Prsentation de l'INRIA

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Welcome to INRIA Sophia Antipolis
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French National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control

• Information and Communication Science and
  Technology
• Researching
• Experimenting
• Sharing and transmitting
• Creating points of reference
• A public scientific and technological institute
  under the dual authority of the Ministry of
  Research and the Ministry of Industry

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ICST and society

• A source of innovation in all human endeavors
• Telecommunications, media, engineering, commerce,
  leisure, education, health, transportations,
  environment, finance
• A crucial economic role
• A profound social and cultural impact
• A continuous change
• Advances stemming from research
• Constant demand for new applications

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ICST and Research

• Not just a set of tools but a matter of knowledge
• A young discipline that brings forth
  complexscientific problems
• A strong interaction with all other scientific
  fields
• New ethical issues
• International competition
• Considerable training needs

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The Research Units
Rocquencourt
Loria
Rhône-Alpes
Irisa
Sophia Antipolis
Futurs
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Key figures
A work force of 3,600
2,800 scientists 1000 Doctoral candidates
160 Post-docts 290 Expert engineers 560
engineers, technical and administrative
6 Research Units
Budget 160 M (tax not incl.) including 32 M
from contracts, software licenses, etc.
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Diversity and relevance of INRIAs research
fields

• Communicating systems
• Cognitive systems
• Symbolic systems
• Numerical systems
• Biological systems
• Important and recognized scientific and
  technological results

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Organization into project-teams

• Scientific management
• Project-teams
• Between 10 and 25 scientists
• A strong thematic unity
• Medium term work program and objectives
• Scientific and financial autonomy
• Links and collaborations with industrial and
  academic partners in France and worldwide
• A rigorous evaluation of the results and a
  limited duration

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Technology transfer, an economic ambition

• Research with an eye on business
• An essential element of the Institutes culture
• Objectives
• Lower the transfer time between an idea and its
  marketing
• Optimizing the economic impact on the short,
  medium and long terms
• Creating standards to achieve technological
  breakthroughs
• This transfer policy is asserted in INRIAs
  strategic plan Building strong partnerships
  with major French and foreign companies that are
  leaders on their market

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Working and talking with companies

• A long standing experience in terms of relations
  with the economic sector
• Over 730 ongoing research contracts (Jan. 1st,
  2006)
• Participation in over 40 European projects (6th
  Framework Program), mainly with industry
• Software distribution (contracts and open source)
• Continuous exchanges
• INRIA-Industry meetings
• Technological partnership clubs with small and
  medium-sized companies
• Welcoming engineers from industry
• Industrial post-docs

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Various ways of collaborating with INRIA

• Framework agreements
• Contracts research, studies, consultancy
• Software licenses for evaluation purposes
• Exploitation and co-ownership contracts
• Commercial licenses
• Corporate RD actions
• Consortiums
• Industrial post-docs

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International relations (1)

• A major player in the construction and
  development of European research
• Participation in more than 40 European projects
  (6th Framework Program)
• Co- founder and driving force within ERCIM
  (European Research Consortium for Informatics and
  Mathematics)
• ERCIM Post Doc Fellowship Program
• Development of partnerships with European
  industry
• AIRD Joint virtual laboratory on ambient
  intelligence (INRIA, Philips, Thomson)
• Scilab Consortia, Objectweb
• Setting up bilateral partnerships with other
  European countries
• Fostering cross-boarder exchange with
  neighbouring regions

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International relations (2)

• Joint laboratories
• LIAMA The joint Sino-French Laboratory in
  Informatics, Automation and Applied Mathematics
• LAFMI The Franco-Mexican laboratory in computer
  science
• France-Hong Kong center for Financial and
  Insurance Engineering
• Conferences and government-sponsored events
• CARI African Colloquium on Research in Computer
  Science
• Asia ICST Regional Program - in South-East Asia -
  with CNRS
• Tunisia ICST Regional Program - with the French
  Embassy in Tunis

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International relations (3)

• 42 Associated Research Teams
• Receiving foreign specialists and students (INRIA
  International Internship Program)
• 53 interns from 10 countries
• 1000 scientific visitors from 70 countries

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Training

• Training through research
• 217 doctoral theses in computer science,
  automatic control and scientific computing are
  defended every year after having been prepared
  within an INRIA research project-team(this
  represents 20 of all French doctorates in these
  scientific fields)
• Advising 1,000 doctoral candidates
• Welcoming French and foreign engineers and
  interns (welcoming positions, internship program)
• Post-doctoral training
• Welcoming young foreign researchers (about 60
  every year)
• ERCIM fellowships in European countries
• Post-doctoral periods abroad
• Fellowships for industrial post-docs

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Sophia Antipolis Research Center

• - Creation in 1983
• - 29 Research teams in Information and
  Communication Science and Technology (ICST)
• - 500 persons including
• 180 permanent staff,
• 150 researchers and PhD from 42 different foreign
  countries

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In partnership
With . University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
and CNRS . Universities of Marseille and
Montpellier . CIRAD and INRA . Ecole des Mines
de Paris, lEcole des Ponts, l Ecole des
Télécomunications et EURECOM . ENS . Cermics
. Paris VI et le CNRS . Lorraine (Omega), .
Rhône-Alpes (Planète) . Rocquencourt (Axis)
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29 research teamsgrouped in 5 research themes

• Communicating systems 6
• Distributed systems and software architecture
• Networks and telecoms
• Embedded systems and mobility
• Architecture and compiling
• Cognitive systems 4
• Statistical modeling and machine learning
• Perception, indexing and communication for images
  and video
• Multimedia data interpretation and man-machine
  interaction
• Image synthesis and virtual reality

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29 research teamsgrouped in 5 research themes

• Symbolic systems 6
• Reliability and safety of software
• Algebraic and geometric structures, algorithms
• Management and processing of language and data
• Numerical systems 7
• Control and complex systems
• Grids and high-performance computing
• Optimisation and inverse problems for stochastic
  or large-scale systems
• Modeling, simulation and numerical analysis
• Biological systems 6
• Modeling and simulation in biology and medicine
• CardioSense3D Cardiac Simulation (national
  action)

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Inria Sophia Antipolis Industrial Relations

• Contracts and partnerships
• Through consultancy, research, licence contrats
  know-how transfer
• Through national RD programs (RNRT, RNTL, RNTS,
  PREDIT, )
• Through European funded programs (FP)
• A wide range of partners
• Regional Alcatel Space, RealViz, Esterel
  Technologies, INRA, Ifremer, Gemplus CSTB,
  Simulog, FT RD...
• National Dassault Aviation, Astrium, CNES,
  Philips, RATP, Crédit Agricole, EDF, GDF, Airbus,
  Bull, GEMS, Sagem, BRGM, CEA,...
• International Hitachi, Mirada Solutions,
  Mentice, Medtroni

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InTechSophia

• A club of partners, a place for companies and
  researchers to meet and discuss
• Its objectives
• Promote synergies between public research and
  industry
• widely open
• A steering committee
• Large companies Thales, Philips
• Small and medium companies Simulog, Silogic
• Industrial clubs Telecom Valley, Club HiTech
• Other research centers Eurecom, I3S
• Fondation Sophia Antipolis
• - Half days on
• Web services, wireless networks, medical imaging
  in the pharmaceutical industry, knowledge
  management and corporate memory, device indepence
  on the web, security on the Internet, parallel
  processing, grid computing

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Start-up of INRIA Sophia Antipolis
ERGOMATIC  Ergonomics of man-machine
interfaces ILOG  Advanced
software components (visualization,
optimization, intelligent agents) ISTAR 
Aerial and satellite image processing,
digital mapping KEENEO Software editor for
Behaviour Recognition Intelligent Video
Surveillance (IVS) REALVIZ  Digital
effects and computer animation UDCAST IP
applications and broadcast links ESTEREL
TECHNOLOGIES Solutions for embedded software,
SOC design validation and verification QUANTIFICA
RE Medical image analysis for pharmaceutical
applications GEOMETRY FACTORY Software
components for computational geometry VULOG
Software and services on urban mobility
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French, European and international organizations
hosted by the research unitCERMICS Centre
d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques,
Informatique et Calcul Scientifique. Joint
laboratory with Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
ChausséesERCIM European Consortium for
Informatics and Mathematics, host of the W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
European and international relations . 245
foreigners (40 researchers, 75 PhD students, 30
post-PhD, 50 invited scientists and 50
students) . 42 nationalities . 34 international
collaborations (IST, HPMT, EEC, EVK4, PAI)
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Training and knowledge dissemination

• Training through research
• 150 PhD and students
• Complementary training courses at ESSI, ISIA,
  thematic seminars, Colloquium (scientific
  conferences)
• Activities in computing engineery, training in
  industrial companies
• Most advanced equipement
• Post-doctoral training
• Welcoming young foreign researchers
• Post-doctoral periods abroad
• ERCIM fellowships in European countries
• Fellowships for industrial post-docs

Teaching University degree courses (DEA,
DESS) Engineering schools (École Polytechnique,
ENS, etc.) Organizing courses and
seminars Setting up INRIA courses, seminars and
working groups Organizing national and
international conferences
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Library

• A partnership with I3S laboratory (UMR
  Cnrs-Unsa)
• Open to specialized users, it offers,
• - 34000 books, PhD theses, conferences
  proceedings, research reports
• - 320 specialized reviews covering all the
  research themes (including 230 on line)
• specialized bibliographies on ligne
• Access to resources of Inria Unsa libraries
• - Web site , library portal
• http//www-sop.inria.fr/dias/
• A participation in the following networks
• Bibliothèques françaises de mathématiques (RNBM)
  
• Bibliothèque Nationale (BNF) - pôle associé
  Informatique

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INRIA in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

• Scientific  Partnerships
• Joint research teams with
• Ecole des Mines (CMA - Centre de Mathématiques
  Appliquées)
• UNSA (Université de Nice) et CNRS
• Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (CERMICS)
• Université de Provence

• Collaborations with  
• Laboratories of Nice Sophia Antipolis
  university
• Institut Eurecom
• Universities of Marseille, Provence and
  Méditerranée,
• Observatoire de la Côte dAzur,
• Observatoire Océanographique de Villefranche
  (Paris VI) Ifremer, IMT etc.

• Participation to professional clubs or
  associations 
• - Telecom Valley, PERSAN, Club HiTech, Pôle
  Santé, ImeT, MITSA, Méditerranée-Technologie
  

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REVES
Rendering and Virtual Environments with Sound
COLLABORATIONS IRCAM, EdenGames/ATARI,
Max-Planck, U Girona, U Erlangen, CSTB, EDF/RV
APPLICATIONS Computer Games. Virtual/Augmented
Reality for Architecture and Urban Planning.
Virtual Heritage. Audio-Visual Production.

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Rendering for Images and Sound
• Plausible Rendering using Alternative
  Representations.
• High-Quality Rendering for Simulation.
  
• Virtual and Augmented Reality with Sound
  
• Simple and Efficient Re-lighting.
  
• Enriching environments with Sound.
• Appropriate representations for 3D interaction.

Mission Tramway/IST CREATE
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MASCOTTE
Algorithms, Simulation, Combinatorics and
Optmization for Telecommunications
Joint project team I3S (CNRS, UNSA) INRIA
Sophia Antipolis 3 CR INRIA, 5 CNRS (1DR, 4CR), 3
UNSA (1 Pr, 3 MdC), 2 France Telecom
COLLABORATIONS France Télécom RD Alcatel Space
Industries Canada Concordia, SFU Brazil Sao
Paolo, Minais Gerais, Fortaleza Europe
CRESCCO, AEOLUS, COST 293 et 355  PÔLE DE
COMP.  SCS ANR-JC OSERA SLA du futur SOFTWARE
Mascopt, OSA

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Discrete mathematics, algorithms and
  combinatorial optimization
• Communication algorithms
• Networks design (optical WDM, MPLS, on-board,
  radio WiFi, WiMax and satellites networks)
• Resource sharing and protection
• Simulation of complex systems

APPLICATIONS Design and optimization of optical
networks Radio networks Overlay computers.
Satellites constellations Road traffic
simulation
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ASCLEPIOS
Analysis and simulation of biomedical images

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Medical Image Analysis
• Biological Image Analysis
• Computational Anatomy
• Computational Physiology
• Clinical and Biological
• Evaluation

COLLABORATIONS    Dosisoft, General Electric
Medical Systems , Karl Storz, Mauna Kea
Technogies, Medtronic, Philips Medical Systems,
QuantifiCare, Siemens Corporate Research,
SimSurgery,Serono France Guy's Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, IRCAD, IPMC, LONI, MNI
and Hôpital Saint-Justine, NIH, Hôpital Pasteur
and CAL, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, etc   

• APPLICATIONS
• In Medicine and Biology
• Computer Aided Diagnosis
• Simulation of Therapy
• Image-Guided Therapy.

SOFTWARE YAV, INRIAlign, LibSimplex, Edges
3D,Connexe3D, Reech 3D, Baladin, bibtex2html
Start-up Quantificare
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ARIANA
Inverse Problems in Earth Monitoring
Provide image processing tools to aid in the
solution of problems arising in a wide range of
concrete applications in Earth observation and
cartography
RESEARCH THEMES

• APPLICATIONS
• Image processing, applied to satellite and aerial
  images
• Image restoration and denoising, multicamera
  reconstruction and super resolution,
• extraction of various structures in the scene
  (road networks, urban areas.),
• and retrieval from remote sensing image databases

• Methodologies based on two broad classes of
  techniques
• probabilistic models
• - variational methods

• COLLABORATIONS
• Alcatel Alenia Space, Astrium, Sagem,
• CNES, IGN,
• BRGM, IFN,
• DGA
• SOFTWARE
• DEMITRI, DEFFASER,
• Exaubatitri di, Exaubaticoope, Caroline,
• Extraline, Phaseline

• Markovian modelling,
• Stochastic geometry,
• Variational approach,
• Optimisation,
• Parameter estimation.

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ICARE
Instrumentation, Control and architecture of
advanced robots
RESEARCH THEMES . Algorithms and theoretical
aspects of control . Acquisition and use of
sensory data. . Architecture and programming
for robot controllers
APPLICATIONS Stabilisation of mobile
robots Mobile robot navigation and
guidance .Robust visal tracking and
control Visual servoing thechniques applied to
the control of aerial robots
COLLABORATIONS    Ifremer, Cybernetix
andThomson-Marconi-Sonar. , Sagem S.A., Renault
S.A., and CEA.
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ACACIA
Knowledge Management, Semantic Web and
Bioinformatics

• RESEARCH TOPICS
• Knowledge acquisition and modeling
• Corporate semantic Web
• Ontologies
• Automatic generation of semantic annotations
• Semantic search engines

APPLICATIONS
Collaborative medical reasoning and
argumentation

• PROJECTS
• Ligne-de-vie
• MEAT
• SeaLife (european project)

• TOOLS
• Corese
• SeWeSe
• Meat-Annot
• VirtualStaff

Supporting microarray experiments
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ODYSSEE
Computer and biological vision
APPLICATIONS - Mapping of the visual cortical
areas of active monkeys from functional MRI, -
Building corpus for directional verbs in French
sign language. - Cognitive vision systems.
-Mathematical and algorithmic tools for brain
imagery.
COLLABORATIONS     Realviz, Sagem, G.E.C UE
grants ImaVis, Insight2, CogVisys

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Variational methods and partial differential
  equations for vision
• Functional imaging for observing brain activity
• Modelling brain activity

Start-up Realviz
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Optimization and control, numerical algorithms
and integration of complex multidisciplinary
systems governed by P.D.E.s
OPALE

• COLLABORATIONS
• Dassault Aviation and Piaggio Aero,
• France Télécom and Thalès Air Défense
• CNES

• APPLICATIONS
• Multi-disciplinary optimization of aerodynamic
  configurations (wings in particular)
• Geometrical optimization of antennas
• Development of Virtual Computing Environments
• Topology optimization
• applied to biology

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Numerical algorithms for multi-disciplinary
  optimization of PDE systems
• Geometrical optimization
• Software platforms for distributed parallel
  computing and grids

SOFTWARE CAST, NS3D, BZPARAM