French-Singaporean
International Joint Laboratory
(CNRS UMI2955- A*STAR I²R- NUS- UJF)

What's new?

# ICOST 2009, 7th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics
1-3 July 2009, Tours, France
# Les Houches School of Physics -29/06-24/07/2009, Singapore. More details
# French-Singaporean IPAL Symposium SinFra'09-
18-20 February 2009, Fusionopolis, Singapore

# Dr. Joo Hwee LIM honored by France- Chevalier in the Order of Palmes Académiques by the French Embassador in Singapore (Sept. 2008). See photo.
# ACM MM Best Paper Award- Ooi Wei Tsang (NUS/IPAL), and Sébastien Mondet, Cheng Wei, Géraldine Morin, Romulus Grigoras and Frédéric Boudon (University of Toulouse) got awarded with their paper "Streaming of Plants in Distributed Virtual Environments" (Oct. 2008)
# Grand Finals of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis - The team from NUS (Lab for Media Search) wins the competition. The 4 other finalists were:
- SHRC from Peking University, China, - the Computer Science Lab of Grenoble, France (LIG), - a team from the NII in Japan, - and a team from the University of Illinois, USA. (Oct. 2008, read more)

IPAL: Image & Pervasive Access Lab is a French-Singaporean joint research laboratory, based in Singapore and created between:

	French National Center for Scientific Research - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
	University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
	Agency for Science, Technology and Research- Institute of Infocomm Research
	National University of Singapore- School of Computing

Research Axes

IPAL is doing scientific research on the following axes:

Contextual Multimodal Interaction for Mobile Information Access
Medical Image indexing and Retrieval for Assisted Diagnosis, Medical Research and Teaching
3D Objects Streaming over Best-Effort Networks
Fermicold- Quantum Degenerate Gases and Strongly Correlated Systems