COLLOQUE REPARTI WORKSHOP 2026

Systèmes cyberphysiques et intelligence machine matérialisée

Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins Building

2325, rue de l’Université

Université Laval

Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6

22 mai 2026 – May 22, 2026

La session du matin aura lieu dans l’Espace Jardin.  La session d’affiches aura lieu dans l’Atrium Jean-Guy Paquet.

The morning session will take place in the Espace Jardin.  The poster session will take place in the Atrium Jean-Guy Paquet.

10h15 – 10h45           Inscription / Registration (Espace Jardin : rez-de-chaussée / ground floor)

10h45 – 10h55           Mot de bienvenue / Opening remarks (Espace Jardin )

                                    Clément Gosselin (Directeur de REPARTI / REPARTI Director)

10h55 – 12h35           Présentations invitées données par des nouveaux membres de REPARTI / Invited Talks given by new REPARTI members

(Espace Jardin)

• 10h55 – 11h20    Towards Resilient and Collaborative Multi-Robot Intelligence

                                    Hanqing Zhao, Université Laval

                                           (presentation in English)

• 11h20 – 11h45    Physical Intelligence Through Deformable Soft Robots /

Les robots déformables et mous pour l'intelligence machine matérialisée

                                    Audrey Sedal, McGill University

                                           (The presentation and slides will be mainly in English)

• 11h45 – 12h10    Autonomous Robotic Systems for Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring

                                    Louis Petit, Université de Sherbrooke

                                           (présentation en français, with slides in English)

• 12h10 – 12h35    Making Sense of Data: Visualization in the GenAI Era

                                    Jiayi Hong, Université Laval

                                           (presentation in English)

12h35 – 14h00           Repas de midi / Lunch (inclus / included)

                                    boîtes à lunch / lunch boxes (Espace Jardin)

14h00 – 16h00           Séance d’affiches / Poster Session (Atrium Jean-Guy Paquet)

Séance d'affiches / Poster Session

Thème 1 : Captation, traitement et interprétation d’information physique

Theme 1: Sensing, processing and interpreting physical information

(Thème 2 : Voir ci-dessous / See below)

Comment l’IA peut-elle servir à la protection de plantes menacées ?

Édouard Moffet et Darren Nguemdjom Tchangang

Feeling the Terrain: Cross-Sensor Patch Transformers for Proprioceptive Classification

William Bonilla, David Meger and Louis Petit

U-SEG: Uncertainty in SEGmentation - A systematic multi-variable exploration

Michael Smith and Frank Ferrie

CLIP-IT: CLIP-based Pairing of Histology Images with Privileged Textual Information

Banafsheh Karimian, Giulia Avanzato, Soufian Belharbi, Alexis Guichemerre, Luke McCaffrey, Mohammadhadi Shateri and Eric Granger

Adaptation of Weakly Supervised Localization in Histopathology by Debiasing Predictions 

Alexis Guichemerre, Banafsheh Karimian, Soufiane Belharbi, Natacha Gillet, Nicolas Thome, Pourya Shamsolmoali, Mohammadhadi Shateri, Luke McCaffrey and Eric Granger

Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek, Giovanni Beltrame

Low-Rank Expert Merging for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation in Person Re-Identification

Taha Mustapha Nehdi, Nairouz Mrabah, Atif Belal, Marco Pedersoli and Eric Granger

The Mechanics of CNN Filtering with Rectification

Liam Frija-Altarac and Matthew Toews

Uni-DAD: Unified Distillation and Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Few-step Few-shot Image Generation

Yara Bahram, Mélodie Desbos, Mohammadhadi Shateri and Eric Granger

Dimensional Distribution Emotion State : Leveraging Valence and Arousal as a Common Embedding Space for Visual Emotion Analysis

Émile Bergeron, Tadagbé Dhossou, Sébastien Tremblay and Jean-François Lalonde

SpotLight: Shadow-Guided Object Relighting via Diffusion

Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard, Zitian Zhang, Louis-Etienne Messier, Mathieu Garon, Anand Bhattad and Jean-François Lalonde

État de l’art et expérimentation comparative des modèles de prédiction des appels d’urgence

Feriel Fass, Djemel Ziou et Jessica Lévesque

Relighting of 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes using Model Merging

Rohan Kadkol, James J. Clark and Jean-Francois Lalonde

BAH Dataset for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Digital Behavioural Change

Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Manuela González-González, Soufiane Belharbi, Masoumeh Sharafi, Muhammad Haseeb Aslam, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Simon L Bacon and Eric Granger

Learning to Guide: Multimodal Trajectory Forecasting of Expert Sonographers

Soroush Javadi, Catherine Laporte, Sarah Amouri, Vincent Lévesque, Ramy El-Jalbout

ModPrompt: Visual Modality Prompt for Adapting Vision-Language Object Detectors

Heitor R. Medeiros, Atif Belal, Srikanth Muralidharan, Eric Granger and Marco Pedersoli

A Context-Aware Global Probabilistic Framework for Transferable Failure Prediction in Heterogeneous Refrigeration Equipment

Prédiction probabiliste transférable de pannes dans les équipements de la maison : application aux réfrigérateurs

 Islam Benamirouche et Djemel Ziou

Thème 2 : Dispositifs robotiques ou haptiques

Theme 2: Robotic and haptic devices

Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Machine Tending

Abdalwhab Bakheet Mohamed Abdalwhab, Giovanni Beltrame and David St-Onge

Causal Feature Selection for Weather-Driven Residential Load Forecasting

Elise Zhang, François Mirallès, Stéphane Dellacherie, Di Wu and Benoit Boulet

CoPaRo: A Compact, Backdrivable 6-DOF Hybrid Parallel Robot with Serial-Like Form Factor and Large Workspace

Samuel Verret and Clément Gosselin

Assessing the Unpredictability of Uncrewed Ground Vehicle Command on Multiple Terrains

Nicolas Samson, William Larrivée-Hardy, William Dubois, Élie Roy-Brouard, Edith Brotherton, Dominic Baril, Julien Lépine and François Pomerleau

Towards high mobility in snow: Analyzing the effect of center of mass on deep snow locomotion

Mathis Turgeon-Roy, Matěj Boxan, Mohamed Ounally and François Pomerleau

ARENA: Adaptive Risk-aware and Energy-efficient Navigation for Multi-Objective 3D Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

David-Alexandre Poissant, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, François Ferland and Louis Petit

ResNav : Navigation Visuelle sans Carte pour des Opérations de Drones Résilientes en absence du GPS

Nicolaï Boudjack

GNN-based decentralized perception in multi-robot systems for predicting worker actions

Ali Imran, Giovanni Beltrame and David St-Onge

Twist, Store, Release: Investigating the Spring-like Behavior of Heavy Skid-Steer Robot Turning

William Fecteau, Nicolas Samson, Mohamed Ounally and François Pomerleau

 Feasible Wrench Sets of Redundant Parallel Manipulators

Joshua Flight and Clément Gosselin

Data Driven Kinematic Models for in-situ Continuum Bioprinter

Swen Groen, David Brenken, Samuel Smocot, James Richard Forbes, Luc Mongeau, Audrey Sedal

Challenges of the Arctic for Robotic Systems: Overview of the Nanook Mission 2026

Edith Brotherton, Olivier Gamache and François Pomerleau

Leveraging Image Generators to Address Training Data Scarcity: The Gen4Regen Dataset for Forest Regeneration Mapping

Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larrivée-Hardy, Noé Cochet, Matěj Boxan, Anthony Deschênes, François Pomerleau and Philippe Giguère

Préhenseur de robot parallèle mécaniquement intelligent; adaptable aux objets et capable de les faire pivoter lors de la préhension

Ghita Lemrini et Patrice Lambert

Système de guidage échographique par l’haptique

Gabrielle Roy, Vincent Lévesque, Ramy El-Jalbout, Catherine Laporte