Abstract: Provided is a cross-spectral face recognition learning method based on a set of associated face images, a thermal image and a visual image, of a plurality of persons. The thermal image is coded in two different ways. A style encoder provides a style code of the thermal image. An identity encoder provides an identity code of the thermal image. The visual image is coded in a similar way with a style encoder providing a style code and with an identity encoder providing an identity code. The two face images of the same person share in the identity features a common part in the respective identity codes, noted as common identity code, whereas the style codes for the two images comprise features only relevant two the specific style, i.e. either thermal or visual, of the image. Other embodiments disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a thermal face and landmark detection method for providing a ground truth reference database, capturing a thermal image comprising at least one face, detecting a face in the thermal image, cropping the thermal image creating a cropped face thermal image, applying a Gaussian filters method to the cropped face thermal image creating an improved cropped face thermal image and applying a landmark detector to the improved cropped face thermal image creating an landmarked cropped face thermal image. Other embodiments disclosed.

Abstract: A stimulation system designed to be implanted in a person and including several distributed elements connected by a wire bus comprising an energy wire, a data wire and a reference wire.

Abstract: A device and a computer-implemented method for analyzing a dataset associated with a plurality of biological objects selected from cells, cell-derived vesicles, acellular microorganisms, and/or biofunctionalized materials; the dataset including N cytometric events, each associated with a biological object, each cytometric event being defined by at least two cytometric parameters measured for the corresponding biological object so that the dataset is represented by a cloud of N points in a D-dimensional space; the device and method being configured to output at least the hierarchical structure representing the different classes of biological objects and their mutual relationships.

Abstract: A locating device, which includes a memory arranged to receive data concerning the distance between a plurality of anchors and one or more mobile sources at a plurality of locations different to each other. The locating device includes a decomposer, a reducer, and a solver arranged to return a matrix of coordinates of the anchors and a matrix of coordinates of the locations.

Abstract: A computer device comprises a screen (6) capable of touch acquisition, and a processor (8) designed to control the display of a depiction of a keypad on a keypad portion (10) of the screen (6) and to determine textual input data when a touch input tool is moved over the keypad portion (10) of the screen (6). The processor (8)is furthermore designed, when a touch input tool is moved continuously over the screen (6), to detect the movement of the touch input tool from the keypad portion (10) to a control portion (12) of the screen (6), to detect the movement of the touch input tool into the control portion (12) and determine a system operation on the basis of this movement, and, if the continuous movement ends in the control portion (12), to execute the system operation.

Abstract: A current switcher including: a positive supply bus and a negative supply bus; a floating-output current amplifier configured to make flow, as an output, an intermediate current dependent on a flowing setpoint current implied as an input; at least one anodic reference dipole connected between the positive supply bus and the floating-output current amplifier; at least one cathodic reference dipole connected between the floating-output current amplifier and the negative supply bus; and at least two stimulation bridges, each stimulation bridge including an anodic current source and a cathodic current source each configured to copy the intermediate current.

Abstract: A neural stimulation device configured to apply neural activations including at least two interleaved sequences of current pulses, and a neurostimulation method. The device includes at least one neural electrode including at least two electrical contacts and intended to be implanted on at least one nerve; a current pulse generator connected to the at least one neural electrode via a current distributor; a storage element configured to contain a library of sequences, each sequence including a time series of current pulses associated with a configuration of electrical contacts; and a sequencer configured to apply neural activation to the at least one neural electrode, the neural activation including at least two interleaved sequences.

Abstract: A method for determining a stereotactic brain target includes at least one target point, the method comprising the following steps: selecting patients for whom the result measured following treatment at at least one target point is greater than or equal to a threshold, postoperative imaging having been performed for each of the patients; processing the postoperative imaging so as to determine coordinates of the at least one target point; selecting brain marker points; processing the postoperative imaging so as to determine coordinates of the marker points; creating a learning database comprising the coordinates of the target points and the coordinates of the marker points determined for all of the selected patients; determining a prediction function giving the coordinates of at least one target point according to the coordinates of the marker points by using the learning database and a supervised statistical learning method; processing preoperative imaging of a new patient to be treated so as to determine coo

Abstract: A cardiac device comprises a memory arranged for receiving haemodynamic data, and a computer arranged for applying a cardiovascular model comprising a cardiac model and an arterial and venous blood circulation model using the data received in the memory, and for extracting therefrom at least one cardiac activity indicator (CI).

Abstract: An active implantable medical device including, once implanted, a module external to the patient and a module inside the patient, the external module and the internal module being intended to transfer energy and data from one to the other. Also, a method for transferring energy and data, the method being implemented by the active implantable medical device.

Abstract: A method for determining a trajectory of a motor vehicle includes identifying a plurality of objects present in the surroundings of the motor vehicle. For each object, the method includes: a) determining a speed of impact between the object of interest and the motor vehicle, b) determining a risk of injury in the event of a collision with the motor vehicle at the determined impact speed, c) determining the probability of a collision resulting in an injury between the object of interest and the motor vehicle, depending on the determined risk of injury. The method subsequently includes determining a plurality of possible trajectories for the motor vehicle, and determining the trajectory to be followed by the motor vehicle by optimising a cost function which depends on the determined collision probabilities and which minimises the risk of collision resulting in an injury between each object and the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A computer device for characterising execution time by a processor, comprising a memory (8) which receives benchmark program data, sets of characterisation configuration data and sets of execution case data, and a constructor (4) which determines, for each set of execution case data, a set of worst-case configuration data of the processor and a set of initialisation values based on a set of execution case data, and determining a reference execution time by executing the benchmark program according to the set of execution case data using the processor configured with the set of configuration data with the set of initialisation values, all the reference execution times forming a set of reference execution times.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bioreactor comprising a tank (100) capable of being operated for a working period, said tank (100) being intended to receive a culture medium comprising a cellular culture of photosynthetic microorganisms, a light source (200) arranged to emit incident light having a chosen incoming light intensity (Iin) in the direction of the tank, a temperature probe (400) for measuring the temperature of said culture medium in the tank, and a temperature regulator (500) capable of raising and lowering the temperature of said culture medium in the tank, and further comprising a control (700) of the temperature regulator arranged to adjust the temperature of the culture medium to a low setpoint value (VCB) during a first period, and to adjust the temperature of the culture medium to a high setpoint value (VCH) during a second period, the succession of said first and second periods making it possible to induce a cellular stress in at least some of said photosynthetic microorganisms during the worki

Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a sensor set, a data storage device and an output device. The sensor set observes apparent states of each road user of the plurality of road users at successive time steps, the data processor assigns a behavioral model stored in the data storage device, the data processor calculating a new maneuver distribution that is a probability distribution over a finite plurality of alternative maneuvers and a new state distribution that is a probability distribution of possible states for each alternative maneuver of the finite plurality of alternative maneuvers. The data processor determines a risk of collision of the road vehicle with another road user, based on the new maneuver and state distributions of the target road user, and outputs one or more of a driver warning signal and executes an avoidance action if the risk of collision exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device designed to determine manufacturing data for producing objects that have variable, freely orientable orthotropic elasticity characteristics, by calculating data relating to grains of branches, which combined define branches, the number of grains of branches and the thickness of each branch being related to the desired elasticity characteristics.

Abstract: Method and device for detecting encryption, in particular for anti-ransomeware software. The invention relates to a device for detecting encryption, comprising a computer (1) with a central processing unit (4) and a memory, which comprises a random-access memory (9) and a mass memory unit (6) comprising files. The central processing unit (4) cooperates with the random-access memory (9) and with an operating system (10) which comprises a core (12) and which is capable of having processes (18) carried out by the central processing unit (4); said processes (18) are divided into wires (20) and may comprise functions for accessing the files. A statistical model for ordinary writing to the header of a file is stored in the memory (6, 9).

Abstract: The invention relates to a simulation device including: —a memory (2) receiving a dataset representing parameter measurements; —a selector (4) capable of producing a set of sub-datasets from the dataset, each sub-dataset from said set including consecutive data from the dataset, the number of which is a whole integer received as a variable by the selector (4); —an evaluator (6) capable of calculating, from a value set defining a curve, a form factor indicating a probability of correspondence between the curve defined by the value set and a Gumbel curve; and—a driver (8) arranged so as to call the selector (4) with a plurality of numbers for generating a plurality of sub-dataset sets, select the data, the measurement value of which is highest, within each sub-dataset from each sub-dataset set, create a plurality of curve datasets by combining the data selected from each set, call the evaluator (6) with the plurality of curve datasets, and select the curve dataset for which the form factor indicates the highest

Abstract: The invention relates to an autonomously guided machine (10) comprising at least a steering body and a steering mechanism (13), said machine also comprising: a guide system (11) including an optical filter (17) which has a receiving surface exposed to the exterior and which can transmit light rays directed substantially in one direction and eliminate other light rays; a screen (18) that receives the filtered light; a digital camera (19) for capturing pixel resolution images of the screen (18); a pre-processing element for selecting the pixels corresponding to an incident planar laser beam received by the guide system (11), and filtered and projected onto the screen (18), and for generating a response detection image; a line generator for generating an estimate J of the coordinates of the detected lines based on the response detection image, involving the processing of the pixel columns pixels; and a locator which receives the estimate of the coordinates of the detected lines and calculates values representati

Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: measuring the power of a signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; computing the derivative of the measured signal power with respect to time; computing the standard deviation of the computed derivative; estimating, from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the computed standard deviation, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain computed standard deviation.