Publications related to Data processing unit

Multicore fiber endoscope for phase imaging based on intensity recording using deep neural networks

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Navid Borhani, Eirini Kakkava

The present invention is related to an endoscopic system for phase imaging, comprising a multicore waveguide (080), an optical system comprising at least one first light source (002), for illuminating the sample to be examined, a first camera (010) that is ...

2022

UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has surged in the last two decades, making them popular instruments for a wide range of applications, and leading to a remarkable number of scientific contributions in geoscience, remote sensing and engineering. H ...

2022

Smart Camera Architectures for Wireless and Multi-Sensor Vision Applications

Selman Ergünay

Advances in camera sensor technology and its manufacturing process now allow high quality image acquisition with low-cost devices. Moreover, the latest significant increase in computational capacity of the processing units enables incorporation of more com ...

EPFL2018

Massively parallel data processing for quantitative total flow imaging with optical coherence microscopy and tomography

Theo Lasser, Paul James Marchand, Daniel Pawel Szlag, Marcin Antoni Sylwestrzak

We present an application of massively parallel processing of quantitative flow measurements data acquired using spectral optical coherence microscopy (SOCM). The need for massive signal processing of these particular datasets has been a major hurdle for m ...

Elsevier2017

A PLiM Computer for the Internet of Things

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Emerging applications are dramatically changing computer architecture requirements, with a shift toward big data that is processed using simple computations. A programmable logic-in-memory (PLiM) computer can allow memory cells to perform primitive logic o ...

2017

SCCER-FURIES - A decision support tool for the geo-localised design and assessment of the integration of multi-carrier/multi-services/multi-grids innovative energy conversion systems in urban systems and industrial clusters - Deliverable 1.5.4

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

The computing platform (OSMOSELua) has been developed in the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group IPESE at EPFL as a flexible and robust tool for the design of complex integrated energy systems. The decision tool has been developed using ...

2017

Neural assemblies as core elements for modeling neural networks in the brain

Hesam Setareh

How does the brain process and memorize information? We all know that the neuron (also known as nerve cell) is the processing unit in the brain. But how do neurons work together in networks? The connectivity structure of neural networks plays an important ...

EPFL2017

Privacy-enhancing technologies for medical tests using genomic data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Erman Ayday, Jacques Rougemont, Jean Louis Raisaro, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Amalio Telenti

In this invention, we propose privacy-enhancing technologies for medical tests and personalized medicine methods, which utilize patients' genomic data. Assuming the whole genome sequencing is done by a certified institution, we propose to store patients' g ...

2016

High precision trajectory and speed sensor and measuring method

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

A method for contactlessly determining an exact passage of an athlete at points placed along a track in sports, wherein the method comprises gearing the athlete with a wearable magnetometer sensor unit, whereby the magnetometer sensor unit is equipped with ...

2016

Accelerators for Data Processing

Yusuf Onur Koçberber

The explosive growth in digital data and its growing role in real-time analytics motivate the design of high-performance database management systems (DBMSs). Meanwhile, slowdown in supply voltage scaling has stymied improvements in core performance and ush ...

EPFL2015

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical Tests Using Genomic Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Erman Ayday, Jean Louis Raisaro

We propose privacy-enhancing technologies for medical tests and personalized medicine methods, which utilize patients’ genomic data. Focusing specifically on a typical disease-susceptibility test, we develop a new architecture (between the patient and the ...

2013

Personal Use of the Genomic Data: Privacy vs. Storage Cost

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Erman Ayday, Jean Louis Raisaro

In this paper, we propose privacy-enhancing technologies for personal use of the genomic data and analyze the tradeoff between genomic privacy and storage cost of the genomes. First, we highlight the potential privacy threats on the genomic data. Then, foc ...

2013

Integrating rate based models into multi-objective optimisation of process designs using surrogate models

François Maréchal, Levent Sinan Teske

Multi-objective optimisation (MOO) of super-structured process designs are expensive in CPU- time because of the high number of potential configurations and operation conditions to be calculated. Thus single process units are generally represented by simpl ...

2013

Functional optical coherent imaging platform for medical application e.g. neurosurgery, has active camera unit that captures image of specific region of test subject after transmitting stimulus signals

Theo Lasser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Marcel Leutenegger, Martin Villiger, Iwan Märki, Erica Martin-Williams, Michael Friedrich

The present invention relates to a functional optical coherent imaging (fOCI) platform comprising at least one active camera unit (ACU) comprising a coherent and/or a partially coherent light source, and means for spectral filtering and imaging a selected ...

2010

Method to manage the load of peripheral elements within a multicore system

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Federico Angiolini

The aim of the present invention is to propose a method to provide reliability, power management and load balancing support for multicore systems based on Networks- on-Chip (NoCs) as well as a way to efficiently implement architectural support for this met ...

2008

Deep-submicron embedded processor architectures for high-performance, low-cost and low-power

Sylvain Aguirre

Because the market has an insatiable appetite for new functionality, performance is becoming an increasingly important factor. The telecommunication and network domains are especially touched by this phenomenon but they are not the only ones. For instance, ...

EPFL2007

Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Ali Salehi

With the price of wireless sensor technologies diminishing rapidly we can expect large numbers of autonomous sensor networks being deployed in the near future. These sensor networks will typically not remain isolated but the need of interconnecting them on ...

IEEE Computer Society2007

Processeur à haut degré de parallélisme basé sur des composantes sérielles

Ralph Hoffmann

Nowaday, the world of processors is still dominated by the RISC architectures, which foundations have been laid down in the 70's. The RISC concept may be summarized by one word : simplicity. With this concept, much simpler architectures are born, in partic ...

EPFL2004

Design and development of the smart machine vision sensor

The Smart Machine Vision Sensor (SMVS) is a self-contained low-cost machine vision system that combines an image sensor, a processing unit and communication interfaces in a single unit. This paper describes the design of the SMVS, the concept of the operat ...

1998