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Laurence Likforman-Sulem

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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.
 

Teaching Activity

Master IARFID (Inteligencia Artificial, Reconocimiento de Formas y Imagen Digital), 2015 and 2016, UPV Valencia, Spain and IDIPS 2016 Summer School, Samos island, Greece: HMMs, Bayesian Networks, Recurrent Networks

Parcours AFA: Apprentissage, Fouille de donnees et Applications

SI 221 Pattern Recognition: Bases de la Reconnaissance des Formes
Book September 2013: Reconnaissance des Formes: Théorie et Pratique sous Matlab web éditions Ellipses Données pour Livre

MDI 113 Mathematiques-Analyse

Sujet de PostDoc 2023-2024

Retrouver le texte sous jacent dans les Sceaux Byzantins

Research Fields

Reconnaissance de caracteres dans les sceaux byzantins/Character recognition in Byzantine seal images
(projet BHAI, Artifical Intelligence for Byzantine Sigillography, in collaboration with Sorbonne University)

Handwriting recognition with Markovian methods (HMMs, Bayesian Networks) and Recurrent Neural Networks (BLSTMs)
(A2iA, DGA, FUTUR & RUPTURES projects)

Document analysis of historical documents (text-line extraction, combination of NLMeans and Total Variation filterings)
(PHILECTRE project)

Information extraction in degraded documents 
(MAJORDOME project)

Handwriting characterization
(GALILEO project)

Web document Analysis
(ROME MOBILE project)

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)

Best Student Paper Award, DRR 2012, San Francisco (O. Morillot, L. Likforman, E. Grosicki)

Fondation Telecom Thesis Award 2014, (2nd prize, O. Morillot, co-directed by Laurence Likforman and E. Grosicki)Video.

2nd system at the ICDAR 2017 Competition on Handwritten Text recognition competition on the READ dataset (with Edgard Chammas and C. Mokbel UOB)

Best Student Paper Award, MedPRai 2019 (Catherine Taleb, L. Likforman-Sulem, C. Mokbel)

Best Paper Award, ICMI 2021 (Lucien Maman, L. Likforman-Sulem, M. Chetouani, G. Varni)
 

Journal Refereeing


Editor of the IJDAR journal (Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2019-)

IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
IEEE SMC
IEEE PAMI
IEEE TKDE
IEEE Computer
ELCVIA
Document Numerique
Traitement du Signal
IJPRAI
IMAVIS
PAA
IJDAR
Pattern Recognition Letters
Journal of Imaging
MDPI Journal on Behavioral Sciences
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Conference Refereeing

ICDAR 1991, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
ICASSP 2002, 2003
ICIP 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
AVBPA
RFIA 2004
CIFED 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2016, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
CIDE 2001
IGS
ISSPA 2003
AND 2009
DAS 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020
ICFHR 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016,2018,2020, 2022

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/

Track chair "handwritten/printed text recognition" & Workshop Chair, ICDAR 2015, Gammarth (Tunisia)relocated in Nancy (France) http://2015.icdar.org

ASAR 2017, First International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition, Nancy (France) http://asar.ieee.tn/

Area Chair, ICDAR 2017, Kyoto, Japan http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/

Track chair "Document recognition", ICPR 2018, Beijing (China) http://www.icpr2018.org/

Area Chair, ICPR 2022 Track 5 document and media analysis, Montreal, Canada https://www.icpr2022.com/

Chair of the IAPR Conferences & Meetings Committee(2019-2021) http://www.iapr.org/conferences/sponsorship.php

Workshops Chair of ICPR 2022 https://www.icpr2022.com/icpr-2022-workshops/

Sponsorship Chair of ICPRAI 2022

Tutorial Chair of ICDAR 2023
 
 

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/
DRR 2011, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII, part of IST & SPIE-Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco, California 
DAS 2012 - Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Gold Coast (Australia)  http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/
DRR 2012, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX, part of IST & SPIE-Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco, California  http://drr2012.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/
DRR 2013, Document Recognition and Retrieval XX, part of IST & SPIE-Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco, California  http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013/
ICDAR 2013 - Washington (USA)
ICDAR 2015 - Gammarth (Tunisia) relocated in Nancy (France)
DAS 2016 - Santorini (Greece)
ICDAR 2017 - Kyoto (Japan)
ICDAR 2019 - Australia, Sydney
ICDAR 2021, Lausanne, Suisse
ICPRAI 2022, Paris, France
DAS 2018 - Vienna (Austria)
ASAR 2018 (PC member and Publicity Chair)- Worshop on Arabic & derived Script Analysis and Recognition, London, http://asar.ieee.tn/
DAS 2020 (Wuang, China)
DAS 2022 (France, La Rochelle)
 

Technical Committee Member

ICDAR 91-Saint Malo, France
ICOHD 93-Paris, France
CIFED 06-Fribourg, Switzerland
CIFED-CORIA 2010-Sousse, Tunisia
Semaine du Document Numerique et de la recherche d'information: CIFED-CORIA 2012-Bordeaux (mars 2012)http://cifed-coria2012.labri.fr
IAPR Conferences & Meetings Committee (2017-), http://www.iapr.org/conferences/sponsorship.php
 
 

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 de mots manuscrits cursifs par modeles de Markov cachés en contexte : application au francais, a l anglais et a l arabe 2008-2011.
Olivier Morillot (co-directed with E. Grosicki) Reconnaissance de textes manuscrits par Modèles de Markov cachés et Réseaux de Neurones Récurrents 2010-2014.
Cristina Oprean (co-directed with C. Mokbel) Reconnaissance de textes manuscrits grand vocabulaire par adaptation de modeles de langage, 2011-2015.
Edgard Chammas (co-directed with C. Mokbel) Structuration de l information cachée dans la modélisation markovienne avec application a la reconnaissance du texte manuscrit, 2013-2017.
Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea, Contributions a la Reconnaissance de l'ecriture manuscrite en utilisant des Réseaux de Neurones profonds et le calcul quantique , 2014-2018.
Catherine Taleb (co-directed with C. Mokbel) Détection de la maladie de Parkinson par analyse multimodale combinant signaux d'écriture et de parole, started in 2017.
Xuecan Yang (co-directed with S. Chauduri and L. Naviner) Ultra low energy stochastic computing for embedded machine learning, 2017-2021.
Lucien Maman (co-directed with G. Varni, M. Chetouani Analyse automatique de la cohésion dans l'interaction de petits groupes, 2019-2022.
 

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)
2010 : Boufenar Chaouki, Vlad Atanasiu, Arash Shafiei (ENSEEIHT)
2011: Cong Kinh N'Guyen, Jeremy Lardon (postdocs)
2019: Paul Lerner (Master Paris V)
2022: Théophile Rageau (Master ENS-Saclay)
 


Databases and Demos

Dataset of isolated ancient characters ENST_ANCIENT_CHAR

Dataset of isolated FAX characters ENST_FAX_CHAR

REX: a description-based retriever for handwritten documents Glyph+Rex

Data for Book: Reconnaissance des Formes: Théorie et Pratique sous MatlabDonnées pour Livre
 

EMOTHAW Database: Emotion recognition from Handwriting and Drawing EMOTHAW database


Hobby


 
 

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