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Official launch of the SequoIA Cluster: a collective drive to raise the profile of artificial intelligence on the international stage On 28 April 2025, the SequoIA - Security, Trust, AI Cluster launched its project in the presence of the 19 members of the consortium. Led by the University of Rennes within IRISA, this ambitious AI project aims to create a research and innovation ecosystem focused [..]

IRISA is proud to be involved in the creation of EuroBERT, the most powerful multilingual encoder model for information retrieval, classification and quality estimation (for summarisation and machine translation) in 15 languages. Caio Corro, an associate professor at INSA Rennes and a researcher in the LinkMedia research team, collaborated on the creation of EuroBERT. Intelligence Artificielle et [..]

Synapse, the first joint laboratory combining a media organisation and academic research With the support of the French National Research Agency, Ouest-France, CNRS and the University of Rennes are launching Synapse, the first joint laboratory aimed to interconnect artificial intelligence, the media, press content, journalists and readers. Synapse will work towards quality journalism, offering [..]

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 [..]

AlgoTouch: the software that lets you view and manipulate graphical objects to understand and learn the basics of programming Learning a programming language like Python, C, C++ or Java isn't always easy! So a group of teacher-researchers have come up with AlgoTouch, an innovative software programme for learning programming! With AlgoTouch, you can easily manipulate graphical objects on a screen [..]

Happy New Year or Bloavez mad! Imagine a voice capable of rendering a text in Breton with the right pronunciation and intonation, or even capable of speaking directly, adapting to the context? This feat, based on artificial intelligence, is coming to life on the new digital portal of the Office public de la langue bretonne, due to be launched at the end of 2023. Developed under the leadership of [..]

Archaeological remains are fragile witnesses that need to be analysed, interpreted and preserved. Imagine being able to excavate them without opening them... In 2017, major advances in the study of ancient Egyptian animal mummies emerged, opening up new perspectives on the history and culture of this civilisation. An in-depth study in Manchester of 800 Egyptian animal mummies revealed that a third [..]

In french only Bertrand Coüasnon, maître de conférences à l’INSA de Rennes, Aurélie Lemaitre, maître de conférences à l’Université de Rennes 2, membres de l'équipe de recherche Intuidoc/Shadoc et leurs collègues s’intéressent à la création de systèmes hybrides d’analyse de documents. Dans le cadre du projet CollabScore financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), ils automatisent la [..]