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Design method for roundwood construction using database of trees

Yves Weinand, Damien Lambert Alain Félicien Gilliard

In today's shift from steel and concrete construction toward bio-based materials such as timber, reliance on forests for construction materials is growing. However, concerns are rising regarding the type and amount of wood our forests will produce in the f ...

CRC Press2025

SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis

Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Shaokai Ye, Steffen Schneider, Jessy Lauer, Tian Qiu, Maxime Michel André Vidal, Anastasiia Filippova

Quantification of behavior is critical in diverse applications from neuroscience, veterinary medicine to animal conservation. A common key step for behavioral analysis is first extracting relevant keypoints on animals, known as pose estimation. However, re ...

Nature Research2024

3D deep learning for enhanced atom probe tomography analysis of nanoscale microstructures

Ye Wei

Quantitative analysis of microstructural features on the nanoscale, including precipitates, local chemical orderings (LCOs) or structural defects (e.g. stacking faults) plays a pivotal role in understanding the mechanical and physical responses of engineer ...

2024

Backbone curve variations on steel building seismic response

Dimitrios Lignos

A 4-story steel moment-frame building designed according to ASCE 7 was used in a numerical parameter study to assess the effects of modeling features on peak drift demands. Features studied included strength, stiffness, ductility, and degradation along wit ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2023

Flexible Sensor and Readout Circuitry for Continuous Ion Sensing in Sweat

Sandro Carrara, Ata Jedari Golparvar, Ali Meimandi

In this letter, we present a custom-designed and flexible readout circuitry for the characterization of flexible and planar electrolyte-gated carbon nanotube field-effect transistor-based biosensors for ammonium detection in sweat. We employed spray-deposi ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

A Machine-Learning Architecture for Sensor Fault Detection, Isolation, and Accommodation in Digital Twins

Hossein Darvishi

Sensor technologies empower Industry 4.0 by enabling integration of in-field and real-time raw data into digital twins (DTs). However, sensors might be unreliable due to inherent issues and/or environmental conditions. This article aims at detecting anomal ...

2023

Walking with shorter stride length could improve knee kinetics of patients with medial knee osteoarthritis

Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

Walking with a shorter stride length (SL) was recently proposed for gait retraining in medial knee osteoarthritis; however it was never assessed in this patient population. This study tested the hypothesis that shortening SL while maintaining walking speed ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Explainable ensemble learning model for predicting steel section-concrete bond strength

Xianlin Wang

This study evaluates the efficiency of an explainable ensemble learning framework in precisely predicting the bond strength between steel sections with different surface treatments and various concrete types. Besides seven numerical features, two categoric ...

2022

Editorial: Integration and optimization in the chemical process industry

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Shivom Sharma

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Automatic Co-Design of Aerial Robots Using a Graph Grammar

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have broad applications including disaster response, transportation, photography, and mapping. A significant bottleneck in the development of UAVs is the limited availability of automatic tools for task-specific co-design of ...

IEEE2022

Borrowing from yourself: Faster future video segmentation with partial channel update

Evann Pierre Guy Courdier

Semantic segmentation is a well-addressed topic in the computer vision literature, but the design of fast and accurate video processing networks remains challenging. In addition, to run on embedded hardware, computer vision models often have to make compro ...

IEEE2022

Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments via Linear Interactive Proofs

Alessandro Chiesa

Succinct non-interactive arguments (SNARGs) enable verifying NP statements with lower complexity than required for classical NP verification. Traditionally, the focus has been on minimizing the length of such arguments; nowadays, researchers have focused a ...

SPRINGER2022

Computational electrophysiology of the coronary sinus branches based on electro-anatomical mapping for the prediction of the latest activated region

Alfio Quarteroni, Fabio Nobile

This work dealt with the assessment of a computational tool to estimate the electrical activation in the left ventricle focusing on the latest electrically activated segment (LEAS) in patients with left bundle branch block and possible myocardial fibrosis. ...

2022

A 1GS/s 6-to-8b 0.5mW/Qubit Cryo-CMOS SAR ADC for Quantum Computing in 40nm CMOS

Edoardo Charbon

IEEE2021

Learning to See and Compute through Multimode Fibers

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Eirini Kakkava, Babak Rahmani, Ugur Tegin, Ilker Oguz, Navid Borhani, Mustafa Yildirim

We propose a computational method for controlling the output of a multimode fiber using machine learning. Arbitrary images can be projected with amplitude-only calibration (no phase measurement) and fidelities on par with conventional full-measurement meth ...

IEEE2021

Thermo-mechanical Noise Measurement of Sealed Nanobeams on a Silicon Photonics-MEMS Platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

The thermal motion of a vacuum packaged, suspended nano-beam and nanophotonic waveguide on a silicon photonics-MEMS platform is measured. The resonance frequency and Q-factor of the observed mechanical modes are determined. We also experimentally estimate ...

IEEE2021

Indirect Estimation of Breathing Rate from Heart Rate Monitoring System during Running

Kamiar Aminian, Jean-Marc Vesin, Anisoara Ionescu, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard, Gaëlle Prigent

Recent advances in wearable technologies integrating multi-modal sensors have enabled the in-field monitoring of several physiological metrics. In sport applications, wearable devices have been widely used to improve performance while minimizing the risk o ...

MDPI2021

Adversarial Confidence Estimation Networks for Robust Stereo Matching

Seungryong Kim

Stereo matching aiming to perceive the 3-D geometry of a scene facilitates numerous computer vision tasks used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Although numerous methods have been proposed for this task by leveraging deep convolutional neural ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Unsupervised Controllable Generation with Self-Training

Grigorios Chrysos

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains an open research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically interpretable and dis ...

IEEE2021

Traffic Signal Prediction on Transportation Networks Using Spatio-Temporal Correlations on Graphs

Pascal Frossard, Nikolaos Geroliminis, Semin Kwak

Multivariate time series forecasting poses challenges as the variables are intertwined in time and space, like in the case of traffic signals. Defining signals on graphs relaxes such complexities by representing the evolution of signals over a space using ...

2021