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The Structure of Free Polyphony

The human ability to perceive and understand music is remarkable. From an unstructured stream of acoustic input it creates a wide range of experiences, from psycho-acoustic effects to emotional and aesthetic responses. One such set of phenomena is the expe ...

EPFL2023

Improving Few-Shot Object Detection with Object Part Proposals

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Arthur Chevalley

Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) allows fast adaptation of an object detection model to new classes of objects using few examples per class. This has many applications, in particular in satellite and aerial observation, as it allows learning from experts w ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

(from) the repertoire : an architectural theory of operations.Oral and embodied knowledge in architectural and spatial practices.

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spatia ...

EPFL2022

Tracing Embodied Narratives of Critical Thinking

Aditi Kothiyal, Shitanshu Mishra

Critical Thinking (CrT) is generally characterized as an abstract thinking process, detached from the (bodily) actions one engages in during the process. Though recent cognitive theories assert that all thinking is action-based, the embodied and distribute ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Altitude: architecture et environnement de haute montagne

Estelle Lépine

At the centre of the research is the preservation of the countryside which is highlighted and studied through an architectural approach which focuses on cabins in the high mountains. The projects must reflect upon territorial, global and sustainable aspect ...

EPFL2016

Cellular Homotopy Excision

Kay Remo Werndli

There is a classical "duality" between homotopy and homology groups in that homotopy groups are compatible with homotopy pullbacks (every homotopy pullback gives rise to a long exact sequence in homotopy), while homology groups are compatible with homotopy ...

EPFL2016

On the Symbiosis of People and Building

Sytse de Maat

Controversies continue to exist between architects and the public about what is a good building. High-style modern architecture is often disliked by the public. Moreover, in everyday life people blame the architect for everything they find impractical in a ...

EPFL2015

Extended Reverse Convex Programming: An Active-Set Approach to Global Optimization

Gene Bunin

Reverse convex programming (RCP) represents an important class of global optimization problems consisting of concave cost and inequality constraint functions. While useful in many practical scenarios due to the frequent appearance of concave models, a more ...

Springer Verlag2013

Dependent Object Types

Martin Odersky, Nada Amin

We propose a new type-theoretic foundation of Scala and languages like it: the Dependent Object Types (DOT) calculus. DOT models Scala’s path-dependent types, abstract type members and its mixture of nominal and structural typing through the use of reﬁneme ...

2012

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