technology in many fields, including A ...

Springer Verlag2017

Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, David Jules Froelicher, Jean Louis Raisaro, Zhicong Huang, Christian Vincent Mouchet, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Patricia Egger

Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverag ...

De Gruyter2017

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca, Guillaume Paul Olivier Leclerc

Evolutionary algorithms are increasingly being applied to problems that are too computationally expensive to run on a single personal computer due to costly fitness function evaluations and/or large numbers of fitness evaluations. Here, we introduce the Se ...

ACM Press2016

A microfluidic D-subminiature connector

Elise Marie Catherine Vinckenbosch

Standardized, affordable, user-friendly world-to-chip interfaces represent one of the major barriers to the adoption of microfluidics. We present a connector system for plug-and-play interfacing of microfluidic devices to multiple input and output lines. T ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013