Professional Activities

Founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing (EURASIP J. IVP)

SpringerOpen http://jivp.eurasipjournals.com/

A. Associate Editor for the following journals

1. Member, Editorial Board, "Multimedia Tools and Applications" (1998-2010).

1. Member, Comite de Redaction, "Traitement du Signal" (TdS

), (1998-1999). 

2. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on IP (Image Processing), 2000- 2004
3. Associate Editor, EURASIP "J. Applied Signal Processing", 2001-2006 
4. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on MM (MultiMedia), 2002-2004 
5. Member, Editorial Board, EURASIP Journal on Information Security (2006-2010)
6. Associate Editor, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2007-present.
7. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM).

B. Guest Editor

1. Guest Editor, "Traitement du Signal" (TdS), Special Issue on Virtual Reality, in 1999. 
2. Guest Editor, "Annals of telecommunications", Special issue, March-April 2000.
3. Guest Editor, J VLSI", Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, in 2001.
4. Guest Editor, "Traitement du Signal" (TdS), Special Issue on Watermarking, in 2002. 
5. Editorial Board Representative, EURASIP JASP, Special Issue on Biometric Signal Processing.

C. Organizing Committee Member

1. Co-Chair, 6eme Journees de Travail du GT Realite Virtuelle (6 JT RV), March 1998. 
2. Co-Chair, CORESA 99, Juin 1999. 
3. Technical Co-Chair, IEEE wksp on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP-01. 
4. Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE ICME 02. 
5. Tutorial & Tech. Demos Co-Chair, ACM MM 02 
6. Co-Chair, Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, Santa Barbara, Dec. 11-12 2003
7. Europe Liaison, IEEE ICME 2004, June 27-30, 2004, Taiwan 
8. Publicity Chair, IEEE wksp on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP-04. 
9. Special Session Co-Chair, ISPA 2005, Croatia.
10. Europe Liaison, IEEE MMSP-05, Shanghai, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2005.
11. Co-organizer, MMUA 06, Toulouse.
12. Publicity Chair, IEEE SPAWC 2006, July 2-6, Cannes.
13. Technical Program Vice Co-Chairs, IEEE ICME 2006 July 9-12, Toronto.
14. Europe Liaison, IEEE ICME 2007.
15. Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE MMSP-08, Cairns.
16. Local Organizing Co-Chairs, MMM 2009, Sophia Antipolis.
17. Publicity Co-Chair, CBMI 2009, Chania.
18. Program Co-Chair, IEEE AVSS 2009, Genoa
19. Europe Liaison, IEEE ICIP 2009, Cairo.
20. Innovation Co-Chair, IEEE ICIP 2011 Brussels.
21. Co-organizer, Workshop on Computer Vision with Local Binary Pattern Variants, ACCV 2012, Daejeon.
22. Publicity Chair, IEEE ICIP 2014, Paris.
23. General Co-Chair, EURASIP EUSIPCO 2015, French Riviera
24. General Co-Chair, IEEE ICIP 2015, Québec City.

D. Technical Committee Member

1. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ICIP'96. 
2. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, (MMSP'98). 
3. Member, International Steering Committee, Picture Coding Symposium, (PCS'99).
4. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, (MMSP'99). 
5. Member, Technical Program Committee, Laval Virtual 2000 (VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL MEETING) 
6. Reviewer, IEEE ICASSP 2000, (ICASSP'00) 
7. Member, Technical Program Committee, First French-British International Workshop on VirtualReality (8 GT RV) 
8. Area Chair, Components and Technologies for Multimedia Systems, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'00) 
9. Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2000 (ICIP'00) 
10. Member, Coresa 2000
11. Member, IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology (ITCC2001) 
12. Member, Int. Conf. on Image & signal Proc. (ICISP 2001)
13. Member, Virtual Laval 2001 (VRIC 2001)
14. Reviewer, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'01) 
15. Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2001 (ICIP'01) 
16. Member, WM 2002
17. Member, CGIV'2002
18. Area Chair, Signal Processing for Media Integration, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 02) 
19. Reviewer, IH 2002.
20. Member, IWDW 2002
21. Member, AMDO 2002
22. Member, MMSP 02 
23. Member, IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia (PCM 2002) 
24. Member, SETIT 03. 
25. Reviewer, IEEE ICASSP 2003 
26. Area Chair, Virtual Reality and 3-D Imaging, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'03) 
27. Member, SPIE VCIP 2003, 8-11 July, Lugano. 
28. Reviewer, IEEE ICIP 03, Sept. 14-17 2003 
29. Member, ICISP'03, June 25-27, Agadir
30. Member, ISPA 2003, Sep. 18-20, Rome
31. Member, IWDW 03, Oct. 20-22, 2003, Seoul
32. Member, ICICS2003/PCM 2003, 15-18 Dec. 03, Singapore.
33. Reviewer, IEEE ICASSP 2004.
34. Reviewer, IEEE ICIP 2004.
35. Reviewer, IEEE MMSP 04.
36. Reviewer, IEEE ACM MM 2004
37. TPC member.
38. Member, DMS 05.
39. IWDW 2005, Siena.
40. Member, IWDW 2006
41. Member, ICIP 2006
42. Technical Chair (Biometrics), ICIP 2007.
43. Member, IWDW 2007
44. Member, IEEE MMSP 2007
45. Member, SPIE Defense and Security 2007, Biometrics.
46. Area Chair (Face Recognition & Biometrics), IEEE ICIP 08, 12-15 Oct., San Diego.
47. Member, IEEE ICASSP 2009
48. Member, S&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging : 3D Image Processing (3DIP) and Applications, San José.
49. Member, IEEE AVSS 2010
50. Member, IEEE MMSP 2010
51. Member ACM MM 2010
52. Member, IEEE WIFS 2010
53. …/…

E. Conference Session Chair

1. Session Chair on "Fractal Image Coding", IEEE ICIP'97. 
2. Session Chair on "Security & Copyright", ECMAST'98. 
3. Session Chair on "Compression", IEEE MMSP'98. 
4. Session Chair on "Multimedia Database", IEEE MMSP'99. 
5. Session Chair on "Virtual / Augmented Reality", IEEE ICME'00 
6. Session Chair on "Stereoscopic and 3-D Image Analysis", IEEE ICIP'00 
7. Session Chair on "Watermarking", Coresa'00 
8. Session Chair on "Watermarking for Audio & Speech", IEEE ICASSP'01 
9. Session Chair on "Description Multimedia", Coresa'01 
10. Session Chair on "Video Coding and Motion Compensation", IEEE ICASSP'02 
11. Session Chair on "Encryption and Watermarking", IEEE ICME'02 
12. Session Chair on "Stereoscopic & 3D Coding", IEEE ICIP'02 
13. Session Chair on "Geste humain, animation, realite virtuelle", Coresa'03
14. Seesion Chair on "Applications", SETIT 2003.
15. Session Chair on "Virtual Reality and Imaging", IEEE ICME'03 
16. Session Chair on "Image and Video Security and Watermarking", VCIP 2003.
17. Session Chair on "Image Modeling", ICIP 2003 Sep. Barlelona 
18. Session Chair on "Watermarking", ICASSP 2004, Montreal 
19. Session Chair on "Tatouage", Coresa 04, Lille. 
20. Session Chair on “Authentication, protection & DRM”, IEEE ICME 2005, Amsterdam.
21. Session Chair on “Fusing Noncontact Biometrics: Face, Gait and Ear” from Mark Nixon (Invited speaker), MMUA 2006, Toulouse.
22. Session Chair on “Digital Watermarking, Data Hiding and Steganography”, IEEE ICME 2006, Toronto.
23. Session Chair on “Face/Facial Expression Detection and Recognition, IEEE ICIP 2006, Atlanta.
24. Session Chair on “Biometrics”, IEEE ICASSP 2007.
25. Session chair on “Human Activity, Gait, Gaze Analysis”, IEEE ICIP 2007, San Antonio.
26. Session Chair on “Human Face and Movement Analysis”, EURASIP, EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne.
27. Session Chair on “Image & Video Processing”, EURASIP, EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow.
28. Session Chair on “Multiview Coding, 3D TV” & “3D Compression and Watermarking”, EI 2010.

F. Special Sessions

1. Multimodal Person Authentication, IEEE ICASSP'02 
2. Kinect Imaging: Beyond Gaming, EURASIP EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest.
3. Video Surveillance, IEEE MMSP 2012.

G. Referee for the following journals

1. IEEE Trans. on IP. 
2. EURASIP Signal Processing. 
3. Optical Engineering. 
4. Revue Traitement du Signal. 
5. IEEE Trans. on Communications. 
6. …/…

H. Member

1. IEEE FELLOW Member (# 40096403) 
2. IEEE SP/MMSP TC (MultiMedia Signal Processing Technical Committee) (1999-2003, 2005-2009)
3. IEEE SP/IMDSP TC (2005-2009) 
4. IEEE IFS (-present)
5. GDR ISIS

1. Co-Chair - National French Work Group on Virtual Reality (GT RV). 
2. Member,  ICME Steering Committee 
3. Member, SP Conference Board 

I. Tutorials

1. Watermarking (co-authored with Fabien Petitcolas, MSR UK)
1. ACM MM 2000
2. IEEE PCM 2001
2. Image & Video Compression
1. ACM MM 2002
3. Biometrics (co-authored with Jean-Claude Junqua, PSTL CA)
1. Multimodal User Authentication: From Theory to Practice, IEEE ICASSP 04.

J. Invited Speaker

1. Invited Speaker, "Image Indexing" Int. Symp. on Image/Video Com. over Fixed and Mobile Networks (ISIVC'00), 17-20 April 2001.
2. Invited speaker, "Fractals in Multimedia Imaging: From Compression to Image Indexing and Watermarking" IMA Minisymposium: Fractals in Multimedia, 17-19 January 2001.
3. Invited Speaker, "Face Cloning" Int. Conf. Communications, Signals and Systems (CSS'01), 19-21 March 2001. 
4. Invited Speaker, "Watermarking"  Euroforum, 5emes rencontres des droits d'auteurs, 28 & 29 mars 2001.
5. Invited Speaker, "A Short Overview of Eurecom's lab Work on Facial Image Analysis & Realistic Talking Heads", 

The Thematic Network, Computer Vision on Multimedia, Spain, 20 Nov. 02.

6. Invited Speaker, "Introduction a la Biométrie", SETIT 2003. 

7. Invited Speaker, "Introduction to Biometric Signal Processing", Image 2003. 
8. Invited Speaker, "Introduction to Biometric Signal Processing", mdic04. 
9. Keynote Speaker, “Towards Novel Facial Biometrics”, Third COST 275 WORKSHOP, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 27-28 Oct. 2005.
10. Invited Speaker, “Introduction to Digital Watermarking”, Conf. on Cryptology and Digital Content Security, 14-18 May 2007.
11. Invited Speaker, “Facial Image Analysis from Video in Biometrics”, IPTA 2008, Sousse.
12. Invited Speaker, “Introduction to Face Recognition and Novel Trends”, 2^nd EUVIP 2010, 5-7 July 2010, Paris.

K. Summer Schools.

1. Invited Lecturer, “Introduction to Biometrics”, ECRYPT Summer School on Multimedia Security, Salzburg, 21-24 Sep. 2005.
2. Invited Speaker, “Watermarking of 3D objects”, 2^nd Ecrypt summer school 2007, Thessaloniki.
3. Invited Speaker, “An overview of Digital Watermarking”, First Algerian summer school on Biometrics (Algiers, May 23-27)
4. Invited Speaker, “Introduction to Face Recognition”, MediaSense 2012: Summer School on Multimodal Data Analytics, May 21-22 2012, Dublin City Univ.
5. Invited Speaker, “Introduction to Face recognition”, Summer School SP-ICE 2012, 6 September 2012, Sophia Antipolis.

L. Misc.

1. OMS (Outcome Measurement Study) Expert Panel Member, U. Ottawa, Dec. 7-8 2009.