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Towards real-time digital twins for post-earthquake damage assessment of masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Radhakrishna Achanta, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero

Currently, post-earthquake assessment is performed visually, which implies that inspectors visit the damaged buildings and, based on their expertise, assign a damage grade. Yet, visual inspection is subjective, time-consuming and difficult to document. In ...

2023

Hardware-oriented pruning and quantization of Deep Learning models to detect life-threatening arrhythmias

Alexandre Schmid, Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin

Wearable solutions based on Deep Learning (DL) for real-time ECG monitoring are a promising alternative to detect life-threatening arrhythmias. However, DL models suffer of a large memory footprint, which hampers their adoption in portable technologies. Th ...

IEEE2021

All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes: A Tutorial for Correct Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

The research on ion-measuring devices has seen a rapid expansion in the last years as a consequence of the growing interest in wearable sensors for biofluids analysis and in portable devices for remote or in-line water and food quality monitoring. As a res ...

2021

Inkjet-printed polymer composites for the detection of volatile organic compounds

Mohammadmahdi Kiaee

Sensors capable of detecting and classifying volatile organic compounds (VOC) have been gaining more attention by the advent of internet-of-things (IoT) enabled devices and integration of various sensing elements into hand-held and portable devices. The re ...

EPFL2021

Aerolysin nanopores decode digital information stored in tailored macromolecular analytes

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Nuria Cirauqui Diaz

Digital data storage is a growing need for our society and finding alternative solutions than those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is a challenge in the era of “big data.” The recent development of polymers that can store information at the molecular l ...

2020

Can Metal–Organic Frameworks Be Used for Cannabis Breathalyzers?

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Yifei Liu

Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive component of cannabis, and there is an urgent need to build low-cost and portable devices that can detect its presence from breath. Similarly to alcohol detectors, these tools can be used by law e ...

2019

Light field compression using translation-assisted view estimation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field technology has recently been gaining traction in the research community. Several acquisition technologies have been demonstrated to properly capture light field information, and portable devices have been commercialized to the general public. H ...

IEEE2019

A soft portable wearable pneumatic interactive suit

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Harshal Arun Sonar, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar

A fully wearable system used for communication and information transfer between two users or between a user and a machine to render an effective and intuitive physical interface for combined input and output functions, the fully wearable system including a ...

2018

Remote Powering and Communication of Implantable Biosensors Through Inductive Link

Jacopo Olivo

Nowadays there is an increasing interest in the field of implantable biosensors. The possibility of real-time monitoring of the human body from inside paves the way to a large number of applications and offers wide opportunities for the future. Within this ...

EPFL2013

Widgets and Spaces : Personal & Contextual Portability and Plasticity with OpenSocial

Evgeny Bogdanov

Social media platforms are created and exploited for various activities carried out individually or collaboratively and relying on different resources and tools. Social media platforms are inherently contextual; the context being defined as a specific acti ...

EPFL2013

Comparison of 3D portable display restitution techniques based on stereo and motion parallax

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek

Currently, the large majority of 3D display solutions rely on binocular perception phenomena. Furthermore, while 3D display technologies are already widely available for cinema and home or corporate use, only a few portable devices currently feature 3D dis ...

2012

Portable Technologies for Self-Monitoring of Coagulation Time: A Review

Philippe Renaud, Lynda Metref

Anti-coagulation treatments are required for medical conditions that become more and more frequent with the ageing of the population in developed countries (atrial fibrillation, deep-venous thrombosis, heart prosthetic valves, etc.). These treatments gener ...

2012

A Fast Parts-based Approach to Speaker Verification using Boosted Slice Classifiers

Sébastien Marcel, Mathew Magimai Doss, Anindya Roy

Speaker verification on portable devices like smartphones is gradually becoming popular. In this context, two issues need to be considered: 1) such devices have relatively limited computation resources, and 2) they are liable to be used everywhere, possibl ...

2012

A micro heater platform with fluid channels for testing micro-solid oxide fuel cell components

Paul Muralt, Thomas Maeder, Bo Jiang, Dimos Poulikakos

Micro-scale solid oxide fuel cell is a promising power generation technology for portable devices such as laptop, medical devices and personal electronics. One of the key goals in design of μ-SOFC systems is to use common hydrocarbon fuels such as propane/ ...

Elsevier2012

Power-gated MOS current mode logic (PG-MCML): a power aware DPA-resistant standard cell library

Paolo Ienne, Yusuf Leblebici, Francesco Regazzoni, Stéphane Badel

MOS Current Mode Logic (MCML) is one of the most promising logic style to counteract power analysis attacks. Unfortunately, the static power consumption of MCML standard cells is significantly higher compared to equivalent functions implemented using stati ...

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Motion Parallax Based Restitution of 3D Images on Legacy Consumer Mobile Devices

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

While 3D display technologies are already widely available for cinema and home or corporate use, only a few portable devices currently feature 3D display capabilities. Moreover, the large majority of 3D display solutions rely on binocular perception. In th ...

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Image annotation on portable devices

Martin Vetterli, Luciano Sbaiz

A system for automated annotation of images and videos points a mobile device towards an object of interest, such as a building or landscape scenery, for the device to display an image of the scene with an annotation for the object. An annotation can inclu ...

2010

A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to Optimize Dynamic Memory Managers in Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Risco Martin

For the last 30 years, several dynamic memory managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and energy consumption of each DMM differs, software engineers of ...

Elsevier2010

Optimization of Dynamic Memory Managers for Embedded Systems Using Grammatical Evolution

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Risco Martin

New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory accesses and memory usage at a low energy consumption. Moreover, they must heavily ...

ACM Press2009

Compact representations for static and dynamic texture synthesis

Roberto Costantini

In nature, textures can be found everywhere. Texture, together with color and shape, represents the fundamental characteristics of objects. Texture conveys an idea of repetition of a certain structure, which is not limited only to the visual domain. We can ...

EPFL2007