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As part of the European ADAPT project, Marie Babel (associate professor INSA in Rainbow research team) is working on the development of a device to assist in driving an electric wheelchair. Today, not all people with disabilities have access to electric wheelchairs. At the risk of jeopardizing people's safety, the visual impairment, for example, does not allow this type of chair to be driven. And [..]

Article of June 05, Lemonde.fr by Jean-Marc Jézéquel Professor at the University of Rennes 1 and Director of IRISA Jean-Marc Jezequel, is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rennes 1 and Director of IRISA. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2016. Jean-Marc explains to us where these little bugs come from that regularly disturb us in our digital activities and can be expensive [..]

In 2017, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes makes an astonishing discovery about its 2500-year-old Egyptian cat mummy, which has been carefully preserved in the collections since 1923. This discovery will fuel an international research collaboration, one of the results of which can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts. A study conducted in Manchester on nearly 800 animal mummies from ancient Egypt [..]

Can we turn off the light or zap from one TV channel to another simply by brain activity? As part of its research platform on the connected home, Orange Labs is beginning to explore the potential of neural interfaces... Science fiction? Not quite anymore. When the brain makes a decision, neurons produce electrical impulses. An electroencephalographic headset can pick up these signals on the scalp [..]

Imagine a voice that would be able to transcribe a text in the right pronunciation and intonation in Breton, or even tomorrow, able to speak directly by adapting itself to the context? Imagine the Breton who would thus integrate our video games or human services (public transportation, commerce). This is a resarch project led by Damien Lolive (associate professor at Enssat and member of the [..]

The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Best Paper Awards. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer) for : Robin Gerzaguet (associate professor at Enssat and member of GRANIT research team) Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Vincent Berg, Jean-Baptiste Doré, Dimitri Kténas, Oriol Font-Bach [..]

Congratulations to Juliana Alves Pereira (Post doctoral student Université de Rennes 1), Mathieu Acher (Associate Professor Université de Rennes 1), Hugo Martin (PhD student Université de Rennes 1) and Jean-Marc Jezequel (Professor Université de Rennes 1) of the research team DIVERSE for their Best Paper Award at the ICPE 2020 international conference, which took place from 20-24 April at distance [..]

Congratulations to the Hybrid reserach team which was awarded 3 prizes at the IEEE VR 2020 conference Best Journal Paper Award : "Avatar and Sense of Embodiment: Studying the Relative Preference Between Appearance, Control and Point of View" Rebecca Fribourg, Ferran Argelaguet, Anatole Lécuyer, Ludovic Hoyet Best Conference Paper Award : "Detecting System Errors in Virtual Reality Using EEG [..]