Hervé GLOTIN (Pr.)

Link to my bibliography (selected by Google Scolar)

Multimodal Scene Understanding Bioacoustics Speech Cognitive Systems

News:

Big Data ULearnBio ICML 2014 workshop CFP:'Unsupervised Learning from Bioacoustic Big Data' 21-26 june 2014-Beijing [co-general chair]

Welcome to ICML 2014 ULearnBio challenges, now open, closing in may [co-Pi]

LifeCLEF 2014 BIG BIRD Identification challenge (14K audio records, 500 species centered on Brazil): following the pionner ICML 2013 and NIPS 2013 challenges, it dealts with 5 times number of species (previous challenge proceedings on line @ sabiod.org) [co-Pi]

Internat. Summer School on Advanced Multimodal Information Retrieval [ERMITES], open registration, IX edition 'From Information Development to Information Retrieval', Iles d'Or Var France, sept. 2014 [general chair]

Older organization of conferences / invited talks:

Neural Information Processing Scaled to Bioacoustics workshop (joint to NIPS) - Nevada 2013 (with Y. LeCun, S. Mallat, T.Artieres, O. Tchernichovski, X. Halkias) - Bird and Whale NIPS4B challenges [general chair]

Invited speaker @ "Cetacean echolocation & outer space neutrinos: ethology & physics interdisciplinary approach to underwater bioacoustics"

The Bioacoustic classification challenge @ ICML2013 [general chair with J. Sueur]

Machine Learning for Bioacoustics workshop (joint to ICML) Atlanta 2013 (with Y. LeCun NY univ., C. Clark & P. Dugan Cornell univ.) [general chair]

BIO Inspired Optimal Systems Symposium [general chair]

Some recent Publications / Presentations :

DYNI bioacoustic research at TV Thalassa magazine 2013

ONCET project for Pelagos cetacean sanctuary (excerpt FranceTV, also shown at Oceanographic Museum of Monaco 2/13

Invited talk @ "Human dialects & animal communication, Common principles & differences" workshop

Slides

SABIOD and Przewalski's horses bioacoustics survey

"Cooperative Sparse Representation in Two Opposite Directions for Semi-supervised Image Annotation" IEEE Trans Image Proces. 2012 DOI 10.1109/TIP.2012.2197631

Editor of "Soundscape Semiotics - Localisation and Categorisation", book in press

FranceTV interview on bioacoutics, April 2012, 13 minutes (MP4 60Mo)

"Indexing and querying segmented web pages: the BlockWeb Model" in World Wide Web journal, Vol. 14 2011 10.1007/s11280-011-0124-6

"Stochastic Low-Rank Kernel Learning for Regression" @ ICML 2011

Some current projects :

SYCIE : Multimodal Maritime Multi-Drone Mission Optimisation (+Prolexia, IFREMER, DCNS, FUI project) started financed 03.2013-2016 [Co-Pi]

Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity Interdisplinary Big Data CNRS (+Museum Natural History Paris, Universities P. & M. Curie, Orsay) 2012-2017 [Pi]

PHRASE : Augmented Reality and Autonomous Perception (+Inst. Science Mouvement, Prolexia, DGA RAPID project), 2012-2015 [Co Pi]

"COGNILEGO: from Pixels to Semantics" ANR (+Neurobiology LNIA lab, A2IA OCR world leader), 2011-2013 [Pi]

Recent Past :

Invited discussant @ Institut Hautes Etudes Scientifiques IHES - Mathematical Models of Sound Analysis 2012

ERMITES 2012 : Summer school on Representation and Decision in Vision [Pi]

Research Interests :

• Perceptual Artificial Intelligence
• Multimodal Information Retrieval, Content Analysis & Mining - ANR AVEIR project (LIP6, CLIPS, Paris Telecom, LSIS) - Pole CAP DIGITAL AVEIR
• Automatic Speech Recognition - ESTER Project
• Content Based Image Retrieval and Auto-Annotation   Examples DIMATEX poster
  
• Biometrics - Project with DCN : CIFRE PHD
• Bioacoustics - Project PIMC, multiple whale tracking, patented PCT 2009 - Pole Mer
• Machine Learning (ANN, SVM, ART2, LDA, ALDA...)
• Information Theory (Shannon, Fisher...)
• Cognitive Sciences (Neurobiology of perception, reasoning and learning) - TCAN Project 2005-06 + ANR ANCL 2007-09 (LPC, DDL, LNIA, LSIS resp.)

Habilitation thesis : "Recherche d'Information et Perception Robustes pour une Multi-Structuration Audio-Video-Lego ŕ l'échelle", 2007. Jury : Gallinari P., Jauffret C. , Barhen J., Bengio S., Merialdo B., Scholl M., Le Maitre J.

Former projects :

Phd Students :

• sept 2003-oct 2006, (+J. Le Maitre) PhD codir of S. Tollari : 'Indexation et recherche d'images par fusion d'information textuelles et visuelles' (USTV grant) Today Associate Pr @ LIP6 Paris 6.
• fev 2006-janv 2009 (+O. Papini) PhD codir of N. Ben Aloui : 'Biometrie multimodale par parametrisation et fusion qualitatives' (CIFRE DCNS grant). Today ing. researcher @ DCNS.
  
• fev 2007-24 mars 2010 PhD dir of S. Fraihat : 'Representation parcimonieuse temps-frequence de la parole' (LSIS grant). Today ass. Pr. Fac. of Inf. Technol., AL-Ahliyya Amman Univ., Amman, Jordan.
  
• oct 2007-2011: PhD dir of F. Caudal-Benard : 'Trajectographie temps-reel par acoustique passive et analyse des emissions de mammiferes marins' (REGION + Chrisar Software grant).
  
• oct 2007-dec 2010: PhD dir of A. Zidouni : 'Discriminant graphic model for sequence labeling : application to radiophonic named entity recognition' (Ministery grant).Today Ing Reseacher @ ADSN Thales Services.
  
• oct 2009-dec 2012 (+L. Ralaivola) Phd codir P. Machart (Ministery grant): Coping with the Computational and Statistical Bipolar Nature of Machine Learning . Now post doc at IRISA Panama team
• oct 2010-sept 2013: (+P. Giraudet) PhD dir of R. Abeille (USTV grant): 'Multipulsed biosonar robust decomposition, application to whale authentification'
• nov 2011 - defended dec. 2014: (+J. Razik, O. Adam) PhD codir of Y. Doh: 'Bioacoustique robuste embarquee' (Region PACA + Cesigma)
• nov.2012...: (+S. Paris) PhD dir of C. Rabouy: 'Hierarchical parsimonious classification applied to LIDAR, Sonar and emb. camera' (French Government Defence grant)
• dec.2012...: (+F. Chamroukhi) PhD dir of M. Bartcus (Ministery grant): 'Unsupervised Bayesian learning for large scale scene analysis'
• sept. 2013...:(+S. Paris) Phd dir of Y. Kenne:'Spatio temporal optimisation of sensor deployment for target detection' (Direction Generale Armement)

Teaching :