Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

MDBD Aerospatiale

Participants : Hedi Harzallah, Frédéric Jurie, Cordelia Schmid.

The collaboration with the Aerospatiale section of MBDA has been on-going for several years: MBDA has funded the PhD of Yves Dufurnaud (1999-2001), a study summarizing the state-of-the-art on recognition (2004) as well as a one year transfer contract on matching and tracking (11/2005-11/2006).

In December 2006 started a contract for three and a half years on object detection in the presence of severe changes of the imaging conditions and if the images of the objects are very small. Our solution is based on designing appropriate image descriptors and using context information to improve the localization performance. The PhD scholarship of Hedi Harzallah which started in August 2007 is funded by this contract.