Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Technology transfer and socio-economic impact: InnovationLab i2S-GEOSTAT. Three year contract with I2S company on the transfert of award winning H. Badri PhD results (AFRIF PhD price in 2016). The contract is being transformed in 2018 in the form of an Inria Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab is focused on non convex optimization methods in image processing and digital acquisition devices. People involved in GEOSTAT: H. Yahia, N. Brodu, K.Daoudi, M. Martin, A. Zebadua. Budget: 900 000 € on 3 years. The InnovationLab is intended at transferring non-convex optimization methods to solve efficiently the fundamental steps of an imaging acquisition chain built by i2S company. In particular, the following thematics receive new algorithmic solutions through proximal operators and non-convex optimization:

  • Image smoothing

  • Image denoising

  • Efficient block-matching implementation

  • Denoising through learning

  • Low rank transfert

  • Debayerisation

  • Image stitching

  • Deconvolution

  • 3D reconstruction from corrupted gradients

  • Super-resolution

  • Image enhancement

  This InnovationLab is operated by GEOSTAT researchers, 1 PhD, 2 post-docs and 1 engineer. C++ libraries are developed and transferred into the algorithmic chain at i2S.

• Research results done by GEOSTAT and LEGOS on greenhouse gases partial pressures at the atmosphere/ocean interface layers put forward on ESA site. Read : "Increasing the effective resolution of not well-resolved Essential Ocean Variables".

• IFCAM (Indo-French Center for Applied Mathematics) project accepted: "Generalization for land cover classification" by Dharmendra Singh and Nicolas Brodu.