Health, biometrics, deep learning and privacy

Maureen Clerc, Research Director within the Athena team, will speak twice during the "Brain Week" which will take place from March 9 to 19^th.

• March, 16^th, with Dr. Marie-Hélène Soriani, CRMR SLA during the '"Journée spéciale santé" at the Nice University Hospital on the topic "Increased Body: Brain-Computer Interface in the service of autonomy ". 
• Mars, 17^th, with Dr François Paris (CIRM) on : "Le cerveau à l'écoute : interroger la perception musicale".

To find out more, we invite you to watch this short film (on YouTube) from the Athena team, which presents the brain-computer interface (BCI) and what the stakes are. With the intervention of Maureen Clerc, Théo Papadopoulo from Inria and Marie-Hélène Soriani from Nice University Hospital.

As part of the "Café Techno" organized by the Learning Centre in Sophia Antipolis, Antitza Dantcheva, researcher in the Stars team, presented "The history of biometrics, from Alphonse Bertillon to the iPhone X " and shared her expertise on the following questions:  

• What is a biometric system?
• How do current systems work?
• What are the prospects?

EA few months ago, she was awarded an ANR JCJC scholarship that will enable her to work on concrete applications ranging from security to health care.

Yuliya Tarabalka, researcher in the Titane team, is also a recipient of the ANR JCJC fellowship.

Its project of compact and generic representation of satellite images opens the door to many applications. 

While the European Parliament is addressing online privacy issues in the context of the ePrivacy draft regulation, Nataliia Bielova, subject matter expert, was invited to present the work of the two project teams Inria India and Privatics working in this area.

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