Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

Contracts, Initiatives and Participation to Networks of Technological Research

Pôle de Compétitivité

Participant : Patrick Gros.

The French government organized in 2005 competitiveness poles (pôles de compétitivité ) in France to strengthen ties in given region between industries (big and small companies), research labs (both public and private ones) and teaching institutions (universities and schools of engineering). We are part, through our participation to the two projects Semim@ges and ICOS-HD, to the pole called "Images and networks" whose main actors are Thomson and Orange Labs and which is located in Brittany and Pays de la Loire. Patrick Gros is also deputy member of the executive committee and the project selection committee.

Contract with Thomson

Participants : Patrick Gros, Siwar Baghdadi.

Duration: 36 months, finishing March 31st, 2009.

S. Baghdadi's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between Thomson and TexMex .

Contract with Orange Labs

Participants : Patrick Gros, Gaël Manson.

Duration: 36 months, starting in November 2006.

G. Manson's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between Orange Labs and TexMex .

Contract with Orange Labs

Participants : Pascale Sébillot, Khaoula Elagouni.

Duration: 36 months, starting in October 2009.

K. Elagouni's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between Orange Labs and TexMex . The aim of the work is to investigate a more semantic approach to describe multimedia documents based on textual material found inside the images.