Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

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Participants : Cordelia Schmid, Jakob Verbeek, Karteek Alahari, Julien Mairal.

The collaboration started in 2016. The topics include image retrieval with CNN based descriptors, weakly supervised semantic segmentation, and learning structure models for action recognition in videos. In 2016, Pauline Luc started her PhD funded by a CIFRE grant, jointly supervised by Jakob Verbeek (Inria) and Camille Couprie (Facebook). THOTH has been selected in 2016 as a recipient for the Facebook GPU Partnership program. In this context Facebook will donate a state-of-the-art server with 8 GPUs.