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Fields of interest

  • Document analysis of historical documents (PHILECTRE project)
  • Document analysis and recognition :  degraded documents  ( MAJORDOME project)
  • Character/word recognition with Markovian methods (HMMs, Bayesian Networks)
  • Biometrics: person authentication from hand shape (BIOSECURE project)

    • Publications


    Awards

    Winning system at the ICDAR 05 Arabic Hand-Written Word Recognition Competition (with R. El-Hajj and C. Mokbel, UOB)

    Winning system at the Rimes/TechnoVision 2007 evaluation for the Logo Recognition task (with Saïd Ladjal)

    2nd system at the ICDAR 09 Handwriting recognition competition (with Anne-Laure Bianne, C. Kermorvant A2iA and C. Mokbel UOB)

    Top 10 system (over 46) at the DIBCO09 binarization competition (with E. Barney Smith Boise Univ. and Jerome Darbon UCLA)
     

    Professional Activity

    Associate Professor (HDR) at Telecom ParisTech (former Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications), since 1991. Responsible for the Pattern Recognition course. Teaching also in  Signal Processing, Document Analysis and Statistics.
     

    Journal Refereeing

    IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
    IEEE Computer
    ELCVIA
    Document Numerique
    Traitement du Signal

    Conference Refereeing

    ICDAR 1991, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009
    ICASSP 2002, 2003
    ICIP 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
    AVBPA
    RFIA 2004
    CIFED 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004
    CIDE 2001
    IGS
    ISSPA 2003

    Program Committee Chair

    CIFED 06-Fribourg, Switzerland  http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/CIFED06/

    DRR 09, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVI, part of IST & SPIE-Electronic Imaging, San Jose, California  http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/drr/indexed on DBLPhttp://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/drr/

    DRR 2010, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII, part of IST & SPIE-Electronic Imaging, San Jose, California  http://www.tsi.enst.fr/drr2010/
     

    Program Committee Member

    ICDAR 91-Saint Malo, France
    ICOHD 93-Paris, France
    CIFED 92-Nancy, CIFED 94-Rouen, CIFED 96-Nantes, Rouen, CIFED 98 -Quebec, CIFED 00-Lyon, CIFED 02-Hammamet, CIFED 04-La Rochelle
    CIDE 2001-Toulouse
    ICDAR 07 - Curitiba (Brasil)
    IST&SPIE 2008- Document Recognition and Retrieval XV - San Jose
    ICDAR 09 - Barcelona (Spain)
    DAS 2010 - Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Cambridge, MA (USA)  http://www.cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/
    ICFHR 2010 - Kolkata (USA)  http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/
    ICDAR 2011 - Bejing (China)  http://www.icdar2011.org/
     

    Technical Committee Member

    ICDAR 91-Saint Malo, France
    ICOHD 93-Paris, France
    CIFED 06-Fribourg, Switzerland
    CIFED-CORIA 2010-Sousse, Tunisia
     
     

    Affiliations

    GRCE :  founding member of 'Groupe de Recherche en Communication Ecrite'  since 1989.
    IGS : International Graphonomics Society
    Pattern Recognition
    IEEE (Senior Member)
     

    PhD Students

    Khalid Hallouli (co-directed with M. Sigelle) Reconnaissance de caractères par méthodes Markoviennes et Réseaux Bayésiens, defended on May, 5,  2005.
    Ramy El-Hajj (co-directed with C. Mokbel) Reconnaissance de mots manuscrits cursifs par methodes hybrides, defended on July, 9,  2007.
    Anne-Laure Bianne (co-directed with C. Mokbel and C. Kermorvant) Reconnaissance adaptative de textes manuscrits started in 2008.
     

    Master and Postdoc Students

    1991 : Laurent Lhuillier (Master IARFA, Paris VI)
    1994 : Aitao Wang (Master IARFA, Paris VI), Anahid Hanimyan (Master RDF, ENST)
    1998 : Bibiana Cuenca (Master IARFA, Paris VI)
    1999 : Mickael Recht (Master ENSEA, Cergy)
    2002 : Julien Godeau (Master Sciences et Technologie des Telecommunications, Rennes I)
    2001-2002 : Pascal Vaillant
    2002-2003 : Noura Azzabou
    2005 : Aliette de Bodard (Ecole Polytechnique), Geoffroy Fouquier (EPITA)
    2008 : Anne-Laure Bianne (INT)
     


    Databases

    Database of isolated ancient characters ENST_ANCIENT_CHAR
     


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