Research interests:
- Image and video understanding
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning)
- AI applied to Robotics
PhD students:
- Mourtaza Abbasbhay [2023-now]: Precise and dense depth reconstruction from monocular images (CIFRE founding with Viapix)
- 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-now]: Deep Robot Lifelong Learning for vision-based grasping of objects (founded by the PSPC Fair Wastes project, co-supervised with Liming Chen)
- 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)
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.
- 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