Concept

Public utility

Related publications (78)

Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition

This paper presents the first Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition (KBOC) organized to establish a reproducible baseline in person authentication using keystroke biometrics. The competition has been developed using the BEAT platform and includes one of ...

2016

Towards optimal design of solar assisted industrial processes: Case study of a dairy

François Maréchal, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Régis Voillat

Pinch analysis is a valuable tool for industrial process integration and optimization. Based on heat cascading and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) the optimal utility system can be found, includ- ing traditional heat sources (burners, boilers) and ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Heterogeneous Face Recognition using Inter-Session Variability Modelling

Sébastien Marcel, Tiago De Freitas Pereira

The task of Heterogeneous Face Recognition consists in to match face images that were sensed in different modalities, such as sketches to photographs, thermal images to photographs or near infrared to photographs. In this preliminary work we introduce a no ...

IEEE2016

Simulation of energy recovery on water utility networks by a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Loïc Andolfatto, Vlad Hasmatuchi

Wherever relief valves and other energy dissipation devices are installed to limit the pressure, water utility networks provide unexploited hydropower potentials. This is mainly due to a lack of economically viable technologies for energy recovery in the p ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Learning Multimodal Temporal Representation for Dubbing Detection in Broadcast Media

Jean-Marc Odobez

Person discovery in the absence of prior identity knowledge requires accurate association of visual and auditory cues. In broadcast data, multimodal analysis faces additional challenges due to narrated voices over muted scenes or dubbing in different langu ...

ACM2016

Governing Energy Transitions: Transition Goals in the Swiss Energy Sector

Matthias Finger, Reinier Verhoog

European countries are currently committing to energy transitions so as to make the supply of electricity more sustainable. In this chapter we present our theoretical extension of a transition framework with the concepts of power, agency and politics in or ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Drivers for and against municipal wastewater recycling: a review

Janet Gordon Hering

The reclamation, treatment and reuse of municipal wastewater can provide important environmental benefits. In this paper, 25 studies on this topic were reviewed and it was found that there are many (> 150) different drivers acting for and against wastewate ...

IWA Publishing2016

Analytical hill chart towards the maximisation of energy recovery on water utility networks with counter rotating micro-turbine

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Loïc Andolfatto, João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Existing water utility networks provides a wide, distributed and unexploited hydropower potential. The installation of energy recovery stations on existing infrastructures limits both the required investment and the environmental impact. The counter-rotati ...

2015

Framework for the Multi-period Sequential Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with selection, design and scheduling of Multiple Utilities

François Maréchal, Alberto Mian, Emanuele Martelli

A novel sequential approach is proposed for the multiperiod synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) and Utility Systems of chemical processes and energy systems. The framework can be used also for single period problems. Given the set of hot and cold pr ...

American Chemical Society2015

Multi-period analysis of heat integration measures in industrial clusters

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Roman Hackl

TSA (total site analysis) has shown to be an efficient tool for identifying heat integration measures in industrial clusters, leading to the optimal design of utility systems and energy bill reduction. In order to justify investments, any proposed utility ...

2015

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.