Since its inception, the STIC Asie programme has selected and funded 25 projects based on partnerships between Asian and French laboratories and research institutions. Each project received funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (typically to the amount of 30,000 - 50,000 €) and is cofinanced by each project partner.

Projects selected in 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008

Projects selected in 2008:

Five proposals have been selected among the 22 proposals which were received for the 5th call for proposals of the ICT-Asia programme.

• CITYHOME: From cybertransportation to mobile service robot

Partners: Lasmea (CNRS, Universite Blaise Pascal, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), Kumamoto University (Japan), Nanyang Technoligical University (Singapore), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

• I-CROSS: Impromptu, context aware and trustworthy service provision in heterogeneous and unfamiliar spaces

Partners: Institut Telecom, NICT (Japan), NECTEC (Thailand), Northwestern Polytechnic University (China)

• ISSUE: Integrated spatial decision support systems for urban emergencies

Partners: IRD, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology and IOIT (Vietnam), LIAMA (China), Kyoto University (Japan)

• Information Spreading in a System of Mobile Agents

Partners: CEA, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India), Tohoku Gakuin University (Japan)

• IMAGERLERISK: Very high resolution satellite imaging for the evaluation of geological risks (volcanos, landslides) in Indonesia

Partners: Universite Blaise, National University of Singapore (Singapore), Directorate of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (Indonesia), Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology and National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines (Philippines)

Projects selected in 2007:

Six proposals have been selected among the 17 proposals which were received for the 4th call for proposals of the ICT-Asia programme.

• Tiny 6: This project will bring together French and Asian scientists who have developed well-recognized skills either in sensor networks or IPv6 fields. Sensor network is a generic name covering different technologies. Most of them have not been standardized yet and remain prototypes. From this diversity of sensor network technologies and considering the broad experience obtained on IPv6, this project has at 3 main objectives:
  • Sharing knowledge between partners, exchanging students and accessing experimental platforms available at other partners’ laboratories.
  • Developing common material courses that can be taught in our different Universities.
  • Specifying and implementing a minimal IPv6 stack adapted to the diversity of Sensor network behaviors.

Partners: GET/ENST Bretagne, INRIA, Seoul National University (Korea), Information and Communication University (Korea), South East University (China), Birla Institute of Technology & Science (India, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India)

• MAMI - MANET and Mesh Interconnectivity in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks: The goal of this project is to study the interconnectivity issues among different wireless multihop networks (mobile ad hoc networks and wireless mesh networks) and develop new networking algorithms and protocols for an application scenario that assumes a wireless mesh backbone interconnecting multiple mobile (vehicular) ad hoc networks.

Partners: GET/National Institute of Telecommunications, INRIA, Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), University of Osaka (Japan)

• ACGRID - Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research: The ACGRID school project aims at developing collaborations between research groups in France and Asia using grids as the environment to share resources, tools and expertise in life sciences and particle physics.

Partners: CNRS-IN2P3, IOIT (Vietnam), Hochiminh University (Vietnam), Academica Sinica Grid Comput-ing Center (Taiwan), KEK (Japan), Institute of High Energy Physics (China), University of Sejong (Korea)

• Experiments and Dissemination on Grid Standard: ProActive GCM: This project aims to foster international scientific cooperation between France and Asian partners in Grid research, share experiments and disseminate Grid Component Model (GCM) standard and its implementation ProActive for Grid middleware and applications interoperability, furthermore, support and establish partnership from mobility programme in a short and long term.

Partners: INRIA, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (China), Tsinghua University (China), South China University of Technology (China), Nust Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan)

• Woaa! - Wireless broadband Overlay network Architectures and Applications: The goal of this project is to set up a research network between partners having developed in-depth expertise on the key issues that are essential for the deployment of advanced services for 3G Beyond. The different and complementary approaches that are taken in Europe and Asia in this domain will allow partner to develop a joint vision and understanding which is important to reinforce competitiveness. In particular, partners will focus on
  • 3G beyond service architectures
  • A framework for Peer-to-Peer services compatible with Networks Operator objectives
  • Service Architecture for emerging wireless broadband technologies (WIMAX).
  • Performance study of transport protocols for IP telephony in next generation network
  • Context-aware services

Partners: GET-INT, CNRS, Orange Labs - France Telecom, Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), De La Salle University (Philippines), Konkuk University (Korea), National Chi-Nan University (Taiwan), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), Prince of Songkla University (Thailand)

• IDEA - Images of natural Disasters from robot Exploration in urban Area: the project will develop a research network on the topic of image analysis and content extraction for managing information collected by patrolling robots in an urban post-disaster crisis management situation. This network will explore new innovative means to exploit image analysis to help local decision makers in organizing rescue.

Partners: LORIA/INRIA, Université de La Rochelle, Institut de la Francophonie pour l’Informatique (Vietnam), Universiti Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), IOIT (Vietnam)

Projects selected in 2006:

The steering committee of the STIC Asie programme has selected the following 6 projects after the conclusion of the third call for proposals.

• French-Asian cooperation on open adaptive middleware for ubiquitous environment: this project will bring together researchers to address scientific and technological challenges in the area of middleware induced by the dynamic nature of environment, the complexity of distributed systems.

  Partners: INRIA (France), National University of Defense Technology (China), Peking University (China), Open source software resource center (Vietnam)

• ONtology and COntext related MEdical image Distributed Intelligent Access (ONCO-MEDIA): this project will
  • develop a novel grid-distributed, contextual and semantic based, intelligent information access framework for medical images and associated medical reports
  • explore new medical image diagnosis assistance, teaching and research access applications using semantic, visual and context-sensitive medical information with the grid computing facilities
  • crystallize a network of research excellence in the field of distributed medical images access among Asia, French and French Switzerland partners, leveraging on their complementary scientific values and experience.

  Partners: IPAL (Singapore), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), CASIA (China), Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), NCGG (Japan), Creatis (CNRS, France), UNIGE (France/Switzerland), LIRIS (France), LIP6 (France)

  Website of the project

• Survey of Catastrophes and Observation in Urban Territories (SCOUT): This project intends to:
  • Scientific and technological objective: Combine advanced technologies such as automated remote sensing, geographical information systems, decision-support systems, signal processing and data fusion to assist humans in disaster recovery.
  • Research objective: Develop a research network on the topic of disaster prevention in urban areas gathering specialized French and Asian teams in complementary concerned fields.
  • Political and society objective: Integrate these technologies with the existing human and political decision structures.
  • Prospect and sustainability objective: Achieve solid basis for application to larger scale project to EU or global funding agencies (World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UNESCO, Europe).

  Partners: MICA (Vietnam), CASIA-LIAMA (China), CARGIS (VIetnam), ITC (Cambodia), LRI (France), IRD (France)

• Models and Simulations for Natural Disasters (MSND): The proposed project aims to establish a better understanding of global patterns of disasters, to yield local and overall predictions of disasters from the tracking of convenient parameters, and to serve as platform for modellers and policy makers.

  Partners: Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing/Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (China), Multimedia University of Malaysia (Malaysia), Universiti Kebangsaan (Malaysia), Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing (Malaysia), Asian Institute of Technology (Regional, Asia), A2SI/ESIEE (France, CLIME/INRIA (France), UMR 6012 ESPACE/Université de Nice (France)

• Mobile Search and Annotation using Images in Context (MoSAIC): This project will
  • develop a novel contextual information access framework for mobile media applications
  • develop robust visual indexing and matching algorithms for mobile media search
  • develop new interaction techniques based on images in context
  • explore new mobile access applications using visual and contextual information
  • foster synergic research among Asia and French partners, leveraging on their complementary technical competencies and experiences

  Partners: IPAL (Singapore), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), NII (Japan), MICA (Vietnam), LIRIS/INSA de Lyon (France), CLIPS-IMAG (France)

Projects selected in 2005:

• Next Generation Internet for Medical Science Remote Classroom: This project will conduct real-life experiments on remote teaching using next generation Internet technology (IPv6, multimedia and mobile or wireless Internet). The subject domain chosen is medical science which comprises rich media course content where interactive sessions are mandatory. Remote teaching from UPMC Schools of Medicine (Paris) for the University of Health Sciences of Cambodia (UHSC) will be used for these experiments.

  Partners: Asian Institute of Technology (Regional, Asia), University Pierre et Marie Curie (France), GIP Renater (France), Keio University (Japan), University of Health Sciences (Cambodia)

  Notes of the kick off meeting

• Multimedia Architecture and Applications Based on SIP: The objective of this project is to set up a research network between partners having developed in-depth expertise on the key issues that need to be addressed for the deployment of next generation real-time multimedia services based on (SIP). The key areas of cooperation are the following: Architecture of multimedia services, VoIP architecture on wireless broadband technologies (WLAN, WIMAX, Mobile-Fi), Mobility and service continuity for inter-technology handover, Peer-to-Peer Model in SIP-based VoIP Network, Prepaid and AAA mechanisms in SIP-based multimedia services, eLearning applications, Interconnection of SIP platforms.

  Partners: INT-GET - Institut National des Télécommunications (France), France Telecom R&D (France), Asian Institute of Technology (Regional, Asia), Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), Prince of Songkla University (Thailand), Tsinghua University (China)

• Exploitation of Data Warehouses (EXPEDO): This project will develop the research projects aready engagedf between France and Asia on handling and extraction of knowledge in data warehouses.

  Partners: LI - University of Tours (France), LICP - Universty of Cergy-Pointoise (France), LIRMM - University of Montpelier 2 (France), LRI - University of Paris-Sud (France), HELP University College (Malaysia), Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia), National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences (Pakistan)

• Multilingual Language Processing: a Lexico-Semantic Perspective, Application to Q&A systems : The project will develop and make available lexical resources on French language in relation with Asian languages, and to perform a semantic analysis on them. These resources will be applied to the development of multilingual Q&A systems.

  Partners: IRIT-CNRS (France), Laboratoire CLIPS - University Joseph Fourier Grenoble (France), University Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), University Kasetsart (Thailand), Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (India), Da Nang University (Vietnam)

• ICT-ADI: Toward a human-friendly assistive environment for Aging, Disability & Independence: The project is to ensure the rapid emergence of integrated tools and systems allowing people with disabilities and ageing citizens to play a full part in our societies.

  Partners: INT-GET - Institut National des Télécommunications (France), Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), University Putra Malaysia (Malaysia), Korea Advanced Institute for Science & Technology (Korea)

• French-Asian Cyber Transportation (FACT) : Theo objectives are to advance the state-of-the-art technologies on an intelligent and environment friendly robotic vehicle referred to here as cybercars, through international collaboration, by taking advantage of the rapid growth of information and communication technologies, to promote the application of cybercars to autonomous personal public transportation, called here as Cyber Transportation, in campuses, airports, tourist attractions, shopping malls and traffic/pollution-free residential and apartment complexes, to expand the concept of cybercars and CyberTransportation to Asian regions including China, Japan, Korea and Singapore, and to exchange ideas, research results and technologies to be outsourced among the collaborating partners through joint workshops, symposia, seminars, as well as exchanging researchers.

  Partners: INRIA (France), LASMEA-GRAVIR (France), Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), University of Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Projects selected in 2004:

• Next Generation Internet
• ISERE : Inter-media Semantic Extraction & REasoning
• Virtual Reality