Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Francois Brémond was a General Chair for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS 2018).

Member of Organizing Committees

• Abhijit Das organized 5th Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition 2018, in conjunction with International Conference on Biometrics 2018.

• Abhijit Das organized 1st Thai Student Signature and Name component Recognition and Verification Competition 2018 in conjunction with ICFHR 2018.

• Antitza Dantcheva and Abhijit Das organized Recent Advances in Biometric Technology for Mobile Devices (RABTMD 2018) in conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems BTAS 2018.

• Antitza Dantcheva and Abhijit Das were local organizing co-chairs of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS 2018).

• Alexandra Konig was member of the organizing committee of RaPID-2018 workshop (Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric impairments) 8th of May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Antitza Dantcheva was program Co-chair at the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 2017 and 2018, September, 2018, Darmstadt, Germany.

• Alexandra Konig was program chair of 2nd Workshop on AI for Aging, Rehabilitation and Independent Assisted Living (ARIAL) @IJCAI’18 - In conjunction with 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,July 15, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.

Member of Conference Program Committees

• Francois Brémond was program committee member of WACV18.

• Francois Brémond was a member of the AVSS Steering Committee for 2018

• Monique Thonnat was program committee member of the conference ICPRAM 2019

• Antitza Dantcheva was in the technical program committee of the IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) 2018

• Jean-Paul Rigault is a member of the Association Internationale pour les Technologies à Objets (AITO) which organizes international conferences such as ECOOP.

Reviews

• Francois Brémond was reviewer for many journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, for the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, for the journal ”revue Retraite et société” and Medical Engineering & Physics.

• Antitza Dantcheva was reviewer for a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IET Biometrics, Pattern Recognition letters, Pattern Recognition.

• Francois Brémond was reviewer for many conferences including : CVPR2018, ECCV2018, VOT2018, ICCV2018, WACV2018-19, ISG18.

• Monique Thonnat is a reviewer for the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIIM (Elsevier).

• Sabine Moisan was reviewer for the 10th ICAART'18 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence.

Member of Editorial Boards

• Francois Brémond has been handling editor of the international journal ”Machine Vision and Application” since 2014 and editor of a PANORAMA special issue of Journal of Electronic Imaging Letters (JEI): Ultra Wide Context and Content Aware Imaging.

• Antitza Dantcheva has been in the Editorial Board of the Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) since 2017.

Invited Talks

Francois Brémond was invited by:

• Prof. Vasek Hlavac (Czech Technical University in Prague) to give a talk at the Computer Vision Winter Workshops CVWW in Cesky Krumlov, 5th February 2018.

• Derek J Collins (Huawei) to give a talk at the 3rd Annual Computer Vision / Video Intelligence Forum in Dublin, 0ct. 2018.

• Nicolas Padoy (University of Strasbourg) to give a talk at the workshop MCV at CVPR, June 2018

• Dr Lauren CAURO (City of Nice) to give a talk at the workshop "Ethique en santé connectée : La santé connectée, un progrès pour tous? ", 26 Oct 2018

• Christophe ROUSSEAU (University of Nice) to give a talk at the SophIA Summit : IA et vision, 9 Nov 2018

• Monique Thonnat was invited by INGER to give a talk on Monitoring People with Video Analysis at the Franco-Mexican workshop AI Technology Applications and Research on Frailty and Dementia, Mexico, 22-23 November 2018.

• A. Dantcheva. “Facial analysis: from soft biometrics to healthcare” at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA, September 2018.

• A. Dantcheva. “Facial analysis: from biometrics to healthcare” at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, August 2018.

• Monique Thonnat has been invited to give a talk on Activity Recognition for Neurocognitive Disorders at the International Symposium on Smart Healthcare and Age-Friendly by Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, 4 December 2018.

• Monique Thonnat has been invited by Taipei Medical University to give a talk on An Approach with serious Exergames for Assessment and Stimulation of Patients with Neurocognitive Disorders at Bioinformatics vs Medecine: The Elderly Care in the Information Era, The Needs and Responses, Taipei, Taiwan, 6 December 2018.

• Francois Brémond has been invited to give a talk on Activity Recognition for People Monitoring at the International Symposium on Smart Healthcare and Age-Friendly by Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, 4 December 2018.

• Francois Brémond has been invited by Taipei Medical University to give a talk on Activity Recognition to Monitor Older People at Bioinformatics vs Medecine: The Elderly Care in the Information Era, The Needs and Responses, Taipei, Taiwan, 6 December 2018.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Francois Brémond was a member of the Evaluation Committee (i.e. HCERES) of the research laboratory LIPADE from Paris Descartes University, 15 March 2018.

• Francois Brémond was a member of the Evaluation Committee for the professor position in computer science of Lyon University, April 24th and May 15th 2018.

• Francois Brémond was a Reviewer for the AME Programmatic Proposal ”Human-Robot Collaborative AI for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering” on behalf of (A*STAR) Singapore, 30th May 2018.

• Francois Brémond was an expert for a research program at the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Oct 2018.

• Francois Brémond was the working group Leader for reviewing a new Inria Project Team Proposal: CHORALE

• Francois Brémond is part of the Advisory Board of the V4Design EU project for the Horizon 2020 framework, ICT-20-2017 Call, Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries, 2018-21

• Antitza Dantcheva serves in the Technical Activities Committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council since 2017

• Antitza Dantcheva serves in the EURASIP Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics (BISA) SAT 2018-2021

• Antitza Dantcheva is member of the European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERNCIP), Thematic Group Extended Virtual Fencing - use of biometric and video technologies, since 2017

• Antitza Dantcheva is member of the European Association for Biometrics, since 2018