The goal of the LACIS's project is to demonstrate the validity of a new approach for color and spectral imaging sensor and camera systems. The demonstration will be given by building one or two prototypes showing the functionality of the novel approach and measuring the improvement compared to the state of the art. The novel approach is based on two principles inspired from the human visual system. First, human retina consist of a mosaic of cone photoreceptors (LMS) but the mosaic arrangement of cones is changing from individual to individual without impinging on color vision capability of the individual. A generalization of this principle would say that we can build a color sensor with any arrangement of color samples in the color filter array that cover the camera. This flexibility of sensor colorization allows optimizing the sensor for many type of application, particularly those that need multispectral encoding. Our prototypes would be therefore equipped with different color filter array and the performance of these different sensors will be tested. Second, instead of being perfectly linear with light intensity, the human retina response is non-linear and adaptive. Adaptation to light allows the human visual system to be sensitive to a large range of light value despite the noisy nature of the retina cells. We will implement this property on the prototypes in analog, before the analog to digital converter to prevent from noise amplification due to digitalization. A previous prototype have already been build and tested favorably by two members of the project. A new implementation has been proposed for a patent and will be implemented in the project. The general goal of the project is to build a demonstrator composed by (1) new filters, either pseudo-random 6x6 RGB, or multispectral based on COLOR SHADE technology, (2) a locally adaptive color CMOS sensor and (3) a motherboard including embedded processing for color or spectral image reconstruction optimized for spatio-spectral information. The demonstrator will be given by a functioning prototype that will deliver images of size 256x256 and showing the properties of the new approach for color or spectral sensor. The consortium is composed on three entities, two laboratories (LPNC, TIMA) and a company (SILIOS Technologies). The two laboratories have already worked together on a first prototype of light adaptive sensor. TIMA is well recognized in microelectronic and have a long achievement in sensor building. LPNC has developed several models for spatio-spectral representation and demosaicing method as well as high dynamic range and tone mapping inspired from human vision. SILIOS is a SME that develops technology and know-how on micro-optics and more specifically on multispectral filters for spectrometry and multispectral imaging. The project will open new products and skill for the company and new intellectual property for the consortium.

The proposed project addresses the topic “Optimised cockpit windshield for large diameter business aircraft”. The main objectives are i) to optimise the design of aircraft windshield and surrounding structure in terms of technical performances (low weight, high capacity to bear loads, reduced noise) and operational performances (low recurring costs, easy maintainability) and ii) to optimise heating power consumption for anti-icing. Other objectives are: - To develop models to support windshield design and to analyse power consumption for anti-icing and defogging; - To propose five concepts based on different assembly techniques and transparencies; - To support certification with heating power density lower than the currently used value of 70 W/dm2; - To develop a front aircraft demonstrator and to validate the selected concept;- To assess environmental impact of the proposed technologies; - To set the ground for future exploitation of the project results. The project starts with the definition of specifications and a review of latest emerging technologies to propose five improved window concepts. Models and simulation capabilities will be developed and validated for the optimisation of the heating power stream. A trade-off solutions between the five concepts will be proposed. A full scale front aircraft demonstrator will be developed to assess the performances of the selected optimised solution and its compliance. Two partners will collaborate in the project: Company Saint-Gobain Sully, a long-time supplier of transparencies in the aerospace market and University Savoie Mont-Blanc through two research laboratories specialised in modelling.

This project proposes an innovative approach to studying the role of gesture in social evaluations and learning across development. Social judgements shape our social world, and can lead to discrimination or conflict. Despite ample evidence that the language someone speaks and their accent drive social preferences, research to date has not addressed how the gestures that routinely accompany speech influence social evaluation. However, gestures are universal, and they show cross-cultural variation. In the proposed project, we will study gesture along with language to uncover the social preferences that result from the integration of multiple communicative cues. We will develop a unique and high-quality set of videos that will manipulate the background of gesture (native vs foreign), and of language (native vs foreign). We will use this set of videos to test the role of gesture in social preferences (WP1), and social learning (WP2) in 5-year-old children and 12-14-month-old infants. More specifically, we will test how different combinations of gesture and language (both native, both foreign, or mismatched) affect social preferences and learning across development. This project will provide the first evidence about the link between gestural communication and intergroup cognition, and how it unfolds across development. This could lead to new research and breakthroughs in our understanding of gestural communication and its connection to other cognitive processes. This project brings together two experienced developmental scientists with expertise in cultural learning, gesture research and nonverbal communication: Dr Cristina Galusca, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Neurocognition Laboratory at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Grenoble, France, and Prof Gerlind Grosse, from the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany.

This project aims to study on a diachronic way (through Middle and Modern ages), the different original forms of Christianity that were to be found in the « border territories », located on political, religious and linguistic borders, i.e. the lotharingians territories, later on called during the Middle Ages the « inbetween lands » (from the North Sea to Savoy). This territories, along with the Milanese, formed the « catholic Ridge » during the modern era (the border of the catholic influence, between the Protestants in the east and the Catholics in the West). These specificities were asserted often by the historians, but rarely demonstrated, if it is not by case studies. The objective thus is to rethink the explanatory causes and the processes of such a multiplicity and variety of religious experiments, as well as their spread, their successes or failures, while highlighting more efficiently what is due to the circumstances and what is to be credited to the structural phenomenons, linked to the political and religious specificities of these regions. To cover this space and assure a really comparative and transverse approach, an international consortium with 7 historian research teams was established : 4 French teams (the CRULH of Lorraine – coordinator –, the LARHRA of Lyon, the LSH of Besançon, the CREHS of Arras) and 3 foreigners (Transitions of Liège, Institute of history of the University of Luxembourg, History Department of Università degli Studi of Milan). All in all, 37 people are committed in the project, which concerns essentially the history but also assures openings towards the art history and the musicology, to deal with the evolution of the liturgical practices : 12 medievalists, 21 modernists, 2 art historians, 2 musicologists. Given the tremendous size of the region and of the period to be studied, the project will focus on a comparative study of three main topics, by using in particular the methods of the historic anthropology, the gender studies, the prosopography : • The commitment of religious women (specificity of the feminine vocations ; the relations with the male management of the churches ; the feminine writings) : organization of three rounds tables and a final colloquium, with publication of the acts in the form of common synthesis ; three volumes of editions of texts ; on-line publishing and digitalizations of texts ; constitution of a database on these communities. • The pastoral models (episcopal models, formation and skills of the bishops, the organization of the diocesan staff, the legal or liturgical norms’ production, « clericalization » of the Protestant ministers) : organization of three round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; constitution of a prosopographical database on the episcopal staff (14th-17th c.). • Devotions and politics (promotion and spread of the devotional practices : specific ways of the Marian worship, « political » saints, specific devotion to the angels) : organization of two round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; one exhibition with realization of a catalog (Museum of sacred art from Fourvière in Lyon) ; on-line edition of an inventory of the editions of a devotion book, "best-seller" during two centuries in the considered region. All the works will give rise to the production of a web site and a global synthesis in the form of a book-atlas, which will contain hundred maps accompanied with long recapitulative notes and with iconography.

The cochlear implant (CI) in congenital deaf children is now widely considered as a highly efficient means to restore auditory functions. However, after several decades of retrospective analysis, it is clear that there is a large range of recuperation levels, and in extreme cases some CI recipients never develop adequate oral language skills. The major goal of HearCog to improve rehabilitation strategies in CI children, it is to better understand and circumscribe the origins of such variability in CI outcomes. The originality of HearCog project is to consider CI outcomes in a broad range of interdependent aspects, from speech perception to speech production and the associated cognitive mechanism embedded in executive functions. The novelty of the proposal is both theoretical and methodological. The goals will be first to evaluate the capacities of the visual and auditory system to respond to natural environmental stimuli and to analyse neuronal mechanisms induced by sensory loss and recovery through the CI using brain imaging techniques (Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, fNIRS). In view of the co-structuration of speech perception and production during development, we will assess how deafness and CI recovery can alter speech production. But congenital deafness has deleterious impacts that extend beyond the auditory functions and encompass cognitive systems including higher-order executive processes. Based on the disconnecting model (Kral et al., 2016), our objective will be to relate neuronal assessment, using the fNIRS technique, of executive functions to auditory restoration in CI children. HearCog is based on longitudinal assessment on CI infants and age-matched controls, to search for prognosis factors of auditory restoration. We will also compare these measurements to data acquired in older CI children implanted for several years, and controls. In fine our goal is to acquire objective measures of brain reorganization that could be linked to variability in CI outcomes and therefore would constitute a predictive factor. HearCog is at the crossroad of cognitive neuropsychology, clinical research with a strong opening toward education. Consequently HearCog is translational and multidisciplinary with the unique objective to understand the compensatory mechanisms induced by congenital hearing loss to support both the social insertion as well as the insertion within the school system of cochlear implanted deaf children.