The Odyssée team is joint to INRIA, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and the CERTIS laboratory at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. It is located in Sophia-Antipolis, rue d'Ulm in Paris and in Champs-sur-Marne, close to Paris.

The scientific focus of the laboratory is the combined study of computer and biological vision. We think that a more detailed knowledge of the visual perception in humans and non-human primates can have a potential impact on algorithm design, performance evaluation and cues on such questions as how to interface an artificial vision system with people, possibly handicapped.

From a more general viewpoint and at another level, biological visual perception, in particular in non human primates and humans is poorly understood and modeled. Making progress in this understanding is a grand scientific and philosophic challenge that frames our work.

We conduct research in the following three main areas.