11 new projects in our first ICON call

On July 2nd 2009, the Board of Directors of IBBT approved 11 out of the 13 ICON project proposals. The projects AQUA, CIMI, LLINGO, MAPLE, MobiRoute, TRACK, iMind, SuperCT, Santa Bumo, AdMid and EPICS form the 11 projects of our first ICON call.

A short overview of these 11 new projects:

Admid: Adaptive Middleware for Logistics

If the logistics sector wants to benefit fully from the advantages sensor technology offers, operational transparency throughout the logistics chain is needed. Problems of network interfaces, different generations of products and different standards can thus be avoided. The AMID project aims to design and develop a proof-of-concept prototype of middleware that automatically adapts itself to guarantee all quality and other requirements at all times and places. H.Essers and IDxS are the business partners in this project.

Aqua: Automated Quality assessment and Authentication based on watermarking and perceptual hashing

The AQUA project aimes at making automatic quality control of videos possible, by hiding the basis of comparison in the source material of the video streams. The use of watermarks and perceptual hashing techniques form the basis for the quality control, real-time adaptation of streaming, scalable invoices, etc,...

CIMI: Color Imaging & Multidimensional Image processing in medical applications

The research within the CIMI projects wants to realize significant technology advances in the use of real color and multidimensional images in medical imaging and generate benefits for society. The business partners in the CIMI project are Barco, DCILABS, IBA, Dosimetry, GE/Gamma Medica Ideas, and DSCLabs. 

EPICS: E-learning Platform in the Cultural heritage Sector

Schools often make use the internet and all information it has to offer. The cultural heritage sector uses the internet as a medium to distribute cultural heritage content. The EPICS project does research into how both worlds can be combined and how the field of education can benifit from the digital distribution of cultural heritage content. The project thus aims at developing an e-learning platform for the cultural heritage content in Flanders. The business partners in this project are Faro, VIOE, Bibnet, Playlane, Smartbit, and Educentrum vzw.

iMIND: Innovative Medical Imaging for Neurological Disorders

The project iMIND wants to develop a software platform that can gather the necessary information for the determination of the origin op epileptic seizures, coregistrate the different acquired images to visualize and analyse the seizures in a comprehensive and userfriendly way.

LLINGO: Language Learning in an Interactive Game Environment

LLINGO aims to explore the use of gaming in language learning. The combination of a rich 3D environment with a high level of flexibility and adaptability should lead to a better learning experience.

MAPLE: Mobile, Adaptive & Personalized Learning Experience

The project MAPLE wants to facilitate mobile e-learning with language learning as a concrete case, paying attention to the flexible adaptation of the learning environment itself to the different mobile devices. It also wants to facilitate adaptivity and personalization of the learning environment, especially based on statistical disclosure of the collective intelligence buried in tracking and logging data stored by learning platforms.

MOBIROUTE: Mobility & Routing

The project MobiRoute wants to provide a routeplanner which takes into account historic data and future routing conditions which permit optimal multimodal planning. Be-Mobile and DUO are the business partners in this project.

SANTA BUMO: Stylized ANimation: Technology And Business Modelling

In SANTA BUMO we want to investigate how completely new styles of animation can be realized in which the developments in the 3D world and the advantages of the traditional approach are combined. Aside the technological R&D, SANTA BUMO further wants to investigate new business models. Business partners in this projects are Androme, Walking the Dog and HoBSoft. 

Super CT: Speeded Up Processing and Reconstruction of Tomograms

The SuperCT project aims at reducing the computation time of several tomographic image reconstruction algorithms. In particular, we will focus on developing fast and flexible iterative reconstruction techniques for X-ray CT, SPECT, and Electron Tomography. Most of the speedups will be obtained by parallelization and distribution of the algorithms, in combination with suitable hardware architecture (GPU). The project also aims at developing and implementing fast tomographic image processing algorithms that exploit the available projection data. In particular, we will focus on segmentation, beam hardening correction, visualization, and alignment.

TRACK: Train Applications over an advanced Communication Network

The TRACK project does research into problems related to internetaccess on the train. A large part of the applications is currently limited to onboard internet. This project aims at investigating a broader spectrum of railway communication services like train control & diagnostics, real-time passenger information and entertainment, security services, etc... Bombardier Transportation, Newtec, Nokia Siemens Networks and Televic are the business partners in this project.