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Congratulations to Walter Rudametkin who has been elected Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Walter Rudametkin is a professor at the Université de Rennes 1 (ESIR) since October 1st and conducts his research in the Diverse team. Specialised in the study and fight against Internet tracking, Walter Rudametkin has been running the Am I Unique website since 2014, which details our [..]

The contribution of digital sciences and Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging As part of the "Information Sciences and Health" thematic year of the INS2I of the CNRS, a day dedicated to new imagery for health was co-organised by IRISA in December 2020. This day was an opportunity to pay tribute to Christian Barillot, who died on 14 June 2020. Following this day, the organisers asked experts [..]

The world of animation, the art of visually moving motionless objects, has come a long way since the first animated films were produced over 100 years ago. Today, avatars have become omnipresent. These digital representations of real humans have entered the scene in modern video games, and are now being used in movies as well as in virtual and augmented reality entertainment. In the VirtUS team [..]

Congratulations to Quentin le Dilavrec, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Arnaud Blouin and Jean-Marc Jézéquel for the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper Award Congratulations to Quentin Le Dilavrec (Phd student, Université de Rennes 1), Djamel Eddine Khelladi (research CNRS), Arnaud Blouin (Associate professor, INSA Rennes) et Jean-Marc Jézéquel (Professor, Université de Rennes 1) who received the ACM SIGSOFT [..]

Franck Multon, Professor at the Université de Rennes 2, Head of the MimeTIC team (a joint team of Inria and M2S) talks to us about the REVEA project, which will help athletes improve certain "sub-skills" such as speed and motor coordination. Article from Polytechnique insights Quand la réalité virtuelle muscle la performance des boxeurs ... Franck Multon, Professeur Université Rennes 2 [..]

The annual conference of the association "Femmes et numérique: ensemble, cassons les codes!" will take place on 18 November 2022 in Rennes. (in french only) Si dans de nombreuses disciplines scientifiques, la parité femmes-hommes est loin d’être acquise, les sciences du numérique se distinguent par la faiblesse extrême du nombre de femmes qui s’y engagent. Pourtant, cela n’a pas toujours été le [..]

IRISA research teams will once again participate in this year's Fête de la Science The Empenn research team The ambition of Empenn is to establish a multidisciplinary team bringing together researchers in information sciences and medicine. Our medium- and long-term objective is to introduce our basic research to clinical practice, while maintaining the excellence of our methodological research [..]

IT for sustainable fishing and more respectful of the oceans At present, fishing is a real societal issue, particularly with regard to random catches of species without distinction of fish, correlated with the impact on the ecosystem and on the seabed. Teams of scientists are interested in developing artificial intelligence for more sustainable and ocean-friendly fishing, i.e. fishing sensibly [..]