| The research unfolding in the Basse
Normandie region involves the entire electronic information processing
chain, addressing both the development of new technologies and
the uses they generate in corporate operations and private lives.
The topics of excellence are as follows: |
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Image processing and
analysis: Acquisition, pre-processing, analysis and interpretation,
and quantitative measurements. Processed images, especially in
biomedicine and materials, stem from very different origins. |
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Security and data transmission:
Encryption, error correction, document compression, constraint
satisfaction for decision support, and compliance check of software
specifications. |
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Man-Machine Interaction,
Improves user-machine interaction procedures, making them more
comfortable or ergonomic, easier, and more efficient: electronic
documents, automatic language processing, psychological studies
on the ergonomics of software and documents, and virtual reality. |
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Sensors and Instrumentation
- They can create interfaces between the real world and the digital
world: high specificity and performance sensors and instrumentation
(optical and nuclear applications, superconductors, software,
and so on); automatic, and system control equipment. |
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The Impact of Information
and Communication Technologies on Humans: The contribution
of networked work techniques on individual and group behaviour,
study of how information and communication technologies alter
territories, lifestyles, and organisations. |
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| The
Teams |
| Fourteen laboratories and public research
centres work with a full-time staff of 110 (teacher-researchers,
research scientists, and technicians) and 135 doctoral candidates
working in Images, and Information and Communications Technologies.
Far-reaching experience in interdisciplinary joint work brings
together computer scientists and engineers, electronics specialists,
physicists and chemists, mathematicians, linguists, psychologists,
geographers, physicians and biologists, and more, depending
on the relevant field. Accordingly, all the complex facets of
actual issues can be addressed. The GREYC (Groupe de Recherche
en Informatique, Image et Instrumentation de Caen, the Caen
IT, image and instrumentation research group)- a joint Caen
University and ISMRA laboratory (with support from CNRS) - is
the organisational and promotional backbone of every scientific
and technological enterprise.
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| Equipments |
| The teams work with advanced, high-standard
equipment and facilities: |
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Technological and measuring equipment for modelling,
engineering, and characterising high-tech sensors and instruments
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A wide array of image acquisition devices: optic
and electronic microscopy, MRI, PET, and more |
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Man-Machine Interaction testing facilities: eye-tracking
equipment (the eyeputer), observation and recording room of computer
workstations, virtual reality work-kit |
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Computing facilities and computer networks |
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| Methods |
The Comité Régional pour
l'Image et les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
(CRITIC, the regional
committee for images, and information and communications technologies)
co-ordinates all the operations for training, research, and technology
transfer. It fosters relations between academic and corporate
teams. The CRITIC brings together the prime movers in academia,
industry and institutions that are promoting development in this
field.
The CRITIC is spearheaded by a team of one corporate officer and
an academic: |
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President: Philippe GUETIN (Philips Composants) |
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Laboratory Co-ordinator
Professor Patrice ENJALBERT (Caen University) |
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| Special Funding |
The activities pertaining
to the different topics are eligible for Appels à Projet
de Recherche Appliquée (requests for proposals in applied
research), for projects partnering companies and public research
laboratories. The first request for proposals was issued in 1999:
7 out of 20 projects were selected for funding aid amounting to
502,000 euros. Another request for proposals was issued in January
2001: 12 projects were selected for a total amount of roughly
605,000 euros.
Two similar requests for proposals will be issued in 2003 and
2005.
CRITIC |
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| Contacts |
| For general technological
or scientific information |
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Pr. Patrice ENJALBERT
Université de Caen
14032 CAEN CEDEX FRANCE
Tél : 33 (0)2 31 56 74 87 - Fax : 33 (0)2 31 46 73 30
Patrice.Enjalbert@info.unicaen.fr
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Mrs Brigitte VALLEE (GREYC Director)
Université de Caen - Esplanade de la Paix
14032 CAEN CEDEX FRANCE
Tél : 33 (0)2 31 56 74 81 - Fax : 33 (0)2 31 56 73 80
Brigitte.Vallee@info.unicaen.fr |
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| For economic or industrial
information |
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Normandie Développement
57 avenue de Bretagne - BP 1083
76173 Rouen Cedex 1 - France
Tel : 33 (0)2 35 03 06 04 - Fax : 33 (0)2 35 03 07 86
ndrouen@normandydev.com |
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| For international information |
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AFII (French Agency for International Investments)
- www.afii.fr |
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