News Archive

Signal Processing for Communication, the book by Paolo Prandoni and Martin Vetterli, published by EPFL Press, is now available for download in pdf form. (Nov 09)

Florence Bénézit successfully defended her thesis Distributed average consensus for wireless sensor networks. (Nov 09)

Matthew Brown has joined us as a Post Doc. (Nov 09)

Andreas Walther has joined us to do research on extending surround sound to 3D. This includes studies on 3D sound perception and research on production and reproduction of suitable spatial audio content. (Nov 09)

Gigavision project discussed in the New Scientist of Oct. 7 2009. (Oct 09)

Friend of the lab, Vivek Goyal, MIT, is giving a Summer Research Institute talk On Resolution, Sparse Signal Recovery, and Random Access Communication. Wednesday 17 June, BC 01(Jun 09)

Our reproducible research paper in May's IEEE Signal Processing Magazine generated some buzz, like this from MATLAB Central's Steve Eddins. (May 09)

Paolo Prandoni appeared on the February 6, 2009, episode of On The Media, a great radio show distributed by National Public Radio. (Feb 09)

Minh Do, PhD 2001, now an Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received an IEEE SPS 2008 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award for work done during his PhD at EPFL, published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Dec 2005: The Contourlet Transform: An Efficient Directional Multiresolution Image Representation. (Jan 09)

MERL Best Student Paper Award to Clément Fredembach (IVRG) at the IS&T/SID 16th Color Imaging Conference for his paper entitled "Colouring the Near-Infrared", co-authored by Sabine Süsstrunk (Nov 08)

Ivana Jovanovic received the 2008 Fritz Kutter Prize for her thesis: details (Nov 08)

Olivier Roy successfully defended his thesis Distributed signal processing for binaural hearing aids (Oct 08)

Mounir Krichane was granted a MICS Spin fund to continue his work on the SensorScope weather stations with a view to creating his first startup. (Sep 08)

Signal Processing for Communication, the new book by Paolo Prandoni and Martin Vetterli, published by EPFL Press, is available in bookstores and online. (Sep 08)

Ivana Jovanovic's thesis Inverse problems in acoustic tomography : theory and applications published (Jul 08)

Amina Chebira will shortly be joining LCAV as a Post Doc. She will be involved in computational harmonic analysis and imaging applications (Nov 08)

An article about Paolo Prandoni's startup, Quividi, appeared in the New York Times 31.5.08 (May 08)

Francisco Pinto received the Best Student Paper Award, for his paper entitled "Wave Field Coding In The Spacetime Frequency Domain". He presented his work at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008) in Las Vegas, in April 2008. (Apr 08)

Guillermo Barrenetxea and his team explain how they set up weather stations to monitor conditions for the Patrouille des Glaciers in Terre et Nature, 17.4.08. Clipping here, in French (Apr 08)

An article about the lab's work appeared in Le Temps, 18.3.08. Clipping here, in French (Mar 08)

More on the Qualcomm investment in the 24 heures, 14.1.08. Clipping here, in French (Jan 08)

Wireless giant Qualcomm invests in EPFL research. Press release. (Dec 07)

Andrea Ridolfi showed off his intelligent t-shirt in L'Hebdo, 6.12.07. Clipping here (Dec 07)

Dartfish, a spin off of the lab was in the Agefi, 4.12.07. Clipping here (Dec 07)

Environmental monitoring goes high-tech in Switzerland. Press release here. Taken up by www.physorg.com, www.sciencedaily.com, and the NZZ --in German (Nov 07).

Bob Konsbruck won three awards for his Master thesis in Fribourg "Rate Distortion Theory for Physical Processes": Le Prix Vigener de la Faculté des sciences de Fribourg, le Prix Jeunes Chercheurs de la SCNAT, and Le Prix Albert Pfluger décerné par la "Stiftung zur Förderung der mathematischen Wissenschaften in der Schweiz" (Nov 07)

Challenges in Theoretical and Applied Signal Processing: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Launch of Sputnik (Oct 07)

The book "Wavelets and Subband Coding" by Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic is now available online in open access. (Jun 07)

Mihailo Kolundzija won the Landry award for his Master thesis entitled "Microphone processing for sound field measurement". (May 07)

Martin Vetterli and Pina Marziliano won a best paper award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the article "Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation" (co-authored with Thierry Blu). (Apr 07)

At the last ICASSP conference, we have organized a special session on reproducible research (co-organized with M. Barni and F. Perez-Gonzalez). (Apr 07)

The paper "When Physics Meets Sensor Networks," by L. Sbaiz, appeared on the MICS newsletter. (Mar 07)

The courses offered at LCAV for the summer semester 2007 are listed here. (Mar 07)

We are curators for the exhibit We are all Photographers Now! to be shown at Lausanne's photography museum, the Musée de l'Élysee, February 8th - May 20th, 2007. Participate, and upload your images here! (Feb 07)

Christof Faller received the first KPMG Tomorrow's Market Award for his contributions to digital sound engineering, particularly MP3 Surround. (Sep 06)

Ivana Jovanovic won the first prize for most challenging and stimulating presentation in the 13th ISARS conference. She presented her joint paper with Luciano Sbaiz and Martin Vetterli on "Acoustic tomography for estimating temperature and wind flow". (Aug 06)

Patrick Vandewalle won the ICASSP 2006 best student paper award for his paper with Luciano Sbaiz and Martin Vetterli on "Signal Reconstruction from Multiple Unregistered Sets of Samples using Groebner Bases". (Aug 06)

LCAV research of the past year was presented at the I&C Research Day. The activity report and posters are avaible here. (Jun 06)

The Bernoulli Center of EPFL is hosting a program on Wavelets and Applications. The key event, WavE 2006 will take place from July 10-14, 2006 at the EPFL. Leading scientists will give a plenary talk during this international event. (Jun 06)

Christof Faller gets into the news (l'Hebdo, n. 20, May 18, 2006) with his work on MP3 Surround. (May 06)

Seven papers from our lab were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. More information on our publications page. (May 06)

We are looking for an independant, creative, and hands-on CS/EE engineer. Click here for more details. (Mar 06)

On March 30, 2006, Prof. Mohamed Najim gave a talk on "New trends in model-based multidimensional signals". Click here for more details. (Mar 06)

On Nov. 30, 2005, Christof Faller received the prize APLE 2005 for his work on audio processing.(Nov 05)

Christof Faller is part of Red Herring's Cover Story: "Lab Talent".(Nov 05)

Nov. 11, 2005, during the EPFL Research Day, Razvan Cristescu received the prize Chorafas for his Ph.D. thesis entitled Efficient Decentralized Communications in Sensor Networks.(Nov 05)

In 2006, the Bernoulli Center of EPFL is hosting a program on Wavelets and Applications. Prof. Martin Vetterli is one of the organizers, click here for more details.(Oct 05)

The Laboratory for Audiovisual Communications at EPFL: 10 years and going!
To mark the 10th anniversary of LCAV@EPFL, we are having a small seminar series on Friday afternoon July 15th, by various people who have been associated with the lab over the years. Program Schedule is online! (Jul 05)

New doctoral, diploma, and semester projects for Winter 2005/06 are online!(May 05)

Panoramic camera is now online at http://panorama.epfl.ch! (May 05)

The online class in Scientific and Forensic Photography, co-developed by LCAV, gets in the news: Journal en Ligne du Centre Informatique, UniL (in French). This is a joint Swiss Virtual Campus project between EPFL, UniL and University of Basel. (Apr 05)

MP3 Surround has been released to the public on December 2nd. Software and development kit (libraries) are available here. The technology behind MP3 Surround is largely based on C. Faller's PhD thesis. (Dec 04)

New doctoral, diploma, and semester projects for Spring 2005 are online!.(Dec 04)

Matlab toolbox for an auditory model for source localization developed by Christof Faller (LCAV EPFL) and Juha Merimaa (Ruhr Universität Bochum) is available online, click here for more info.

Ph.D. work at LCAV has impact in a forthcoming MPEG audio standard Spatial Audio Coding. The algorithm developed in the scope of C. Faller's Ph.D. thesis was selected as a joint winner together with the Philips/Coding Technologies proposal.Press release here.(Nov 04)

SensorScope, our sensor network testbed, is online! (Nov 04)

The NCCR-MICS Panel Review is on Nov 4-5, and the lab posters are available online (LCAV posters are under IP7). (Nov 04)

Dartfish (a spin-off from LCAV) goes to the Olympics! (Aug 04)
Press Coverage: Business Week, New York Times, Time Magazine.

Binaural Cue Coding (BCC), a multi-channel audio coding technology developed by Agere Systems in the framework of an EPFL Ph.D. thesis carried out at LCAV by Christof Faller makes a splash!! (Apr 04)
Press Coverage: BBC News, New York Times (also appeared in International Herald Tribune) , MacWorld.

No less than 4 papers authored or co-authored by LCAV members are presented at IPSN (3rd Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks) this month in Berkeley, CA! (Apr 04)

First release of NAB (Network in A Box)! (Apr 04)

Last month, five papers from our lab were presented at the SPIE Electronic Imaging conference, San Jose, CA. (Feb 04)

S. Winkler and S. Süsstrunk, Visibility of noise in natural images, to be published in Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV, IS&T/SPIE Vol. 5292, 2004.
L. Meylan and S. Süsstrunk, Bio-inspired image enhancement for natural color images, to be published in Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV, IS&T/SPIE Vol. 5292, 2004 (supplementary material).
P. Vandewalle, S. Süsstrunk, and M. Vetterli, Double resolution from a set of aliased images, to be published in Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004: Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications V, IS&T/SPIE Vol. 5301, 2004.
R. Costantini and S. Süsstrunk, Virtual sensor design, to be published in Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004: Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications V, IS&T/SPIE Vol. 5301, 2004.
S. Süsstrunk and S. Winkler, Color image quality on the internet, Proc. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004: Internet Imaging V, IS&T/SPIE Vol. 5304, pp. 118-131, 2004.