Welcome to LIMSI
We share a common long-term goal, which is to improve the well-being of man in their surrounding environment, both from a material and immaterial point of view.
Research groups
Our research is organized in four main themes, spanning the activities of 8 research groups:
- Fluid Mechanics, with an expertise in the development of advanced numerical methodologies associated to experiments in academic configurations (COMET and DATAFLOT)
- Energetics and the study of Mass and Heat Transfer with fundamental research related to applied context (COMET and DATAFLOT)
- Natural Language Processing, applied to spoken, written, and signed language ranging from acoustic signal processing to semantic modeling (TLP and ILES)
- Human-Machine Interaction aiming at a deeper understanding and model of interactions in various contexts and along various modalities, including Virtual and Augmented Reality (AMI, CPU and VENISE)
VIDA is a tranverse action whose mission is to coordinate research projects at the frontier of Science and Arts, with the collaboration of artists and designers.
Achitecture and Models for Interaction
The emergence in recent years of new classes of users, new software and hardware platforms and new interaction environments and contexts (mobility) has shifted our attention from static interaction situations to open and dynamic ones. This is the reason why the AMI group focuses on post-WIMP interaction paradigms where the hands on experience of the physical world is important, such as tangible user interfaces to manipulate physical objects, tactile surfaces, or 3D interactions. Besides, ambient environments and augmented reality spaces provide the designers of new interfaces with new modalities and new requirements, thus enriching the traditional issues in multimodal interfaces.
COuplages Multiphysiques Et Transferts
The Multiphysical Couplings and Transfers (COMET) group studies various physical phenomena resulting from inhomogeneities of temperature, density, electric current or magnetic field, and their coupling in volume or at interfaces, and at relevant scales.
The group implements numerical simulations and laboratory experiments, approaches complemented by analytical and theoretical interpretations.
This work can be applied to energy conversion and storage, heat transfer and energy process optimization
Cognition, Perception and Uses
The goal of the CPU group (Cognition, Perception, Use) is to conduct pluridisciplinary research with the joint perspective from Psychology, Ergonomics and Computer Science in order to address research questions about (or that can be useful for) the design or evaluation of Human-Computer Interaction.
Instability and Turbulence: Modeling, Analysis and Control
Tending towards the control of turbulence is a major challenge that impacts a large number of applications in the fields of engineering sciences. It is crucial to understand the mechanisms of the birth and growth of instabilities as well as the initiation and development of turbulence.
Information, Written and Signed Language
ILES specifically addresses the analysis, understanding and production of written language, and the modelling and production of signed language. Natural language processing aims to process human language in such a way that the results of this processing make sense for humans, i.e., meet their expectations. It aims to design computer programs that can understand or emulate human communication, e.g. by analysing documents and extracting task-relevant information, helping in the production of documents (spell checkers, style checkers, controlled language editors), generating a whole document (text summarizer), or answering questions based on text or more structured content.
Spoken Language Processing
The Spoken Language Processing group carries out research aimed at understanding the human speech communication processes and developing models for use in automatic processing of speech. With the aim of extracting and structuring information in audio documents, the group develops models and algorithms that use diverse sources of information to carry out a global decoding of the signal, that can be applied to identify the speaker, the language being spoken and the speaker affective state, to transcribe the speech or translate it, or identify specific entities. This research is by nature interdisciplinary, drawing upon expertise in signal processing, acoustic-phonetics, phonology, semantics, statistics and computer science.
VENISE is the Virtual & Augmented Reality (V&AR) research team of the CNRS/LIMSI lab. Our research aims at developing methods and tools to make immersive and collaborative interactions more "natural" or more intuitive, either in virtual worlds or in virtual worlds coupled to the real one. We strive at making our models generic enough so that they apply to a large range of immersive environments, such as collaborative (RAVE, CAVE, Workbench ...), individual (HMD, see-through ...), or multi-sensorimotor (stereoscopic, 3D audio, haptic ).
Virtuality, Interaction, Design & Art
VIDA (Virtuality, Interaction, Design, & Art) is a transverse action at LIMSI supporting and promoting collaborations between engineering sciences and creative domains of contemporary arts (visual arts, dance, music, theater, and performance) including also design and architecture. VIDA activities gather members of various groups at LIMSI.
