The mobile telecommunications landscape has evolved into a highly competitive and complex ecosystem composed of network operators, mobile device manufacturers as well as software, content and service providers. This major shift has strongly impacted the fundamental nature of mobile devices which have now become complex multi-purpose, multi-context ubiquitous media systems. Such change has engen...

The complex multi-purpose, multi-product character of batch manufacturing plants implies a major need to integrate information from operational activities in the plant and to gain more insight into the relative importance of every activity with respect to the main objective of the enterprise. At Delft University of Technology a management decision support tool is being developed which aims at a...

Object and scene learning and recognition is a major issue in computer vision, in robotics and in cognitive sciences. This paper presents the principles and results of an approach which extracts structured view-based representations for multi-purpose recognition. The structures are hierarchical and distributed and provide for generalization and categorization. A tracking process enables to bind...

This paper presents a novel method to deal with the challenging task of generating photographic images conditioned on semantic image descriptions. Our method introduces accompanying hierarchical-nested adversarial objectives inside the network hierarchies, which regularize mid-level representations and assist generator training to capture the complex image statistics. We present an extensile si...

This paper introduces an online pedestrian crossing detection system that uses pre-existing traffic-oriented video-sensors which, at regular intervals, provide coarse spatial measurements on areas along a crosswalk. Pedestrian crossing detection is based on the recognition of occupancy patterns induced by pedestrians when they move on the crosswalk. In order to improve the ability of non-dedica...

Research into corpus-based semantics has focused on the development of ad hoc models that treat single tasks, or sets of closely related tasks, as unrelated challenges to be tackled by extracting different kinds of distributional information from the corpus. As an alternative to this “one task, one model” approach, the Distributional Memory framework extracts distributional information once and...

3. Pole” is a musical composition that is performed by a dancer, on a specially designed interface (instrument), based on motion tracking technology. This paper introduces the technical and artistic ideas behind the composition and outlines some of the main conceptual tendencies of my earlier work [8]. Several independent components like choreography, instrument design, sound design, formal con...

Site selection is a crucial part of the work flow for installing seismic stations. Here, we report the preparations for a countrywide temporary seismic network in Austria. We describe the specific requirements for a multi-purpose seismic array with 40 km station spacing that will be operative approximately three years. Reftek 151 60 s sensors and Reftek 130/130S digitizers form the core instrum...

Miniaturization and portability of new electronics lead up to wearable devices embedded within garments: a European program called ProeTEX developed multi-purpose sensors integrated within emergency operators' garments in order to monitor their health state and the surrounding environment. This work deals with the development of an autonomous Long Range communication System (LRS), suitable to t...