Bernard MERIALDO

Name: Bernard MERIALDO Service: Eurecom - Multimedia Communications  Function: Professor Email: Bernard.Merialdo at eurecom.fr Phone: 04 93 00 81 29 Fax: 04 93 00 82 00 Office: 433 Web site:bmgroup.eurecom.fr

Research

Current research topics

• Object detection, recognition and tracking
• Video analysis, segmentation and classification
• Video summarization
• Multimedia statistical modeling

Current research interests

• His research interest is the analysis, processing, indexing and filtering of Multimedia information to solve user-related tasks.
• His research covers a whole range of problems, from content extraction based on recognition techniques, content understanding based on parsing, multimedia content description languages (MPEG7), similarity computation for applications such as information retrieval, and user personalization and user interaction for the construction of applications.
• He has done several projects on video segmentation and classification, summarization, classification, object tracking, 2D and 3D statistical modeling, personalization.
• He is interested in applications such as Multimedia Information searching, filtering and data mining.

Current research memberships

• He participates in numerous conference program committees.
• He is part of the organizing committee for the CBMI workshop.
• He was editor for the "IEEE Transactions on Multimedia" and organizer of the ACM Multimedia conference in 2002.
• He often acts as an expert and reviewer for French and European research programs.
• He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Selected publications

• 2010 - VERT : automatic evaluation of video summaries
• 2010 - Automatic construction of multimedia summaries
• 2010 - Rushes video summarization and evaluation
• 2010 - Weighting informativeness of bag-of-visual-words by Kernel optimization for video concept detection
• 2009 - Active objects in interactive mobile TV