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Camille Dupré Ph.D. thesis defense: “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”
Thursday 18th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Camille Dupré, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”. Her thesis defense took place at the LISN, in Gif-sur-Yvette (660 Av. des Sciences Bâtiment, 91190), France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Mixed Reality (MR) environments integrate virtual elements into the user’s physical space, creating immersive experiences where real objects and digital content coexist. This

3D deep learning on terrestrial LiDAR scanned urban environments for objects monitoring
Large urban agglomerations nowadays are facing some major issues such as economic restrictions, environmental challenges, global and systemic approaches in city management [8]. One of them is to precisely monitor urban objects which can be natural (trees), artificial (traffic lights or poles), static or moving (cars). This is essential to analyze their mutual interaction (for

Personalized Visits to Foster Engagement and Revisit in Museums
Context With the growing competition of entertainment industry, museums are facing new challenges. They must reach a wider audience, build local visitors’ loyalty and tailor their content to the diversity of this public. Relying on temporary exhibitions or guided tours is too expensive for small museums which makes it hard for them to diversify the

🇫🇷 Digital Trace Analysis Device for Tourist Territories (DA3T, Funded by Region Nouvelle Aquitaine)

🇫🇷 Dashboard for Fluid Analysis on Toulouse University Campus

Robots for elder assistances
Subject : caring practices in social robotics in nursing homes The project shares a design-oriented agenda of research and the adoption of a human-centred perspective and a Participatory Design approach. With the objective of achieving an “adequate design”, the studies aim at properly understanding the needs, values and experiences of the actors concerned. We are

TreeTech: From paper based tree observation protocol to digital mobile app
As for buildings, roads, and bridges, urban nature requires regular inspections, including an active monitoring of the health status of trees composing it. Several methods of analysis of the state of development of urban trees exist: Crown-Condition Classification in the United States [Schomaker et al. 2007], DEPEFEU in France [Nageleisen 1996], CROCO in Japan [Mizoue

Bio-Inspired Planning Algorithms Ant Colony to generate HomeCare planning
Today, the aging of the population and the increase in life expectancy are leading to an increase in the number of people looins their autonomy and frailty. Noting the lack of places available in specialized institutions, an alternative is home care (HAD). Home-based care structures help reduce hospital overcharge and provide a better environment for

Forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics – VIS 2025 (Vienna – Austria)

IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)



La Mêlée Numérique – Artificial Revolutions (Toulouse – France)
Camille Dupré Ph.D. thesis defense: “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”
Thursday 18th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Camille Dupré, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”. Her thesis defense took place at the LISN, in Gif-sur-Yvette (660 Av. des Sciences Bâtiment, 91190), France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Mixed Reality (MR) environments integrate virtual elements into
Nihed Bendahman Ph.D. thesis defense: “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”
Monday 15th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Nihed Bendahman, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”. Her thesis defense took place at the IRIT Research Laboratory, in Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Legal monitoring is a
Gabriel Darbord Ph.D. thesis defense: “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”
Friday 5th December at 9a.m. Paris time, Gabriel Darbord, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”. His thesis defense took place in Lille, France. Take a look at the summary below. This thesis is fully in line with the partnership between Berger-Levrault and Inria, which aims to
Berger-Levrault strengthens its ties with AI startups!
We are proud to announce that we have joined Hub France IA, the largest association dedicated to artificial intelligence in France. This network now brings together more than 250 members—companies, startups, research laboratories, and institutions—who share the same goal: to accelerate the development and adoption of AI in France and Europe. Getting closer to the
Celebrating New PhDs from the BL.Research Team!
At Berger-Levrault, research is more than a mission—it’s a shared adventure. As the new academic year begins, we are proud to celebrate the success of four of our colleagues from the BL.Research team, who have reached a major milestone in their scientific journeys: the defense of their doctoral theses. These achievements are the result of
Hamza Safri Ph.D. thesis defense: “Federated learning for the IoT : Application for Industry 4.0”
Thuesday 24th June at 3pm Paris time, Hamza Safri, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Federated learning for the IoT: Application for Industry 4.0”. His thesis defense took place at the Inria Minatec Grenoble, Grenoble, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Model generalization, predictive maintenance, industrial IoT, federated learning, edge network,
ESUG 2025: Six contributions and 2 prizes for the Software Engineering Lab team!
Congratulations to our PhDs Nicolas Hlad, Aless Hosry, Benoit Verhaeghe and Pascal Zaragoza from Berger-Levrault’s BL.Research team for their participation in the 2025 edition of the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) conference! This year’s conference took place from July 1-4 in Gdansk, Poland. The theme was innovation in Smalltalk technologies and their use in software
Julien Breton Ph.D. thesis defense: “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”
Friday, 27th June at 1.30 pm Paris time, Julien Breton, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”. His thesis defense took place at the IRIT research laboratory, Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Legal compliance,Industrial maintenance, Norm extraction,LLM (Large