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INNOVATION,

FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY

OF TECHNOLOGY,


& ENGINE PROJECT



Irek

Defée

Tampere University of Technology

Tampere, Finland

irek.defee@tut.fi


FINLAND COUNTRY
-

GEOGRAPHY

•

338 000 km2

•

10% lakes

•

80% forests

•

rocky terrain

•

limited resources


COUNTRY
-

POPULATION

•

5.4 mln people

•

6% swedish speaking

•

Sami minority Lapland

•

History


COUNTRY
–

HISTORY

•

…..

•

1809

•

1863

•

1917

•

1939

•

…..


COUNTRY
–

ECONOMY

•
Difficult

natural

conditions

•
GDP 34 000
€
/m


•

Unemployment

8.5%

•

Export

53
mld

€

•

Public
debt

57% PKB

Economic growth Public debt

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

•
Unveiled

2013


•

Structural

character

•
Decline

of
several

industrial

sectors
:


-

Paper


-

Ship
-
building


-

Nokia

•
Too
little

industrial

diversification

•
SME
sector

too

small

•
Public
sector

lagging
:
too

costly

WHY HAS NOKIA FALLEN?

•
Nokia
growth

phase


•

Leading

corporation

phase

•
Phase

of
operational

signs

of
decline


•
Systemic

factors

–

decline

inevitable
?


•
What

remains

is NSN: Nokia Solutions
and Networks,
cellular

infrastructure

company

with
significant

resources


EDUCATION AND R&D SECTOR




•

R&D
sector

is 3.7% GDP:


-

total

7
mld

€


-

in which1.4
mld

€

university

part


-

world

leading

•
Higher

education

is
only

public



-

limits

on the
number

of
students


-

financial

support

for
students


-

study

time

is
becoming

restricted



INNOVATION SECTOR




•

Finland has a highly advanced innovation


organisation system:


-

National Technology Agency TEKES


supports development


-

Academy of Finland
–

academic research


financing


-

State Research Center VTT



INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT




•

Critical
evaluation
: No
top
-
class

applied



innovation

in Fin/EU (
Google
-
likes
)

•

University

sector

behind

•

One top
university

created
:


-

Aalto
University

Helsinki

•
Huge

emphasis

on
university

startups



-

creation

of
environment


-

reorganization

of
studies


Wednesday, December 11,
2013

Digital Media Laboratory

TUT

Faculty

of Computer and
Electrical


Engineering

UNIVERSITIES
–

CURRENT STATUS




•

Reforms
:
organisational
,
structure
,


financing
,
education


•
Organisation



-

Legal
independence

e.g
.
foundation


-

Foundation

capital


-

State
financing

negotiable



-

Profesorowie

employed

by

foundation


-

Infrastructure

rented

from

state

CURRENT STATUS




•

Faculties

and
departments

•
Department
–

profit

center
–

min. 10
professors

•
New
staff

recruitment
:
Tenure

track

4
-
levels,
global

search

•
Results

evaluated

on a
very

broad

basis

•
Bureacracy

and
formalization

increased

EDUCATION




•

System
had

huge

number

of
choices
,
this


has

been

eliminated

•
Reduction

of
courses

by

50%

•
Computer engineering
not

popular

•
Reductions

of
personnel

•
Master

level

studies

exclusively

in
English

till

2020

•
New
concept

for
education

in
development


TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF


TECHNOLOGY

•

10 500 students, personnel 2000

•


1 500 from abroad

•

Budget 148 mln
€
, 50% external sources

•

Foundation capital
137 mln
€

•

Faculties:


Computing and Electrical Engineering


Engineering Sciences


Faculty of Natural Sciences


Faculty of Business and Built Environment

COMPUTING AND EE

•

Departaments:


-

Electronics and Communications Engineering


-

Department of Signal Processing


-

Department of Electrical Engineering


-

Department of Pervasive Computing


TUT INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT




•

New concept for education

•

Creating innovative environment

•

Emphasis on creativity and startups

•

Startups
-

part of study process


KAMPUSARENA


KAMPUSARENA



DEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING

-

12
Professors


-

Total Personnel ~
150

-
25
MSc/y

-
10
PhD/y

-
Budget

6
mln

€
/y


Department of Signal Processing

Digital Signal

Processing

Image and Video

Processing

Speech and

Audio

MAJOR AREAS

Multimedia

ComputationalSystems

Biology,

Health Informatics


MULTIMEDIA

NEW FORMS OF

INTERACTION

MUSIC

PROCESSING

MAJOR AREAS

CONTENT BASED

IMAGE

RETRIEVAL

VIDEO

COMPRESSION, 3D


INNOVATION IN SIGNAL
PROCESSING EDUCATION


•
INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS

•
SIGNAL PROCESSING INNOVATION


PROJECT

•
ACCEPTING OF MOOC (
Massive

Open


Online

Courses)



COOPERATION WITH WROC
Ł
AW


•
NATURAL INTERFACES

•
FACE EXPRESSIONS/ EYE TRACKING

•
EXPANDING THE RANGE OF GESTURES

•
TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS




NATURAL INTERACTION

•
BASED ON VISUAL/ACOUSTICAL I/O

•
VISUAL:


-

BODY GESTURES
KINECT




-

HAND GESTURE
INTEL ICC



-

HAND GESTURE
LEAP MOTION




-

FACE EXPRESSIONS ???

APPLICATIONS

•


•


•
SKELETON FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE

•
APPLICATIONS OUTSIDE UI AND
GAMING


-

REHABILITATION


-

TRAINING

Kiitos

–

Thank you
-

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ę
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ę