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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 [..]

The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many countries to take drastic measures to prevent and control the transmission of the virus from one individual to another. Among other things, monitoring the movement of people in order to keep potential infections under control. In this regard, the Board of Informatics Europe* has decided to issue a policy recommendation statement on the use of tracking [..]

IRISA is proud to partner with AlgoTouch, the website that teaches you how to design basic algorithms without prior knowledge of programming languages. In this period of lockdown, what would you say to discover and learn about programming with AlgoTouch? AlgoTouch is a software that allows progressive learning of programming, without the need to know computer languages! To do this, you simply move [..]