Projects

Improving traceability for the textile sector

Improving traceability for the textile sector

The Icare and Management Informatics institutes of the HES-SO Valais carried out the CTI FairTrace project with the company Importexa, which developed a real time information system allowing to follow a product at each step of the production and transformation, from...

Automatic generation of audio description and L2V

Automatic generation of audio description and L2V

The sub-project 4 (SP4) of the IICT Flagship concerns the automatic generation of audiodescriptions and synthesizers. Audio description is a technique used to make a television program more accessible to people with visual impairments. This is a voice-over that...

Assisted text simplification

Assisted text simplification

Subproject 1 (SP1) of the IICT Flagship concerns the simplification of texts. To achieve this goal, a set of computer techniques are used to reduce the complexity and length of a text while maintaining its meaning and relevance. They are used to improve the...

Optical decoding framework based on artificial intelligence

Optical decoding framework based on artificial intelligence

Computer vision algorithms (CVA) are digital assistants that automatically recognize and evaluate certain information through a camera. Icare has developed solutions adapted to the identification and automatic decoding of vehicle license plates. The partner company...

Writing aid software for dysorthographic children

Writing aid software for dysorthographic children

Phonowriter is a writing aid for "dys" children, more particularly dysorthographics, dyslexics and/or dysgraphics. It combines simple word prediction features with complex, innovative and novel algorithms based on artificial intelligence to facilitate text writing....

Prediction of remotely-read photovoltaic production

Prediction of remotely-read photovoltaic production

The Icare Research Institute has developed algorithms and tools that automatically predict network load and thus reduce adjustment penalties. These tools, which also include visualization solutions between forecasts and actual data, are used daily by some members of...

Distributed intelligent micro storage

Distributed intelligent micro storage

This project proposes flexible load-steering models by DSOs (to avoid network investments) and the development of associated business models (to increase revenue) whose aggregation enables a self-consumption community. The aim is, on the one hand, to make the...

Digital tools for tourism during a pandemic

Digital tools for tourism during a pandemic

From the point of view of demand, tourism is a global phenomenon: in Switzerland, it represents nearly 3% of GDP and 4.4% of total employment. The pandemic hit the sector very hard with a drop of almost 60% in international arrivals. The pandemic has acted as a gas...

Information exchange interface & digital tourism

Information exchange interface & digital tourism

The actors of the Valais tourism industry, be it restaurants, destinations or startups, need to continuously exchange various information about events, points of interest, specific offers, etc. At present, there is no standardized and automatable system to perform...