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How to minimize the annotation effort in aerial wildlife surveys

Devis Tuia, Emanuele Dalsasso, Giacomo Günter May

Aircraft-based monitoring of wildlife is a popular way among conservation practitioners to obtain animal population counts over large areas. Nowadays, these aerial censuses are becoming increasingly scalable due to the advent of drone technology, which is ...

2025

Generative models for synthetic data generation: application to pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic data

Yulun Jiang

The generation of synthetic patient data that reflect the statistical properties of real data plays a fundamental role in today’s world because of its potential to (i) be enable proprietary data access for statistical and research purposes and (ii) increas ...

2024

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira

Subcortical brain structures such as the basal ganglia or the thalamus are involved in regulating motor and cognitive behavior. However, their contribution to perceptual consciousness is still unclear, due to the inherent difficulties of recording subcorti ...

2024

Probing the effects of broken symmetries in machine learning

Michele Ceriotti, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Marcel Florin Langer

Symmetry is one of the most central concepts in physics, and it is no surprise that it has also been widely adopted as an inductive bias for machine-learning models applied to the physical sciences. This is especially true for models targeting the properti ...

2024

Robust Training and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

Fabian Ricardo Latorre Gomez

According to the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act by the European Comission (expected to pass at the end of 2023), the class of High-Risk AI Systems (Title III) comprises several important applications of Deep Learning like autonomous driving vehicles ...

EPFL2023

The PAU Survey and Euclid: Improving broadband photometric redshifts with multi-task learning star

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan

Current and future imaging surveys require photometric redshifts (photo-zs) to be estimated for millions of galaxies. Improving the photo-z quality is a major challenge but is needed to advance our understanding of cosmology. In this paper we explore how t ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Bodily self-consciousness as a framework to link sensory information and self-related components of episodic memory: behavioral, neuroimaging, and clinical evidence

Nathalie Heidi Meyer

The recollection of sensory information and subjective experience related to a personal past event depends on our episodic memory (EM). At the neural level, EM retrieval is linked with the reinstatement of hippocampal activity thought to recollect the sens ...

EPFL2023

Automated image-based generation of finite element models for masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Radhakrishna Achanta, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero

To predict the response of masonry buildings to various types of loads, engineers use finite element models, specifically solid-element and macro-element models. For predicting masonry responses to seismic events in particular, equivalent frame models-a su ...

SPRINGER2023

Multi-focal Stimulation of the Cortico-cerebellar Loop During the Acquisition of a Novel Hand Motor Skill in Chronic Stroke Survivors

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Philipp Johannes Koch, Manon Chloé Durand-Ruel, Laurijn Rianne Draaisma

Impairment of hand motor function is a frequent consequence after a stroke and strongly determines the ability to regain a self-determined life. An influential research strategy for improving motor deficits is the combined application of behavioral trainin ...

2023

Rituals of art and science to decompart(mentalize) knowledge

Bruno Herbelin

We here explore the potential of rituals in order to more fully comprehend the subjective mechanisms of listening, leading to a broader understanding of phenomenal consciousness (why and how do I know that I am experiencing something?). The originality of ...

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and ISEA lnternational2022

STATNet: Spatial-temporal attention in the traffic prediction

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

Recent traffic flow prediction methods are lacking abilities to determine predictive features. Thus, they will propagate the error in the next timestamps. In this paper, first, we assess the role of spatial and temporal features on the traffic speed predic ...

2022

Hyperactivity of the default mode network in schizophrenia and free energy: A dialogue between Freudian theory of psychosis and neuroscience

Pierre Magistretti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet

The economic conceptualization of Freudian metapsychology, based on an energetics model of the psyche's workings, offers remarkable commonalities with some recent discoveries in neuroscience, notably in the field of neuroenergetics. The pattern of cerebral ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

PCLs: Geometry-aware Neural Reconstruction of 3D Pose with Perspective Crop Layers

Mathieu Salzmann, Helge Jochen Rhodin

Local processing is an essential feature of CNNs and other neural network architectures - it is one of the reasons why they work so well on images where relevant information is, to a large extent, local. However, perspective effects stemming from the proje ...

2021

A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness

Adrien Christophe Doerig

Local theories of consciousness state that one is conscious of a feature if it is adequately represented and processed in sensory brain areas, given some background conditions. We challenge the core prediction of local theories based on long-lasting postdi ...

2021

A guideline for linking brain wave findings to the various aspects of discrete perception

Michael Herzog, Lukas Vogelsang, Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Brain waves, determined by electrical and magnetic brain recordings (e.g., EEG and MEG), and fluctuating behavioral responses, determined by response time or accuracy measures, are frequently taken to support discrete perception. For example, it has been p ...

2021

The perspectives of mapping and monitoring of the sense of self in neurosurgical patients

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka, Hyeongdong Park, Pavo Orepic, Sixto Luis Alcoba Banqueri

Surgical treatment of tumors, epileptic foci or of vascular origin, requires a detailed individual pre-surgical workup and intra-operative surveillance of brain functions to minimize the risk of post-surgical neurological deficits and decline of quality of ...

SPRINGER WIEN2021

Coupling Inner and Outer Body for Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Hyeongdong Park

Although recent studies on self-consciousness emphasized the importance of bodily processing and multisensory integration, such research has focused solely on bodily signals originating from the outside of the body (i.e., exteroceptive bodily signals) or i ...

2019

Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring

Wenwen Chang, Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira

A fundamental scientific question concerns the neural basis of perceptual consciousness and perceptual monitoring resulting from the processing of sensory events. Although recent studies identified neurons reflecting stimulus visibility, their functional r ...

Nature Research2021

Heartbeat-evoked cortical responses: Underlying mechanisms, functional roles, and methodological considerations

Olaf Blanke, Hyeongdong Park

The heart continuously and cyclically communicates with the brain. Beyond homeostatic regulation and sensing, recent neuroscience research has started to shed light on brain-heart interactions in diverse cognitive and emotional processes. In particular, ne ...

2019

Context-Aware Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Neural Networks

Mohammad Saeed Rad

Image super-resolution is a classic ill-posed computer vision and image processing problem, addressing the question of how to reconstruct a high-resolution image from its low-resolution counterpart. Current state-of-the-art methods have improved the perfor ...

EPFL2021