Publications associées à BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Structured and tiled-based pruning of Deep Learning models targeting FPGA implementations

Alexandre Schmid, Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin

Model compression techniques have lead to a reduction of size and number of computations of Deep Learning models. However, techniques such as pruning mostly lack of a real co-optimization with hardware platforms. For instance, implementing unstructured pru ...

IEEE2022

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Predicting learners' effortful behaviour in adaptive assessment using multimodal data

Kshitij Sharma, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Many factors influence learners' performance on an activity beyond the knowledge required. Learners' on-task effort has been acknowledged for strongly relating to their educational outcomes, reflecting how actively they are engaged in that activity. Howeve ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Thread-Placement Learning

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasileios Trigonakis, Karolos Antoniadis

In a non-uniform memory access machine, the placement of software threads to hardware cores can have a significant effect on the performance of concurrent applications. Detecting the best possible placement for each application is a necessity for thread sc ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet, Eric Bezzam

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

Analysis of photosensor frontends for biomedical applications: a focus on noise

Paul Stanislas Gosselin

Photosensing has proven to be highly useful in biomedical research and medical care. Being able to detect and quantify the light emitted by fluorescent or bioluminescent reporters has significantly participated in the development of new cancer treatments a ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Workload Colocation in Modern Data Centers

Calin Iorgulescu

Despite the high costs of acquisition and maintenance of modern data centers, machine resource utilization is often low. Servers running online interactive services are over-provisioned to support peak load (which only occurs for a fraction of the time), d ...

EPFL2019

[Re] Meta learning with differentiable closed-form solvers

Matthias Grossglauser, Sylvain Chatel, Arnout Jan J Devos

In this work, we present a reproduction of the paper of Bertinetto et al. ”Meta- learning with differentiable closed-form solvers” as part of the ICLR 2019 Reproducibility Challenge. In successfully reproducing the most crucial part of the paper, we reach ...

2019

Inquiry-Based Learning with RoboGen: An Open-Source Software and Hardware Platform for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Dario Floreano, Alice Ghislaine Concordel, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Joshua Evan Auerbach

It has often been found that students appreciate hands-on work, and find that they learn more with courses that include a project than those relying solely on conventional lectures and tests. This type of project driven learning is a key component of “Inqu ...

2019

A Sensor Network Architecture for Digital SiPM-Based PET Systems

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia

Digital silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) have emerged in the recent past as a viable low cost alternative to photomultiplier tubes in positron emission tomography systems, providing multiple timestamps, energy and scintillation coordinates at high spatial ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Pyramic: Full Stack Open Microphone Array Architecture And Dataset

René Beuchat, Robin Scheibler, Corentin Ferry

In this paper we introduce an open source and reproducible microphone array hardware design and an anechoic dataset recorded with this array. The Pyramic array has 48 microphones spread onto six identical modules connected to an FPGA-ARM combo. The arrange ...

IEEE2018

Spatial: A Language and Compiler for Application Accelerators

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Industry is increasingly turning to reconfigurable architectures like FPGAs and CGRAs for improved performance and energy efficiency. Unfortunately, adoption of these architectures has been limited by their programming models. HDLs lack abstractions for pr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Open Source Is A-Changin': How Qualitative Research Can Help Us Adapt

Heather Christine Klug

In the past five years, industry has overwhelmingly turned to open source as a primary means to build products and services atop of, with around 80% of surveyed companies acknowledging that they run on open source. 66% of companies say they would first c ...

2018

Novel Low Complexity Biomedical Signal Processing Techniques for Online Applications

Sasan Yazdani

Biomedical signal processing has become a very active domain of research nowadays. With the advent of portable monitoring devices, from accelerometer-enabled bracelets and smart-phones to more advanced vital sign tracking body area networks, this field has ...

EPFL2018

Hardware And Software For Reproducible Research In Audio Array Signal Processing

René Beuchat, Paul Hurley, Robin Scheibler, Hanjie Pan, Sepand Kashani, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Eric Bezzam, Basile Gérard Pierre Bruneau, Corentin Ferry

In our demo, we present two hardware platforms for prototyping audio array signal processing. Pyramic is a 48-channel microphone array fitted on an FPGA and Compact Six is a portable microphone array with six microphones, closer to the technical constraint ...

Ieee2017

Approximate FPGA Implementation of CORDIC for Tactile Data Processing using Speculative Adders

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus

In most robotic and biomedical applications, the interest for real-time embedded systems with tactile ability has been growing. For example in prosthetics, a dedicated portable system is needed for developing wearable devices. The main challenges for such ...

2017

Bringing robotics into formal education using the Thymio open source hardware robot

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Philippe Rétornaz, Manon Aline Briod, Léa Marie Pereyre

Mobile robots are valuable tools for education because of both the enthusiasm they raise and the multidisciplinary nature of robotics technology. Mobile robots give access to a wide range of fields, such as complex mechanics, sensors, wireless transmission ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

DCT Learning-Based Hardware Design for Neural Signal Acquisition Systems

Yusuf Leblebici, Volkan Cevher, Cosimo Aprile, Luca Baldassarre

This work presents an area and power efficient encoding system for wireless implantable devices capable of monitoring the electrical activity of the brain. Such devices are becoming an important tool for understanding, real-time monitoring, and potentially ...

2017

Axo: Tolerating Delay Faults in Real-Time Systems

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Simon Bliudze, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, Wajeb Saab

We address delay faults: faults that cause a software component to take more time for completing an action than a given deadline. Such faults are particularly of interest in real- time mission-critical control applications that use general-purpose computin ...

2016