Benoit HUET

Assistant Professor
Multimedia Communications Department,
Institut Eurécom,
2229 Route des Cretes
BP 193
06904 Sophia-Antipolis
France

Phone: +33 (0)4.93.00.81.79
Fax : +33 (0)4.93.00.82.00
Email: Benoit.Huet@eurecom.fr

Date of birth: 7 February 1971 at CORBEIL ESSONNES
Nationality: French.
National Service completed.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): Computer Vision
University of York, Computer Science Department, Computer Vision Group.
Title: Object Recognition from Large Libraries of Line-Patterns. (download in ps or pdf)
Keywords: Structural and Geometric Representation, Histograms, Relational Distance Measures and Attributed Relational Graph Matching.
Supervisor: Prof. Edwin R. Hancock

Master of Sciences: Knowledge Engineering (Artificial Intelligence) with distinction.
University of Westminster (London)
1992-1993 (12 months)

Module: Knowledge based system design, Natural language understanding, Logic for knowledge representation, Languages for A.I. (Lisp/Prolog), Computer vision, Neural networks, Machine learning, Uncertain reasoning, Distributed artificial intelligence.
Project: Recurrent Neural Networks for Temporal Sequence Recognition.

Batchelor of Science: Enginering and Computing (first class honour)
Ecole Supérieure de Technologie Electrique (Groupe E.S.I.E.E.)
1988-1992 (3 Years)

(88-90) Electronic, Micro-electronic, Electrotechnic, Computer Science, Software Engineering.
(91-92) Specialisation in Computer Science, Industrial project

French Baccalaureate Lycee Geoffroy St Hillaire (ETAMPES 91)
Serie F2 (Electronic) June 1988

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Institut Eurecom, Multimedia Communications Department.
Assistant Professor.
1999 – to date (since September 1999)

Research and development of multimodal multimedia (still and moving images) indexing and retrieval techniques.
Responsible for the following courses: Multimedia Technologies and Multimedia Advanced Topics. Assisting Prof. B. Merialdo for the following lecturers, tutorials and practicals: Intelligent Systems and MultiMedia Information Retrieval.

Advisor: Xueliang Liu, on the topic of "Semantic Multimodal Multimedia Mining" since 2009.
Stephane Turlier, who received his PhD from Telecom ParisTech in 2011 for his thesis on "Personalisation and Aggregation of Infotainment for Mobile Platforms"
Marco Paleari, who received his PhD from Telecom ParisTech in 2009 for his thesis on "Affective Computing; Display, Recognition and Artificial Intelligence"
Rachid Benmokhtar, who received his PhD from Telecom ParisTech in 2009 for his thesis on "Fusion multi-niveau pour l'indexation et la recherche multimédia par le contenu sémantique"
Eric Galmar, who successfully defended his PhD in 2008 on "Representation and Analysis of Video Content for Automatic Object Extraction".
Co-advisor: Ithery Yahiaoui who received her PhD from Telecom Paris in October 2003 for her thesis on "Automated Video Summary Construction"
Fabrice Souvannavong who received his PhD from Telecom Paris in June 2005 for his thesis on "Semantic video content indexing and retrieval"
Joakim Jiten who received his PhD from Telecom PARISTech in 2007 for his thesis on "Multidimensional hidden Markov model applied to image and video analysis"
Currently participating to the following projects:
LinkedTV (EU FP7): Television linked to the Web provides a novel practical approach to Future Networked Media. It is based on four phases: annotation, interlinking, search, and usage (including personalization, filtering, etc.). The result will make Networked Media more useful and valuable, and it will open completely new areas of application for Multimedia information on the Web.
ALIAS (EU ALL/FRENCH ANR): Adaptable Ambient LIving ASsistant (ALIAS) is the product development of a mobile robot system that interacts with elderly users, monitors and provides cognitive assistance in daily life, and promotes social inclusion by creating connections to people and events in the wider world.
Past projects: K-Space (EU FP6): K-Space integrates leading European research teams to create a Network of Excellence in semantic inference for semi-automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content. The aim is to narrow the gap between content descriptors that can be computed automatically by current machines and algorithms, and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media: The Semantic Gap.
RPM2 (ANR): Résumé Plurimédia, Multi-documents et Multi-opinions. Multimedia Summarisation from multiple sources.
PorTiVity (EU): The porTiVity project will develop and experiment a complete end-to-end platform providing Rich Media Interactive TV services for portable and mobile devices, realising direct interactivity with moving objects on handheld receivers connected to DVB-H/DMB (broadcast channel) and UMTS (unicast channel).
Fusion for Image Classification with Orange-FT Labs: Study of fusion algorithms for low and high level fusion in the context of high level feature extraction from soccer videos.
3W3S (EU): "World Wide Web Safe Surfing Service"
SPATION (EU): "Services Platforms and Applications for Transparent Information management in an in-hOme Network". The objective of this project is to find innovative solutions for the movement, organization and retrieval of information in a heterogeneous home system (PC, PVR, TV, etc...).
GMF4iTV (EU): "Generic Media Framework for Interactice Television". The aim of this project is to develop and demonstrate an end-to-end platform enabling interactive services on moving objects and TV programs according to the Multimedia Home Platform standard.
European Patent Office Feasability study concerning the retrieval of patent's technical drawings according to content similarity. The query "images" could either be another technical drawings (complete of subpart) or a man made sketch. The results of this preliminary study have been presented in ICIP 2001.

University of York, Computer Science Department.
Research Associate in the Computer Vision Group.
1998 – 1999 (12 Months)

Research and development of techniques for matching multi-sensorial aerial images for DERA (Defense Evaluation and Research Agency). The technique combines histogram based segmentation and template based region correspondence matching.
Learning structural description for three-dimensional object representation and recognition (EPSRC funded). The aim of this research is to provide a method for automatically learn and produce compact structural object representation from multiple object views.

University of York, Computer Science Department.

Tutorial Assistant.

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University of Westminster
Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence Division.
1994 - 1995 (11 Months)

University Information System for the Modular Scheme (UIS-MS) project. The aim of the project is to generate an inter-linked, hypertext-based system that will enable all Modular Scheme related information to be made available to students and staff, allowing fast access to complete and up-to-date University of Westminster Information. Development in C and C++ of the hypertext viewer, compiler and automatic database updating tools (via e-mail and templates) for Unix platforms.
(In depth use of Unix tools, cron job, e-mail filter...)

University of Westminster
Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence Division.
1994 (6 Months)

Development in C++ and X Window of an image manipulation software with graphical user interface. Among the implemented algorithms are various edge detection techniques, resizing, rotating, dithering, blurring, colour manipulation, thinning, and other image processing algorithms.
(Low-level C++ programming, image formats and use of Xlib, Athena, Motif, Openlook)

University of Westminster
Part-Time Lecturer, Artificial Intelligence Division.
1994 (6 Months)

Neural Networks for the MSc Knowledge Engineering.
(Teaching Experience)

University of Westminster
Master of Science summer project.
1993 (3 Months)

Implementation of recurrent neural networks for temporal sequence recognition. Comparison of the behaviour, efficiency and recall performances of the neural architectures on learning the contingencies implied by a finite state automaton.
(Reading, understanding and re-create experiments of research papers)

University of Westminster (Polytechnic of Central London)
Research Visitor.
1992 (4 Months)

Development in C of a real-time, graphic, multitasking software to control and analyse the behaviour of a ball and beam apparatus. The software is currently used for student tutorial at the University of Westminster.
(Discovery of the English educational and professional environment)

E.T.S. Electronic, (Les Ulis 91 France)
Third year project.
1991-1992 (7 Months)

Software development in C++ language of a graphic interface which allows an algorithm conception. This algorithm allows industrial process control.
(Observation of the importance of project planning, in depth study of both C and C++ Languages)

IBM, (Corbeil Essonnes 91 France)
Second year project.
1990 (4 Months)

Development of an Expert System to help on Site Security Personnel to diagnose their hardware/software security system problems.
Knowledge base developed on E.S.E.(Expert System Environment).
(Importance of listening to people for a good communication, research and knowledge extraction opportunity)

IBM, (Corbeil Essonnes 91 France)
Summer temporary employment.
1989 (2 Months)

Exposure and test of silicium wafers on PERKIN-ELMER Engine in ABL-MASTERSLICE.
(Discovery of the industrial world and team work)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Member of the following societies:
ACM SigMM,
IEEE Computer Society,
International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF).

Editorial Boards:
Multimedia Tools and Application (Springer).
Multimedia Systems (Springer).
Guest Editor for IEEE Multimedia : Large Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining
Guest Editor for IEEE Multimedia : Large Scale Multimedia Data Collections

Reviewer for the following international journals:
ACM Multimedia Systems Journal,
IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
IEEE Multimedia Magazine,
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia,
IEEE Image Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
IEEE Signal Processing,
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer),
Multimedia Systems (Springer),
IEE Vision, Image and Signal Processing,
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing,
Image Communication (Eurasip/Elsevier Science),
International Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Computer Graphics Forum (International Journal of the Eurographics Association).

Reviewer for the following international Conferences:
ACM Multimedia,
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME),
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR),
International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI),
IEEE International Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP),
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR),
IS&T/SPIE Symposium Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases

Conference/Workshop Organisation/Committee
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2012: Tutorial Chair and Program Committee Member
MUE 2012, The 6th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: "Multimedia Modeling and Processing" Track chair.
ACM Multimedia 2011: Associate Program Committee Member
MediaEval 2011: Co-Organiser of the Social Event Detection (SED) Task.
ACM Multimedia 2010: Workshop Co-Chair for the 2sd Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval
ACM Multimedia 2010: Associate Program Committee Member (Content Processing Track )
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2010: Program Committee Member
IEEE International Conference and Multimedia Expo 2010: Program Committee Member
International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,CMBI'09: Technical Program Committee
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2009: Program Committee Member
First International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services: Program Committee Member
ACM Multimedia 2009: Doctoral Symposium Chair,
ACM Multimedia 2009: Workshop Co-Chair for the 1st Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus,
International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2009 (MMM'09): General Chair,
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2009: Program Committee Member
International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,CMBI'09: Technical Program Committee
IEEE ICETE-SIGMAP 2008: Program Committee Member
International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,CMBI'08: Technical Program Committee
ACM Multimedia 2007: Tutorial Chair
ACM Multimedia 06: Associate Program Committee Member (Content Processing Track )
IEEE MultiMedia Modeling Conference 2006: Program Committee Member
ACM Multimedia 05: Associate Program Committee Member (Content Processing Track )
Coresa'05: Program Committee Member
Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,CMBI'05: Technical Program Committee
IEEE ICME'2005: Technical Program Committee
ACM Multimedia 04: Associate Program Committee Member (Content Processing Track )
Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI'03: Program Committee Member
ACM Multimedia 2002: Local Arrangements Chair and Treasurer
EMMCVPR 1999 (Second International Workshop on Energy Minimisation Methods in Computer vision and Pattern Recognition: Local Arrangments).

Project Evaluation/Expertise
International Reviewer for the Singapore Ministry of Research.
International Reviewer for COST-Action Project Proposal (Switzerland)
European Commission, Information Society and Media (FP6 and FP7): Independent Expert and Reviewer.
RIAM: French national network on Research and Innovation in Audiovisual and Multimedia.
OSEO - CNC - Direction de l'innovation, de la vidéo et des industries techniques: Expert for the French Inovation Directorate for video and industrial techniques.

Military Service (1990-1992)
Regiment de Marche du TCHAD.
Analist Programmer in the Computing Science Department.

Swimming, Ski-ing/Snowboarding, Volley-Ball and Paragliding/KiteSurfing.

Synthesiser, guitar and Home-studio.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

Raphaël Troncy, Benoît Huet, Simon Schenk, "Multimedia semantics: metadata, analysis and interaction" Wiley-Blackwell, July 2011, ISBN: 978-0470747001, pp 1-328

Rachid Benmokhtar, Benoit Huet, Gaël Richard, Slim Essid, "Feature extraction for multimedia analysis", Book Chapter N°4 in "Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction", Wiley, July 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-74700-1 , pp 35-58

Essid, Slim; Campedel, Marine; Richard, Gaël; Piatrik, Tomas; Benmokhtar, Rachid; Huet, Benoit Machine learning techniques for multimedia analysis Chapter book N°5 in "Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction", Wiley, July 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-74700-1 , pp 59-80

Huet Benoit, Smeaton Alan F., Mayer-Patel Ketan, Avrithis Yannis; Advances in Multimedia Modeling Springer : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Subseries: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI , Vol. 5371, ISBN: 978-3-540-92891-1

Mérialdo, Bernard and Huet, Benoit, "Automatic video summarization", Chapter in "Interactive Video, Algorithms and Technologies" by Hammoud, Riad (Ed.), 2006, XVI, 250 p, ISBN: 3-540-33214-6 , pp 27-41.

Journals

Rachid Benmokhtar and Benoit Huet, "An ontology-based evidential framework for video indexing using high-level multimodal fusion", Multimedia Tools Application, Springer, December 2011 , pp 1-27

Rong Yan, Benoit Huet, Rahul Sukthankar, "Large-scale multimedia retrieval and mining", IEEE Multimedia, Vol 18, N°1, January-March 2011

Huet, Benoit; Smeaton, Alan F; Mayer-Patel, Ketan; Avrithis, Yannis Selected papers from multimedia modeling conference 2009 EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2010, Article ID 792567

Fabrice Souvannavong, Lukas Hohl, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "Structurally Enhanced Latent Semantic Analysis for Video Object Retrieval ", Special Issue of the IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing , Volume 152, N°6, 9 December 2005 , pp 859-867.

Fabrice Souvannavong, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "Partition sampling: an active learning selection strategy for large database annotation", Special Issue of the IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing ,Volume 152 N° 3, May 2005, Special section on Technologies for interactive multimedia services , pp 347-355.

Ithery Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "Comparison of multi-episode video summarisation algorithms", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing, Vol. 2003, No. 1, page 48-55, January 2003.

Huet B. and E. R. Hancock, "Relational Object Recognition from Large Structural Libraries", Pattern Recognition , Vol. 35, No. 9, page 1895-1915, Sept 2002.

Huet B. and E. R. Hancock, "Line Pattern Retrieval Using Relational Histograms", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 12, page 1363-1370, December 1999.

Huet B., A.D.J. Cross and E.R. Hancock, "Shape Recognition from Large Image Libraries by Inexact Graph Matching", Pattern Recognition in Practice VI, June 2-4 1999, Vlieland, The Netherlands. Appeared in a special issue of Pattern Recognition Letters, 20, page 1259-1269, December 1999.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Object Recognition from Large Structural Libraries", Advances in Pattern Recognition: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (SSPR98), Springer-Verlag, 1451, August 1998.

International Conferences and Workshops

Liu, Xueliang; Troncy, Raphaël; Huet, Benoît Using social media to identify events WSM'11, ACM Multimedia 3rd Workshop on Social Media, November 18-December 1st, 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Papadopoulos, Symeon; Troncy, Raphaël; Mezaris, Vasileios; Huet, Benoît; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis Social event detection at MediaEval 2011: Challenges, dataset and evaluation MediaEval 2011, MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation, September 1-2, 2011, Pisa, Italy

Liu, Xueliang; Troncy, Raphaël; Huet, Benoît EURECOM @ MediaEval 2011 social event detection task MediaEval 2011, MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation, September 1-2, 2011, Pisa, Italy

Liu, Xueliang; Troncy, Raphaël; Huet, Benoit Finding media illustrating events ICMR'11, 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, April 17-20, 2011, Trento, Italy

Paleari, Marco; Chellali, Ryad; Huet, Benoit Bimodal emotion recognition ICSR'10, International Conference on Social Robotics, November 23-24, 2010, Singapore - Also published as LNCS Volume 6414/2010 , pp 305-314

Liu, Xueliang; Huet, Benoit Concept detector refinement using social videos VLS-MCMR'10, International workshop on Very-large-scale multimedia corpus, mining and retrieval, October 29, 2010, Firenze, Italy , pp 19-24

Huet, Benoit; Chua, Tat-Seng; Hauptmann, Alexander ACM international workshop on very-large-scale multimedia corpus, mining and retrieval ACMMM'10, ACM Multimedia 2010, October 25-29, 2010, Firenze, Italy , pp 1769-1770

Liu, Xueliang; Huet, Benoit Automatic concept detector refinement for large-scale video semantic annotation ICSC'10, IEEE 4th International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 22-24, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA , pp 97-100

Paleari, Marco; Huet, Benoit; Chellali, Ryad Towards multimodal emotion recognition : A new approach CIVR 2010, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July 5-7, Xi'an, China , pp 174-181

Paleari, Marco; Chellali, Ryad; Huet, Benoit Features for multimodal emotion recognition : An extensive study CIS'10, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, June 28-30, 2010, Singapore , pp 90-95

Paleari, Marco;Singh, Vivek;Huet, Benoit;Jain, Ramesh Toward environment-to-environment (E2E) affective sensitive communication systems MTDL’09, Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning at ACM Multimedia, October 23rd, 2009, Beijing, China , pp 19-26

Huet, Benoît; Jinhui, Tang; Hauptmann, Alex ACM SIGMM the first workshop on web-scale multimedia corpus MM'09 : Proceedings of the seventeen ACM international conference on Multimedia, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China , pp 1163-1164

Paleari, Marco;Velardo, Carmelo;Huet, Benoit;Dugelay, Jean-Luc Face dynamics for biometric people recognition MMSP'09, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 5-7, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit Hierarchical ontology-based robust video shots indexing using global MPEG-7 visual descriptors CBMI 2009, 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, June 3-5, 2009, Chania, Crete Island, Greece

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoît Ontological reranking approach for hybrid concept similarity-based video shots indexing WIAMIS 2009, 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, May 6-8, 2009, London, UK

Paleari, Marco;Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit Evidence theory based multimodal emotion recognition MMM 2009, 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, January 7-9, 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France , pp 435-446

Athanasiadis, Thanos;Simou, Nikolaos;Papadopoulos, Georgios Th.;Rachid, Benmokhtar;Chandramouli, Krishna;Tzouvaras, Vassilis ;Mezaris, Vasileios;Phiniketos, Marios;Avrithis, Yannis;Kompatsiaris,Yiannis;Huet, Benoit;Izquierdo,Ebroul Integrating image segmentation and classification for fuzzy knowledge-based multimedia indexing MMM 2009, 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, January 7-9, 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit K-Space at TRECVid 2008 TRECVid'08, 12th International Workshop on Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 17-18, 2008, Gaithersburg, USA

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit Perplexity-based evidential neural network classifier fusion using MPEG-7 low-level visual features MIR 2008, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2008, October 27- November 01, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada , pp 336-341

Goldmann, L ; Adamek, T ; Vajda, P ; Karaman, M ; Mörzinger, R ; Galmar, E ; Sikora, T ; O'Connor, N ; Ha-Minh, T ; Ebrahimi, T ; Schallauer, P ; Huet, Benoit Towards fully automatic image segmentation evaluation ACIVS 2008, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, October 20-24, 2008, Juan-les-Pins, France

Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit Spatiotemporal modeling and matching of video shots 1st ICIP Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval : New Trends and Challenges, October 12-15, 2008, San Diego, California, USA , pp 5-8

Paleari, Marco;Huet, Benoit;Schutz, Antony;Slock, Dirk T M A multimodal approach to music transcription 1st ICIP Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval : New Trends and Challenges, October 12-15, 2008, San Diego, USA , pp 93-96

Galmar, Eric;Athanasiadis, Thanos;Huet, Benoit;Avrithis, Yannis Spatiotemporal semantic video segmentation MMSP 2008, 10th IEEE International Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing, October 8-10, 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia , pp 574-579

Turlier, Stéphane;Huet, Benoit;Helbig, Thomas; Vögel, Hans-Jörg Aggregation and personalization of infotainment, an architecture illustrated with a collaborative scenario 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, September 4th, 2008, Graz, Austria

Paleari, Marco ; Huet, Benoit ; Schutz, Antony ; Slock, Dirk T M Audio-visual guitar transcription Jamboree 2008 : Workshop By and For KSpace PhD Students, July, 25 2008, Paris, France

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit, Berrani, Sid-Ahmed Low-level feature fusion models for soccer scene classification 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany

Paleari, Marco;Huet, Benoit Toward emotion indexing of multimedia excerpts CBMI 2008, 6th International Workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing, June, 18-20th 2008, London, UK [Best student paper award]

Paleari, Marco;Huet, Benoit;Duffy, Brian ,"SAMMI, Semantic affect-enhanced multimedia indexing", SAMT 2007, 2nd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 5-7 December 2007, Genoa, Italy

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit ,"Eurecom at TRECVid 2007: Extraction of high level features", TRECVid'07, 11th International Workshop on Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 2007, Gaithersburg, USA

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit ,"K-Space at TRECVid 2007", TRECVid'07, 11th International Workshop on Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 2007, Gaithersburg, USA

Paleari, Marco;Duffy, Brian;Huet, Benoit ,"ALICIA, an architecture for intelligent affective agents", IVA 2007 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 17th - 19th September 2007 Paris, France | Also published in LNAI Volume 4722 , pp 397-398

Paleari, Marco;Duffy, Brian;Huet, Benoit ,"Using emotions to tag media", Jamboree 2007: Workshop By and For KSpace PhD Students, September, 15th 2007, Berlin, Germany

Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit ,"Analysis of vector space model and spatiotemporal segmentation for video indexing and retrieval", CIVR 2007, ACM International Conférence on Image and Video Retrieved, July 9-11 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit;Berrani, Sid-Ahmed;Lechat, Patrick ,"Video shots key-frames indexing and retrieval through pattern analysis and fusion techniques", FUSION’07, 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 9-12 2007, Quebec, Canada

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit, ,"Multi-level fusion for semantic indexing video content", AMR’07, International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, June 5-6 2007, Paris, France

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit ,"Performance analysis of multiple classifier fusion for semantic video content indexing and retrieval", MMM’07, International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, January 9-12 2007, Singapore - Also published as LNCS Volume 4351 , pp 517-526

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit ,"Neural network combining classifier based on Dempster-Shafer theory for semantic indexing in video content", MMM’07, International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, January 9-12 2007, Singapore - Also published as LNCS Volume 4351 , pp 196-205

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Dumont, Emilie;Mérialdo, Bernard;Huet, Benoit ,"Eurecom in TrecVid 2006: high level features extractions and rushes study", TrecVid 2006, 10th International Workshop on Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 2006, Gaithersburg, USA

Wilkins, Peter;Adamek, Tomasz;Ferguson, Paul;Hughes, Mark;Jones, Gareth J F;Keenan, Gordon;McGuinness, Kevin;Malobabic, Jovanka;O’Connor, Noel E;Sadlier, David;Smeaton, Alan F;Benmokhtar, Rachid;Dumont, Emilie;Huet, Benoit;Mérialdo, Bernard;Spyrou, Evaggelos;Koumoulos, George;Avrithis, Yannis;Moerzinger, R;Schallauer, P;Bailer, W;Zhang, Qianni;Piatrik, Tomas;Chandramouli, Krishna;Izquierdo, Ebroul;Goldmann, Lutz;Haller, Martin;Sikora, Thomas;Praks, Pavel;Urban, Jana;Hilaire, Xavier;Jose, Joemon M ,"K-Space at TRECVid 2006", TrecVid 2006, 10th International Workshop on Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 2006, Gaithersburg, USA

Echizen, Isao;Singh, Stephan;Yamada, Takaaki;Tanimoto, Koichi; Tezuka, Satoru;Huet, Benoit ,"Integrity verification system for video content by using digital watermarking", ICSSSM'06, IEEE International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, 25-27 October 2006, Troyes, France

Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit ,"Graph-based spatio-temporal region extraction", ICIAR 2006, 3rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, September 18-20, 2006, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal | Also published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 4141 , pp 236–247

Benmokhtar, Rachid;Huet, Benoit ,"Classifier fusion : combination methods for semantic indexing in video content", ICANN 2006, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 10-14 September 2006, Athens, Greece - also published as LNCS Volume 4132 , pp 65-74

Mérialdo, Bernard;Jiten, Joakim;Galmar, Eric;Huet, Benoit ,"A new approach to probabilistic image modeling with multidimensional hidden Markov models", AMR 2006, 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval , 27-28 July 2006, Geneva, Switzerland |Also published as LNCS Volume 4398

Souvannavong, Fabrice;Huet, Benoit ,"Continuous behaviour knowledge space for semantic indexing of video content", Fusion 2006, 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, 10-13 July 2006, Florence Italy

Mérialdo, Bernard;Huet, Benoit ,"Automatic video summarization", Chapter in "Interactive Video, Algorithms and Technologies" by Hammoud, Riad (Ed.), 2006, XVI, 250 p, ISBN: 3-540-33214-6 , pp 27-41

Jiten, Joakim;Mérialdo, Bernard;Huet, Benoit ,"Multi-dimensional dependency-tree hidden Markov models", ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France

Jiten, Joakim;Huet, Benoit;Mérialdo, Bernard ,"Semantic feature extraction with multidimensional hidden Markov model", SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval 2006, January 17-19, 2006 - San Jose, USA - SPIE proceedings Volume 6073 Volume 6073 , pp 211-221

Jiten, Joakim, Souvannavong, Fabrice, Mérialdo, Bernard and Huet, Benoit, "Eurecom at TRECVid 2005: extraction of high-level features", TRECVid 2005, TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, November 14, 2005, USA

Benoit Huet, Joakim Jiten, Bernard Merialdo, "PERSONALIZATION OF HYPERLINKED VIDEO IN INTERACTIVE TELEVISION", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

B. Cardoso, F. de Carvalho, L. Carvalho, G. Fernàndez, P. Gouveia, B. Huet, J. Jiten, A.López, B. Merialdo, A. Navarro, H. Neuschmied, M. Noé, R. Salgado, G. Thallinger, "HYPERLINKED VIDEO WITH MOVING OBJECTS IN DIGITAL TELEVISION", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "REGION-BASED VIDEO CONTENT INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL", Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'05), June 21-23, 2005 Riga, Latvia.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "MULTI-MODAL CLASSIFIER FUSION FOR VIDEO SHOT CONTENT", 6th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS'05), Montreux, Switzerland, April 2005.

F. Souvannavong, L. Hohl, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Enhancing Latent Semantic Analysis Video Object Retrieval with Structural Information", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 24-27, 2004 Singapore. (download the poster in pdf)

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Latent Semantic Analysis For An Effective Region-Based Video Shot Retrieval System", 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2004, October 15-16, 2004, New York, NY USA.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Eurecom at Video-TREC 2004: Feature Extraction Task ”, NIST Special Publication, The 13th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004 Video Track).

Bernardo Cardoso and Fausto de Carvalho and Gabriel Fernandez and Benoit Huet and Joakim Jiten and Alejandro Lopez and Bernard Merialdo and Helmut Neuschmied and Miquel Noe and David Serras Pereira and Georg Thallinger. "Personalization of Interactive Objects in the GMF4iTV project ". Proceedings of TV'04: the 4th Workshop on Personalization in Future TV held in conjunction with Adaptive Hypermedia 2004 ,Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 23, 2004.

F. Souvannavong, L. Hohl, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Using Structure for Video Object Retrieval", International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July 21-23, 2004, Dublin City University, Ireland .

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Improved Video Content Indexing By Multiple Latent Semantic Analysis", International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July 21-23, 2004, Dublin City University, Ireland .

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Latent Semantic Indexing For Semantic Content Detection Of Video Shots", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2004), June 27th – 30th, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Partition Sampling for Active Video Database Annotation", 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS’04), April 21-23, 2004, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Latent Semantic Indexing for Video Content Modeling and Analysis”, NIST Special Publication, The 12th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2003 Video Track).

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Video Content Structuration With Latent Semantic Analysis", Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2003, 22-24 Septembre 2003, Rennes, France.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Semantic Feature Extraction using Mpeg Macro-block Classification”, NIST Special Publication: SP 500-251, The Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2002 Video Track).

Gerhard Mekenkamp, Mauro Barbieri, Benoit Huet, Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo, Riccardo Leonardi and Michael Rose, "Generating TV Summaries for CE Devices", ACM Multimedia 2002, December 3-5 2002, Juan Les Pins, France.

Benoit Huet, Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo, "Image Similarity for Automatic Video Summarization", EUSIPCO 2002 - 11th European Signal Processing Conference, September 3-6 2002, Toulouse, France.

B. Merialdo, B. Huet, I. Yahiaoui, F. Souvannavong, "Automatic Video Summarization", International Thyrrenian Workshop on Digital Communications, Advanced Methods for Multimedia Signal Processing, September 8th - 11th, 2002, Palazzo dei Congressi, Capri, Italy.

B. Huet, G. Guarascio, N. Kern and B. Merialdo, "Relational skeletons for retrieval in patent drawings", IEEE International Conference Image Processing (ICIP2001), October 7-10 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ithery Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo et Benoit Huet, "Automatic Summarization of Multi-episode Videos with the Simulated User Principle", Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP'01), October 3-5, 2001, Cannes, France.

Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "Optimal video summaries for simulated evaluation", European Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, September 19-21, 2001 Brescia, Italy.

Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "AUTOMATIC VIDEO SUMMARIZATION", MMCBIR 2001 - Indexation et Recherche par le Contenu dans les Documents Multimedia, 24 et 25 septembre 2001, INRIA - Rocquencourt, France.

Ithery Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo et Benoit Huet, "Generating Summaries of Multi-Episodes Video", International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2001), August 22-25, 2001 Tokyo, Japan.

Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo and Benoit Huet, "Automatic construction of multi-video summaries", ISKO: Filtrage et résumé automatique de l'information sur les réseaux, July 5-6 2001, Nanterre, France.

Benoit Huet, Ithery Yahiaoui et Bernard Merialdo, "Multi-Episodes Video Summaries", International Conference on Media Futures 2001, 8-9 May 2001, Florence, Italy.

Arnd Kohrs, Benoit Huet, et Bernard Merialdo, "Multimedia Information Recommendation and Filtering on the Web", Networking 2000, May 14 - 19, 2000, Paris, France.

Merialdo B., S. Marchand-Maillet and B. Huet, "Approximate Viterbi decoding for 2D-Hidden Markov Models", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2000), Istanbul Turkey, June 5-9 2000.

Huet B. and E. R. Hancock, "Sensitivity Analysis for Object Recognition from Large Structural Libraries", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV99), Kerkyra, Greece, September 20-27, 1999.

Huet B. and E. R. Hancock, "Inexact Graph Retrieval", IEEE CVPR99 Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL-99), Fort Collins, Colorado USA, June 22, 1999.

Huet B., A.D.J. Cross and E.R. Hancock, "Shape Retrieval by Inexact Graph Matching";, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'99), Florence, Italy, page 772-776, 7-11 June 1999.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Structural Sensitivity for Large-Scale Line-Pattern Recognition", Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL99), page 711-718, 2-4 June, 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Huet B., A.D.J. Cross and E.R. Hancock, "Graph Matching for Shape Retrieval", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, Edited by M.J. Kearns, S.A. Solla and D.A. Cohn, MIT Press, June 1999.

Worthington P., B. Huet and E.R. Hancock, "Appearance-Based Object Recognition Using Shape-From-Shading", Proceeding of the 14^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'98), Brisbane (Australia), page 412-416, 16-20 August 1998.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Relational Histograms for Shape Indexing", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV98), Mumbai India, page 563-569, Jan 1998.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Fuzzy Relational Distance for Large-scale Object Recognition", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'98), Santa Barbara California USA, page 138-143, June 1998.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Pairwise Representation for Image Database Indexing", Sixth International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications (IPA97), Dublin (Ireland), 15-17 July 1997.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Cartographic Indexing into a Database of Remotely Sensed Images", Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV96), Sarasota Florida (USA), page 8-14, 2-4 Dec 1996.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Structural Indexing of infra-red images using Statistical Histogram Comparison", Third International Workshop on Image and Signal Processing (IWISP'96), Manchester (UK), 4-7 Nov 1996.

Charlton P. and Huet B., "Intelligent Agents for Image Retrieval", Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, Virginia (USA), May 1995.

Charlton P. and Huet B., "Using Multiple Agents For Content-Based Image Retrieval", European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, L'Alpe D'Huez (France), April 1995 .

National Conferences

E. Galmar and B. Huet, "Méthode de segmentation par graphe pour le suivi de régions spatio-temporelles". CORESA 2005, 10èmes journées Compression et représentation des signaux audiovisuels, 7-8 Novembre 2005, Rennes, France.

F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo and B. Huet, "Classification Sémantique des Macro-Blocs Mpeg dans le Domaine Compressé.", CORESA 2003,16 - 17 Janvier 2003, Lyon France.

Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo, Benoit Huet, "User Evaluation of Multi-Episode Video Summaries", Indexation de documents et Recherche d'informations, GDR I3 et ISIS, July 9 2002, Grenoble, France.

Itheri Yahiaoui, Bernard Merialdo, Benoit Huet, "Construction et Evaluation automatique de résumés multi-vidéos", Analyse et Indexation Multimédia, June 20 2002, Université Bordeaux 1, France.

I. Yahiaoui, B. Mérialdo et B. Huet, "Construction automatique de résumés multi-vidéos", CORESA 2001, Nov 2001, Université de Dijon, France.

I. Yahiaoui, B. Mérialdo et B. Huet, "Résumés automatiques de séquences vidéo", CORESA2000, 19-20 Octobre 2000, Université de Poitiers, Futuroscope, France.

Worthington P., B. Huet and E.R. Hancock, "Increased Extend of Characteristic Views using Shape-from-Shading for Object Recognition", Proceeding of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'98), Southampton (UK), page 710-719, 7-10 Sept 1998.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "Structurally Gated Pairwise Geometric Histograms for Shape Indexing", Proceeding of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC97), Colchester (UK), page 120-129, 8-11 Sept 1997.

Huet B. and E.R. Hancock, "A Statistical Approach to Hierarchical Shape Indexing", Intelligent Image Databases (IEE and BMVA), London (UK), May 1996.

Technical Reports

Huet B., "Object Recognition from Large Libraries of Line-Patterns", PhD Thesis, University of York, Mai 1999.

Huet B., Parapadakis D., Konstantinou V. and Morse P., "The UIS-MS User Guide", University of Westminster AIRG/SCSISE Technical Report, 1994.

Huet B., "Recurrent Neural Networks for Temporal Sequences Recognition", MSc Thesis, University of Westminster, September 1993.

Huet B. and Houdry J.B., "MECABUS: Ensemble Logiciel et materiel d'aide a la conception et a la realisation d'automatismes industriels", Project Report, E.T.S. Electronic, April 1992.

Huet B., "Systeme d'aide a la decision pour CASI-RUSCO system 1800", Project Report, IBM (Corbeil Essonnes) and Ecole Superieure de Technologie Electrique, June 1990.

Huet B., "Systeme d'aide a la decision pour CASI-RUSCO system 1800, Guide du Developpeur", Technical Report, IBM (Corbeil Essonnes) , August 1990.

INVITED TALKS

Université de Genève, Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, Computer Vision Group, July 1995. Presentation Title: "A Framework for Content-Based Retrieval of Images"

British Machine Vision Association Technical Meeting: Image and Video Databases, December 3rd 1997. Presentation Title: "Indexing in Line-Pattern Databases"

INRIA Sophia Antipolis, ARIANA project, March 27th 2000. Presentation Title: "Hierarchical Graph Based Techniques for Cartographic Content Based Indexing"

User Evaluation of Multi-Episode Video Summaries

Relational LSA for Video Object Classification and Retrieval

Working Group on Multimedia Information Retrieval and Indexing, Lyon - 08 juillet 2005, Presentation title: "Fusion de classifieur multimodaux pour la caracterisation de plan video"

SCATI - Journée évaluation des traitements dans un système de vision, 15 December 2005, Presentation title: "Evaluation d'algorithmes d'analyse vidéo: l'exemple TRECVid"

MultiMedia Workshop at Microsoft Research (Seattle), June 2006, Presentation Title: "Multimedia Reasearch @ Institut Eurecom"

Xerox Research Centre Europe, Thursday April 26 2007, Presentation title: "Multimodal Information Fusion for Semantic Concept Detection"

Sharp Laboratories (Tenri, Japan), January 2008, Presentation title: "Multimedia research for Interactive TV"

National University of Singapore (Singapore), July 2008, Presentation title: "Multimedia research at Eurecom"

Nayang Technological University (Singapore), September 2008, Presentation title: "Multimedia research at Eurecom"

UC Irvines (California, USA), Oct 2008, Presentation title: "Multimodal Emotion Recognition"

GdR-ISIS/IRIM: journee “Indexation scalable et cross-média”, 26 novembre 2009, Paris. Presentation Title: "Réflexions de la communauté indexation multimédia sur le passage à l’échelle"

National University of Singapore (Singapore), July 2010, Presentation title: " Automatic Annotation of Online Social Videos"

Patents

Joerg Deigmoeller, Gerhard Stoll, Helmut Neuschmied, Andreas Kriechbaum, José Bernardo Dos Santos Cardoso, Fausto José Oliveira de Carvalho, Roger Salgado de Alem, Benoit Huet, Bernard Mérialdo and Rémi Trichet, "A method of adapting video images to small screen sizes", European Patent N° WO2009115101 (A1) , pp 1-23

Panels

CBMI’10: Large-Scale Multimedia Content Retrieval. (Panelist)

CIVR’10: Is there a future after CIVR’10? (Panelist)

VLSMCMR'10