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Professional researchers, research officers, consultants and engineers are the primary sources
of inspiration for CRIM's R&D projects, which involve developing state-of-the-art technologies
with a view to transferring them to businesses and contributing to their commercial success. Come
and meet our ITC enthusiasts, who will shed light on the myriad practical applications of the
R&D projects undertaken by CRIM and IT professionals in an attempt to help the world!
“ITC professionals serving people's needs!”
WHEN: Thursday, October 22, 2009
WHERE: CRIM, 550 Sherbrooke West, Suite 100, Room F, Montréal
TIME: 10:00 a.m. to noon
COST: FREE (coffee/snack included)
MANDATORY REGISTRATION: Reserve your place by contacting Marie-Josée
Lachapelle at (514) 840-7491
Presentations in French
LISTENING TO IMAGES
By Marc Lalonde, Advisor, Vision and Imaging Team, CRIM
Computer-assisted vision is used to automatically recognize a wide range of objects,
places and faces in images or videos. It is also used to produce video descriptions, such as an
audio track describing the visual content of a video document (film, TV, etc.), which, in
combination with the usual dialogue, makes it easier for visually impaired people to follow the
storyline. Come and hear our specialist discussing these issues.
FOSTERING DIALOGUE BETWEEN MACHINES AND HUMANS
By Patrick Cardinal, Advisor, Voice Recognition Team, CRIM
Fostering dialogue between computers and the people who use them is a grand adventure
that began more than 50 years ago. Today, a level of mutual understanding does exist: computers can
take dictation and produce real-time closed-captioning enabling hearing-impaired individuals to
keep up with their favourite TV programs. But achieving real dialogue is another matter altogether!
Researchers tackling this challenge are not single-discipline specialists—far from it! Their
areas of interest include IT, digital sound processing, artificial intelligence, machine-assisted
learning and, most importantly, human language.
REVOLUTIONARY WEB TECHNOLOGIES
By Pascale Tardif, Senior Advisor, Internet Development and Technology Team, CRIM
The members of CRIM's Internet Development Technology Team have the skills needed to
develop IT applications and integrate complex information systems. Through an overview of the team’s
projects, you will discover cutting-edge Web-based applications for collaboration portals and
content management.
AUTOMATED INFERENCE OF WEB APPLICATION MODELS
By Arnaud Dury, Researcher, Distributed System Analysis Team, CRIM
Verifying the behaviour of users of Internet applications (e.g. bank and travel agency
websites) is important and difficult. We will present a two-stage research prototype: 1) the
behaviour of thousands of application users is analyzed to construct a formal mathematical model
for all of the application’s functions; 2) this model is then analyzed using automated tools
capable of detecting any anomalies in the application or “proving” their absence (in the
mathematical sense of the term).
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