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Interact with Earth Observation Images using AI: Transparent Methods and Evaluation for Visual Question Answering

Now is an exciting time for the domain of Earth observation (EO), with a multitude of diverse sensors looking at the planet from satellites, airplanes or drones. The volume of imagery acquired is massive, and hold great potential for a variety of applicati ...

EPFL2025

DEMO: Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for the restoration of facial movements

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Simon Holzer, Andres Osorio Salazar, Marc Michel Charles Favier

Facial paralysis is a highly burdening condition, resulting in a patient's inability to move his musculature on one or both sides of the mouth. The restoration of facial movement is crucial for enhancing the overall patients' quality of life. The use of DE ...

SPIE2025

Mspo: a Machine Learning Hyperparameter Optimization Method for Enhanced Breast Cancer Image Classification

Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh

As one of the major threats to women's health worldwide, breast cancer requires early diagnosis and accurate classification, since they are key to optimizing therapeutic interventions and ensuring precise prognosis. Recently, deep learning has demonstrated ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2025

A Closer Look at Benchmarking Self-supervised Pre-training with Image Classification

Fernando Perez Cruz

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data's inherent structure or context by solving a pretext task. With ...

SPRINGER2025

Eflop: a Sparsity-aware Metric for Evaluating Computational Cost in Spiking and Non-spiking Neural Networks

Liza Carol Andrea Dunbar

Deploying energy-efficient deep neural networks on energy-constrained edge devices is an important research topic in both machine learning and circuit design communities. Both artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Probing the latent hierarchical structure of data via diffusion models

Noam Itzhak Levi, Alessandro Favero, Antonio Sclocchi

High-dimensional data must be highly structured to be learnable. Although the compositional and hierarchical nature of data is often put forward to explain learnability, quantitative measurements establishing these properties are scarce. Likewise, accessin ...

2025

Fifty Shades of Vision: How Does Spatiotemporal Context Influence Perception?

Ayberk Ozkirli

This thesis investigates how spatiotemporal context influences visual perception, critically evaluating two dominant frameworks in vision science: traditional feedforward and Bayesian integration models. Traditional models propose that perception is constr ...

EPFL2025

A phase transition between positional and semantic learning in a solvable model of dot-product attention

Lenka Zdeborová, Florent Gérard Krzakala, Hugo Chao Cui, Freya Behrens

Many empirical studies have provided evidence for the emergence of algorithmic mechanisms (abilities) in the learning of language models, that lead to qualitative improvements in the model capabilities. Yet, a theoretical characterization of how such mecha ...

2025

Improving the accuracy and interpretability of neural networks for wind power forecasting

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are receiving increasing attention in wind power forecasting due to their ability to effectively capture complex patterns in wind data. However, their forecast errors are severely limited by the local optimal weight issue in opt ...

2025

Self-supervised and few-shot learning for robust bioaerosol monitoring

Sophie Catherine Erb

Real-time bioaerosol monitoring is improving the quality of life for people affected by allergies, but it often relies on deep learning models which pose challenges for widespread adoption. These models are typically trained in a supervised fashion and req ...

2025

Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus

Emanuela De Falco

Neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus are classically thought to encode a person’s identity invariant to visual features. However, it remains largely unknown how visual information from higher visual cortical areas is translated into such a semanti ...

2025

Posterior-Based Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Features for Sign Language Assessment

Neha Tarigopula

Sign Language conveys information through multiple channels composed of manual (handshape, hand movement) and non-manual (facial expression, mouthing, body posture) components. Sign language assessment involves giving granular feedback to a learner, in ter ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

A Human-Centric Approach to Explainable AI for Personalized Education

Vinitra Swamy

Deep neural networks form the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) research, with potential to transform the human experience in areas ranging from autonomous driving to personal assistants, healthcare to education. However, their integration into the ...

EPFL2025

ChildPlay-Hand: A Dataset of Hand Manipulations in the Wild

Jean-Marc Odobez, Samy Tafasca, Arya Farkhondeh

Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) is gaining significant attention, particularly with the creation of numerous egocentric datasets driven by AR/VR applications. However, third-person view HOI has received less attention, especially in terms of datasets. Most t ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Using Virtual Reality to Improve Prosthetic Vision in Daily Life

Sandrine Brikh

Blindness remains one of the most impairing disabilities worldwide, profoundly affecting independence, social participation, and quality of life. While assistive technologies offer partial support, they do not restore visual function. Retinal prostheses re ...

EPFL2025

Cultural big data: nineteenth to twenty-first century panoramic visualization

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Daniel Norbert Jaquet, Tsz Kin Chau, Lillian Hibberd

From the nineteenth-century panorama to the emergence of the digital panoramic format in the 's, the visualization of large images frequently relies on panoramic viewing strategies. Originally rendered in the form of epic painted canvases, these strategies ...

2024

Sequential CNN-based Enhancement of Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging for Sparse Arrays

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Roser Vinals Terres

With the emergence of ultra-portable ultrasound systems, the need to reduce cost and complexity of ultrasound systems has intensified. Sparse arrays, employing fewer transducer elements to acquire images, offer a viable solution by effectively minimizing d ...

European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2024

RAPNet: Resolution-Adaptive and Predictive Early Exit Network for Efficient Image Recognition

Yung-Cheng Chiang

Deploying compute-intensive deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained end devices has become a prominent trend, enabling localized intelligence. However, efficiently deploying these DNNs at scale poses challenges. To address this, extensive resea ...

2024

Self-supervised air quality estimation with graph neural network assistance and attention enhancement

Thanh Trung Huynh

The rapid progress of industrial development, urbanization, and traffic has caused air quality degradation that negatively affects human health and environmental sustainability, especially in developed countries. However, due to the limited number of senso ...

2024

Template Inversion Attack Using Synthetic Face Images Against Real Face Recognition Systems

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

In this paper, we use synthetic data and propose a new method for template inversion attacks against face recognition systems. We use synthetic data to train a face reconstruction model to generate high-resolution (i.e., 1024 x 1024) face images from facia ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2024