ANR unveils the 9 projects selected in the framework of the French-German-Japanese call for proposals

27 octobre 2020

France, Germany and Japan have launched in 2019 the ANR-DFG-JST call for AI projects aimed at strengthening their research collaborations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Nine projects were finally selected under this call, co-funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), with an overall grant of more than €7 million.

This Franco-German-Japanese trilateral call aimed to support collaborative projects of fundamental or applied research in artificial intelligence, in particular on methodological advances in basic AI technologies (machine learning and its mathematical foundations, as well as symbolic approaches).

The aim of this collaboration is to contribute to scientific and technological advances in AI with a view to improving performance and developing AI methods, but also to strengthen trust, transparency and equity.

At the end of the selection process, 9 projects were selected out of the 36 submitted, with an overall financial support of more than €7 million.

The selected projects cover a variety of topics such as human-robot interaction, machine learning, reliability of AI through legal and ethical standards, user adaptation of AI in conversational agents, knowledge extraction for pharmacovigilance, or AI for the manipulation of complex objects.

AI4HRI – Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction: Takayuki KANDA, Michael BEERTZ, Aurélie CLODIC
AI-cog – AI for Aging societies: From Basic Concepts to Practical Tools for AI-Facilitated Cognitive Training: Mihoko OTAKE, Tonio BALL, Alexandre GRAMFORT
CHIRON – AI empowered general purpose assistive robotiC system for dexterous object manipulation tHrough embodIed teleopeRation and shared : Yasuhisa HASEGAWA, Jan Reinhard PETERS, Liming CHEN
EDDA – EnhanceD Data stream Analysis: combining the signature method and machine learning algorithms: Nozomi SUGIURA, Joscha DIEHL, Marianne CLAUSEL
KEEPHA – Knowledge-enhanced information extraction across languages for pharmacovigilance: Yuji MATSUMOTO, Sebastian MOLLER, Pierre ZWEIGENBAUM
LeCycl – Learning Cyclotron: Koichi KISE, Andreas DENGEL, Jochen KUHN, Laurence DEVILLERS
PANORAMA – adaPtive Artificial iNtelligence fOR humAn coMputer interAction: Yukiko NAKANO, Elisabeth ANDRE, Jean-Claude MARTIN, Catherine PELACHAUD
RECOMP – Research on Real Time Compliance Mechanism for AI: Ken SATOH, Adrian PASCHKE, Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA
TOSAI – Understanding and Creating Dynamic 3D Worlds towards Safer AI: Ko NISHINO, Carsten ROTHER, David PICARD