Victor BOUTIN - Early-Stage Researcher - 2016 Class

Victor BOUTIN
BOUTIN
Victor
Charles Fabry class
Controlling an Aerial Robot by Human Semaphore Gestures Using a Bioinspired Neural Network
ED 62- Health and Life Sciences
2016

Thesis Project Description: 

The Ph.D. project aims to control an aerial robot (drone) with human gestures using bio-inspired neural networks. The main originality of the project is to achieve such control by taking advantage of the distributed, dynamical representation of information in the brain which is leading to anticipatory and predictive behavior. Thus, the scientific challenge will result in developing and implementing spiking neural networks and learning rules involved in low level vision (from the retina to cortical areas V1 and V4), which are relevant for gesture recognition tasks. This will necessitate to organize the networks in a hierarchical model, and to develop a bio-plausible unsupervised learning rule based on energy minimization and sparseness maximization. The goal is to achieve performances (in term of response time, accuracy, speed of training…) close to its biological counterpart.

Thesis Supervisors: 

Laurent PERRINET (INT) / Franck RUFFIER (ISM)

Interdisciplinary Research Axis: 

Imaging and Networks

Academic Background: 

Engineer, Ecole centrale de Marseille, France

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