Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Hybrid had 4 papers published at IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in 2015 : [19] [16] [18] [23] .

Hybrid team was also strongly involved in IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, which took place for the first time in France in 2015 (Arles, March 23-27), with A. Lécuyer: Program Chair, F. Argelaguet and M. Marchal: Research Demos Chairs, F. Nouviale: Exhibit Chair, B. Arnaldi: Supporters Chair.

Awards

• Best PhD Thesis award from “Fondation Rennes 1” for former PhD student Fabien Danieau for his work "Contribution to the study of haptic feedback for improving the audiovisual experience" co-supervised with Technicolor company.

• Project PREVIZ received the “business” award in Trophies “Loading the future” (24/11, Nantes, Competitivity Cluster "Images et Réseaux").

• The algorithm developed by Lucas Royer (co-supervised by A. Krupa, M. Marchal and G. Dardenne) won the first place of the MICCAI Challenge on Liver Ultrasound Tracking.