Section: Dissemination

Conferences, Seminars, Meetings

• The members of the Ariana project-team participated actively in GdR ISIS and GdR MSPCV.

• The members of the Ariana project-team participated in the Sophia Forum at Palais des Festivals in Cannes in February and in the INRIA/UNSA Fête de la Science at INRA in Sophia Antipolis in October. In particular, G. Perrin, O. Zammit and J. Zerubia made presentations.

• The Ariana project-team organized numerous seminars in image processing during 2006. Seventeen researchers were invited from the following countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, USA. For more information, see the Ariana project-team web site.

• As in previous years, members of the Ariana project-team participated actively in the visits to INRIA Sophia Antipolis of students from the Grandes Écoles (École Polytechnique, ENS Cachan, ENPC, Sup'Aéro), and helped students of the Classes Préparatoires with TIPE in France.

• All the members of the Ariana project-team participated in a `brain-storming' session in Sospel in June.

• Alexis Baudour made a presentation as part of the 'Journées Mathématiques de l'Image', at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in January. He also made a presentation at the Conference on Imaging Science SIAM, Minneapolis, USA in May and participated in the workshop 'Mathematics in Image Analysis', Paris, France in September.

• Avik Bhattacharya gave a cross-seminar (ARIANA/MAESTRO) in May. He attended a meeting with an Indian delegation in Sophia Antipolis. He gave a seminar at ENST (TSI Department), Paris, France, in June. He presented a poster in the CompIMAGE symposium, Coimbra, Portugal, in October.

• Mats Eriksson had a poster presentation at ISPRS Commission I, Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France, in July.

• Alexandre Fournier presented a poster at the International Summer School on Pattern Recognition, Plymouth, United Kingdom. He presented a poster at the `Doctoriales DGA 2006' event, Agay, France.

• Peter Horvath gave a talk at the workshop `Microscopy and Medical Image Processing', Linz, Austria, in May. He gave a talk at the `Summer School on Image Processing and Robotics', Montpellier, France, in July. He gave a presentation at the conference ICVGIP, Madurai, India, in December. While in India, he gave a seminar at the French Institute of Pondicherry.

• Maria S. Kulikova presented her work at a EURANDOM workshop, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in December.

• Florent Lafarge visited LIAMA, Beijing, China, for the Mathematical Methods for Multi-Channel Image Processing workshop in July, at which he presented his work. He gave a talk at the `Journées de la Recherche de l'IGN', Saint-Mandé, France, in March. He presented a paper at the conference ICASSP, Toulouse, France, in May, at the ISPRS Commission I Symposium, Marne-La-Vallée, France, in July, and at the conference ICIP, Atlanta, USA, in October. He gave a talk at the `Journées jeunes chercheurs CNES', Toulouse, France, in October. He presented his work at a EURANDOM workshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in December.

• Ting Peng organized and participated in the workshop Mathematical methods for multi-channel image processing (MULT-IM), Beijing, China, in July. She participated in the workshop Mathematics in Image Analysis, Paris, France, in September. She presented her work at Alcatel Alenia Space, Cannes, in September, and Alcatel Alenia Space, Toulouse in November.

• Guillaume Perrin presented a paper at the conference RFIA (Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle), Tours, France, in January. He presented a paper at the International Precision Forestry Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa, in March. He gave a cross-seminar (ARIANA/MAESTRO) in May. He presented a paper at the conference ICPR, Hong Kong, in August. He also gave a seminar at LIAMA, Beijing, China, in August.

• Pierre Weiss gave talks at the SIAM conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, USA, in May, and at the workshop Mathematics in Image Analysis, Paris, France, in September.

• Olivier Zammit presented a paper at the International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, in November and attended the Euromediteranean workshop on forest fire detection in Valabre, France, in December.

• Ian Jermyn gave an invited talk in January at the Workshop on the 'Journées Mathématiques de l'Image', at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. In May, he presented the work of the Ariana project-team as part of a visit to INRIA Sophia Antipolis by the head of NSF Europe and in June as part of a visit by the heads of LIAMA/CASIA (China). In July, he presented the work of the Ariana project-team to a delegation from the University of Houston. In September, he chaired a session and gave a presentation at the conference EUSIPCO06, Florence. In November, he visited the University of Szeged, Hungary, and gave a seminar. In December, he attended a meeting of FP6 Network of Excellence MUSCLE in Paris, and made a presentation.

• Xavier Descombes attended a meeting with the Russian delegation at MIPIM in March. He presented his work on image restoration using a diffusion process in the workshop Mathematical methods for multi-channel image processing (MULT-IM), Beijing, China, in July, he spent 2 weeks at IIPT (Russian Academy of Sciences) in Moscow in August, funded by the Econet project. He presented his work on marked point processes at a conference organized by PopSud at I3S, Sophia Antipolis, France. He presented a paper at the conference ICASSP, Toulouse, France, in May, presented the project Mode de Vie at the ARC workshop in Grenoble, France, in October and gave invited talks in several workshops (Rennes, Paris VI,...).

• Laure Blanc-Féraud presented the work conducted within the P2R program at the Status Seminar on Medical and Biomedical Imaging in February in Jerusalem, Israel. She made an invited keynote talk at the conference ADAIV, Marseille, France, in September. She presented work on image restoration using L¹ regularization in the workshop Mathematical methods for multi-channel image processing (MULT-IM), Beijing, China, in July.

• Josiane Zerubia made a presentation of Ariana work at Popsud, participated at the workshop 'Journées Mathématiques de l'Image', at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and visited Astrium/EADS in Toulouse in January. She attended a meeting on orbital systems organized by the French Space Agency (CNES) in Labége and visited CS as well as Thales in Toulouse in February to present the research work conducted in Ariana. She also made a presentation at Magellium in Toulouse in March and went twice to Toulouse to evaluate the R and D of the French Space Agency (CNES), and to participate, as one of 30 experts of CERT, in writing of a report on the subject sent to the President of CNES. Still in March, she participated to a Franco-Israeli workshop organized by Pasteur Institute within the P2R Program and attended an ORFEO workshop located at CNES in Paris. In April, she visited Sanofi-Aventis Research and CNES both in Toulouse and participated to an Optitec meeting on deconvolution at I3S in Sophia Antipolis. In May, she participated to ICASSP'06 in Toulouse as an organizing member and attended the BISP Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In June, she organized the Ariana 'brain storming'' meeting in Sospel, went to EPFL in Lausanne to visit the Biological Imaging Group (M. Unser) and to be part of a PhD committee in the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (M. Vetterli) and presented Ariana work at the Carnot Foundation. In July, she presented a paper at the ISPRS Commission I Symposium in Marne la Vallée. In September, she organized and attended the administration committee of the SFPT Society at INRIA Sophia Antipolis and gave an invited talk. In October, she attended the scientific committee of TechforFood organisation representing INRIA at CNES in Paris. In november, she organized the visit of the head of Ecology Department of the French Institute in Pondicherry at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. She also visited Silogic and Sanofi-Aventis in Toulouse. In December, she participated to the third meeting of the scientific committee of TechforFood at the French Development Agency in Paris.