Projects

Since 2005, SPL researchers have been the project coordinators or PI’s in 8 European Commission, 6 national, and 3 industrial projects totaling more than  5.1 M€  in actual funding for FORTH.

Active Projects:

• "AVID-MODE: Efficient Location-Aware Audio-Visual Delivery of High-Quality Content to Mobile Devices". European Commission, FP7, Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP). Partners: FORTH-ICS (Coordinator, A. Mouchtaris), University of Thessaly (PI I. Katsavounidis), TWS (Italy), CIDANA (China). Budget: €1.323.240 (FORTH-ICS: €716.000). 05/2009 - 04/2013.

In AVID-MODE, our focus is on the enhancement of high-quality video, sound, and television delivery capabilities of mobile devices that will enable them to provide interactive and immersive media applications.

• "LISTA: The Listening Talker EC", FP7 STREP FET-OPEN project, total funding: €1,700,000, FORTH-ICS funding: €585.000, PI for FORTH-ICS: Y. Stylianou, 10/2010 - 09/2013.

The LISTA project investigates how human speakers react to changes in the environment, measuring the relative success of these strategies using behavioural studies, modelling speech intelligibility/quality, and studying algorithms for rapid characterization of the listening context. The central objective is to develop novel techniques for artificial and live speech.

• "CS-ORION: Compressed Sensing for Remote Imaging in Aerial and Terrestrial Surveillance". European Commission, FP7, Marie Curie IAPP. Partners: FORTH-ICS (Coordinator,  P. Tsakalides), CEA/Saclay (France, PI JL Starck), SAGEM (France), VTrip (Greece). €1.280.000 (FORTH-ICS: €520.783).  09/2010 - 08/2014.

In CS-ORION, our focus is on the design, testing, and evaluation of compressive sensing architectures for enhancing the high-quality video acquisition and delivery capabilities of remote sensing devices that will enable them to provide efficient remote imaging in aerial and terrestrial surveillance.

• "HYDROBIONETS: Autonomous Microbiological Control of Water Quality based on Heterogeneous Self-Organized Wireless BioMEM Sensor and Actuator Networks". European Commission,  FP7 STREP ICT project #287613, total cost/funding: €3,178,914/€2,350,000, FORTH-ICS cost/funding: €637.518/€478.5, PI for FORTH-ICS: P. Tsakalides,  Coordinator: B. Beferull-Lozano (UVEG, Spain), 10/2011 - 09/2014.

HYDROBIONETS is motivated by the grand challenge of providing: a) a fundamental understanding of the performance bounds of large-scale self-organized wireless BioMEM Networks (WBNs); b) concrete design guidelines, algorithms, software and hardware architectures to assure the required robustness, fault-tolerance, power efficiency, autonomy and adaptation; c) the deployment of a large-scale and reactive WBN for microbiological autonomous monitoring and decentralized control of water quality in industrial environments.

• "APLOE: Applied Physical Layer Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Encryption". European Commission, FP7, Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) Grant, €245.448 PI: P. Tsakalides, Researcher: Arsenia Chorti, 05/2011 - 11/2013.

The principal aim of the APLOE project is to investigate theoretical, technical and practical aspects of a novel approach for physical layer encryption for systems that use OFDM modulation, termed Masked-OFDM (MOFDM). As a result, APLOE is relevant to 4G wireless systems.

• "Basic Research on Speech Analysis". France Telecom R&D Department, Lannion, France, FORTH-ICS funding: €40.000 PI: Y. Stylianou, 2010 - 2011.

Past Projects:

• "ASPIRE: Collaborative Signal Processing for Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks". European Commission, FP7, Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge (ToK-DEV) Grant, Partners: FORTH-ICS (Coordinator,  P. Tsakalides), University of Valencia (PI B.B. Lozano), University of Southern California (USA). Budget: €1.256.423.  09/2006 - 08/2010.

The ASPIRE project pushed the boundaries of wireless sensor networks performing  original research in several major axes, namely: distributed signal classification; compressed sensing; multichannel audio coding and transmission; and wireless network traffic modelling and localization in WSNs.

• "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications in Structural Health Monitoring".
  Sponsor: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology and Themeliodomi S.A. Amount: € 135.000. Dates: October 2005 - June 2009. PI: P. Tsakalides.
• "User-Centric Enhancement of Speech in Adverse Noise Conditions with Applications to Speech Communication Systems".
  Sponsor: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Amount: € 60.000. Dates: March 2006 - February 2008. PI: P. Tsakalides, co-PIs: A. Mouchtaris (FORTH-ICS) and J. Van der Spiegel (University of Pennsylvania, USA).
• "Multiresolution Algorithms for Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Systems".
  Sponsor: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Amount: € 11.740. Dates: October 2005 - September 2007. PI: P. Tsakalides, co-PI: A. Achim (University of Bristol, UK)
• "Immersive Audio Rendering and Transmission Technologies".
  Sponsor: European Commission, 6th Framework Programme. Amount: € 80.000. Dates: March 2005 - February 2007. PI: P. Tsakalides, co-PI: A. Mouchtaris (FORTH-ICS).
• "Multichannel Audio Compression and Coding".
  Sponsor: Greek Department of Education. Amount: € 50.000. Dates: March 2004 - December 2007. PI: P. Tsakalides.
• "3-D Audio Synthesis and Transmission Through Wireless Networks for Teleconferencing and Telepresence Applications".
  Sponsor: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology and FORTHnet S.A. Amount: € 91.500. Dates: June 2004 - May 2006. PI: P. Tsakalides
• "Multicarrier Space-Time Coding for Multichannel Digital Audio Transmission".
  Sponsor: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Amount: € 60.000