TELIN Welcome to the Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing at the Ghent University

Currently, our department consists of the following research groups, each have their own website:

DDCM Database Document and Content Management

The group studies how to extend databases for dealing with fuzzy and uncertain information. This involves, on the one hand, the representation of fuzzy data and the adaptations of the existing database schema's. On the other hand, it involves the uncertainty as to the manipulation of the data studied. The modelling is based on the use of fuzzy set theory and the related possibility theory. Semantical aspects are studied in collaboration with a team of linguists. Most of the research up till now has been concerned with the extension of the ER-model and of object-oriented database models. For implementation purposes, some related research has been carried out.

DIGCOM Digital Communications

The topics studied in the DIGCOM research group are: Modulation/Demodulation, Coding/Decoding, Carrier and Clock Synchronisation, and Equalization.

IPI Image Processing and Interpretation

Within the IPI research group the following topics are being studied: Watershed Based Segmentation, Content Based Image Retrieval, Edges and Line Detection, Model-Based Image Interpretation, Motion Estimation and Motion-Based Segmentation, Scale Space, Stereo Vision, Texture segmentation, Image processing techniques for the detection of buried landmines, Techniques for restoration and quantitative image analysis of medical ultrasound images, Compression of medical images and video.

SMACS Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Communication Systems

The main applications of the work done by this group are situated in the performance assessment of digital communication systems and networks. The research activities of the SMACS Research Group can be more or less divided in two parts. The major topic is the statistical analysis of buffers for the storage of digital information, by means of discrete-time queueing models. The second (minor) topic is the design, analysis and optimization of ARQ retransmission protocols.

Personnel

These are our TELIN members from the following groups:

TELIN DDCM DIGCOM IPI SMACS

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Contact

Ghent University
Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing
St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: +32 9 264 34 12
fax: +32 9 264 42 95
mail: secretariaat@telin.ugent.be
Head of the department: prof.dr.ir. Herwig Bruneel

Location

The department is located in the technicum building, see the map below. Take the left entrance of the building and follow the arrows to the TELIN department. You need to go down to floor -2.5 and take the linking bridge to the other building block 3.