Research interests:

• Image and video understanding
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning)
• AI applied to Robotics

Current PhD students:

• Nathan Salazar [2024-now]: Towards the construction of a foundation model of human movement for the analysis and synthesis of actions and bodily expressions (founded by the French Research Ministry, co-supervised with Alexandre Meyer and Mathieu Lefort)
• Bruno Machado [2024-now]: Self-supervised learning for robotic manipulation (founded by the Asterix project, co-supervised with Alberto Bosio and Liming Chen)
• Mourtaza Abbasbhay [2023-now]: Precise and dense depth reconstruction from monocular images (CIFRE founding with Viapix, co-supervised with Yousri Ouerhani)
• Gwendal Bernardi [2023-now]: Deep multimodal models for the detection of defaults in glass containers (CIFRE founding with Tiama, co-supervised with Mohsen Ardabilian)
• Alexandre Chapin [2023-now]: Deep Scene Understanding (founded by the Chiron project, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Rui Yang [2020-June 2025]: Deep Robot Lifelong Learning for vision-based grasping of objects (founded by the PSPC Fair Wastes project, co-supervised with Liming Chen)

Former PhD students:

• Quentin Gallouedec [2020-2024]: Toward the Generalization of Reinforcement Learning (founded by the French Research Ministry)
• Thomas Duboudin [2019-2022]: Deep Learning for Augmented Simulations (CIFRE founding with Thalès, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Amaury Depierre [2017-2021]: Simulation Empowered Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Adaptive Robotic Grasping (CIFRE founding with Siléane, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Matthieu Grard [2015-2019]: Generic Instance Segmentation for Object-Oriented Bin-Picking (CIFRE founding with Siléane, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Yuxing Tang [2010-2016]: Weakly Supervised Learning of Deformable Part Models and Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Yoann Baveye [2012-2015]: Automatic prediction of emotions induced by movies (CIFRE founding with Technicolor, co-supervised with Christel Chamaret and Liming Chen)
• Ningning Liu [2009-2013]: Contributions to generic and affective visual concept recognition (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Bruno Tellez and Liming Chen)
• Boyang Gao [2009-2014]: Contributions to music semantic analysis and its acceleration techniques (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Huanzhang Fu [2006-2010]: Contributions to generic visual object categorization (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Xi Zhao [2007-2010]: 3D face analysis : landmarking, expression recognition and beyond (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
• Zhongzhe Xiao [2004-2008]: Recognition of emotions in audio signals (Chinese Scolarship Council founding, co-supervised with Weibei Dou and Liming Chen)

Current Projects:

• Acrobath (Principal Investigator for LIRIS) [2023-2025] : Development of a robotic solution for manipulating complex and heavy pieces within a forge process. Partners: Innovtec, Setforge.
• Asterix [2024-2027] : Development of a smart, safe, easily adaptable edge AI empowered transformer-based human robot collaboration system for assembly tasks in industry. Partners: INL lab (France), Osaka University (Japan) and Nagoya University (Japan).

Former Projects:

• Chiron [2021-2024] : AI empowered general purpose assistive robotic system for dexterous object manipulation through embodied teleoperation and shared control. Partners: Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany), Nagoya University (Japan).
• PSPC Fair Wastes [2020-2023] : Development of a robotic sorting platform based on vision and artificial intelligence for improving automatic sorting of wastes. Partners: Excoffier, Siléane.
• CHIST-ERA Learn-Real [2019-2022] : Improving reproducibility in learning physical manipulation skills with simulators using realistic variations. Partners: Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland), Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy).
• Labcom Arès [2017-2022]: Machine Learning and Computer Vision for intelligent robots. Partner: Siléane
• FUI Pikaflex [2016-2020]: Picking Kitting Automatisés Flexibles. Partners: Siléane, Renault
• CHIST-ERA Visen (Principal Investigator for LIRIS) [2013-2016]: Tagging Visual Data With Semantic Descriptions. Partners: University of Surrey (United Kingdom), University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), IRI  (Spain)
• ANR VideoSense [2010-2013]:  Automatic video tagging by high level concepts. Partners: EURECOM, LIG, LIF, GHANNI
• ANR Omnia  (Principal Investigator for LIRIS) [2008-2010]: Automatic filtering of documents containing text and images. Partners: LIG, Xerox XRCE