Research Groups 2006 - 2009

Full Members

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Algebraic and Computational Methods in Information Science

The group is carrying out basic and applied research on algebraic and computational methods used in information science. The focus areas are the algebraic structures and the efficient computational methods encountered in coding, cryptography and secure information transmission.

Circuits and Systems Group - CAS-Oulu

The group is developing electronic and optoelectronic devices, circuits and systems for radio telecommunications and electronic / optoelectronic measurement systems.

Electronics Materials, Packaging and Reliability Techniques - EMPART

The group consists of specialists in microelectronics and materials physics, chemistry, materials engineering and measuring techniques. The main topics of current research focus on new materials and techniques to be used in the next generation of micromodule applications.

Intelligent Systems Group - ISG

The main objective of the group is to develop enhanced adaptivity and context-awareness for smart environments. The research specifically focuses on the creation of dynamic models that enable monitoring, diagnostics, prediction and control of target systems (living and artificial) or operating environments. The key application areas are: smart living environments of homes and institutes, industrial automation, context-aware mobile devices, wellness and medical applications, and software security.

Machine Vision Group - MVG

The focus areas of the research are texture-based computer vision, geometric image and video analysis, machine vision for sensing and understanding human actions, learning in machine vision, and vision systems engineering. Among the highlights of the basic research are texture-based methods using local binary patterns and multiscale methods for affine invariant recognition. Methods and systems for human computer interaction, video surveillance, person identification and visual inspection, as well as architectures for vision computing are examples of more applied research.

Optoelectronics and Measurement Unit - OPME

The group carries out research on optoelectronics and measurement techniques and seeks applications for the results. The main focus is on light propagation measurements and simulations in a medium. In addition, packaging and material techniques, photonics integration, wireless sensor networks and life span testing of a circuit are important parts of the research. New results are applied in different areas of industry, medicine, health care and biotechnology.

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Associate Members

Human Interaction with Advanced Mobile Services and Intelligent Environments - INTERACT

INTERACT carries out research on human interaction with technology, both from the user and the technology perspective. The focus area of research is human interaction with mobile services and intelligent environments.

MediaTeam Oulu

In addition to the development and testing of mobile multimedia services, the research areas of the group include distributed context-aware architectures, mobile peer-to-peer and All-IP services, video search systems, digital rights management, and language and audio technologies. The group has been actively developing panOULU, a public WLAN network that offers free wireless Internet access.

Wireless Communication Systems

The group focuses on studying future wireless communications system concepts, networking technologies and related transceiver techniques. The group consists of CWC (Centre for Wireless Communications) at the University of Oulu and Communication Platforms -Knowledge Center at VTT Electronics.