NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Reconnaissance de l'émotion thermique

To improve computer-human interactions in the areas of healthcare, e-learning and video games, many researchers have studied on recognizing emotions from text, speech, facial expressions, emotion detection, or electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Among them, emotion recognition using EEG has achieved satisfying accuracy. However, wearing electroencephalography devices limits the range of user movement, thus a noninvasive method is required to facilitate the emotion detection and its applications. That’s why we proposed using thermal camera to capture the skin temperature changes and then applying machine learning algorithms to classify emotion changes accordingly. This thesis contains two studies on thermal emotion detection with the comparison of EEG-base emotion detection. One was to find out the thermal emotional detection profiles comparing with EEG-based emotion detection technology; the other was to implement an application with deep machine learning algorithms to visually display both thermal and EEG based emotion detection accuracy and performance. In the first research, we applied HMM in thermal emotion recognition, and after comparing with EEG-base emotion detection, we identified skin temperature emotion-related features in terms of intensity and rapidity. In the second research, we implemented an emotion detection application supporting both thermal emotion detection and EEG-based emotion detection with applying the deep machine learning methods – Convolutional Neutral Network (CNN) and LSTM (Long- Short Term Memory). The accuracy of thermal image based emotion detection achieved 52.59% and the accuracy of EEG based detection achieved 67.05%. In further study, we will do more research on adjusting machine learning algorithms to improve the thermal emotion detection precision.

Keyphrases: CNN, HMM, LSTM, Thermal emotion detection, EEG-based emotion detection, Affective stimuli pictures
Learning to sample from noise with deep generative models

Machine learning and specifically deep learning has made significant breakthroughs in recent years concerning different tasks. One well known application of deep learning is computer vision. Tasks such as detection or classification are nearly considered solved by the community. However, training state-of-the-art models for such tasks requires to have labels associated to the data we want to classify. A more general goal is, similarly to animal brains, to be able to design algorithms that can extract meaningful features from data that aren’t labeled. Unsupervised learning is one of the axes that try to solve this problem. In this thesis, I present a new way to train a neural network as a generative model capable of generating quality samples (a task akin to imagining). I explain how by starting from noise, it is possible to get samples which are close to the training data. This iterative procedure is called Infusion training and is a novel approach to learning the transition operator of a generative Markov chain. In the first chapter, I present some background about machine learning and probabilistic models. The second chapter presents generative models that inspired this work. The third and last chapter presents and investigates our novel approach to learn a generative model with Infusion training.

Keyphrases: Infusion, Machine learning, Deep learning, Artificial Intelligence, Generative model
Création picturale en Haïti et créolisation : études de cas : Jean-René Jérôme et Jacques Gabriel

At the beginning of the 20th century, gestation period of indigenism, an indigenous pictorial art emerges in Haiti. This art is said to be Haitian. Various painters will strive to depict the local reality in order to create this painting. This art’s characteristics are to be ethnic, meaning that it refers to Haitian history, geography and folklore, etc. From the 1950’s-1960’s era it seems that Jean -René Jérôme and Jacques Gabriel abandoned the ethnic base painting. That is reflected by the introduction of new themes and a strong reference to subjectivity. Our aim is to show that these two painters abandon the indigenist approach to replace it with a creolization of visual languages and a new aesthetic, one of the encounter, based on acts of appropriation, citations and redesigning (‘’bricolage’’).

Keyphrases: appropriation, bricolage, Haitianity, indigenism, painting, creolization, appropriation, bricolage
Les plafonds de bois peints à Rome au XVIe siècle: le cas du palazzo del Vaso (Colonna) à Santi Apostoli

Under the order of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (1443-1513), the construction of Palazzo del Vaso was completed in 1482, a time when virtually all major palace constructions in the heart of Rome were restricted to the Princes of the Church. From the 16th century onwards, the leading wealthy families of the Italian capital appropriated this prerogative in order to legitimize their social status. The architecture of these palaces, as well as interior decoration such as furniture, friezes, painted wooden ceilings, etc., became symbols of status and power. Interior decoration also served as a didactic device that allowed the owner to articulate his political views within sophisticated iconographic programmes. From this perspective, the purpose of this thesis is to examine a décor component rarely addressed by art historians: the painted wooden ceiling. The ceiling commissioned by Marcantonio II Colonna (1535-1584) for the salone of the Palazzo del Vaso (Colonna) in Rome will serve as a case study. The Colonnas, traditionally pro-Spanish and one of the oldest Roman baronial families, were frequently involved in conflicts with the papacy, especially during the period when Marcantonio II Colonna was head of the household, from 1557. The structural variants and modalities of ornamentation specific to Renaissance wooden painted ceilings will be explored in order to form an in-depth analysis of the ceiling of the salone. Lastly, a first iconographic interpretation of its painted programme will be provided in order to demonstrate the conveyance of political messages directly linked to the stakes of the Colonna family.

Keyphrases: Rome (XVIe siècle), Palazzo del Vaso (Colonna), Marcantonio II Colonna (1535-1584), Rome (XVIe century), Interior decoration, Wooden painted ceilings, Palazzo del Vaso (Colonna), Marcantonio II Colonna (1535-1584)
Dérive(s) cinématographique(s) : 
vers une pratique de la dérive au cinéma

Cinematic drifting(s) is a theoretical and practical research project that explores drifting (la dérive) in cinema. It involves both looking at existing works and practices, as well as aesthetic, formal and structural experimentation in which I am personally embarking. The aim of identifying a cinema of the drift (cinéma de la dérive) is to extract the main patterns, movements and dynamics engaged in this gesture. Drifting is thus conceived in its potential of flight as a force that acts, transforms and deterritorializes the cinematic space.

Keyphrases: Dérive, Cinéma, cinematic drift(s), Drift, Gesture, Space, Cinema
La problématique du réel dans les biographies au cinéma

Starting with the premise that a fictional film based on someone's life can be as authentic as a biographical documentary, this thesis shows how these two different (but similar) modes of narrating a life interact with "reality", defines the concepts of fiction, documentary, and their biographical sub-genres, and analyzes the history and the critical reception of biopics and biographical documentaries. Furthermore, it studies the literary genres of biography and autobiography, as well as their movie adaptations, in order to provide a portrayal of the auto/biographical films; for this purpose, the idea of the narratological point of view is revisited. This research work also establishes that a well-known personality can sometimes be the main subject of multiple biographical fiction films and documentaries, and gives an overview of the box office results of some biographical films (in America, in France, in UK, in Quebec). A description of the creation linked to this thesis, that is a film treatment of a biopic based on Gabrielle Roy's autobiography La détresse et l'enchantement (1984), ends this dissertation.

Keyphrases: Autobiography, Biography, Biopic, Film treatment, Gabrielle Roy, Research-creation
«From Stardust to Stones to Bad Seed» : vers une déconstruction du rock doc : le corps de la rock star au cœur de l'œuvre audiovisuelle hybride

According to the musicologist Richard Leppert, the semiotic contradiction between music as a bodily experience and music as an acoustic phenomenon finds resolution through human vision. Based on this claim, our research aims to study three documentaries that focus on rock music and the representation of the body of the rock star, which seek to fill our need to see and to listen to the body of the musician during the practice of musical creation or performance. The three documentaries examined – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture, One + One and 20,000 Days on Earth – problematize the musical, sonorous and subjective fabrication of the rock star’s identity ; and in doing so, they deconstruct the generic tradition of the rockumentary. Concentrating on the catalytic force of the rock star’s sounding body, these films thus constitute hybrid audiovisual works in which sound and image partake in both the act of filmmaking and musical performance.

Keyphrases: Documentary, Rock star, Performance, Hybridity, Rockumentary, Cinema, Music, Deconstruction, Body, Rock 'n' roll, Resonance, Revolution, Archive, Mémoire, Memory, Listening, Palimpseste, Palimpsest, Narration, Genre, Hybrid
Corps de femmes échappés du récit : les nus féminins dans l'oeuvre d'Edgar Degas et d'Auguste Rodin

This thesis proposes to follow the development of Edgar Degas’ and Auguste Rodin’s work to understand how those two artists came to take a quasi-exclusive interest in female bodies, to the point that physical rather than emotional states became the main focus of their oeuvre. Considering that the former was tempted by history painting and that the latter did not hesitate, at first, to borrow from literary sources for his monuments, we focus our approach on the progressive elimination of all narrative subtexts in their representations of female figures. We examine how this move displaced the interest from character and role playing to focus on the physical presence of the model and on the working conditions prevailing in the atelier. This results in a complete overthrowing of the academic rules enrolling artistic talent in the service of ideal beauty. While their female bodies become so contorted that they end up disfigured before exploding into fragments, the two artists make themselves more present as the producers of their work, leaving traces of their manipulations and structural inventions in their mediums. These strategies are of course inseparable from the important socioeconomic changes that mark the period and modify not only the condition of women but also the status of artists, the authority of art institutions and the nature of the art market.

Keyphrases: Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Feminine bodies, Contortions, Modernity
Amour, gloire et divinisation : étude de «Pour que l’homme devienne Dieu» de François Brune

In his book Pour que l’homme devienne Dieu (1983), the French theologian François Brune notices, from the trinitarian mystery and the testimony of the Western mystiques, the radical aspect of the human appeal to love. According to the Chalcédoine Council, as the incarnation indissociably connects what is created and non-created in Jesus Christ, the whole human gender shares with him a common human nature and takes part in the divinity, according to the patristic and orthodox divinization doctrine. The notion of person establishes the necessity of the free participation of every human being to the salvatory life of Christ. The compenetration of both human and divine natures of Christ as well as their selective deconnection, according to the kénose concept, reveals a really human existence, both suffering and glorified depending on the circumstances, supporting with a sustaining love the human temptations and the consequences of evil. Following Brune’s reflections on the being and becoming in God and his critic of Theilhard de Chardin’s christology, we will establish within our critical perspective an interrelation between the three modes (divinization, amorisation and salvation) of the unique glorification plan of the humanity and the world as an image of the intern dynamism of the Une and Trine divinity.

Keyphrases: amorisation, glorification, Trinity, christology, divinization, salvatory, amorization
Vie spirituelle à l'école : les Services d'animation à la vie spirituelle et à l'engagement communautaire dans les écoles secondaires de la banlieue montréalaise

In 2001, in the Quebec school system, a new educational service called the Spiritual Care and Guidance and Community Involvement Service was created to replace the previous Pastoral Animation Service. The Ministry of Education aims to foster the development of spiritual life and community involvement through human experiences and through an action-oriented approach. But how is the spiritual life put into action in this context, when facilitators themselves often feel as if they are avoiding this dimension? It was on the basis of the ethnographic method that we wanted to map out how the spiritual life in three secondary schools in the suburbs of Montreal is put to action and to carry out a qualitative and inductive research process. From the collection of data to the sharing of narratives, we found answers concerning the construction of meaning that are ethnography and its hermeneutics. This research argues that the relational dimension is essential to put into action the spiritual life, whether through (i) learning about the social qualities of a person, (ii) the importance of putting value on people, which is involving interpersonal relationships, (iii) a re-reading for raising awareness through interpersonal dialogue, or (iv) the maintenance of an important relationship with the world.

Keyphrases: Don Bosco, Spiritual life, Community engagement, Action-oriented approach, Group animation, Relational dimension, Preventive system, Spiritual Care and Guidance and Community Involvement Service, Education in Quebec
The cult of Apollo in the Milesian colonies along the coast of the Black Sea : an inventory of archaeological data

Greek colonisation in the Archaic period had as its goal the expansion and the exportation of a city state’s social and religious customs into different regions. Although the subject of Greek colonisation is often vague, and based on erroneous, and generous primary sources, which can confound links between the colonies and their apparent mother city, a connection can nevertheless be established between the colonies in the Black Sea and the mother city of Miletus through the religious institutions that were installed upon colonisation. The cult of the god Apollo was prevalent throughout the ancient Greek world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. For the Archaic period colonizing Greek city state of Miletus, Apollo was patron deity, the god of colonisation, as well as the god of seafaring. For the Milesians, Apollo was the deity who sanctioned the right to set up new cults in new locations, as well as authorising the very act of establishing colonies. In the colonies founded by Miletus located along the coast of the Black Sea, there is a clear disposition towards the cult of Apollo in the literary tradition, as well as in the archaeological record. This thesis proposes, by means of a well-defined catalogue uniting all pertinent archaeological and literary information relating to the cult of Apollo in 16 colonies located around the Black Sea said to have been colonies of Miletus, that the reason for such a strong representation of the cult of Apollo in these colonies is a result of the Milesians installing the cult of their patron deity Apollo with the wish that the colonies’ religious institutions mirror that of the metropolis. The inventory demonstrates that Apollo was the patron deity of the majority of Miletus’s colonies in the Black Sea. This thesis will also propose that a proper study of religious trends found in city states and their supposed colonies can act as a methodology for identifying which colonies belonged to which mother city, as I propose that the patron deity in a city state will be the patron deity in their colony.

Keyphrases: Archaeology, Black Sea, Miletus, Greek Colonisation, Apollo, Cult, Mother-Polis, Religious Architecture, Transmission of cult, History of colonisation, Milet, Religion, Temple
Dispositifs du recueil et composition d’un univers narratif dans La Manufacture de machines de Louis-Philippe Hébert, suivi de Tyché

This master’s thesis in research and creation examines the way shorts stories cycles allow to elaborate rich and original fictional universes, specifically in science-fiction. The central theme of the reflection concerns the unifying effects that can be found in a collection of short stories despite its diversified narrative content. The first part of this thesis, the essay, analyzes La Manufacture de machines, a short stories collection written by Louis-Philippe Hébert in 1976, which, at first sight, does not seem homogeneous. However, a closer examination reveals the presence of textual mechanisms that simultaneously segment and unify the content of the narrative. Tyché is a set of six short stories about the shifts caused by the arrival of a planet in Earth’s orbit. In spite of different tones, spaces and times, the collection finds its coherence through the presence of Tyché, to which is linked – directly or indirectly – specific aspects of the protagonists’ existence.

Keyphrases: La Manufacture de machines, Louis-Philippe Hébert, science-fiction, short story cycle, Short story collection, Narrative universe, Short story cycle
SQUEEZE : représentations du baseball dans l'imaginaire social au Québec : 1994-2014

Baseball holds a special place in Quebec’s public discourse. Its multiple representations, stuck between heartfelt passion and a stubborn disinterest, are proof of this. Besides the uniqueness of the French language (which is already significant in itself), we can suspect that a Quebec distinctiveness exists through the various cultural expressions of this sport, whether they be written, sung, drawn or publicized. Baseball has influenced both highbrow and popular culture and continues to be discussed, to penetrate and structure various discourses and to influence imagination and the imaginary. The aim of the present research is to provide a Quebec-specific reading of baseball’s presence and representations in the social, collective and cultural discourses between 1994 and 2014 through the consideration of four main themes : writing, space, time and sexuality.

Keyphrases: Baseball, Imaginaire social, Montreal Expos, Quebec literature, Popular culture, Social imaginary, Cultural studies
Transactions, suivi de Dédramatiser le drame : usages et enjeux de l’humour et de la violence du langage dans la pièce Rouge Gueule d’Étienne Lepage

This thesis aims to question the construction of the media narrative in the contemporary theatrical fable. First, by analyzing the play Transactions and its sober scenography, yet raw and humorous words, and subsequently examining Étienne Lepage’s Rouge Gueule, we will explore the links between the humor and violence of language. This includes the affinity with the British movement In-Yer-Face (Sarah Kane) as put forward by a "network-character" speech bearer in response to Jean-Pierre Sarrazac’s "non-character". Thus, this paper will study concepts including heteromorph (Hervé Guay) dialogism (Bakhtin), aesthetics of the divergence (Hervé Guay), heteromorph (Hervé Guay) polyphony (Bakhtine) and the redefinition of conflict in order to explain the replenishment of an aesthetic dramaturgy that is quite contemporary, relevant to the Web and in which the emancipated audience (Jacques Rancière) becomes a main actor through which the play takes on its full meaning.

Keyphrases: Étienne Lepage, Rouge gueule, Théâtre contemporain, Violence, In-Yer-Face, Quebec's theatre, Contemporary theatre, Media, Language, Humor, Violence, Character, Dialogism, Polyphony
Los moriscos de España y de Túnez : historia, lengua y sociedad

This work offers a précis of the history of the Moriscos community and a brief study of its social and linguistic situation before and after its expulsion of the Iberian Peninsula. For the second of these aspects, the case of the Moriscos group headed for the Regency of Tunis between 1609 and 1614 has been selected. The general goal of this work is to highlight the evolution of the Moriscos social and linguistic situation in two different contexts, the Peninsular Spanish and the Tunisian one, whose identity values were not the same. In the first part of this work, once the concept of Moriscos is defined and some of the historical events preceding the expulsion are contextualized, as well as the consequences of that one, there is a description of the complexity of the Moriscos linguistic situation, a presentation of the factors that prompted their relative acculturation and an observation of the impact of their progressive language change over their way of speaking and writing the Arabic and the Castilian. In the second part of the work, there is an effort to identify the factors that played a part in the preservation of their Hispanic identity and their Castilian language in Tunisia, and those that led to their complete assimilation. Finally, a summary of their linguistic legacy in both societies: the Tunisian and the Spanish one, is presented as well as a serie of annexes that complete the work.

Keyphrases: Moriscos, History, Language, Society, Spain, Tunisia
The self and its complicated relationship with writing in The Diary

My thesis presents my novella, The Diary.  I explore psychological conflicts that arise in a person when he is not at ease with his way of thinking and acting. My plot depicts the main character Shadi’s inferiority complex, his guilt and his conscience. The twin sister, Shadia, is the other or feminine self in which Shadi, the male writer, mirrors himself since his childhood. Shadi becomes a con man in order to explore themes for his plays through a fraudulent business plan in real life. Shadi’s male ego is something constructed by patriarchy. My approach, in analyzing The Diary, is primarily psychoanalytical. I use The Mad Woman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, to support my story’s main theme. The male writer in my story imprisons his sister Shadia in his plays as he wants to fight his inferiority complex resulting from his twin sister’s intelligence. Shadia steps out of the male writer’s text to talk to the male author in a state of dissociation. Sigmund Freud’s works contribute in explaining Shadi’s madness. The female writer is the unconscious part of Shadi’s mind. She is his super-ego as she is his conscience. I also use Louis A. Sass’s Madness and Modernism to delve into my male protagonist’s psychosis. Thus, I portray him as someone who seeks “a wakening” (Sass 3) through the loss of reason. Simone de Beauvoir states that the woman is considered to be the Other in The Second Sex. I use the Other in psychosis as a positive concept although it invokes feelings of terror. Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence helps me to depict my male protagonist’s rebellion against his precursors. Helene Cixous’s “The Laugh of Medusa” explains the importance of l’écriture feminine in Shadi’s poems written in a state of madness.

Keyphrases: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Madness, Art, Feminism, The Self, Writing