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Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

In this thesis we address various factors that contribute both theoretically and practically to mitigating supply demand mismatches. The thesis is composed of three chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first paper, we dev ...

EPFL2023

Compound Admittance Matrix Estimation of Three-phase Untransposed Power Distribution Grids using Synchrophasor Measurements

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

The paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of the compound admittance matrix of three-phase untransposed low-and medium-voltage electrical distribution networks using synchrophasor measurements from phasor measurement units (PMUs). The wo ...

2021

Analysis of the first COLIBRI fuel rods oscillation campaign in the CROCUS reactor for the European project CORTEX

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais, Daniel Godat

The Horizon2020 European project CORTEX aims at developing an innovative core monitoring technique that allows detecting anomalies in nuclear reactors, such as excessive vibrations of core internals, flow blockage, or coolant inlet perturbations. The techn ...

2021

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Recent works in aerial robotics show that the self-organized and cohesive flight of swarms can emerge from the exchange of purely local information between neighboring agents. However, most of the current swarm models are not capable of flight in densely c ...

2022

Locating Transient Directional Sources in Free Space Based on the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Technique

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Qi Li

Traditional location methods such as time of arrival and direction of arrival have been widely used to locate transient radiation sources. However, these approaches neglect the directional radiation pattern of the sources. Locating directional sources is a ...

2020

Compressed sensing with signal averaging for improved sensitivity and motion artifact reduction in fluorine-19 MRI

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Jérôme Yerly, Ruud van Heeswijk, Elena Najdenovska

Fluorine-19 (F-19) MRI of injected perfluorocarbon emulsions (PFCs) allows for the non-invasive quantification of inflammation and cell tracking, but suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio and extended scan time. To address this limitation, we tested the ...

WILEY2020

Boosting the performance of distributed optical fiber sensors based on adaptive decoder

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Sheng Wang, Jian Wu

An adaptive decoder is proposed to derive the fiber single-pulse response. This experimentally simple technique simultaneously improves the measurement time and the noise level, boosting to an uncommon degree the overall performance of distributed fiber se ...

Optical Society of America2018

Looking beyond Pixels : Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Continuous Sparse Recovery

Hanjie Pan

Sparse recovery is a powerful tool that plays a central role in many applications, including source estimation in radio astronomy, direction of arrival estimation in acoustics or radar, super-resolution microscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Conventional a ...

EPFL2018

Entrainment of Voluntary Movement to Undetected Auditory Regularities

Olaf Blanke, Leila Cammoun, Aaron Schurger, Nathan Quentin Faivre

In physics “entrainment” refers to the synchronization of two coupled oscillators with similar fundamental frequencies. In behavioral science, entrainment refers to the tendency of humans to synchronize their movements with rhythmic stimuli. Here, we asked ...

Springer Nature2017

LEAP: Looking beyond pixels with continuous-space EstimAtion of Point sources

Martin Vetterli, Paul Hurley, Thierry Blu, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Hanjie Pan

Context. Two main classes of imaging algorithms have emerged in radio interferometry: the CLEAN algorithm and its multiple variants, and compressed-sensing inspired methods. They are both discrete in nature, and estimate source locations and intensities on ...

2017

LPN in Cryptography : an Algorithmic Study

Sonia Mihaela Bogos

The security of public-key cryptography relies on well-studied hard problems, problems for which we do not have efficient algorithms. Factorization and discrete logarithm are the two most known and used hard problems. Unfortunately, they can be easily solv ...

EPFL2017

Patch-wise denoising of phase fringe patterns based on matrix enhancement

Pramod Rastogi, Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

We propose a new approach for the denoising of a phase fringe pattern recorded in an optical interferometric setup. The phase fringe pattern which is generally corrupted by high amount of speckle noise is first converted into an exponential phase field. Th ...

2016

Estimation of Phase and Its Higher Order Derivatives from a Single Complex Interferogram

Pramod Rastogi, Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

This paper reports a method for the simultaneous estimation of unwrapped phase and higher order phase derivatives from a single phase fringe pattern recorded in an optical interferometric setup, thereby overcoming substantial barriers to achieving such mea ...

2016

"Can you hear me now?" : Automatic assessment of background noise intrusiveness and speech intelligibility in telecommunications

Raphaël Marc Ullmann

This thesis deals with signal-based methods that predict how listeners perceive speech quality in telecommunications. Such tools, called objective quality measures, are of great interest in the telecommunications industry to evaluate how new or deployed sy ...

EPFL2016

Optimal Proximity Proofs

Serge Vaudenay

Provably secure distance-bounding is a rising subject, yet an unsettled one; indeed, very few distance-bounding protocols, with formal security proofs, have been proposed. In fact, so far only two protocols, namely SKI (by Boureanu et al.) and FO (by Fisch ...

Springer2015

Reconstruction of Finite Rate of Innovation Signals with Model-Fitting Approach

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Zafer Dogan

Finite rate of innovation (FRI) is a recent framework for sampling and reconstruction of a large class of parametric signals that are characterized by finite number of innovations (parameters) per unit interval. In the absence of noise, exact recovery of F ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Approaching the Rate-Distortion Limit With Spatial Coupling, Belief Propagation, and Decimation

Nicolas Macris, Vahid Aref, Marc Vuffray

We investigate an encoding scheme for lossy compression of a binary symmetric source based on simple spatially coupled low-density generator-matrix codes. The degree of the check nodes is regular and the one of code-bits is Poisson distributed with an aver ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Modelling the depletion length induced by modulation instability in distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

An analytical model for the depletion length of modulation instability in single-mode optical fibres is proposed. The model gives the possibility to determine the maximum sensing distance that distributed optical fibre sensors can reach before being limite ...

SPIE2014

LFI systematic uncertainties

Julien Lesgourgues, Fabio Finelli

We present the current estimate of instrumental and systematic effect uncertainties for the Planck-Low Frequency Instrument relevant to the first release of the Planck cosmological results. We give an overview of the main effects and of the tools and metho ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Geodesic Active Fields : A Geometric Framework for Image Registration

Dominique Zosso

Image registration is the concept of mapping homologous points in a pair of images. In other words, one is looking for an underlying deformation field that matches one image to a target image. The spectrum of applications of image registration is extremely ...

EPFL2011