Research projects (ongoing)
Title: SUMMarization of Activities of daily living using Sound-based activity recognition (SUMMA-Sound)
Time: 2024.10.01–2028.03.31
Budget: 50,400 €
Funding type: IMT Atlantique, SPIN doctoral school (50,400 €), cotutelle with Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
Description: Generation of medical reports by summarizing activities of daily living recognized using sound
My role: Co-supervisor (together with Christophe Lohr, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino)
Title: Veggie Breizh Bot — Assistive robot for cooking
Time: 2024.09.01–2028.02.29
Budget: 65,400 €
Funding type: Brest Métropole (50,400 € for cofunding the PhD student, 15,000€ co-funding for equipment acquisition), cotutelle with Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
Description: Robotic manipulation of food for meal preparation
My role: Co-supervisor (together with Christophe Lohr, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor)
Title: An engaging discussion robot for mental health preservation (DiscoBot)
Time: 2024.12–2026.11
Budget: 118,904 €
Funding type: Région Bretagne (bourse Stratégie d’Attractivité Durable : 74,988 €), Conseil départemental du Finistère (Aide aux programmes de recherche: 43,916 €)
Description: An engaging discussion robot for mental health preservation
My role: Principal Investigator (together with Anne-Gwenn Bosser, and Christophe Lohr)
Title: Functional Capacity Evaluation Évaluation using computer vision (FCEval)
Time: 2024.03–2024.12
Budget: 50,000 €
Funding type: Institut Carnot Télécom & Société numérique (pré-maturation)
Description: Functional Capacity Evaluation for humans in domestic conditions, using only computer vision.
My role: Principal Investigator (together with Panagiotis Papadakis)
Research projects (past)
Title: Mementop
Time: 2022.10–2024.10
Budget: 140,442 €
Funding type: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Plan "France Relance")
Description: Sound-based mental-health diagnosis in domestic conditions (in partnership with Smart Macadam)
My role: Principal Investigator (together with Christophe LOHR)
Title: Évaluation automatique continuelle de la capacité fonctionnelle humaine à domicile à l'aide de la vision par ordinateur (ECFvisuL)
Time: 2022.09–2024.02
Budget: 87,000 €
Funding type: Région Bretagne (bourse Stratégie d’Attractivité Durable : 57,000 €), Conseil départemental du Finistère (Aide aux programmes de recherche émergeants: 30,000 €)
Description: Functional Capacity Evaluation for humans in domestic conditions, using only computer vision.
My role: Principal Investigator (together with Panagiotis Papadakis)
Time: 2019.03.31–2023.03.30
Budget: 1,337,308 €
Funding type: CHIST-ERA
Description: Sorting an unstructured heap of unknown objects (e.g. nuclear waste consisting of a set of broken deformed bodies) as an instance of a complex manipulation task.
My role: Post-doctoral researcher (2019.05.10–2020.04.30)
Title: RoboErgoSum
Time: 2013.01.01–2016.12.31
Budget: 422,107 €
Funding type: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-12-CORD-0030)
Description: Exploration of artificial conscienceness in robotics
My role: Postdoctoral researcher (2016.04.01–2016.12.31)
Time: 2013.04.01–2016.03.31
Budget: 4,274,181 €
Funding type: FP7 ICT (2011-9)
Description: Technologies for intelligent robots that operate in human environments.
My role: Postdoctoral researcher (2016.01.01–2016.03.31)
Time: 2010–2014
Funding type: Inria internal large scale initiative action
Description: Development of technologies that can provide services for elderly and fragile persons, as well as their immediate family, caregivers and social groups.
My role: Doctoral researcher (2012.10.01–2015.12.15)
Time: 2009–2012
Budget: 350,000 €
Funding type: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (ANR-09-CORD-0100)
Description: CArtographie par ROboT d'un TErritoire (CAROTTE)
My role: Research Intern (2012.01.30–2012.07.31)