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Artificial intelligence to improve number plate recognition and ticket processing Florent Meyer, a graduate of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), joined IRISA in 2023. He is a doctoral student on a CIFRE thesis within the SHADoc research team and ANTAI, the public body in charge of the automated processing of offences. The subject of his thesis is image and text processing, and more [..]

In April 2023, Iris de Gélis was awarded the special mention of the AFRIF 2023 (Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes) thesis prize - see IRISA news. His thesis, Deep learning for change detection in 3D point clouds, has once again been recognized for its quality and scientific impact by the GdR CNRS MAGIS (see below). His dual axis in computer science and [..]

The Court Métrange Festival is about to make its big return in Rennes, in partnership for the first time with IRISA! As an emblematic cultural event in Brittany for 20 years, the Court Métrange Festival stands out for its highlighting of short films of "genre" and its promotion of new cinematographic approaches. For this edition, IRISA will be taking part in the Marché de l’Innovision (Innovision [..]

New Chair in Cyber Security The collection of personal data by private companies and public bodies is currently on a massive scale, with multiple benefits for both primary uses (social connections, geolocation guidance systems, electronic medical records, electricity network management, etc.) and secondary uses (studying the spread of viruses, computational sociology, smart cities, etc.). However [..]

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This year, more than 500,000 students from general and technological seconde were required to do an observation internship in professional environment. In response to this new demand, scientists have agreed to host interns within several research teams. The aim being to enable these young people to discover the exciting world of computer science research. Reception on Beaulieu Campus Last June [..]

IRISA is proud to announce that two of its teacher-researchers have recently been appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). These distinctions underline the scientific excellence of their academic work. (in french only) Félicitations à Patrick Derbez, nommé membre junior au titre de la chaire fondamentale Patrick Derbez est maître de conférences à ISTIC à l’Université de Rennes, où [..]

The SequoIA project, which has been designated a centre of excellence for research and training in artificial intelligence, will benefit from a budget of €20 million to strengthen the construction of an attractive European centre for research and training on the theme of AI, trust and security - SequoIA - in and through digital systems, drawing on internationally renowned expertise in AI [..]