Head of the Research and Teaching chair in Artificial Intelligence "Advanced Machine Listening for Bioacoustic and Subsea"

Head of Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity SABIOD Big Data CNRS Project

Founder and member of INFORMATION DYNAMICS & INTEGRATION team

Participations to Phd or HDR Juries (2006-21)

My bibliography (Google Scholar)

Winner of the Research and Teaching chair in Artificial Intelligence "Advanced Machine Listening for Bioacoustic and Subsea"

I'm the scientific director of Explorations Monaco 2019-20, Sphyrna-Odyssey (ASV bioacoustic monitoring of Abyssea)

General Local Chair of the 5th Int. Conf. on Learning Representations - ICLR 2017, Toulon, 1500 att.

1st internat. Bioacoustic Hackathon - Learning Bioacoustic Representations - 26 and 27th Oct 2016 Toulon : you'll learn to solve some selected most difficult challenges of classification and tracking animal into submarine or forest soundscapes - Few places left : Free but mandatory registration before the 15th october @ ermites@gmail.com

PhD and POSTDOC positions OPEN in Fall 2016: 'DEEP LEARNING FOR HUMAN / NON HUMAN BIOACOUSTICS' ; 'ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION / TRACKING OF ACOUSTIC SOURCES'

CHERNOBYL Exclusion Zone Acoustic Bird Detection IEEE challenge joint to Warblr mobile crowdsourcing, (> 10,000 hours of audio). Prizes: 500 euros (MADICS CNRS).

G. Richard, T. Virtanen, N. Ono, J. Pablo Bello, and I are guest editors of a special issue of the IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Proc. on sound scene and event analyses for indoor and outdoor environments

Whale acoustic monitoring in french Riviera

3D Whale tracking patent demo

Video of our AUV detector for SPID project

SPID [Co-PI]: ANR / National Security Dpt anti-drone passive acoustic tracking research

Press : Discussions in BBC on Whale communication

Discussion in New York-Times on Whale communication

Data Mining for Environmental Passive Monitoring wkp - joint to ICDM - USA nov 2015 [general chair]

I'm invited Pr. at Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria university, whole summer 2015, to design advanced passive submarine acoustic algorithms to survey cetacean and boat trafic.

'Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Hidden Markov Model for Unsupervised Biocoustic Analysis' IJCNN 2015.

Multimodal Submarine Buoy : BOMBYX : Bioacoustics Megafauna recording 2011-19

Our new patent on joint Dopler and Time delay of arrival combinatronics is accepted

M. Lassek, Berlin, wins our challenge of massive passive acoustic Bird Identification (1000 species, 20 % of the world species). Following our ICML2013, NIPS2013 and Life2014 bird challenges, this crasy challenge contained 33K sound files from Amazonia [co-Pi]

Int'l workshop / school on Advanced Multimodal Information Retrieval [ERMITES 10th], 'Big Data Sciences for Bioacoustic Environmental Survey', Avril 2015 [general chair] with P. Flandrin, G. Pavan,... video are being online.

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

ICML 2014 ULearnBio challenges, [co-Pi]

LifeCLEF 2014 BIG BIRD Identification challenge (14K audio records, 500 species mostly from Brazil): following our pionner ICML 2013 and NIPS 2013 challenges, this one has 5 times more species [co-Pi]

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 [co general chair]

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]

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

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

"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"

FranceTV interview on bioacoutics, April 2012 (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

SYCIE : Multimodal Maritime Multi-Drone Mission Optimisation (+Prolexia, IFREMER, DCNS, FUI project) 2013-2017 [Co-Pi]

Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity Interdisplinary Big Data CNRS (+Museum Histoires Naturelles de Paris, University P. & M. Curie, Orsay, CNPS, GipsaLab, Pavia univ. IT., Cornell Univ USA, Victoria univ CA.,...) 2012-2017 [Pi]

Multimodal Submarine DataMining : BOMBYX : Joint Bioacoustics, Fauna video recording and courantology - 2011-19

We run a bioacoustic experiment in Groenland with TARA

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

ANR COGNILEGO: from Pixels to Semantics (+Neurobiology LNIA lab, A2IA OCR world leader), 2011-2014 [Pi]