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Prestigious ERC Advanced Grant awarded to prof. dr. Tijl De Bie for project VIGILIA
VIGILIA: VIrtual GuardIan angeLs for the post-truth Information Age
A framework for tracing timber following the Ukraine invasion
Researchers revolutionise the fight against illegal timber trade with innovative scientific methods. Forest preservation has become a global priority. However, deforestation and illegal timber trade remain persistent issues threatening these ecosystems. Researchers have developed innovative scientific methods to identify timber origins and combat these harmful practices, a study that has just been published in the prestigious journal Nature Plants.
Gaussian Embedding of Temporal Networks – Modeling Network Interactions over Time with Explicit Uncertainty
Raphaël Romero from IDLab-AIDA created a model for interactions between entities that take place over time, a data structure also known as a temporal network. Making a model that captures the latent structure in continuous time is challenging and the quality of such models may be improved by incorporating the uncertainty of the latent information.
IPI professor Bart Goossens receives the 2023 Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award
Congratulations to prof. Bart Goossens for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award, from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for outstanding editorial board service for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
IPI professors Wilfried Philips & Jan Aelterman at AutoSens Brussels 2023
Watch the interviews of IPI professors Wilfried Philips & Jan Aelterman at AutoSens Brussels 2023
Intelligent super-fast AI camera prevents errors in 3D printing
Research centers imec and Flanders Make present a first proof-of-concept of a super-fast AI camera that automatically adjusts the 3D printing of metal parts.
Sofie Van Hoecke one of the InspiringFifty Belgium 2022
Sofie Van Hoecke is one of the 50 most inspiring women in Belgian Tech.
From waste to resource thanks to characterization of waste streams
Today, waste recycling is high-tech and much-needed. A smart characterization technology now makes it possible to classify in detail what appears as a homogeneous waste stream on the fly at an industrial level.
IDLab presented its wireless TSN solution
IDLab presented its Wireless Time Sensitive Networking solution at Hannover Technology Fair 2021
UGent-imec/IPI research group builds on sensor fusion with the aim to bring safe transport into factories
The UGent-imec IPI research group Image processing and Interpretation will evaluate the safety near autonomous public transport. This applied research builds on IPI’s sensor fusion technology, whose ongoing development is co-financed by the Flanders AI research program, with the aim to bring safe transport into factories.
UGent-imec/IPI research group contributes to the online training course "Autosens Academy"
The UGent-imec/IPI research group Image processing and Interpretation contributes the module “Sensor Fusion” in the “Autosens Academy” training course.
Tony Belpaeme presented at Talking Robotics
Tony Belpaeme opened the 2022 series of Talking Robotics presentations by considering how Human-Robot Interaction might act as a catalyst for AI. Artificial Intelligence has never been more popular, with almost every discipline and industry now either contributing to AI or benefiting from it. But despite the uproar around new developments, the dream of recreating human-like intelligence still seems tormentingly beyond our grasp. AI has focused mostly on data mining, regressing and classifying its way through connected data lakes, but without bringing us closer to the vision that lured many of us into working on robotics and AI. The talk argued that Human-Robot Interaction might be the catalyst that is needed to bring renewed focus to AI’s holy grail and argued that social interaction between machines and people might well be the goal that could galvanise AI research for decades to come.
Flemish government allocates 7 M€ funding for first 2 years of SolidLab Vlaanderen
Imec researchers at UGent, VUB en KULeuven will work together in SolidLab Vlaanderen and received funding from the Flemish government.
Research on sleep apnea in IRCAI Top 100 as one of the excellent projects
Our research on sleep apnea has been listed in the IRCAI Top 100 as one of the excellent projects.
IPI joins Industry Leaders in AI for Manufacturing Webinars
Brian Booth, a postdoctoral researcher from the Image Processing and Interpretation Lab (UGent), joined industry leaders earlier this year to speak on the use of AI in additive manufacturing workflows. The first webinar, hosted by AI4Growth on March 25th, covered the use of AI regression models to detect specific manufacturing defects from high-speed video. The second webinar, hosted by Flanders Make and AI Flanders on April 29th, covered the use of autoencoders to identify anomalies in signal time series’.
Faster, better, cheaper: machine learning for blood disease diagnosis
The diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is challenging and mainly relies on bone marrow morphology and genetic tests. In collaboration with clinicians from VUMC Amsterdam, scientists from the Yvan Saeys lab (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) have developed a machine learning model to help in the automated diagnosis of MDS. This model resulted in a significantly better diagnostic power, while drastically reducing the time and resources needed for analysis.
Call for papers for several workshops in conjunction with the ECML-PKDD conference in September 2021
Several workshops will be organized in conjunction with the ECML-PKDD conference in September 2021.
You can now submit your papers.
ERC Proof of Concept grant awarded to Tijl De Bie
The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant to Prof. Tijl De Bie.
Tony Belpaeme at European Commission's Science for Policy Conference
Tony Belpaeme spoke at the European Commission’s Science for Policy Conference “What future for European robotics?” where he discussed how AI and new developments in robotics will shape the future of Human-Robot Interaction, together with Hae Won Park (MIT Media Lab) and Stephan Vincent-Lancrin (OECD).
Yvan Saeys receives the AstraZeneca Foundation Award 2020
A jury from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) has recently selected the 2020 laureates of the AstraZeneca Foundation Awards.
Piet Demeester obtains Methusalem funding for long term research on next generation wireless networks (SHAPE)
Piet Demeester has received Methusalem funding for the project SHAPE: Next Generation Wireless Networks.
One of the first 15 iBOF projects granted to Tijl De Bie (UGent) and Luc De Raedt, Jesse Davis (KULeuven)
Within the first iBOF call the team of Tijl De Bie joined forces with Luc De Raedt and Jesse Davis from the KULeuven on the topic of “Automating Data Science: the Next Frontiers”.
Tony Belpaeme speaker at VVSG 'Artificiële intelligentie voor lokale besturen'
Coinciding with the publication of the “Artificiële intelligentie voor lokale besturen” (artificial intelligence for local government) book by the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Steden en Gemeenten Tony Belpaeme (UGent-imec) gave a keynote at the online launch event, looking at what impact recent developments in AI have on addressing challenges faced by society.
Special Issue published by EOS magazine on Health and Technology highlights some research projects of AI.UGent
The special issue of the EOS magazine on Health and Technology focuses on a wide range of aspects of future healthcare.
VIB single-cell software supported by a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3.8 million in funding for 23 grants to support open-source software projects essential to biomedical research, enabling software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement. Software by the lab of Prof. Yvan Saeys (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) for the analysis and visualization of single-cell data is one of the projects that will receive funding as part of CZI’s Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program.
Artificial intelligence sheds new light on cell developmental dynamics
What happens inside a cell when it is activated, changing, or responding to variations in its environment? Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research have developed a map of how to best model these cellular dynamics. Their work not only highlights the outstanding challenges of tracking cells throughout their growth and lifetime, but also pioneers new ways of evaluating computational biology methods that aim to do this.
VIB research hits bioRxiv’s most downloaded top 10
Every year, Rxivist compiles a list of the most downloaded bioRxiv preprints. The organization has recently put together the list for 2018. And at number 10, we find a paper from the Yvan Saeys group at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research. This is the first time VIB research makes it into the top 10 of this list.
Learning complex patterns with Gaussian processes (New FWO project)
Tom Dhaene (IDLab) - Deep learning models are a common tool to identify complex patterns in data. However, they still requires tens of thousands of training samples. In this project we investigate the use of Bayesian models such as the (deep) Gaussian process for deep learning and generative modeling modeling when data is scarce.
Generative design of linear passive electronic systems (New FWO project)
Tom Dhaene (IDLab) - Generative models are one of the most promising approaches to learn the world around us. In this project we investigate their potential for the design of linear passive electronic systems. Generative models, an unsupervised machine learning technique, are applied to learn the complete design space and to generate interesting valid designs.