Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• Hicham Badri, PhD student in GEOSTAT (thesis under way cosupervised by H. Yahia and D. Aboutajdine) received the University Mohammed V best Master student award.

• The paper Reconstructing an image from its edge representation by Suman K. Maji, H. Yahia and H. Badri [19] is ranked in the top ten entries in the list of most downloaded papers of Elsevier's Digital Signal Processing journal.

• The paper An efficient solution to sparse linear prediction analysis of speech by V. Khanagha and K. Daoudi [15] is ranked in the top ten entries, 13th over 100, in the list of most downloaded papers in 2013 of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

• GEOSTAT and DYNBIO (LEGOS, CNRS UMR 5566, Toulouse) teams have computed daily ocean dynamics at super resolution over a large area around the Algunas current near South Africa using low resolution altimetry data and high resolution Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data for the year 2006. The computed ocean dynamics over a one year time interval is the result of the propagation of low resolution ocean dynamics derived from altimetry across the scales of a multiresolution analysis computed on the SST singularity exponents. The resulting turbulent ocean dynamics has been made into a movie with the help of Inria DIRCOM team (C. Blonz, P.-O. Gaumin) ( http://geostat.bordeaux.inria.fr/exj1309/annee2006_SHORTER_2ipj.mov (size $\sim$ 800 Mo).).

• Researchers of GEOSTAT have been invited to two speaker sessions, firstly in one of the best international conference in computational biomedecine: EMBC 2013, [21] , and second during the India-CEFIPRA workshop in ICST "Challenges in overcoming complexity, from big data to cyberphysical systems”, April 4 - 5, 2013, New Delhi- India [22] .

• Paper Fast Multi-Scale Detail Decomposition via Accelerated Iterative Shrinkage [24] accepted at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013 conference (technical brief).