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Lee, Y. (author)E-learning has shifted the traditional learning paradigms in higher education, offering more flexible, ubiquitous, and personalized learning experiences. The previous years COVID-19 pandemic required a re-calibration of education to accommodate virtual learning environments from the traditional classroom-based education. Widespread learning...doctoral thesis 2024
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Lu, C.J. (author)Real-time nonintrusive occupancy estimation can maximize the use of existing sensors to infer occupant information in buildings with the advantages of fewer privacy concerns and fewer extra device costs. Recently, many deep learning architectures have proven effective in estimating occupancy directly from raw sensor data. However, some...journal article 2024
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Martinez Lopez, V.A. (author), van Urk, G.A. (author), Doodkorte, P.J.F. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ziar, H. (author)Clouds moving in front or away from the sun are the leading cause of irradiance variability. These variations have a repercussion on the electricity production of photovoltaic systems. Predicting such changes is essential for proper control of these systems and for maintaining grid stability. Images from the sky have proven to help with short...journal article 2024
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Zhu, Qi (author), Guo, Huadong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Liang, Dong (author), Wu, Zherong (author), de Roda Husman, S. (author), Du, Xiaobing (author)Surface melt plays a vital role in impacting the polar mass balance and global sea level rise. Over the past decades, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has garnered considerable attention due to its capacity to provide high-precision and long-term information. However, the traditional SAR-based large-scale surface melt detection methods...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Xiang (author), Touya, Guillaume (author), Meijers, B.M. (author)Automated map generalization has been a major area of research for decades but has still not reached maturity. Besides the needs for more adaptive algorithms, a fundamental question remains: How can we transfer human generalization knowledge into a computational system more effectively? Previous efforts do not seem capable to fully overcome the ...contribution to periodical 2024
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Martin, H.A. (author), Xu, Haojia (author), Smits, Edsger C.P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This study introduces a training protocol utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (CSAM) imaging techniques to classify Power Quad Flat No-leads (PQFN) package delamination. The investigation involves empty PQFN packages with varied substrate metallizations subjected to thermal cycling. Four...conference paper 2024
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van Nuland, T.D.H. (author)The universal approximation theorem is generalised to uniform convergence on the (noncompact) input space R<sup>n</sup>. All continuous functions that vanish at infinity can be uniformly approximated by neural networks with one hidden layer, for all activation functions φ that are continuous, nonpolynomial, and asymptotically polynomial at ±∞...journal article 2024
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Kashifi, M.T.K. (author)Road traffic crash is a global tragedy that leads to economic loss, injury, and fatalities. Understanding the severity of a road crash at the early stages is vital to timely providing emergency medical services to crash victims. This study developed a crash emergency response management framework that requires basic crash information for...journal article 2024
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Wang, X. (author), Corzo, Gerald (author), Lü, Haishen (author), Zhou, Shiliang (author), Mao, K. (author), Zhu, Yonghua (author), Duarte Prieto, F.S. (author), Liu, Mingwen (author), Su, Jianbin (author)Sub-seasonal drought forecasting is crucial for early warning in estimating agricultural production and optimizing irrigation management, as forecasting skills are relatively weak during this period. Soil moisture exhibits stronger persistence compared to other climate system quantities, which makes it especially influential in shaping land...journal article 2024
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Su, R. (author), van der Sluijs, P.M. (author), Chen, Yuan (author), Cornelissen, Sandra (author), van den Broek, R.B. (author), van Zwam, Wim H. (author), van der Lugt, Aad (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Ruijters, Danny (author), van Walsum, T. (author)Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is a widely used imaging technique in patients with neurovascular disease, allowing for vessel and flow visualization with high spatio-temporal resolution. Automatic artery–vein segmentation in DSA plays a fundamental role in vascular analysis with quantitative biomarker extraction,...journal article 2024
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Paredes-Vallés, Federico (author)In the ever-evolving landscape of robotics, the quest for advanced synthetic machines that seamlessly integrate with human lives and society becomes increasingly paramount. At the heart of this pursuit lies the intrinsic need for these machines to perceive, understand, and navigate their surroundings autonomously. Among the senses, vision...doctoral thesis 2023
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do Lago, Cesar A.F. (author), Giacomoni, Marcio H. (author), Bentivoglio, Roberto (author), Taormina, R. (author), Gomes, Marcus N. (author), Mendiondo, Eduardo M. (author)Two-dimensional hydrodynamic models are computationally expensive. This drawback can limit their application to solving problems requiring real-time predictions or several simulation runs. Although the literature presented improvements in using Deep Learning as an alternative to hydrodynamic models, Artificial Neural Networks applications for...journal article 2023
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Rahmani, S. (author), Baghbani, Asiye (author), Bouguila, Nizar (author), Patterson, Zachary (author)Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively used in a wide variety of domains in recent years. Owing to their power in analyzing graph-structured data, they have become broadly popular in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications as well. Despite their widespread applications in different transportation domains, there is no...journal article 2023
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Ossenkoppele, B.W. (author), Luijten, Ben (author), Bera, Deep (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.A. (author), van Sloun, Ruud J.G. (author)There is an increased desire for miniature ultrasound probes with small apertures to provide volumetric images at high frame rates for in-body applications. Satisfying these increased requirements makes simultaneous achievement of a good lateral resolution a challenge. As micro-beamforming is often employed to reduce data rate and cable count...journal article 2023
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Song, Yang (author), Wang, H. (author), Frøseth, Gunnstein (author), Nåvik, Petter (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Rønnquist, Anders (author)The interaction performance of the pantograph-catenary is of great importance as it directly determines the current collection quality and operational safety of trains. The finite element method (FEM) is dominantly used for simulating pantograph-catenary interaction, which is normally computationally heavy. In this work, addressing the...journal article 2023
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Madadi, B. (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author)This study proposes a hybrid deep-learning-metaheuristic framework with a bi-level architecture for road network design problems (NDPs). We train a graph neural network (GNN) to approximate the solution of the user equilibrium (UE) traffic assignment problem and use inferences made by the trained model to calculate fitness function...journal article 2023
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Glynis, K.G. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Bakker, Martijn (author), Taormina, R. (author)Researchers and engineers employ machine learning (ML) tools to detect pipe bursts and prevent significant non-revenue water losses in water distribution systems (WDS). Nonetheless, many approaches developed so far consider a fixed number of sensors, which requires the ML model redevelopment and collection of sufficient data with the new...journal article 2023
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Cardaioli, Matteo (author), Conti, M. (author), Orazi, Gabriele (author), Tricomi, Pier Paolo (author), Tsudik, Gene (author)Authentication and de-authentication phases should occur at the beginning and end of secure user sessions, respectively. A secure session requires the user to pass the former, but the latter is often underestimated or ignored. Unattended or dangling sessions expose users to well-known Lunchtime Attacks. To mitigate this threat, researchers...journal article 2023
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Esmi, Nima (author), Golshan, Yasaman (author), Asadi, Sara (author), Shahbahrami, A. (author), Gaydadjiev, G. (author)The COVID-19 disease pandemic spread rapidly worldwide and caused extensive human death and financial losses. Therefore, finding accurate, accessible, and inexpensive methods for diagnosing the disease has challenged researchers. To automate the process of diagnosing COVID-19 disease through images, several strategies based on deep learning,...journal article 2023
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Abolfazli, Amir (author), Spiegelberg, Jakob (author), Anand, A. (author), Palmer, Gregory (author)Configurable software systems have become increasingly popular as they enable customized software variants. The main challenge in dealing with configuration problems is that the number of possible configurations grows exponentially as the number of features increases. Therefore, algorithms for testing customized software have to deal with the...conference paper 2023