Congratulations to François Torregrossa , PhD student in the LinkMedia research team, who received the Best Student Paper Award at the WI-IAT 2021 * conference for his work entitled "Unsupervised Tree Extraction in Embedding Spaces for Taxonomy Induction". François Torregrossa completed his thesis in collaboration with SoLocal, within the LinkMedia research team. * The 2021 IEEE/WIC/ACM [..]
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Congratulations to François Torregrossa, who received the Best Student Paper Award
Submitted on 21/12/2021
In the press
From "Game of Thrones" to "Black Panther", Golaem studio's digital mobs take over the screen
From "Game of Thrones" to "Black Panther," Golaem studio's digital mobs are crushing the screen The start-up Goalem created in 2009, has just won its second technical Emmy Award in October 2021. Initiated by research conducted on the modeling of human movements and behaviors (within the IRISA laboratory), the Rennes-based company Golaem - carried by six specialists in crowd modeling - is filling [..]
Submitted on 16/12/2021
Focus
Relive the 10th edition of the Science and Music Day in video and in pictures!
You were there or you would have liked to attend? Relive or discover this day thanks to the video made by Ludys and beautiful pictures by Caroline Ablain Thank you to all the organisation team, to the volunteers and especially to the public who always come!
Submitted on 26/11/2021
Mediation
Once again this year, IRISA is taking part in the Fête de la science in Rennes
Let's meet from 03 to 09 October, at the Champs Libres in Rennes. This year, we are honouring our Linkmedia team! Linkmedia , one of our 38 research teams, offers you a dive into the field of multimedia. Linkmedia aims to provide techniques and tools to help us explore the nature of extremely large collections of multimedia documents . This work has many applications, notably in the fight against [..]
Submitted on 28/09/2021
Mediation
Journée Science et Musique: Sat. October 9, 2021
10th edition of the Science and Music Day: Saturday, October 9, 2021 The JSM [Journée Science et Musique] is a scientific and festive immersion through conferences, workshops and stands in the research and new technologies of music and sounds. On Saturday, October 9, 2021 , the 10th edition of the WSD invites you to make an extraordinary journey, a journey to the center of sound. Are you familiar [..]
Submitted on 30/08/2021
In the press
How did our ancestors walk?
How did Australopitecus, Homo habilis and our other ancestors or "cousins" work? To find out, the biomechanics and computer scientists of the HoBis project are modeling the walking of human specimens covered with sensors, but also that of baboons, occasional adepts of movement on their two hind legs... To discover this report proposed by the CNRS in partnership with LeMonde.fr (in french) Franck [..]
Submitted on 03/11/2020
In the press
Two people slipped into the same body . . . virtually!
The experience is unprecedented. So much so that it has led to the invention of a word: co-incarnation. This experience consists of two people sharing the simultaneous control of one and the same avatar. This milestone opens up an array of possibilities, in particular in the field of VR-based training. Débutées en 2018, les résultats de ces expériences surprenantes sont parus dans l'édition de [..]
Submitted on 15/10/2020
Events
How to facilitate the integration of migrants and refugees with the help of digital technology?
This is the ambition of the European project NADINE with the involvement of Damien Lolive , Arnaud Delhay and Gwénolé Lecorvé , all three Associate Professor at the Université de Rennes 1 and members of the Expression research team. What does this project consist of? The objective of the NADINE project is to develop a new way of integrating migrants and refugees thanks to solutions that [..]
Submitted on 29/09/2020