Texmex is a joint team between the INRIA research center of Rennes - Bretagne - Atlantique and the joint research unit 6074 IRISA. The team gathers people from INRIA, CNRS, university of Rennes 1 and INSA of Rennes (an engineer school). It also hosts three associate professors from university of Rennes 2.
Hervé Jégou deserved the 2010 Young Researcher Award of the Brittany Regional Council, in the category "Sciences, technologies, and interdisciplinarities"..
Our collaboration with Iceland has given raise to a new company, Eff2 Technologies, whoch will develop and commercialize our copy detection technology.
Permanent positions to be opened! In 2010, several positions will be opened by national research intitutes (CNRS and INRIA) and will allow to work in TEXMEX.
The paper "A Language Modeling Approach to Image Classification " by Pierre Tirily, Vincent Claveau, and Patrick Gros obtained the best paper award of the NEM summit 2008 which took place from October 13th to 15th in Saint Malo, France.
A new book with several contributions from TEXMEX: Multimodal Processing and Interaction. Audio, Video, Text. Published by Springer, Series: Multimedia Systems and Applications , Vol. 33. Maragos, Petros; Potamianos, Alexandros; Gros, Patrick (Eds.) 2008, Approx. 400 p. 20 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76315-6. August 2008.