Publications associées à Citizen Visual Search Engine: Detection and Curation of Urban Objects

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Reconstructing illusory camouflage patterns on moth wings using computer vision

Monocular depth cues, such as shading, are fundamental for resolving three-dimensional information, such as an object's shape. Animal colour patterns may potentially exploit this mechanism of depth perception, generating false illusions for functions such ...

2025

Learning transferable land cover semantics for open vocabulary interactions with remote sensing images

Devis Tuia, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro, Valérie Zermatten

Why should we confine land cover classes to rigid and arbitrary definitions? Land cover mapping is a central task in remote sensing image processing, but the rigorous class definitions can sometimes restrict the transferability of annotations between datas ...

2025

Intelligent and Self-Driving Microscopy of Protein Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's, afflict tens of millions of patients worldwide. They are characterized by protein aggregation and progressive neuronal loss, leading to cognitive and motor impairments, and ult ...

EPFL2025

Robust and Personalized Federated Learning: Handling Data Corruption and Heterogeneity

Ljubomir Rokvic

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative paradigm in machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices while preserving data privacy. However, FL's success is highly contingent on the quality and integrity ...

EPFL2025

Deep learning approach for identification of Hii regions during reionization in 21-cm observations – III. image recovery

Michele Bianco, Tianyue Chen, Shreyam Parth Krishna

The low-frequency component of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKA-Low) will be sensitive enough to construct 3D tomographic images of the 21-cm signal distribution during reionization. However, foreground contamination poses challenges fo ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2025

Adaptive Interface-Pinns (Adai-Pinns) for Transient Diffusion: Applications to Forward and Inverse Problems in Heterogeneous Media

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

We model transient diffusion in heterogeneous materials using a novel physics-informed neural networks framework (PINNs) termed Adaptive interface physics-informed neural networks or AdaI-PINNs (Roy et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04626, 2024). AdaI-PINNs ...

Elsevier BV2025

Materials science experiments by robotic automation

Vincenzo Scamarcio

The increasing demand for precision, reproducibility, and scalability in scientific research has driven the development of advanced robotic systems for laboratory automation. This thesis presents the design, implementation, and validation of a mobile robot ...

EPFL2024

Constrained Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search on Small Classification Dataset

Liza Carol Andrea Dunbar

The rapid evolution of Deep Learning (DL) has brought about significant transformations across scientific domains, marked by the development of increasingly intricate models demanding powerful GPU platforms. However, edge applications like wearables and mo ...

IEEE2024

Distributed Machine Learning Targeting Embedded Systems for Epilepsy Detection

Saleh Baghersalimi

Epileptic seizure detection and monitoring is critical in healthcare, particularly for individuals requiring continuous oversight. Current methods, primarily based on electroencephalogram (EEG) technologies, face limitations due to their complexity in term ...

EPFL2024

Using machine learning to generate an open-access cropland map from satellite images time series in the Indian Himalayan region

Danya Li

Crop maps are crucial for agricultural monitoring and food management and can additionally support domain-specific applications, such as setting cold supply chain infrastructure in developing countries. Machine learning (ML) models, combined with freely-av ...

Elsevier2023

Bridging Discrete Choice Modeling and Neural Networks: Unifying Statistical Rigor and Predictive Power

Brian Alan Tappy-Sifringer

This thesis explores the innovative integration of Discrete Choice Modeling (DCM) and Machine Learning (ML), specifically Neural Networks (NN), within the transportation sector. DCM, with its highly interpretable and hand-designed models grounded in robust ...

EPFL2024

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

Alireza Amirshahi, Saleh Baghersalimi

The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Quantum Variational Algorithms: Exploring Applications and Potentials Amid Trainability and Classical Simulability Limitations

Su Yeon Chang

Since its proposal, quantum computing has made significant strides in various domains. Among the different emerging techniques, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have become one of the most promising approaches in the current era, where quantum computa ...

EPFL2024

Classification of Tropical Deforestation Drivers with Machine Learning and Satellite Image Time Series

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Jan Pisl

Tropical deforestation is a major environmental problem with severe consequences such as carbon emissions or biodiversity loss. While much research focuses on monitoring and mapping deforestation, less attention is paid to understanding the various reasons ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Epidemicity indices and reproduction numbers from infectious disease data in connected human populations

Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Cristiano Trevisin

We focus on distinctive data-driven measures of the fate of ongoing epidemics. The relevance of our pursuit is suggested by recent results proving that the short-term temporal evolution of infection spread is described by an epidemicity index related to th ...

2024

Metabolic influence of core ciliates within the rumen microbiome

Ianina Altshuler

Protozoa comprise a major fraction of the microbial biomass in the rumen microbiome, of which the entodiniomorphs (order: Entodiniomorphida) and holotrichs (order: Vestibuliferida) are consistently observed to be dominant across a diverse genetic and geogr ...

2023

Multi-temporal forest monitoring in the Swiss Alps with knowledge-guided deep learning

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Thiên-Anh Claris Nguyen, Gaston Jean Lenczner

Monitoring forests, in particular their response to climate and land use change, requires studying long time scales. While efficient deep learning methods have been developed to process short time series of satellite imagery, leveraging long time series of ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

Steffen Schneider

Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

Toward data-driven materials design: From atoms to pilot plants

Kevin Maik Jablonka

Discovering new materials is essential but challenging, time-consuming, and expensive. In many cases, simulations can be useful for estimating material properties. For many of the most interesting properties, however, simulations are infeasible because of ...

EPFL2023

Stay close, but not too close: aerial image analysis reveals patterns of social distancing in seal colonies

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

Many species aggregate in dense colonies. Species-specific spatial patterns provide clues about how colonies are shaped by various (a)biotic factors, including predation, temperature regulation or disease transmission. Using aerial imagery, we examined the ...

2023