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Freesound 2024 in numbers is now published, with quite impressive numbers in sounds uploaded (over 55K, to reach over 670K in total) and number of downloads (over 18.7M, to reach a total of over 250M since its creation). The whole entry includes detailed information about the type of sounds used, examples of them, active users and an interesting detail about search queries...
The increasing use of data for automated systems and artificial intelligence is well known. However, in particular sectors, the availability of data is limited, causing difficulties in implementing and developing prediction models that could improve quality of life. In the context of urban planning and smart cities, this problem has been identified and presents the following...
UPF Engineering is co-organizing the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN), which will bring together world-class researchers in this field, who are either working in Barcelona or were trained at universities in the Catalan capital and are now working abroad. The sixth edition of the symposium will take place next Thursday, December 19, at La Salle-Universitat Ramon Llull. The...
Foment del Treball and the US Consulate in Barcelona launched the first edition of the Jump Startup for Women in Deeptech – Biotech and Healthtech. The program has the support of ACCIÓ (Generalitat de Catalunya), LEVEL, the law firm RCD and Tech Barcelona. The Jump Startup Program is designed to support 20 outstanding female entrepreneurs in the health and biotechnology sector in...
The 40th edition of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) took place between 15 and 19 July on the Ciutadella campus of Pompeu Fabra University, with the participation of experts from all over the world. It is one of the main international meetings on research related to the representation, learning and reasoning of knowledge in the presence of uncertainty. ...
Circuit bending is an iconic audio production and sound design technique invented in the 60s, whose main premise is to rewire the original purpose of electronic circuit design, capable of producing sound, in a way that leads to unexpected and creative output. What I find appealing about it is its potential to question and ultimately subvert the given state of things, without...
Raul Andrei, Antoni Fornés, Alex Comas, Álvaro Monterrubio i Sergi Puig,from different UPF engineering degress, and Ausiàs Obradors from the Computer Science degree, succeed with their business plans in the last edition of UPFlama. Read full article here.
By Jacopo Epifanio. In Greek mythology, the chimera is a monster composed of several parts of different animals: it resembles a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle, and a dragon behind. In the context of dynamical systems, chimera states are intriguing phenomena of coexistence between synchronous and asynchronous motion. They have firstly been observed in...
Founded in 1990, UPF is a public university based in Barcelona that is highly competitive in research and aims to transform education to respond to future challenges. The University carries out this activity in eight disciplines spread across three campuses (health and life sciences, political and social sciences, communication, law, economics and business, engineering and information...
5 contributions by members of the Center for Studies UPF in Artificial and Natural Intelligence (CeSANI) at NeurIPS 2023, 4 of them from DTIC-UPF. Provably Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning in Regular Decision Processes. Roberto_Cipollone, Anders Jonsson, Alessandro Ronca, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi. Asymmetric Norms to Approximate...
This is the first Erasmus Mundus coordinated by UPF, through its Department of Information and Communication Technologies, which has a recognized track record in the field of artificial intelligence. The master’s degree is promoted by a European consortium that includes a further three leading universities in AI: Sapienza of Rome (Italy), Radboud (Netherlands), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). ...
Today, technological advancement has transformed the way we live, work and communicate. The growing dependence on technology and the increase in cyber threats have highlighted the need for highly trained professionals in the field of cybersecurity. It is in this context that the proposal to implement a cybersecurity chair arises, with the aim of training future experts in the field...
DTIC-UPF, within the framework of the Fractus-UPF Chair in Technology Transfer and 6G, and the University of California at Irvine (UCI) are working on the creation of a new technological system that will allow, in case of fire, to deploy a fleet of intelligent drones, which will work in a network and in a coordinated manner, to automatically perform fire control and monitoring tasks. The...