Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Best student paper, 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Nov 2018, Singapore, Singapore (ICARCV 2018), Pavan Vasishta, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Anne Spalanzani

Other highlights of 2018

• Success for several project applications in the field of Autonomous Vehicles : ANR"Hianic", PIA Ademe "CAMPUS", FUI "STAR" and "TORNADO".

• In 2018, Chroma published several papers in Artificial Intelligence A+ ranked conferences: CVPR [21], NIPS [27], ICML [26], AAMAS [32].

• Strong involvement of Chroma in the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 Conference (Madrid, October 2018, more than 4000 people): C. Laugier was Program co-chair and co-organized three interconnected events on Autonomous Vehicles: a one day Workshop having attracted more than 360 people (See website: http://project.inria.fr/ppniv18), an Industrial Forum involving international companies (e.g. Renault, Nvidia, Baidu, EasyMile, Ambarella, etc) and having attracted about 80 people, and an Autonomous Vehicles Demonstration involving 5 international teams (including Chroma with our Autonomous Renault Zoe car) (see website: http://avdemo.car.upm-csic.es/) [46].

• First participation to the international RoboCup competition (Montréal, Juin, 2018) : we created the 'LyonTech' team to compete in the robocup@Home Pepper league. We ranked 5th over 21 participants. LyonTech is composed of members from Chroma (F. Jumel, L. Matignon, J. Saraydaryan, O. Simonin, C. Wolf) and two engineers from CPE Lyon (R. Leber) and LIRIS lab/CNRS (E. Lombardi). In October 2018, we qualified for the next RoboCup final, to be organized in Sydney, on July 2019.

• Participation in several International Award Committees (C. Laugier): Several IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 Award Committees (Best Paper Award, Fellow Award, Harashima Award, Distinguished Service Award, Young Professional Award), IEEE ICARCV 2018 Best Paper Award Committee, IEEE Chapter Award Committee 2018.

• French Robotics GDR : co-animation of the new GT « Apprentissage et Robotique » by Christian Wolf (with David Filiat), started in November 2018 ; O. Simonin will chair, with F. Charpillet (Inria Larsen), the next National Conference on Robotics Reseacrh (JNRR), on October 2019.

Best Paper Award:

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