Audio-based algorithms for the e-puck robot
Contact: Dümbgen, Frederike Synopsis: Audio-based source tracking and obstacle avoidance on the e-puck robot Level: BS/MS semester project Description: When compared to visual and inertial measurements, sound is highly underrepresented among the modalities commonly used for navigation, localization and mapping in robotics. This is surprising as animals such as bats and whales have evolved to (…)
Droning drones
Contact: Dümbgen, Frederike Synopsis: Exploration and exploitation of drone noise Level: MS semester project Description: The more drones become omnipresent in everyday life, the more the unavoidable propeller noise is becoming an issue. Indeed, drone noise has been shown to be more unpleasant than car noise to many people [1], and thus recent research has (…)
Aberration-Free Lens Design
Contact: Sepand Kashani (LCAV) Synopsis: Assess image fidelity of optical systems using pixelized lens arrays. Levels: Bachelor, Master Sections: IC Description: Lenses form core elements of camera systems: their goal is to focus light from the outside world onto an image sensor to faithfully capture a scene of interest. The focusing effect of a lens (…)
Automatic Flat Colouring
Contact: Michalina Pacholska Synopsis: Create an automatic tool for flat comic colouring. Level: Master Students Description: On the left is a line-art image [0]. When creating the comic, the artists will create line-arts for every panel of the comic, that will have to be coloured. It’s often more convenient to add so-called flat colours first, shown (…)
Optimisation for distance-based localisation
Contact: Michalina Pacholska Synopsis: Compare the performance of different algorithms on the task of localisation from distances of a device moving on a smooth trajectory. Level: The project can be adapted to Bachelor or Master Students. Description: The raise of self-navigating devices (be it cars or drones) requires reliable localisation methods. Simplest localisation method is triangulation (or multi-lateration), (…)
Experimental evaluation of unsupervised indoor localization
Contact: Dümbgen, Frederike, Sepand Kashani Synopsis: Experimental evaluation of unsupervised indoor localization. Level: Summer internship or BS/MS project Description: Due to their aptitude in depicting complex dependencies, neural networks are a promising candidate for indoor localization. Omnipresent phenomena such as multi-path signal propagation, shadowing and device noise introduce high noise in distances inferred from radio (…)
Interferential photography on exhibition (2 students)
Advisors: Prandoni, Paolo; Latty, Arnaud. Synopsis: Building demonstration experiments and showcases for an artistic and scientific exhibition on Lippmann photography, as part of a semester project. Level: MS/BS. Description: Gabriel Lippmann won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the first color photography technique. Its principle, based on light interference, is as (…)
Beamforming of Light Waves for μ-scale Manufacturing
Advisors: Matthieu Simeoni (LCAV), Sepand Kashani (LCAV) and Julien Gateau (GALATEA, Microcity) Contact: Matthieu Simeoni ([email protected]) Synopsis: Assess novel beamforming solutions for light waves using a spatial light modulator. Levels: Bachelor, Master (, including Master thesis) Sections: MT, IC, PH, EL Description: Lasers are often used for carving materials (…)
Audio-based drone self-localization inside cluttered rooms
Contact: Dalia El Badawy, Dümbgen, Frederike Synopsis: Study and test drone’s capability to localize itself from acoustic signals. Level: MS Description: Although it is often seen as a nuisance, scattering of sound — acoustic waves “bouncing” off physical objects — has been successfully leveraged to determine the direction of arrival of sound sources using only (…)
A Spline Approximation Framework for Spatio-Temporal Environmental Monitoring
Main Advisors: Matthieu Simeoni and Julien Fageot Synopsis: Develop a spline approximation framework for spatio-temporal environmental monitoring at global scales. Level: Bachelor/Master (including Master Thesis). Description: One aid towards addressing the current environmental crisis consists in building a “digital twin” of the Earth. The latter would take the form of an exhaustive computer simulation relying on past and (…)