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 Prof. Liming Chen

Date : Started in 1998

Projects : All (LabCom Arès, FUI Pikaflex, EU CHIST-ERA “Learn-Real”)

 

Biography

Liming Chen is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon, France. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Nantes in 1984, his MSc and PhD in computer science from the University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris 6 in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He was an associate professor at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne before he joined Ecole Centrale de Lyon as Professor in 1998. 

40 PhD thesis were successfully defended under Prof. Chen’s supervision or co-supervision, including 37 thesis since his appointment to ECL. His research has led to 286 publications, including 2 books, 11 book chapters, 53 international journals, 2 national journals, 156 international conferences, 41 international workshops, 15 national conferences and 7 archived publications, filed 7 patents and 2 softwares, 16 national or European collaborative research projects for a total amount of 3.36 millions €, 14 industrial contracts for a total amount more than 1 M€. See his citations according to Google Scholar.  

Prof. Chen initiated the lecture of deep learning at Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2015 and is responsible or co-responsible of three AI related courses for engineer graduate students, namely Introduction to Deep learning, Structured Deep learning and computer vision.

Dr. Emmanuel DELLANDREA

Date : Started in Sept. 2004

Projects : LabCom Arès, Learn-Real, Fair Wastes, Chiron

Emmanuel Dellandréa is Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, since 2004. He was awarded a Master and Engineering degrees in Computer Science from the Université de Tours, France, in 2000 followed by a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003. He obtained the Habilitation to Drive Research (HDR) in 2020 from Ecole Centrale de Lyon. His research activities led in the LIRIS laboratory (CNRS UMR 5205) are related to image and video understanding, computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning with applications to affective computing and robotics.

Dr. Nicolas Cazin

Date : Started in Nov. 2019

Projects : Learn-Real, Fair Wastes, Chiron

After serving as software/real-time/signal processing engineer at Thales for 7 years and worked on surface radars, Nicolas Cazin changed his carrier direction and obtained a PhD in computational neuroscience, supervised by Peter-Ford Dominey. It consisted in investigating by siumation on a GPUs cluster a memory consolidation mechanism observed on a rat trying to solve the traveling salesperson problem by relying on electrophysiological measurements acquired during behavioral experiments and by using the reservoir computing paradigm for modeling the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

M. QUENTIN GALLOUEDEC

Date : Started in Nov. 2020

Projects :  Learn-Real, Fair Wastes, Chiron

Quentin Gallouedec is currently a PhD candidate in Machine Learning. His research is focused on Deep Reinforcement Learning applied to robotic manipulation.

He obtained in 2020 a Master’s degree in computer science engineering (Ecole Centrale de Lyon) and a Master’s degree in embedded systems electronics (Ecole Centrale de Lyon).

M. Rui Yang

Date : Started in Nov. 2020

Projects : Learn-Real, Fair Wastes, Chiron

Rui Yang is currently a PhD candidate in Machine Learning. His research is focused on Deep Robot Lifelong Learning for vision-based robotic grasping of objects.

He obtained in 2020 a Master’s degree in computer science engineering (Ecole Centrale de Lyon) and a Master’s degree in Data Science (UCB Lyon 1).

M. AMAURY DEPIERRE

Date : Started in April 2017

Projects : FUI Pikaflex

Amaury Depierre completed his Engineering Degree (~ MSc Degree) at École Centrale de Lyon in 2016. He is since then a Ph.D. student at LIRIS in partnership with Siléane, a company specialized in adaptive robotics. His research are focused on vision for automated grasping. His research interests are deep learning, computer vision and robotics.

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Maxime Petit received the M.Sc. degree in computer sciences (cognitive sciences major) from the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 2010, and an M.Sc. degree in bioengineering (bioinformatics major) from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Lyon, France, the same year. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2014, from the Neurosciences and Cognition doctoral school, working at the Stem-Cell and Brain Research Institute for the National Institute of Science And Medical Research (INSERM) in Bron, France, within the Robotic Cognition Laboratory team for the FP7 EU project EFAA.

He was a research associate in the Personal Robotics Lab between 2014 and 2016, as a part of the FP7 WYSIWYD project, and is currently a research associate at Ecole Centrale de Lyon since 2017 (FUI Pikaflex, EU CHIST-ERA Learn-Real).  His research interests are trans-disciplinary and are covering multimodal HRI; continuous learning and long-term memory; learning by demonstration, imitation and instructions; machine learning and computer vision for robots.

15/06/2015-20/05/2019 (50%, with Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa)

Dissertation on Generic Instance Segmentation for Object-Oriented Bin-Picking. An industrial thesis with Siléane, a French leading company in robotics. It aims to make robots recognize objects from RGBD images. Started on 15 June 2015; PhD defended on May 20, 2019, in front of Mme.Marie-Odile Berger (Senior Researcher, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, Chair), Prof.Thierry Chateau (Université Clermont Auvergne, Rapporteur), Prof. Dimitris Samaras (Stony Brook University, Rapporteur), Dr.Jean-Marc Odobez (Senior researcher, IDIAP), Dr.Laetitia Leyrit (Engineer, Siléane), Prof.Liming Chen (Supervisor of the thesis), Dr.Emmanuel Dellandra (Co-supervisor).

Now R&D engineer at Siléane.

12/09/2013-09/11/2017 (50%, with Dr.Alexandre Saidi)

Thesis on transfer learning for image classification.  First registration on September 12, 2013. Defense defended on November 9, 2017, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Nicole Vincent (Chair of the jury, Universiy Paris Descartes), Prof.Nicolas Thome (Rapporteur, CNAM), Dr.Krystian Mikolajczyk (Rapporteur, Reader at Imperial College London), Prof.Amaury Habrad (Invited member, Univ.Jean Monnet), Dr.Alexandre Saidi (Co-supervisor, Liris ECL), Prof.Liming Chen (Thesis supervisor, Liris, ECL). 

She was involved in Labcom Arès and Pikaflex project.

22/01/2013-17/07/2017 (50%, with Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan at KAUST&UCB)

Dissertation on Towards Non-Conventional Face Recognition: Shadow Removal and heterogeneous Scenario. First registration on January 22, 2013. Defense defended on July 17, 2017, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Isabelle Magnin (Chair of the jury, Créatis, Inserm), Prof.Stan Z.Li (Rapporteur, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Prof.Stefano Berretti (Rapporteur, University of Florence, Italia), Dr.Séverine Dubuisson (Mcf HDR, ISIR, UMPC), Dr.Stéphane Gentric (Morpho, Safran), Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan (Thesis supervisor, University Lyon 1 and KAUST) and Prof.Liming Chen (Thesis co-supervisor, Liris, ECL)

Now AI scientist at Tomorrow Advancing Life (TAL).

01/09/2011-14/12/2016 (in which one year stoppage due to illness) , Supervision rate: 50% with Dr. Emmanuel Dellandréa (50%)

Dissertation on Weakly Supervised Learning of Deformable Part Models and Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection. First registration on September 1st,  2011. PhD defended on December 14,  2016, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Jenny Benois-Pineau (LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux 1), Prof.Amaury Habrard (Chair of the jury, Lab.Hubert Currien, Université Jean Monnet), Dr.Francesc Moreno-Noguer (Rapporteur, Associate Researcher at Insititut de Robotica informatica Industrial, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Dr.Georges Quenot (Dir.Research, LIG, CNRS), Dr.Guoying Zhao (Associate Prof., University of Oulu), Prof.Liming Chen (supervisor, ECL), Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (Co-supervisor, associate prof. at ECL). 

Now research fellow at NIH Washington.

14/11/2013-16/12/2016, supervision rate: 50% with Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan (50%) at UCB&KAUST

Dissertation on Contributions to 3D Face Recognition: Curvatures, Heterogeneous Cross-Resolution FR and Anti-Spoofing. First registration on November 14, 2013. PhD defended on December 16,  2016, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Alice Caplier (Chair of the jury, Gipsa lab, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble), Prof.Jean-Luc Dugelay (Rapporteur, Eurecom), Prof.Boulbaba Ben Amor (Rapporteur, Institut Mines-Télécom/Telecom Lille), Prof.Liming Chen (supervisor, ECL), Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan (Co-supervisor, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 & KAUST).

Now AI expert at AInnovation.

22/01/2013-16/12/2016, supervision rate: 50% with Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan (50%) at UCB&KAUST

Dissertation on Combining 2D Facial Texture and 3D face morphology for estimating people soft biometrics: gender, ethnicity, and facial expression. First registration on January 22, 2013. PhD defended on December 16,  2016, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Alice Caplier (Rapporteur, Gipsa lab, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble), Prof.Jean-Luc Dugelay (Chair of the jury, Eurecom), Prof.Boulbaba Ben Amor (Rapporteur, Institut Mines-Télécom/Telecom Lille), Dr.Frédéric Cazals (Dir.Research, INRIA, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis),  Prof.Liming Chen (supervisor, ECL), Prof.Jean-Marie Morvan (Co-supervisor, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 & KAUST).

Now AI architect at Tomorrow Advancing Life (TAL).

01/11/2012-12/11/2015, supervision rate: 40%, with Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (40%) and Christel Chamaret (20%) at Technicolor

Dissertation on Automatic Prediction of Emotions Induced by Movies. First registration 1st November 2012. PhD defended on November 12,  2015, in front of the jury composed of Prof.Patrick Le Callet (President, Université de Nantes), Prof.Björn Schuller (Rapporteur, University of Passau), Prof.Thierry PUN (Rapporteur, University of Geneva), Dr.Mohammad Soleymani (University of Geneva), Prof.Liming Chen (supervisor, ECL), Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (Co-supervisor, associate prof. at ECL), Mme.Christel Chamaret (Researcher at Technicolor). 

Now R&D engineer at Capacités SAS. 

01/10/2011-27/03/2015, supervision rate: 25% with Prof. Simon Masnou (75%) at UCB

Thesis on graph-based on image segmentation and tracking.  First registration on October 2011. Defense on 27 March 2015.

01/03/2012-02/03/2015, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Sami Romdhani at Morpho

Dissertation on Neutralisation des expressions faciales pour améliorer la reconnaissance faciale. First registration on March 2012. Defense on 2 March 2015.

01/10/2011-12/03/2015, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr. Mohsen Ardabilian (50%)

Dissertation on Contributions to Accurate and Efficient Cost Aggregation for stereo matching.  First registration on October 2011. Defense on 12 March 2015.

01/09/2009-27/11/2014, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr. Emmanuel Dellandréa (50%)

Dissertation on Contributions to Music Semantic Analysis and its acceleration Techniques. First registration on September 2009.  Defense on 15 December 2014. Now postdoc at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

01/12/2011-27/11/2014, supervision rate: 40%, with Dr. Alexandre Saidi (40%) and Gilles Scouarnec (20%) at Renault Truck

Dissertation on Realistic driver behavior modeling for energy efficiency estimation during heavy-trucks vehicles development.  First registration on December 2011. Defense on 27 November 2014. Now responsible methods – électrique, IVECO.

01/09/2009-15/05/2014, supervision rate: 25%, with Dr.Stéphane Brès (75%) at l’INSA de Lyon

Dissertation on Contributions to Visual Concept Recognition using Visual and Textual Descriptors. First registration on September 1st 2009. A thesis defended on 15 May 2014 in front of Prof.Jean-Yves Ramel (Rapporteur,Laboratoire d’Informatique de Tours), Dr.Georges Quenot (Rapporteur, Senior Researcher at CNRS), Prof.Nicole Vincent (Chair, Université Paris Descarte), W.Mahdi (Associate Prof., ISIMS, Tunisia), Liming Chen (Thesis Director), Dr.Stéphane Bres (Co-supervisor). Now assistant professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University.

01/09/2009-22/11/2013, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr. Emmanuel Dellandréa (50%)

Dissertation on « Contributions to Generic and Affective Visual Concept Recognition ». 1st registration on September 1st, 2009 and defense on November 22, 2013. Now assistant professor at Pekin University of trade and economics.

01/03/2009-18/11/2013, supervision rate: 50%, with Prof. Jean-Marie Morvan (50%) at UCB&KAUST

Dissertation on  « Towards Three-Dimensional Face Recognition in the real » defended on November 18, 2013. Now assistant professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University

01/11/2008-13/03/2013, supervision rate: 75% with Prof. Mohamed Daoudi (25%) at Telecom Lille)

Dissertation on “Contributions to 3D face analysis: region-based approach, holistic approach and study of degradations  régions, approche holistique et étude de degradations”, defended on March 13, 2013 in front of the jury composed of  Prof.Alice Caplier (Rapporteur, INPG), Dr.Youssef Chahir (Rapporteur, Associate Prof. HDR at University of Caen), Prof.Samir Akkouche (Chahir, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1), Dr.Kevin Bailly (Associate Prof., University Pierre and Marie Curie), Prof.Liming Chen (Thesis director), Prof.Daoudi (Telecom Lille 1, co-suprevisor). Now postdoc at Ecole Normale Supérieure.

09/01/2008-11/12/2012, supervision rate: 40%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (40%) and Prof. Chokri Ben Amar (20%) at ENIS, Tunisia

Dissertation on the optimization of fusion strategies for 3D face recognition defended on December 11, 2012. Now postdoc at University of Littoral. 

01/09/2006-28/06/2012 (in which she spent two years in Tunisia), supervision rate: 40%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (40%) and Prof. Faouzi Ghorbel (20%) at ENSI, Tunisia

Dissertation on 3D face modeling using non-rigid spatial-temporel super-resolution. 1st registration on September 1st, 2006. Defense on June 28, 2012. Now R&D engineer in a Paris-based company.

09/01/2008-03/04/2012, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Charles-Edmond Bichot (50%)

Dissertation on Effective and efficient visual description based on local binary patterns and gradient distribution for object recognition. 1st registration on September 1st, 2008. Defense on April 3, 2012. Now Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China.  

01/09/2008-09/09/2011, supervision rate: 40%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (40%) and Prof.Yunhong Wang (20%) at Beihang University, China

Dissertation on Robust Face Recognition based on Three Dimensional Data. Defended on September 9, 2011. Now associate professor at Beihang University, China.

01/09/2007-06/07/2011, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (50%)

Dissertation on Processing and analysis of 2.5D face models for non-rigid mapping based face recognition using differential geometry tools. Thesis defended on July 6, 2011. Now R&D project manager at Aurora Computer Services Ltd, UK.

01/01/2007-29/06/2011, supervision rate:  30%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (70%)

Dissertation on vehicle licence plate recognition. Thesis defended on June 29, 2011. Now R&D engineer at a Grenoble-based company.

01/09/2007-14/12/2010, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (50%)

Dissertation on « Contributions to Generic Visual Object Categorization », thesis defended on December 14, 2010. Now Associate Professor at the Institute of Forensic Science in China.

01/09/2007-13/09/2010, supervision rate:50%, with Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (50%)

Dissertation on « 3D Face Analysis : Landmarking, Expression Recognition and Beyond », thesis defended on September 13, 2010. Now assistant professor at Houston University, USA.

01/09/2002-04/12/2009, supervision rate: 50%, with Prof. Ruan Su (50%) at University of Caen

Dissertation on « Compression and recognition of faces for smart identity cards ». Thesis defended on December 4, 2009. Now entrepreneur and creator of a Paris-based company.

01/01/2005-12/06/2009, supervision rate: 100%

Dissertation on « Semantic Classification of images ». Thesis defended on June 12, 2009. Now R&D engineer at a Toulouse-based company.

01/09/2004-25/01/2008, supervision rate: 40%, with Dr.Emmanuel Dellandréa (40%) and Prof.Weibei Dou (20%) at Tsinghua University

Dissertation on « Classification of emotion in audio signals ». Thesis defended on January 25, 2008. Now associate professor at Socchow University, China.

01/09/2003-09/12/2007, supervision rate: 100%

Dissertation on “Variable Resolution Transform-based Music Feature Extraction and their Applications for Music Information Retrieval”, thesis defended on December 9, 2007. Now R&D engineer at a Lyon-based company.

01/09/2003-08/12/2006, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Mohsen Ardabilian (50%)

Dissertation on « Contributions to 3D face modeling and recognition », thesis defended on December 8, 2006. Now associate professor at Télécom Lille 1

01/09/2002-08/07/2006, supervision rate:  100%

Dissertation on « Semantic Macro-segmentation of Multimedia Sequences », thesis defended on July 8, 2006. Now R&D engineer in Belarus.

01/10/2001-15/12/2005, supervision rate: 100%
Dissertation on « Face detection, matching and recognition for semantic video understanding », 1st registration on October 2001. thesis defense on December 15, 2005. Now R&D engineer at Toyota research center in Nice, France.
01/09/2001-21/07/2005, supervision rate: 50%, with Dr.Youssef Chahir (50%) at University of Caen

Dissertation on skin modeling and its application to image classification and website filtering, thesis defended on July 21, 2005. Now Professor at University of Sfax, Tunisia.

01/09/2001-16/04/2005, supervision rate: 80%, with Prof. Junchang Li (20%) at University of Science and Technology of Kunming, China

Dissertation on « Moving object detection and tracking in video and block matching algorithm », thesis defended on April 16, 2005. Now Professor at University of Science and Technology of Kunming, China.

01/09/2001-11/12/2003, supervision rate : 100%

Dissertation on semantic classification of audio signals, thesis defended on December 11, 2003. Now entrepreneur and creator of the Ghanni company.

01/09/1997-18/05/2001, supervision rate :100%

Dissertation on macro-segmentation of audiovisual documents using spatio-temporal hints, thesis defended on May 18, 2001. Now professor at University of Sfax, Tunisia

01/09/1996-20/12/2000, supervision rate: 100%

Dissertation on content-based video indexing using 3D hints, thesis defended on December 20, 2000. Now associate professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

01/09/1996-24/01/2000, supervision rate:100%

Dissertation on content-based indexing and retrieval of visual information, thesis defended on January 24, 2000. Now associate professor with habiliation to manage research at University of Caen.

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