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A FEW Achievements Multitel MULTITEL is a research centre into Telecommunications, Signal Processing and Image, which owes its birth to the UMONS Polytechnical Faculty (FPMs). The centre started by conducting research with funding from Europe and the walloon region, and in 1999 acquired the status of a non-profit making research centre. Today Multitel is composed of a multidisciplinary team of over 80 engineers and technicians. The research centre offers its scientific expertise in voice technology, data merging, applications on fibre optics, image processing and enterprise data processing networks. In addition to its R&D activities, Multitel offers services in optics, telecoms and enterprise data processing networks. www.multitel.be
Numediart The Numediart Institute for New Media Art Technology was founded in 2010 by the University of Mons. Building upon MONS 2015 (Mons will be the European Capital of Culture in 2015), the Institute organizes internationally-renowned scientific training and research activities in the area of new media art technology. The topics covered by the Institute are: audio, image, video, gesture, and bio-signal processing, for applications in which the interaction between man and machine aims at creating emotions. These activities are performed in the framework of the Numediart Program coordinated by the Numediart Consortium made up of some fifteen members, amongst them, representatives of research, arts, entertainment and industry. www.numediart.org
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