All projects from the School of Engineering
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Marketing insights from open/public data
The company's platform leverages public open data sources for marketing campaign optimisation. The effectiveness of such a campaign depends crucially on external factors such as political opinion, weather, surrounding demographics and even district-level trends. Research questions are: How can data sources be ...
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OptiPhish – Effective and Measurable Phishing Awareness Training
In this project, LUCY - a system for phishing awareness training - will be significantly extended in order to put such training on a scientific basis and to bring it to a new level of quality. The goal is to provide completely automated, effective and individualized phishing awareness training with measurable ...
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Scaling Smart City Projects - from Individual pilots towards a Common strategy of industry Emergence (SPICE)
In the SPICE project "Scaling Smart City Projects - from Individual pilots towards a Common strategy of industry Emergence", UniFR, HSG and ZHAW analyse the problems for scaling Smart City (SC) solutions from different perspectives. The aim is to accelerate the scaling of SC solutions and the formation of an SC ...
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Smart policy-driven scanning of Docker images
Docker has become the de-facto standard for containerised application delivery. Hundreds of companies in Switzerland develop, deploy and operate Docker-packaged software regularly, often involving publicly available Docker images produced by third parties. For banks, insurances and other companies with high ...
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Fostering electrification of public transport in India
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Digitalisation non-bankable assets (specifically: art)
The art market is one of the last illiquid, intransparent and inefficient markets. KULT ART is a young venture born within, Helvetia Schweizer Versicherungsgesellschaft, one of the largest art insurance companies in Switzerland. KULT ART's vision is that art should be accessible to everyone, not only an elite ...
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Automatic Counting of Varroa Mites in Honey Bee Colonies
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DIR3CT: Deep Image Reconstruction through X-Ray Projection-based 3D Learning of Computed Tomography Volumes
Project DIR3CT aims at improving the image quality of CBCT images by deep learning (DL) the 3D reconstruction from X-ray images end-to-end. This enables a novel CBCT product to be used during radiation therapy and will allow the use of these images for adaptive treatment.
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Flexible adjustment of process parameters at selective laser melting for quality improvement
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Investigating charge transport in organic semiconductors with electrochemical methods and modelling
Organic semiconductors are promising candidates in many different applications such as solar cells, transistors, sensors, memory elements and, most importantly, in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). OLEDs outperform many classic LCD based displays, and find entrance into lighting applications where large area ...
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Smart Water Pipes
Self-powered sensors enable smart management of water distribution systems. Underground sensors on water pipes collect energy from their environment and wirelessly transmit data to the surface. The insights created through distributed measurements facilitate unique data-driven services and value. ...
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Voice Swap
This demonstration shows to the participants the exciting possibilities of machine learning applied to speech, showcasing their benefits in various scenarios like helping regain the voices of the speech-impaired and improvement of dubbing technologies. Also, crucially, it helps demonstrate the evergrowing threats ...
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Evaluation of the current data anonymization practice at Swisscom
Swisscom has been offering services based on mobility data of mobile customers for some time now. From a legal point of view, these services are not a problem as long as the mobility data is anonymized in the first step and then only processed in an anonymous state. For regulatory reasons, services are more ...
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Baden Energy Hero
The ZHAW Institute of Sustainable Development created the Virtual Reality (VR) game "Virtual Energy Hero" in 2018. This is successfully used to give both young and old a new perspective on complex topics such as energy efficiency and renewable energies at public events. The aim of this project is to develop the ...
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From Energy Efficiency to True Sustainability
Swiss energy efficiency programs as well as numerous energy efficiency engineering and consultation companies propose an increase of energy efficiency to companies through measures and pathways that reduce the energy consumption. Such measures include modifying processes, changing products or tuning existing systems ...
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TAILOR – Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization
The main ambition of TAILOR is to build the capacity of providing the scientific foundations for Trustworthy AI in Europe by developing a network of research excellence centers with a technical focus on combining research excellence in the areas of learning, optimisation and reasoning . The current scientific ...
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Development of injection components with integrated functionality for optimizing the combustion process in 2-stroke large marine gas engines
By means of additive manufacturing processes in combination with numerical methods, injection components are to be developed with regard to service life, increased engine performance and reduction of greenhouse gases. Specifications regarding test and material requirements will be developed. ...
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Modelling for the search for new active materials for redox flow batteries
SONAR will develop a framework for the simulation-based screening of electroactive materials for aqueous and nonaqueous organic redox flow batteries (RFBs). It will adopt a multiscale modelling paradigm, in which simulation methods at different physical scales will be further advanced and linked by combining ...
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ACACIA – Advancing the Science for Aviation and Climate
The EU-H2020 project ACACIA runs for 3.5 years from January 2020 to June 2023.Non-CO2 emissions of aviation may impact climate as much as aviation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions do. However, the impact of the non-CO2 effects (e.g. ozone and methane from NOx emissions, contrails, indirect aerosol effects) is ...
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Accessible Video Portal ETH
ETH Zurich is planning to make its online video portal (website, video player) accessible for everyone, including persons with disabilities. ETH Zurich is currently collaborating with international academic partners to develop the software needed for its OpenCast project. Within the context of this project, OpenCast ...
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Analysis of the temporal development of the spatial accessibility of regional centres by public transport for the region of Västra Götaland (Sweden)
For public transport companies, it is important that their transport services are not only attractive in terms of price, but also available at the right places (stops, stations) and to the right extent (frequency, transport capacities). Or in other words: that the money they invest provides the maximum benefit for ...
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Automated Staff Scheduling 2020
Development of high-performance optimization software for automated airport staff rostering.
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CLEANAIR: Assessment of the impact of aviation on air quality
Last summer's extraordinary heat waves, and the "Fridays for Future" movement, have once again fueled the climate debate and had a significant impact on the "green wave" of this year's parliamentary elections. This is very welcome, because with every IPCC report, the future scenarios of global climate change are ...
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Development/Upscaling of a digital neighborhood platform
In order to take a further step towards the "Smart City", an interactive digital community platform is being developed and launched for the city of Winterthur at neighborhood level. The platform aims to expand interaction and participation in the neighborhood as well as bidirectional communication between the ...
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Evaluation digital neighborhood platform