Today, 18 January, a new semester begins at BTH. We welcome all new students. Although we cannot welcome you here on campus, due to the pandemic situation, we want to greet you and welcome yot to BTH. Today a new semester starts and we hope you will enjoy your studies. We hope your studies will give you the knowledge and experience you need for a future career in the area you have chosen to study. We wish you a pleasant and rewarding time with us. All information you need to start your studies is available in you welcome letter.   Once again, welcome to BTH!

Signal processing enables smart cities and self-driving vehicles, the development of pacemakers and hearing aids, automatic image enhancement, mapping of the Earth’s surface, weather forecasts and climate models. Even the altitude variations on Venus have been mapped.  Mattias Dahl is a professor of systems engineering and Mats Pettersson is a professor of electrical engineering. Both work with systems engineering at BTH and with the adjacent subject of signal processing. “Our partners can take measurements using radar and optic sensors from vehicles, satellites, drones and aeroplanes, for example. We receive data and build methods for generating images from the raw material, and for extracting specific information from it”, says Mats Pettersson. Mattias Dahl adds that signal processing and BTH’s research are also central to the field of self-learning systems, i.e. artificial intelligence and its mathematics and statistics. “Many of the analyses that artificial intelligence, AI, is able to do today have been made possible by signal processing research.” Almost all progress in information technology includes the processing of information from sensors to humans. “From a stream of information, you want to extract what is relevant to the context. Get […]