Research activities

PhD students SUPERVISED TO COMPLETION

  • Bangning WEI: Semantic analysis for dynamic scene reconstruction and volumetric video editing from multi-view capture
  • Amine KHERCHOUCHE: Machine and Deep learning based video encoding
  • Joshua MARAVAL: 4D scene modelling for 6DoF video navigation from a transportable camera rig, defended on 03/12/2024.
  • Julie FOURNIER: Studying the visual behavior of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the presence of Affinity, defended on 23/09/2024.
  • Zhengyu ZHANG: Quality Assessment of Light Field Images, defended on 11/07/2024. (Current position: Assistant professor in Guangzhou University, China)
  • Alban MARIE: Exploration of Lossy Image Coding Trade-off between Rate, Machine Perception and Quality, defended on 15/12/2023.
  • Jianan CHEN: Deep Learning Based Multimodal Retrieval, defended on 17/10/2023.
  • Nour HOBLOSS: Improving User Experience in Free Navigation via Image Synthesis, defended on 02/12/2021. (Current position: R&D engineer in Continental Engineering Services, Portugal)
  • Théo LADUNE: Complementary approaches using machine learning for video compression, defended on 18/10/2021. (Current position: R&D engineer in Orange, France)
  • Fangyi CHAO: Visual Saliency Prediction in 360 degree Images and Videos, defended on 17/12/2020. (Current position: R&D engineer in Tencent Media Lab, USA)
  • Meriem OUTTAS: Noisy image restoration oriented compression: Application to ultrasound images, defended on 06/04/2019. (Current position: Associate professor at INSA Rennes, France)
  • Qiong WANG: Salient objects detection and segmentation in videos, defended on 09/05/2019. (Current position: Assistant professor of Zhejiang University of Technology, China)
  • Shishun TIAN: Image quality assessment of 3D synthesized views, defended on 22/03/2019. (Current position: Assistant Professor of Shenzhen University, China)
  • Ines SAIDI: Analysis and modeling of the perceived quality for videophone applications, defended on 28/02/2018. (Current position: Project Manager in Aerys, France)

Post-Doctoral Students/Research Engineer

  • Anne Flore PERRIN: Saliency prediction in drone videos, 01/2019-06/2020
  • Pierre-Loup CARABAT: Deep generative codecs for face video compression, 07/2024-12/2025
  • Joshua MARAVAL: Automatic sign language production using generative AI, 12/2024-06/2026.

Funded projects

Awards & Prizes

  • RIPEC (Teacher-researcher compensation) for the Research Activity, 2023-2026.
  • PEDR (Research and Doctoral supervision prize): global rank A, 2019-2023.
  • “Best paper Award” in EUVIP 2024.
  • “Best Technical Paper Award” in IBC 2024.
  • “Best Student paper Award” in QoMEX 2021.
  • “Best paper Award” in MMSP 2020.
  • 1st prize of Grand Challenge “Prediction of Head+Eye Saliency for 360 Images” in ICME 2018.
  • « 2012 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of France » award (in french, “Prix de thèse”) presented by IEEE France Section, SFGBM, AGBM and GdR CNRS-Inserm Stic-Santé.
  • “Best student award” at the MIPS XIV Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011.

Scientific Responsibilities

Associate Editor for the following journals

PhD thesis defense jury member

  • 11/10/2024 : Marouane TLIBA, “Revising the Use of Deep Learning for Effective Point Clouds Quality Assessment”, Université d’Orléans, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 09/09/2024: Jingwen ZHU, “High-end Video Streaming Quality in the Wild : Measuring and Predicting Satisfied User Ratio”, Nantes Université, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 29/02/2024: Mohamed Amine KERKOURI, “Un regard sur le monde de l’art: Prédire l’attention visuelle à l’aide de l’apprentissage”, Université d’Orléans, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 18/12/2023: Tan Sy NGUYEN, “A Smart System for Processing and Analyzing Gastrointestinal Abnormalities in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy”, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 04/07/2022: Milan STEPANOV, “Selected topics in learning-based coding for light field imaging”, Université Paris-Saclay, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 17/12/2021: Iulia MITRICA, “Video Compression of Airplane Cockpit Screens Content”, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 07/06/2021: Madhukar BHAT, “Perceptual optimization and complexity reduction for real-time video encoding”, Université de Nantes, France.
  • 29/01/2021: Zohaib Amjad KHAN, “Quality Assessment for Multimodal Medical Imaging”, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 14/12/2020: Chen KANG, “Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment Based on Deep Neural Networks”, Université Paris-Saclay, France (as « rapportrice »).
  • 15/10/2020: Iñigo SEDANO PEREZ, “Measuring Quality of Video of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)”, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
  • 20/05/2020 (private defense) & 03/07/2020 (public defense): Yan LI, “Depth Estimation from Structured Light Fields”, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
  • 14/12/2017: Amine CHAABOUNI, “HEVC-based video compression for telemedicine on high-speed, low-speed networks and mobile terminals: application to the oncology”, University of Lorraine, France.
  • 18/03/2015: Yi LIU, “Lossy and lossless image coding with low complexity and based on the content”, INSA Rennes, France.