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LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) Founded in employees (1999): 50 professors 3794 students (1999) –3345 undergradute students –449 postgraduate students 7 departments

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Departments Business Administration Chemical Technology Electrical Engineering Energy Technology Industrial Engineering and Management Information Technology Mechanical Technology

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY University - contact information Postal address: P.O. Box 20, FIN Lappeenranta, FINLAND Street address: Skinnarilankatu 34 Telefax: Telephone:

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Department of Information Technology Founded in employees (2000) 9 professors 646 students (2000) 606 undergraduate and 40 Ph.D. students Laboratories –Information Processing –Telecommunications –Applied Mathematics

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Research Profile Intelligent information processing –Digital vision systems –Soft computing applications in industry and business –Software engineering Modern telecommunications –Networks –Telecommunications software –Telecom business –Distributed computing Mathematical technology and fuzzy logic

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co-operation Industrial projects & Intelligent Computing Clinic Intelligent Industrial Systems Laboratory (IISt-Lab) Telecom Business Research Center (TBRC) Center of Excellence in Forest Industry Systems (CEFIS) South Karelia towards Information Society Finnish and international universities & research institutes East Finland Universities Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering (ECSE) International Master’s Program in Information Technology (IMPIT)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Laboratory of Information Processing Founded in professors, 25 employees (7 with Ph.D. degree) Produced 20 postgraduate degrees –11 Doctors of Technology –9 Licentiates in Technology More than 250 international scientific publications Several applications in business and industry

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Laboratory of Information Processing Research Areas Intelligent digital vision systems –Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision –Color Vision and Multispectral Image Processing –Molecular Computing Soft computing applications (NN & GA) Software Engineering

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Software Engineering Requirements engineering –Improving RE in practice –Elicitation with group methods Software architecture design –Design methods for distributed and component-based information systems Multimedia databases –Distributed image databases

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Some Research Topics of Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision and Image Processing Intermediate level machine vision –Detection of geometric primitives (lines, circles. etc.) –Motion detection and estimation –Mixed pixel classification –Context-based image compression –Content-based retrieval in image databases Modeling the color sensing systems based on bacteriorhodopsin

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Some Research Topics of Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision and Image Processing Multicomponent image analysis –Analysis with spatial and spectral dimensions –Spectral video (analysis of spectral image sequences) Image compression –Binary images (Hough transform) –Gray-level images (distance transforms) –RGB images (neural computing) –Spectral images (multicomponent image analysis)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Application Areas TEKES technology programs –Machine Vision ( ) & Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Applications ( ) Applications of –process control –robot vision –quality control in metal, wood processing, food manufacturing, etc., industry & applications in business

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Applications Industrial Robot for Windscreen Grinding Robotized Handling of Objects Quality Control in Printing Industry Visual Inspection on Wooden Surfaces Sorting Ceramic Tiles Punch Press Quality Assurance Visual Quality Inspection in Steel Manufacturing Automatic Cheese Production Detection of Food Fatness Multispectral Video Customer profiling See more at

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Digital Vision Systems

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Automatic Cheese Factory (RTS Cheos, Ltd.)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Sorting potatoes (Euroelektro International, Ltd.)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Robot Positioning: Deflection Compensation

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Visual Quality Inspection in Steel Manufacturing (Finx, Ltd., Imatra Steel, Ltd.)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Visual Quality Inspection in Steel Manufacturing

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Bubbling of Argon Gas in the Melt Weak bubbling Good bubbling

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Histograms of Weak and Good Bubbling

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Hydrogen Prediction of Vacuum Degassing

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The User Interface of the System

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Visual Inspection on Wooden Surfaces

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Neural Computing Applications

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Detection of Forest Fires

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Punch Press Quality Assurance (Lillbacka, Ltd.)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Multispectral Images: Compression and Video

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Sorting Ceramic Tiles: Laboratory Experiments with RGB and Spectral Features (SPECIM, Ltd.)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Sorting Ceramic Tiles: Test Material Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Tile 1Tile 2Tile 3Tile 4Tile 5 ::::

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Sorting Ceramic Tiles: Classification

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Molecular Computing: Bacteriorhodopsin-based Color Sensors Molecule structureFotocycle

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Molecular Computing: Bacterial Camera Matrix elementCamera

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Molecular Computing: Color Sensors ResponsesSelf-Organizing Map (SOM)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Computing Clinic Mission The clinic provides industry short-term pre-study and implementation services long-term R&D support in the following areas: machine vision and digital image analysis neural computing and genetic algorithms parallel and distributed computing fuzzy logic and mathematical modeling

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Computing Clinic Projects Visual quality inspection in steel manufacturing Modeling of electric furnace in steel manufacturing by neural networks Quality assurance of metal objects manufactured by a punch press using machine vision Deflection compensation in robot positioning Simulation of hydromechanical machine systems by parallel computing Survey of industrial R&D needs in mathematics

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Computing Clinic Contact information If you are interested in services provided by the clinic contact: Prof. Pekka Toivanen (05)

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY International Education International Master’s Program in Information Technology (IMPIT) New masters for industry in two years Supported by Ministry of Education, Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology Planned by prof. Heikki Kälviäinen and prof. Jari Porras Program director: prof. Jan Voracek

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY International Education - first round International M.Sc. (eng.) program 20 students in information technology In co-operation with –Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic –Czech Technical University, Prague –Peoples' Friendship University Of Russia, Moscow –St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY International Education Selection procedure Decision who are partner universities Candidates selected by the partner universities Limited selection from the candidates by LUT

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY International Education For international students who have sufficient university studies (3-4 years) as background: Spring 1999: studies at LUT Summer 1999: training in a company Autumn 1999: studies at LUT Spring 2000: studies at LUT Spring 2000: M.Sc. thesis in a company

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY International Education Is your company interested to employ students? –for summer jobs (2-3 months) –for Master’s Thesis projects (6 months) –Please note that students are not expected to work during the terms If yes, contact Prof. Jan Voracek or (05) 62111

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ECSE - Graduate School East Finland Universities Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering (ECSE) Coordinator: –Department of Information Technology Lappeenranta University of Technology Participants –Lappeenranta University of Technology –University of Joensuu –University of Kuopio

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ECSE - Graduate School 35 students Lappeenranta University of Technology –Department of Information Technology Laboratory of Applied Mathematics Laboratory of Information Processing Laboratory of Telecommunications University of Joensuu –Department of Computer Science University of Kuopio –Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ECSE - Ph.D. Studies Ph.D. Courses –data compression, color vision, computer graphics, parallel computing, telematics, telecommunications, e-commerce Summer Schools –Summer School in Novel Computing (since 1993) –Topics in 2000: software engineering, computer aided teaching EU Intensive Programs –Intensive Program on Computer Vision IPCV: color image processing (1996), video technologies (1998), machine vision applications (2000)