Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Elisabetta De Maria was General chair of the international conference CsBio 2019 (10th International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics), Nice, France.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Antitza Dantcheva, Abhijit Das and François Brémond organized the special session on human health monitoring based on computer vision at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'19).

• Antitza Dantcheva co-organized the Robust Tattoo Detection and Retrieval Competition (RTDRC 2019) associated to the 10th IEEE International Conferencce on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2019).

• Antitza Dantcheva co-organized the special session on The Future of Biometrics beyond Recognition and Anti-Spoofing at the 12th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'19).

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• François Brémond was part of the Organization Committee for the workshop on “Crowd analysis and applications: simulations meet video analytics”

• François Brémond was part of the AVSS'19 Organization Committee

• François Brémond was a Session Chair of AVSS - 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-21 September 2019.

• Elisabetta De Maria was Program chair of the international conference BIOINFORMATICS 2019 (10th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods, and Algorithms), which is part of BIOSTEC 2019 (12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies), Prague, Czech Republic.

• Elisabetta De Maria was Program chair of the international conference CsBio 2019 (10th International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics), Nice, France.

• Antitza Dantcheva was program Co-chair at the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 2019, Darmstadt, Germany.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Monique Thonnat was program committee member of the conference ICPRAM 2020.

• Elisabetta De Maria was member of the program committee of the ICML Workshop on Computational Biology 2019, Long Beach, CA, USA.

Reviewer

• François Brémond was reviewer for the conferences: CVPR2019-20, ICCV2019, ICPRS-19, ICDP19, WACV 2020, AVSS19.

• François Brémond was reviewer for the Journal: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), IET Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

• Antitza Dantcheva was reviewer for 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), Pattern Recognition and Neurocomputing.

• Srijan Das was reviewer for KCST 2019, ICAML 2019, AVSS 2019 and WACV 2020.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• François Brémond was handling editor of the international journal "Machine Vision and Application".

• François Brémond was handling editor for the MDPI special issue sensors Deep Learning for multi-sensor fusion.

• Elisabetta De Maria was guest editor of the JBCB journal (Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) for the review process of selected papers for the special issue on the conference BIOINFORMATICS 2019.

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

Invited Talks

• François Brémond was invited at the Data Science Riviera to give the talk “Cross domain residual transfer learning for person re-identification” in April 2019.

• François Brémond was invited to give a keynote speech on people tracking at the T4S Workshop in AVSS Taipei, 21 September 2019.

• François Brémond was invited in HealthCare and AI CITEDI at Tijuana, 23 August 2019.

• Monique Thonnat was invited as Speaker on AI and Health session to the CEO Forum at VivaTech, Paris, 16 May 2019.

• Monique Thonnat was invited to give a talk entitled Where to Focus on for Human Action Recognition? at the Franco-Mexican workshop on AI, Mexico, 27-29 August 2019.

• Monique Thonnat was invited by TEC Monterey for to give a talk on AI for Daily Living Activity recognition from videos at the AI Hub Launch, Guadalajara, 27 November 2019.

• Elisabetta De Maria was invited at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada in June 2019. Title of the talk: Parameter Learning for Spiking Neural Networks Modelled as Timed Automata.

• Elisabetta De Maria was invited at Center of Modeling, Simulation, and Interactions (MSI), Université Côte d'Azur, France in September 2019. Title of the talk: Parameter Learning for Spiking Neural Networks Modelled as Timed Automata.

• Srijan Das was invited at the Data Science Riviera to give the talk “Spatio-temporal attention mechanism for Activities of Daily Living” in November.

• S L Happy was invited at the Data Science Riviera to give the talk “Apathy diagnosis by analyzing facial dynamics in videos” in April.

• Abhijit Das was invited at the Data Science Riviera to give the talk “Robust face analysis employing machine learning techniques for remote heart rate estimation and towards unbiased attribute analysis” in January.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• François Brémond was part of the Evaluation Committee for new Inria team creation, Chorale.

• François Brémond was part of the Evaluation Committee for PINZ Axel research application for Austrian Science Fund.

• Monique Thonnat is member of the scientific board of ENPC, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées since June 2008.

• Jean-Paul Rigault is an ISO C++ expert and the head of the French delegation at the ISO C++ standardization committee.

• 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

Scientific Expertise

Elisabetta De Maria was facilitator of the brainstorming of the strategic axis "Humain-Biologie" during the meeting of the I3S Laboratory, Fréjus, France.