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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR Project FIRE-ID

Participants : Sébastien Campion, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Patrick Gros, Hervé Jégou.

Duration: 3 years, started in May 2012

Partner: Xerox Research Center Europe

The FIRE-ID project considers the semantic annotation of visual content, such as photos or videos shared on social networks, or images captured by video surveillance devices or scanned documents. More specifically, the project considers the fine-grained recognition problem, where the number of classes is large and where classes are visually similar, for instance animals, products, vehicles or document forms. We also assumed that the amount of annotated data available per class for the learning stage is limited.

ANR Project Secular

Participants : Laurent Amsaleg, Teddy Furon, Hervé Jégou, Ewa Kijak.

Duration: 3 years, started in September 2012

Partners: Morpho, Univ. Caen GREYC, Telecom ParisTech

Content-based retrieval systems (CBRS) are becoming the main multimedia security technology to enforce copyright laws or to spot illegal contents over the Internet. However, CBRS were not designed with privacy, confidentiality and security in mind. This comes in serious conflict with their use in these new security-oriented applications. Privacy is endangered due to information leaks when correlating users, queries and the contents stored-in- the-clear in the database. This is especially the case of images containing faces which are so popular in social networks. Biometrics systems have long relied on protection techniques and anonymization processes that have never been used in the context of CBRS. The project seeks to a better understanding of how biometrics related techniques can help increasing the security levels of CBRS while not degrading their performance.