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Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

  • The Pixyl startup (http://pixyl.io) created in March 2015 by F. Forbes (Mistis) with M. Dojat (INSERM), a former Mistis post-doctoral fellow S. Doyle (CEO) and IT Translation is one of the two Inria start-ups winners of the NETVA 2016 competition. S. Doyle travelled to Washington to take part in a personalized support program to learn about the North American markets. The NETVA competition is open to French hi-tech start-ups. It is organized by the science and technology departments of the French embassies in Canada and the USA. Pixyl develops neuro-imaging software which automatically analyses brain lesion load using MRI scans, for improved decision-making during clinical trials and routine clinical use.

  • Vision 4.0 FUI Minalogic project: Mistis is one of the 4 partners in the Vision 4.0 project that started in October 2016. This is one of the 8 projects funded by the Minalogic Pôle de competitivité in 2016. The support is of 3.4 Meuros.

Awards

  • 2016 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems. Antoine Deleforge (now with the panama team, Inria Bretagne-Atlantique), Florence Forbes (mistis team) and Radu Horaud (perception team) received the 2016 Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems for their paper: A. Deleforge, F. Forbes, and R. Horaud (2015), Acoustic Space Learning for Sound-source Separation and Localization on Binaural Manifolds, International Journal of Neural Systems, 25:1,(21 pages) [75]. The Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems established by World Scientific Publishing Co. in 2010, is awarded annually to the most innovative paper published in the previous volume/year of the International Journal of Neural Systems.

  • MITACS Globalink Research Award - Inria - for research in Canada. Alexis Arnaud received the MITACS award and a 5 kdollars grant to spend 5 months in the Mathematics and statistics department of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, working with Prof. Russel Steele.