Bachelor, Master and Doctoral School Projects

An active research field is the prediction of physics mechanisms degrading plasma confinement and performance, eventually leading to disruptions on Tokamaks. Disruptions are the ultimate consequence of highly coupled non-linear plasma physics processes, resulting in an abrupt loss of plasma current and confinement inducing huge electromagnetic forces and thermal loads on Plasma Facing Components and (…)

As in many areas of computer vision, deep networks now deliver state-of-the-art results for delineation tasks, such as finding axons and dendrites in 3D light microscopy images. Most of the existing approaches rely on convolutional networks to extract from images binary masks denoting which voxels belong to neurites and which do not. Unfortunately, they do (…)

Fig 1: Common mistakes made by U-Net (inside orange squares)Current state-of-the art volumetric image segmentation approaches achieve impressive performances. But still, they are not 100% correct and make mistakes as you can see in Figure 1. Therefore we would like to know when a network makes a mistake, so that a human or another model (…)

While modeling people wearing tight-fitting clothes is fast becoming a mature field, handling subjects wearing looser garments remains an open problem when it is to be done in everyday settings where people may hide each other, precise outlines are hard to estimate, and shadows often complicate matters. Our goal is therefore to develop robust and (…)

Many practical continuous minimization problems, such as aerodynamic optimization, are not amenable to gradient-based optimization methods because derivatives cannot be computed directly. We recently showed that it is possible to train a Neural Network regressor as a proxy to the numerical simulator and optimize the proxy function via Gradient-Descent. [ICML 2018 Paper]. For example, we (…)

DescriptionDifferent visual tasks are often strongly and obviously correlated. For instance, having surface normals simplifies estimating the depth of an image, knowing segmentation could help detect objects, etc. Our intuition implies the existence of a special structure among visual tasks. Extracting this structure would allow us to seamlessly reuse supervision among related tasks or solve (…)

With the rise of self-management for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, people tend to exercise alone and without supervision. However it is dangerous to attempt these exercises without feedback, as it can be difficult to realize when one is performing the exercise incorrectly. This could lead to further injury. Therefore our goal is to design a (…)

This semester project is part of a larger project to build the next generation vision for UAVs, enabling computer vision solutions on drones.For B.Sc. students: your project’s contribution is data centric, between data acquisition using our UAV setup, processing, and analysis. By the end of the semester, your learning outcomes would be acquaintance with drone (…)

Supervised approaches to 3D pose estimation from single images are remarkably effective when labeled data is abundant. Therefore, much of the recent attention has shifted towards semi and (or) weakly supervised learning. Generating an effective form of supervision with little annotations still poses major challenges in crowded scenes. However, since it is easy to observe (…)