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Mapillary puts your photos on the map
Mapillary, an app developed by Lund University senior lecturer Jan Erik Solem, crowdsources street view images. The company has now joined forces with OpenStreetMap, the world’s biggest free, editable map service. If you live in a small town, or have booked a vacation in a remote location, you’ve probably encountered this problem: there are no [...]
Detecting heart failure with new mathematical methods
Using a magnetic resonance imaging device and new mathematical methods, researchers have obtained a better tool for observing blood flow in the heart. This could make it easier to detect heart failure, which is a common problem among the elderly. The research was carried out by doctoral student Johannes Töger, who works at the Division for [...]
Super detector tracks toxic algae
A ’super detector’ that can track the traces of a lump of sugar in the Baltic Sea – that was the starting point for a potentially life-saving technique developed at Lund University in Sweden. The method detects toxic algae blooms in drinking water.
Solar energy can now heat your shower
A simple ”smart control” box invented by a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden has made it possible to connect solar panels to your boiler - without making any changes to the existing hot water system.
World’s first live concert with ’3D-printed band’
The first live concert with a band consisting only of 3D-printed instruments has taken place at Lund University in Sweden. The band included a drum, keyboard and two guitars, all 3D-printed by Lund University professor Olaf Diegel. The band members were students at Lund University’s Malmö Academy of Music.
Degree project increases safety in nuclear power plant
From now on, the risk of disruption in nuclear power plants is lower, thanks to a degree project by students Anton Christensson and Erik Lingärde at the Division for Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering.
Lund students help Sony with innovation
Students from Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering and Blekinge Institute of Technology have helped Sony Mobile Communications to become more innovative. This happened on Sony Mobile Student Innovation Day, in Sony’s premises around the water tower in Lund, together with the cloud technology research institute, MAPCI. The purpose of the event [...]
Moo-ve over! Findings pave way for ‘cheese cows’
Certain cows’ milk is excellent for cheesemaking, whereas others’ is considerably less suitable. This has been shown in a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden, as part of a Swedish-Danish milk genomics initiative. The findings could possibly lead to certain cows’ milk being used entirely for cheese, and others’ milk for drinking. “No one knew [...]
Nanowires could make cars more energy-efficient
Fuel consumption in cars could be reduced thanks to nanowires and a thermoelectric effect. This is what emerges from the basic research conducted by Sofia Fahlvik Svensson, a doctoral student at the Division for Solid State Physics in Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering. This autumn, she will be publicly defending a thesis which presents [...]
International students gear up for studies in Lund
Hundreds of new international students are being welcomed to Lund and the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. A total of 260 exchange students and 200 Master’s students are getting ready to begin their studies at a world-class university.
World’s first 3D-printed saxophone
A professor at Lund University in Sweden has created the world’s first 3D-printed saxophone. WATCH: The world’s first 3-D printed saxophone Olaf Diegel, Professor of Product Development at Lund University, developed the prototype in just six months. The saxophone was printed in nylon from 41 different components, weighing less than 25% of a real [...]
Fascinating research at LTH: Atomic physics
Peer into a world that we’ve long since known existed, but have only recently been able to see – the world of the electrons! A world of incredibly small, and speedy, phenomena. Physics professor Anne L’Huillier explores this world with the help of ultra-short camera flashes – attosecond pulses (a billionth of a billionth of a second). Using this [...]
Crowdsourced streetview images using imaging technology developed by LTH
Thanks to image analysis research from LTH, users can now produce their own streetview images in the style of Google Street View. The technology has engendered a company named Mapillary, under development by four entrepreneurs from Skåne and spearheaded by senior lecturer Jan Erik Solem from LTH. He sold his previous company, Polar Rose, to Apple [...]
Modelling language creator
We are encouraged to think outside the box. Yet it can take time before the surrounding world is ready to take on innovative ideas. Hilding Elmqvist, LTH alumnus and creator of a programming language now used by many industrial companies all over the world, knows this only too well. He first presented his ideas in 1978, when he publicly defended [...]
New method for advanced aluminium welding
Aluminium is a lightweight material which is suitable for use in everything from cars to boats and planes. However, one of the problems of this material is that it is hard to join, as traditional welding, for example, does not work. Now researchers from the Departments of Automatic Control and Computer Science at LTH are taking part in the joint [...]