Publications related to Local-area augmentation system

Two-level Data Augmentation for Calibrated Multi-view Detection

Pascal Fua, Martin Pierre Engilberge, Zhiye Wang, Haixin Shi

Data augmentation has proven its usefulness to improve model generalization and performance. While it is commonly applied in computer vision application when it comes to multi-view systems, it is rarely used. Indeed geometric data augmentation can break th ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Improving Deepfake Detectors against Real-world Perturbations with Amplitude-Phase Switch Augmentation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu, Ruizhi Luo

In recent years, the remarkable progress in facial manipulation techniques has raised social concerns due to their potential malicious usage and has received considerable attention from both industry and academia. While current deep learning-based face for ...

2023

GNSS/INS Kalman Filter Integrity Monitoring with Uncertain Time Correlated Error Processes

Omar Garcia Crespillo

Safety-critical navigation applications require that estimation errors be reliably quantified and bounded. Over the last decade, significant effort has been put to guarantee a bounded position estimation by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) ...

EPFL2022

Error Augmentation Improves Visuomotor Adaptation during a Full-Body Balance Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Oliver Alan Kannape, Jemina Fasola

Visual amplification of kinematic errors has successfully been applied to improve performance for upper limb movements. In this study, we investigated whether visual error augmentation can promote faster adaptation during a full-body balance task. Healthy ...

IEEE2019

Guidance, Navigation and Control for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking of Nano-Satellites

Camille Sébastien Pirat

Is it possible to dock CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit? Challenges are associated with the level of miniaturisation: the docking accuracy is driven by the docking mechanism dimensions. The achievable docking performance with the Guidance, Navigation and Contro ...

EPFL2018

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricult ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

High accuracy GNSS based navigation in GEO

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

Although significant improvements in efficiency and performance of communication satellites have been achieved in the past decades, it is expected that the demand for new platforms in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and for the On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) on the ex ...

Elsevier2017

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

GNSS-based Orbital Filter for Earth Moon Transfer Orbits

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Numerous applications, not only Earth-based, but also space-based, have strengthened the interest of the international scientific community in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) as navigation systems for space missions that require good accu ...

Cambridge University Press2016

Toward a Materials Genome Approach for Ionic Liquids: Synthesis Guided by Ab Initio Property Maps

Berend Smit

The Materials Genome Approach (MGA) aims to accelerate development of new materials by incorporating computational and data-driven approaches to reduce the cost of identification of optimal structures for a given application. Here, we use the MGA to guide ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Advanced Algorithmic and Architecture Designs for Future Satellite Navigation Receivers

Youssef Tawk

The use of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers for navigation still presents many challenges, in particular in urban canyon and indoor environments where satellite availability is reduced and received signals are usually much atten- uated. ...

EPFL2013

Robust Activity Recognition Combining Anomaly Detection and Classifier Retraining

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Hesam Sagha, Daniel Roggen

Activity recognition systems based on body-worn motion sensors suffer from a decrease in performance during the deployment and run-time phases, because of probable changes in the sensors (e.g. displacement or rotation), which is the case in many real-life ...

2013

Robust Activity Recognition Combining Anomaly Detection and Classifier Retraining

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Hesam Sagha, Daniel Roggen

Activity recognition systems based on body-worn motion sensors suffer from a decrease in performance during the deployment and run-time phases, because of probable changes in the sensors (e.g. displacement or rotatation), which is the case in many real-lif ...

IEEE2013

A remarkable anion effect on palladium nanoparticle formation and stabilization in hydroxyl-functionalized ionic liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ning Yan, Xiao Yuan

Pd nanoparticles (NPs) with a small size and narrow size distribution were prepared from the decomposition of Pd(OAc)(2) in a series of hydroxyl-functionalized ionic liquids (ILs) comprising the 1-(2'-hydroxylethyl)-3-methylimidazolium cation and various a ...

2012

Bayesian Rendezvous for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal

In this paper, we state, using thorough mathe- matical analysis, sufficient conditions to perform a rendezvous maneuver with a group of differential-wheeled robots endowed with an on-board, noisy, local positioning system. In particular, we extend the exis ...

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An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

Roads right across Europe are becoming more congested and governments and regional authorities are looking for ways to better manage the existing road network. One tool that is being increasingly promoted to tackle the congestion challenge is Road User Cha ...

2010

An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

This paper describes a prototype solution which has been developed to provide both the positioning availability and integrity required for this application. The SIGNATURE (SImple GNSS Assisted & TrUsted REceiver) solution includes an assistance service whi ...

2010

Graph-Based Distributed Control for Non-holonomic Vehicles Engaged in a Reconfiguration Task using Local Positioning Information

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal, Riccardo Falconi

Formation building and keeping among vehicles has been studied for many years, since 1987 with Reynold's rules. This paper presents a control algorithm, based on recent work in graph theory, able to reconfigure static formations of non-holonomic vehicles e ...

2009

Contribution to the Worldwide multimodal SBAS standard

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

Several studies have been done or have been started in order to extend the current aeronautical Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) DO-229D Minimum Operational Performance Specification (MOPS) SBAS standard mainly defined by the Radio Technical ComiteeC ...

2009

Performances of a New Correlation Algorithm for a Platform-independent GPS Software Receiver

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Marcel Baracchi Frei

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) or mobile phones applications are not anymore restricted to wireless communications or multimedia, but have been extended to handle Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionalities. Consequently, the growing mar ...

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