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Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika

Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...

2024

Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

Film for territorial and sensory investigations (Panel)

Denise Bertschi, Charles Heller

An ever-increasing number of films direct their focus towards the contested nature of architecture, housing, and urban redevelopment in cities. This is evidenced by the increasing popularity of film festivals dealing with the specific topic of architecture ...

2022

Warping-Inclusive Kinematic Coupling in Mixed-Dimension Macro Models for Steel Wide Flange Beam Columns

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A warping-inclusive kinematic coupling method to be used in finite-element analysis of members featuring wide-flange cross sections is proposed in this paper. This coupling method is used in mixed-dimension macromodels that combine continuum and beam-colum ...

2022

Estimating Image Depth in the Comics Domain

Sabine Süsstrunk, Mathieu Salzmann, Martin Nicolas Everaert, Deblina Bhattacharjee

Estimating the depth of comics images is challenging as such images a) are monocular; b) lack ground-truth depth annotations; c) differ across different artistic styles; d) are sparse and noisy. We thus, use an off-the-shelf unsupervised image to image tra ...

2021

Large-Scale Crowdsourcing Subjective Quality Evaluation of Learning-Based Image Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

Learning-based image codecs produce different compression artifacts, when compared to the blocking and blurring degradation introduced by conventional image codecs, such as JPEG, JPEG~2000 and HEIC. In this paper, a crowdsourcing based subjective quality e ...

IEEE2021

Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós, Rémi Jaligot

The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up response to the larger problem of a demand that is not sufficiently met by public services. Transcending the debates regarding the relevance of this solutio ...

2019

FUNSD: A Dataset for Form Understanding in Noisy Scanned Documents

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Guillaume Jaume

We present a new dataset for form understanding in noisy scanned documents (FUNSD) that aims at extracting and structuring the textual content of forms. The dataset comprises 199 real, fully annotated, scanned forms. The documents are noisy and vary widely ...

IEEE2019

The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim

This report describes a publicly available dataset of harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets together with a new annotation scheme. ...

2018

“Baufeld”. Au nom du feu. Une caserne de pompiers pour Leytron (VS)

Alyssa Antonuccio

L'architecture suisse puise sa force dans une approche où les questions de tradition, référence, contexte et matériau sont au cœur des préoccupations afin de dépasser une dimension contemplative au profit d'une fascination pour des questions de présence ph ...

2017

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