INNOVATION, INNOVATION, FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY

OF TECHNOLOGY, OF TECHNOLOGY, & ENGINE PROJECT & ENGINE PROJECT

Irek DeféeIrek Defée

Tampere University of TechnologyTampere University of TechnologyTampere, FinlandTampere, Finlandirek.defee@tut.fiirek.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, April 19, 2023 Digital Media LaboratoryTUT

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 PROCESSINGDEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING

- 12 Professors - Total Personnel ~150-25 MSc/y-10 PhD/y-Budget 6 mln €/y

Department of Signal Processing

Digital SignalProcessing

Image and VideoProcessing

Speech andAudio

MAJOR AREAS

MultimediaComputationalSystems

Biology,Health Informatics

MULTIMEDIA

NEW FORMS OFINTERACTION

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 WROCŁAW

• 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 - Dziękuję