Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

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.

Contract with Orange Labs

Participants : Patrick Gros, Mohamed-Haykel Boukadida.

Duration: 36 months, since January 2012.

M.H. Boukadida'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 the use of constraint programming to define a general framework for video summarization and repurposing.

Contract with INA

Participants : Guillaume Gravier, Bingjing Qu.

Duration: 36 months, since May 2012.

Bingjing Qu's Ph.D. thesis is supported by a CIFRE grant in the framework of a contract between INA and TEXMEX. The aim of the work is to infer the structure of collections of homogeneous documents.

Contract with Technicolor

Participants : Cédric Penet, Guillaume Gravier, Patrick Gros.

Duration: 36 months, since October 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 the work is to develop methods to detect audio events and to apply these techniques to violence detection in films.