Media & Networks Cluster - Images et Réseaux
Situated in west France, covering the whole of Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire, the ‘Images et Réseaux’ cluster specialises in three different areas: Telecommunications, Images and Networks.
The cluster is organised around 8 core elements:
•Image chain services in order to take advantage of the improvement in images to help improve the production chain
•Mobile imagery: conceiving and experimenting with new content and usage formats arising from the connection between TV broadcasts and mobile communication technology
•Image networks: anticipating future networks and network technology
•Electronic distribution of content: coming up with new ways of distributing contents, from creation to consumption
•Security of networks, content and personal data
•Acceptance, interoperability and convergence platforms
•Augmented and virtual reality: Medical procedures, training, pre-industrial validation of a process by simulation...
•Software: software techniques and tools, promoting projects in the field of software component engineering
Attributes
Information technology and communication sector (TIC)
34 50 jobs
Or 4% of all local employment compared with 3.3% on average in the rest of the country
Research in Brittany
- Over 650 million Euros invested per annum in R&D by Breton companies
- 6 500 private sector researchers and engineers
- 4 500 public sector researchers
Training in BrittanyBrittany is one of the French regions apart from Ile-de-France that has the highest number of graduates.
Members
156 cluster members in April 2008
Businesses 132
• French companies: Alcatel-Lucent, Thalès, France 3 Ouest, France Telecom, Ouest France Multimédia, Thomson, Télévision Française 1 (TF1), Société française de Radiotéléphone (SFR), Télédiffusion de France (TDF), ,…
• International companies: Alcatel-Lucent (France-United States), Canon (Japan), Mitsubishi (Japan), NXP Semiconductors (Pays-Bas), Comverse (USA)
• Of which 110 are small and medium-sized businesses
Research of training facilities 24, including Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs (ENSIETA), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rennes 1 et 2, Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC), Ecole des mines de Nantes, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Université de Nantes, Telecom Bretagne…
BackersBrittany and Pays-de-la-Loire regional councils, the district councils of Finistère, Côtes d’Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine and Morbihan, Lannion Trégor Agglomération, l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), la Direction Générale de Entreprises (DGE)
Cooperation in progress with regard to R&D
180 projects earmarked since 2005 with a total annual budget of over 100 million Euros (cf. appendix)
Of which nearly 85 million Euros is public funding
International cooperation
Current• Projet Quaero (Franco-German research facility)
• R&D collaboration with Italy on Integrated Intelligent Systems
• Platform of services via the Framework research & development programme (PCRD) with several European countries (Italy, Finland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, etc.)
Planned
• R&D cooperation agreements under investigation with Japan, Finland and South Korea
• Cooperation targeted with China and India
Examples of R&D Projects
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Name and title of Project |
Project holder(s) |
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Image chain services: from High Definition to Rich Media |
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Producing TV programmes in High Definition |
France Telecom and Medias Bretons |
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Broadcasting TV programmes in High Definition |
France Telecom and Medias Bretons |
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Multi-Usage image Access any type of content with automatic terminal recognition |
Thomson//TDF/Teamcast |
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The Semantic Image Recognition of objects and faces, text, image classification, etc. |
Alcatel-Lucent/Thomson/TDF |
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Rich Media for all Mass market video applications for use by the general public or professionals |
Alcatel-Lucent/Thomson/TDF |
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Mobile Imagery |
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Head end server |
Alcatel-Lucent/Thomson/TDF |
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Suppliers of Metadata |
TF1 |
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Access control |
France Télécom and Thomson |
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Statistics and audiences |
France Télécom |
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ESG (Electronic Service Guide) |
France Télécom, Thomson, TDF and Iwedia |
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Terminal 3G |
Thomson, Alcatel-Lucent, Embeddia and Iwedia |
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Image networks |
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Optical access network and future access components |
France Télécom, Mitsubishi… |
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Local domestic high speed |
Thomson, Mitsubishi, Comverse, Canon |
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Architecture and Configuration of the domestic network |
France Télécom, Thomson |
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Access node for new distribution of multimedia services |
Alcatel-Lucent and France Télécom |
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Electronic distribution of contents |
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Multiservice access architecture Platform compatible with DVB-IP standard |
France Télécom, Teamcast and Thomson |
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Domestic Multiservice Gateway High speed domestic platform |
France Télécom and Thomson |
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Supervision for multimedia conversational services of tomorrow Development of network core needed for image sharing |
Alcatel-Lucent and France Télécom |
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Interactive Rich Media Messaging Platform Video content in messaging platforms |
Alcatel-Lucent and France Télécom |
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Security of networks, contents and personal data |
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Protected downloadable content Authorise the exchange of protected content between secured networks |
Thomson, France Télécom, Centre de recherche INRIA Bretagne Atlantique |
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Search for content illicitly inserted in a video stream |
Thomson, France Télécom, Centre de recherche INRIA Bretagne Atlantique |
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Operational security management Development of an intrusion detection system |
SUPELEC, Telecom Bretagne, France Télécom and Thomson |
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Acceptance, interoperability and convergence platform |
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Platform structure |
Thalès, Thomson, France Télécom, Alcatel and several small businesses |
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Testing the transport of contents over the network |
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Testing the transport of High definition content over different networks |
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Mobile television solutions testing |
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Virtual reality and augmented reality |
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Collaborative systems Augmented virtual reality for industrial or business applications |
France Télécom, Thomson, Artefacto, Archivideo, Centre de recherche INRIA Bretagne Atlantique, Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), EADS, … |
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Virtual humans Technology for the analysis and synthesis of virtual humans (graphical representation, animation and behaviour) |
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Interactive mobile surfaces Central platform comprising an accurate 3D database of the entire Brittany region |
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Virtual simulation and training environment Learning in a virtual environment |
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