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Djemel Ziou, director of the CoRIMedia project, and François
Deschênes, researcher for the consortium, were present with
the rector of the University of Sherbrooke and the dean of
the Faculty of Sciences during the inauguration of the new
premises of the MOIVRE (Modélisation en imagerie, vision et
réseaux de neurones) and of the bachelor's program in imaging
and digital media, offered since September 2004. On this occasion,
the speakers emphasized the promising results of CoRIMedia's
research. For more information on this conference, which took
place on November 25, 2004, consult the news
release or watch journalist Marcel Gagnon's report
for TVA.
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The Department of Canadian Heritage is again supporting
CoRIMedia by funding its project "Research network for the
management of digital cultural content". In fact, a grant
of $750,000 is to be given for 2004-2005 period to allow CoRIMedia
to continue its research on new media.
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A colour MetaMap poster (90 cm x 60 cm) is now offered
free to everyone. To get your copy, simply fill out the order
form on the MetaMap Web site.
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An article
published in the newspaper La Presse on November 10, 2004,
deals with CoRIMedia's progress in the area of content-based
information retrieval.
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The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Sherbroke,
in collaboration with CoRIMedia, the MOIVRE and the Carrefour
de l'information, presented the exhibition "Au-delà de l'image"
to introduce the new bachelor's program in imaging and digital
media, offered since September 2004. The exhibition was presented
at the Carrefour
de l'information from October 23 to November 2, 2004.
For more details, you can watch a report
by Marie-France Roy-Carbonneau, journalist for Radio-Canada.
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CoRIMedia and the University of Sherbrooke organized an
international conference that took place on October 25 and
26, 2004. The forum brought together many researchers from
various fields such as user modeling, indexing and image,
audio and video retrieval. Details on the meeting are available
at this address : http://www.corimedia.org/workshop2004
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Djemel Ziou's team went to the grand finals in the category:
"Technological innovation, 201 employees or more" at the OCTAS
competition. The team presented their search engine for content-based
image retrieval. More details are given on the Web site of
the Fédération
Informatique du Québec.
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Funding of $1.2 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI), the Ministère du Développement économique et régional
et de la Recherche du Québec, Canada Economic Development and
the Société de diversification économique de l'Outaouais (SDEO)
was announced on March 17, 2004. This funding will be used to
acquire the necessary infrastructure for projects being conducted
by researchers at the University, of whom eight are members
of CoRIMedia. Full details are available on the UQO
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CoRIMedia will organize a workshop on October 16-17 at the
Longueil Campus of the University of Sherbrooke. October 16
will be the day for presentations of research results. |
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The University of Sherbrooke's internal newspaper (Liaison)
has published an article about image retrieval software developed
by University of Sherbrooke researchers. The entire article
is available on the Web site of the newspaper Le Liaison.
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A news
release was published on March 25, 2003 by the University
of Sherbrooke about software developed for Internet image retrieval
by researchers at the university. |
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