16.03.2016. 10:30 Public seminar of the project no.4 “Development of technologies for secure and reliable smart-city” (GUDPILS) of the National Research Programme „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS). Venue: conference hall of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes iela 14, Riga.  Members of each research group will present results obtained in stage 2 of the project.

Agenda (preliminary):

1. Localization of objects in rooms using UWB radar / EDI RADAR group/

2. Stability monitoring of drinking water in the pilot water supply system / RTU BF group/

3. Enhancement of the new optical data transmission technology / RTU TI group /

4. Selection of informative bands for classification of hyperspectral images / EDI REMSENS group1,  EDI REMSENS group2 /

5. Analysis of high volume city surveillance video data using deep learning and HPC resources / EDI BIGDATA group/

Periodic progress report for the period 1.06.2014-30.04.2015 ;

Project Nr.1. „Development of technologies for cyber physical systems with applications in medicine and smart transport” scientific report.

Project Nr.2. „Ontology-based knowledge engineering technologies suitable for web environment” scientific report (in Latvian);

Project Nr.3. “BIOPHOTONICS: imaging, diagnostics and monitoring” scientific report (in Latvian);

Project Nr.4. “Development of technologies for secure and reliable smart-city”scientific report.

On July 9, 11am

Institute of Electronics and Computer Science will host a seminar in auditorium A , titled: „Development of technologies for cyber physical systems with applications in medicine and smart transport” as part of the “Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society” (SOPHIS), a program funded by the National Research Program.
Agenda:

1. „Project No.1., Development of technologies for cyber physical systems with applications in medicine and smart transport, introduction and review,” Leo Selavo, the project scientific lead.
2. “Wireless sensor network infrastructure development and research,” Didzis Lapsa, Rinalds Ruskuls.
3. “Development of a smart clothing platform for medical and telemedicine applications,” Atis Hermanis, Emil Syndyukov.
4. “Big data collection and analysis in cyber physical systems for healthcare,” Rihards Balash, Andrejs Skageris.
5. “Research of acquisition of data with different type and dimension for describing the surrounding of a transport vehicle,” Mihails Pudzs.
6. “Communication in intelligent transportation systems – specifics of cooperative driving,” Artis Mednis.

Ilze Oshina, Janis Spigulis, “Image processing for snapshot RGB mapping of skin chromophores”, Conference IONS Karlsruhe 2015, 26-29 June 2015. Poster session.

Publications

Janis Spigulis, Ilze Oshina, “3×3 T echnique for RGB Snapshot Mapping of Skin C hromophores “(online publication:10.1364/BODA.2015.JT3A.39), Bio-Optics: Design and Application 2015, Vancouver Canada, 12–15 April 2015. ISBN: 978-1-55752-954-1

Jacob Bauer, Ville Heikkinen, Janis Spigulis “Spectral reflectance estimation with an optical non contact device for skin assessment”, Northern Optics & Photonics 2015 (NOP 2015), 2-4 June 2015, Lappeenranta, Finland.

Ilze Oshina, Janis Spigulis, “Snapshot mapping of skin chromophores at triple-wavelength illumination” , 11th International Young Scientist Conference, Developments in Optics and Communications 2015, Latvia, April 8-10, 2015.

Gatis Tunens, Inga Saknite, Janis Spigulis, “Modeling diffuse reflectance spectrum of skin in the near-infrared spectral range by Monte Carlo simulations”, 11th International Young Scientist Conference, Developments in Optics and Communications 2015, Latvia, April 8-10, 2015.

Jacob Bauer, Ville Heikkinen, Janis Spigulis, “Spectral reflectance estimation with an optical non contact device for skin assessment”, 11th International Young Scientist Conference, Developments in Optics and Communications 2015, Latvia, April 8-10, 2015.

On June 18

Seminar summarizing the 1^st year results of SOPHIS project No.3. „Biophotonics: imaging, diagnostics and monitoring” will be held June 18,2015 atthe Institute ofAtomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, ŠķūņuSt.4, 4th floorauditorium.

The seminar program.

• 9:00 Introduction: goals of the project and tasks for the 1^st year (J.Spīgulis)
• 9:05 Acquisition of several monochromatic spectral images for skin chromophore mapping (A1.1.A, J.Spīgulis, I.Ošiņa)
• 9:20 Video-imaging under infrared illumination for cardiovascular monitoring (A1.1.b, O.Ļašuka, U.Rubīns)
• 9:35 Tissue assessment at the infrared spectral range (A1.1.c, G.Tunēns, I.Saknīte)
• 9:50 Improvements of the multimodal imaging prototype device „SkImager” (A1.3.d, J.Bauer, E.Kviesis-Kipge)
• 10:05 Summary and discussion

Activities

The project is building tools for wireless sensor development, including the testbed with sensor modules, that can be tested and profiled while deployed at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science. The current activities include remote programming and remote boot support, configuration and service server development. There is also work being done for the mobile testbed that will be used for ITS research and systems validation.

The second aspect of the project involves applications of cyber physical systems for health care. THe researchers are developing a wearable and wireless heart monitor, currently in the prototype desin phase. Another prototype being developed and tested is the body dynamics sensor system containing several accelerometer and gyroscope modules that in concert can deliver a shape of body such as back or a knee joint in real time and assist in rehabilitation. Currently the back shape prototype is built and the new version is under development, including additional sensors for better precision.

The third area is intelligent transportation systems. The research group is in the process of developing a smart sensor interface for vehicle position and orientation in the environment, using such sensors as LiDAR Velodyne HDL-32E, RTK-GPS OXTS RT3003 and OXTS RT-Base-2. These devices are being adapted and tested for eventual participation in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2016. In addition, work is being done in the field of image processing and analysis, including object identification on a noisy backround for road analyisis in real time, as well as driver face image analysis for the signs of fatigue.

Dissemination

• Presentation at Baltic Eleectronics Conference – BEC 2014 (Tallin, Estonia, 06-08.10.2014)
• Presentation at Exhibition MINOX 2014 (Riga, 10-11.10.2014)
• Presentation at 73. Conference of the University of Latvia (Riga, 20.02.2015)

Publications:

K.Nesenbergs, L. Selavo, “Smart textiles for wearable sensor networks: review and early lessons,” Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2015 Conference on, Torino, Italy, 7-9 May 2015.

O.Nikisins, R.Fuksis, A. Kadikis and M. Greitans. Face recognition system on Raspberry Pi, International Conference on Information Processing and Control Engineering (ICIPCE-2015), April 15-17, 2015. Moscow, Russia.

A.Hermanis, R. Cacurs, K. Nesenbergs, M. Greitans, E. Syundyukov, L. Selavo, “Demonstration Abstract: Wearable Sensor Grid Architecture for Body Posture and Surface Detection and Rehabilitation,” The 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), CPSWEEK, Seattle, USA, April 13-16, 2015.

L.Selavo, I. Drikis, A. Mednis, R. Balass. “DiStAL: Digitally Steerable Antennas for Localization,” Technical report, Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition, 2015.

Dimitrios Lymberopoulos and the participants of Microsoft Indoor localization Competition 2014 (including Leo Selavo), “A Realistic Evaluation and Comparison of Indoor Location Technologies: Experiences and Lessons Learned,” The 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), CPSWEEK, Seattle, USA, April 13-16, 2015.

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• November/December 2014: preparation and approval of project documentation, resource planning, task definitions, updates of experimental equipment, overview of recent publications on the project topics. Enhanced studies in activity A1.1.a (snapshot mapping of skin chromophores), results as a 3-page Technical Digest submitted to the prestigious OSA congress „Optics in the Life Sciences”.
• January 2015: Project team extended to 6 persons, focusing on activities A1.1.b (infrared photoplethysmography imaging), A1.1.c (skin studies in the 1-2 micron spectral range) and A1.3.d (SkImager updates and improvements). Results submitted to the international conferences „Developments in Optics and Communications” and „Northern Optics and Photonics”.
• February 2015: Participation at the word’s largest photonics event „Photonics West” including the BIOS symposium on Biophotonics. Presentation of the project results at the 73rd Scientific Conference of University of Latvia and at the scientific seminar of Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy. Report at the congress „Optics in the Life Sciences” accepted by OSA.