Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

Grants with industry

Contract with Technicolor

Participants : Guillaume Gravier, Patrick Gros, Cédric Penet.

Duration: 36 months, since September 15^th 2010.

C. Penet's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between Technicolor and TexMex . The aim of this work is to study and develop techniques based on stochastic models to analyze the content of movies. The application developed in Technicolor consists in detecting violent scenes in movies in order to facilitate parental supervision.

Contract with Orange Labs

Participants : Pascale Sébillot, Khaoula Elagouni.

Duration: 36 months, since October 2009.

K. Elagouni's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between Orange Labs and TexMex . The aim of the work is to investigate a more semantic approach to describe multimedia documents based on textual material found inside the images.

Contract with INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel)

Participants : Guillaume Gravier, Ludivine Kuznik, Pascale Sébillot.

Duration: 36 months, since April 2011.

Ludivine Kuznik's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between INA and TEXMEX within the OSEO/QUAERO project. The aim of the work is to investigate a more semantic approach to structure and navigate very large collections of TV archives.