The ever-increasing demand for high-throughput links for datacenters applications forces module suppliers to develop optical transceivers that operate at higher bit rates. TeraXion is currently developing such transceivers in a silicon photonic chip for 100G/400G datacom applications. Among other components, the silicon photonic chip will comprise several modulators, necessary to encode the information into the […]

Future broadband cellular systems will require very high throughput data transmission to satisfy ever increasing demands of mobile users for high speed multimedia services. Using innovative approaches to multiantenna transmission/reception and to cooperation of network nodes the achievable data rates can be greatly increased. Two significant obstacles to achieving very high data rates are interference […]

The increased utilization of HVdc technology around the world has created the need for evaluating the reliability of power systems that contains HVdc facilities. For example, if the generation system is remote and it is connected to the load centre through HVdc links, the transmission may have a significant impact on the overall system reliability […]

The need for more and more data rates is significantly increasing due to the newly introduced wireless/mobile applications and services. Traditional modulation schemes cannot provide satisfactory long-term solution to this problem. That said, non-traditional modulation (spiral-based modulation) comes into play as a strong candidate to solve the increasing data rate requirements problem. Spiral-based modulation exploits […]

Develop an intelligent monitoring system for occupants within a closed environment. The following short and long term objectives are designed to allow this program to achieve its overarching objective of accurate and consistent identification of the state of well-being of an individual within a closed environment. Short term objectives: 1. Develop algorithms for integrating data […]

In today’s Big Data era, scientists and businesses owners strive to find accurate real time insights from a large size of various types of data moving at high speed, which has an effect on the human lifestyle and the enterprises productiveness. Advances in Internet and web technologies allow organizations to gather petabytes of structured or […]

The work here will investigate the use of quad rotors for pipeline inspection. Using simple quad rotors, the students will build software to have robots fly along pipeline infrastructure to build a visual model of the pipeline. The work will involve writing software (using ROS – Robot Operating System and Python).

The exponential increase in social media textual data creates enormous challenges to read and interpret text. Twitter has grown from delivering 65 million tweets per day to over 200 million in 1 year. Facebook has 800 million users (each with ~130 friends). Over half the users visit Facebook daily. Of active Internet users, 77% read […]

It has been shown in the past, that the combination infrared and visible images improves at short and long distance the detection and segmentation of people, which are the main object of interest in visual surveillance. Indeed, people in visible imagery can be hard to detect when the color contrast with background is low and […]

Ultrasound imaging is an ideal tool for studying the tongue motions involved in speech as it provides very rich information while being relatively inexpensive and non invasive. Its use has thus become widespread among speech scientists. The analysis of ultrasound video sequences of the moving tongue poses a number of challenges pertaining to the reliable […]

RFIC PA (RF Integrated Circuit Power Amplifier) designers often face the difficult challenge of bridging the gap between simulation data and experimental results, which negatively impacts the design convergence and time-to-market considerations during the development of complex amplifier structures. This is particularly severe when dealing with nonlinear circuit techniques during the practical development phase. Design […]

Research on fluid simulation is ongoing at the Multimedia Lab of ÉTS, currently focusing on SPH liquid simulation. Fluid simulation requires lengthy computation times and should allow some artistic control. Parallel computation approaches are promising for reducing the computation times. Examples of such approaches include the works of Zhang et al. [Y Zhang, B Solenthaler, […]