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Agent-based simulations have been widely applied in many disciplines, by scientists and engineers alike. Scientists use agent-based simulations to tackle global problems, including alleviating poverty, reducing violence, and predicting the impact of pandem ...

EPFL2023

Efficient Lung Nodule Detection via 3D Deep Learning with Shifted Convolutions

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The high computational costs of deep convolutional neural networks hinder their deployment in real-world applications, including pulmonary nodule detection from CT scans where large 3D image sizes amplify the issue. This paper presents a novel 3D method to ...

IEEE2023

On Succinct Non-interactive Arguments in Relativized Worlds

Alessandro Chiesa

Succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs) are cryptographic proofs with strong efficiency properties. Applications of SNARKs often involve proving computations that include the SNARK verifier, a technique called recursive composition. Unfort ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Reusability report: Predicting spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics in multimode fibre optics with a recurrent neural network

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SPRINGERNATURE2021

Personalizable intervention systems to promote healthy behavior change

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Adopting healthy behaviors can prevent the onset of many adverse health conditions. However, behavior changes are difficult to make, and often, people who like to improve their behaviors do not know how to do that. Personalizable intervention systems could ...

EPFL2020

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Benjamin Pierre Charles Wesolowski

We construct a verifiable delay function (VDF). A VDF is a function whose evaluation requires running a given number of sequential steps, yet the result can be efficiently verified. They have applications in decentralised systems, such as the generation of ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Predicting Users' Motivations behind Location Check-Ins and Utility Implications of Privacy Protection Mechanisms

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic

Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited venues, in the form of tags (e.g., “restaurant”). Such data might reveal some personal information about users beyond what they actually want to disclose, hence their p ...

2015

Three-Dimensional Model and Evaluation of an Insulin Injection Pen for Precise Dose Capacitive Measurement

Catherine Dehollain, Maria-Alexandra Paun, Jean-Baptiste Robert Orhan

A fully parameterized three-dimensional model with specific dimensions has been developed in ANSYS for an insulin injection pen used by diabetic persons. The insulin injection pen has a smart pen cap which hosts four electrodes used for the smart pen cap e ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings

Pascal Fua, Stéphane Magnenat, Tien Dat Ngo

Coloring books capture the imagination of children and provide them with one of their earliest opportunities for creative expression. However, given the proliferation and popularity of digital devices, real-world activities like coloring can seem unexcitin ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

On Multi-Dimensional Privacy in Context-Aware Mobile Networks

Igor Bilogrevic

By the end of 2013, the number of internet-connected mobile devices is expected to exceed that of humans. Omnipresent and context-aware, mobile devices enable people to communicate and exchange data anytime and almost anywhere. The myriad of ”digital footp ...

EPFL2014

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

Population Sensing Using Mobile Devices : a Statistical Opportunity or a Privacy Nightmare?

Farid Movahedi Naini

In our daily lives, our mobile phones sense our movements and interactions via a rich set of embedded sensors such as a GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers, and microphones. This enables us to use mobile phones as agents for collecting spatio-temporal data. The ...

EPFL2014

Technologies for development: From innovation to social impact

Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its ...

Springer International Publishing2018

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014

Characterizations of Two Channel Orderings: Input-Degradedness and the Shannon Ordering

Rajai Nasser

The ordering of communication channels was first introduced by Shannon. In this paper, we aim to find characterizations of two orderings: input-degradedness and the Shannon ordering. A channel W is said to be input-degraded from another channel W' if W can ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Canonical Computation without Canonical Representation

Mathias Soeken, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Ana Petkovska

A representation of a Boolean function is canonical if, given a variable order, only one instance of the representation is possible for the function. A computation is canonical if the result depends only on the Boolean function and a variable order, and do ...

IEEE2018

Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Ehsan Kazemi

Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give away private information, enabling the LBS to track users. We address this probl ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Discovering Interaction Patterns in Online Learning Environments : A Learning Analytics Research

Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The increasing amount of data collected in online learning environments provides unique opportunities to better understand the learning processes in different educational settings. Learning analytics research aims at understanding and optimizing learning a ...

EPFL2018

Mining Conversational Social Video

Joan Isaac Biel Tres

The ubiquity of social media in our daily life, the intense user participation, and the explosion of multimedia content have generated an extraordinary interest from computer and social scientists to investigate the traces left by users to understand human ...

EPFL2013