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Intégration énergétique d’un procédé agroalimentaire à l’aide de la plateforme internet PinchLight

Benjamin Laulan

Résumé : Les procédés agroalimentaires sont des procédés industriels consommateurs de grandes quantités d’énergie, aussi bien de refroidissement que de chauffage. Il est donc intéressant d’optimiser cette consommation. L’analyse pinch, méthode systématique ...

2010

Experimental Characterization of Pressure Wave Generation and Propagation in Biological Tissues

Kossi Agbeviade, Jacques Giovanola, Mathieu Benoit, Marcel Donnet

Aim of the study: This work develops a measurement technique for pressure waves in soft tissues. It aims at characterizing, understanding and modeling the generation and propagation of pressure waves in soft tissues, with a view towards medical application ...

Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, Ny 10013, United States2009

Neighboring extremals in optimization and control

Sébastien Gros

Optimization arises naturally when process performance needs improvement. This is often the case in industry because of competition – the product has to be proposed at the lowest possible cost. From the point of view of control, optimization consists in de ...

EPFL2007

A Discriminative Approach for the Retrieval of Images from Text Queries

Samy Bengio, David Grangier, Florent Monay Michaud

This work proposes a new approach to the retrieval of images from text queries. Contrasting with previous work, this method relies on a discriminative approach: the parameters are selected in order to minimize a loss related to the ranking performance of t ...

IDIAP2006

A Discriminative Approach for the Retrieval of Images from Text Queries

Samy Bengio, David Grangier, Florent Monay Michaud

This work proposes a new approach to the retrieval of images from text queries. Contrasting with previous work, this method relies on a discriminative model: the parameters are selected in order to minimize a loss related to the ranking performance of the ...

2006

Gradient estimates of return

Samy Bengio, Christos Dimitrakakis

The exploration-exploitation trade-off that arises when one considers simple point estimates of expected returns no longer appears when full distributions are considered. This work develops a simple gradient-based approach for mainting such distributions a ...

IDIAP2005

Probabilistic Tagging of Unstructured Genealogical Records

Michael Perrow

In this paper we present a method of parsing unstructured textual records briefly describing a person and their direct relatives. The string `Stephanus, brother of Johannes Magnin, from Saillon' is a typical example of a record. We wish to annotate every t ...

IDIAP2005

From volumetric graphical objects to surface registration

Eduardo Solanas Vilar

Relatively recent developments in medical imaging allow the anatomical and functional noninvasive study of internal organs of the body. One of the most complex and interesting organs in our body is the brain. Many efforts are being carried out to try to un ...

EPFL2004

Une structure active de type tensegrité

Etienne Fest

A tensegrity is a lightweight space reticulated structure consisting of compression members — struts — surrounded by a network of tension members — cables — that provide rigidity and stability. They can be easily dismantled and therefore, they provide inno ...

EPFL2003

Mixed Bayesian Networks with Auxiliary Variables for Automatic Speech Recognition

Hervé Bourlard

Standard hidden Markov models (HMMs), as used in automatic speech recognition (ASR), calculate their emission probabilities by an artificial neural network (ANN) or a Gaussian distribution conditioned on the hidden state variable, considering the emissions ...

2002