LIRIS News
A LIRIS member finalist of the PALSE Package call
Hassan Aït-Kaci selected by the Programme Avenir Lyon Saint-Etienne for his project LivEMUSIC : Living-Environment Monitoring Use Scenario with Intelligent Control.
Baptiste Monterrat has won the Martial Vivet award at the Young Researchers in TEL meeting (RJC EIAH 2014)
The paper entitled "Motivating learners from adaptive ramification » of Baptiste Monterrat received the Martial Vivet award during the fifth Young Researchers in TEL meeting (RJC EIAH 2014), La Rochelle, 16-17 June 2014. Baptiste is a PhD student in the Silex team (supervised by Élise Lavoué and Sébastien George) a nd in the WOONOZcompany (Cifre funding). This prize was awarded by a multidisciplinary jury according to the following criteria: contribution (in terms of knowledge) for the domain, scientific approach, multidisciplinary, quality and presentation of the article.
First prize of the 2014 ChaLearn Challenge
The LIRIS laboratory (team « Imagine ») has won the first prize of the 2014 ChaLearn Challenge "Looking at People: Gesture Recognition », which has been organized in conjunction with the international conference ECCV 2014 (track 3).
Geometric modeling workshop
The geometric modeling workshop (GTMG - groupe de travail en modélisation géométrique) took place on March 26th and 27th at LIRIS. Around 60 researchers and phd student gathered to listen to presentations and share ideas. It was an opportunity to discover new research trends in geometric modeling through 18 talks with a wide variety of topics such as Bézier Curves or shape and image segmentation.
The LIRIS organizes a workshop on objects connected with the Lyon FabLab
A "connected objects workshop" took place over three sessions, on November 12th, 19th and 26th. It was organized by two LIRIS researchers (Benjamin Habegger and Lionel Médini), the computer science Department of the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University and the FabLab of Lyon, in partnership with the Capway Consulting Group. The first meeting was held at the café La Cordée and the following two were hosted by the computer science Department of Lyon 1 University.
New approach for urban logistics: delivery area booking
The ALF project (New Approach for Urban Delivery Area Booking) directed by Bertrand David with René Chalon, in which involved SILEX and Grama research teams members was awarded during the final Carrefour Predit 4 (Program for Research and Innovation in Land Transportation) receiving the award in the category "Logistics and freight / knowledge."
Robert Laurini appointed as fellow of "Knowledge Systems Institute"
The "Knowledge Systems Institute" located near Chicago, Illinois has recently appointed Robert Laurini as Fellow of this insititute in recognition for his research on geographic information systems.
