Claude Labit

Contact Information

Email: Address: Claude Labit INRIA Research Director Centre INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique IRISA/INRIA-Rennes, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex - FRANCE Phone: +33 2.99.84.72.60 Fax: +33 2.99.84.71.71 Project Assistant: +33 2.99.84.72.28 (Huguette Béchu) Office: F316 VERT

Profile

Claude Labit was graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, in 1979, and received the Ph-D degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes1, France, in 1982. Since 1982, he has been INRIA researcher, at Irisa/INRIA-Rennes and is currently INRIA Research Director at INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre.

In 1984 and until 1997, he created and animated the research project-team TEMIS, mostly involved in digital image processing, image synthesis, vision for robotics and image communication. He received the degree “Doctorat d’Etat” in 1988 for his research activities in image compression and video coding. He published, in 1994, a tutorial book, with G. Tziritas (Forth-ICS) about motion analysis for image sequence coding.

In 1997, he created a new research project-team TEMICS (presently lead by C. Guillemot) including activities about video object descriptions and coding, videocommunication on mobile links or IP networks, joint source-channel approaches.

From March 1999 to June 2007, he was director of the INRIA research center of Rennes and of IRISA(“Institut de recherches en Informatique et Systèmes aléatoires”), a joint research center between CNRS, ENS-Cachan, INSA-Rennes and University of Rennes-1.

Since Avril 2007, he is president of the Rennes-Atalante Science Park and the regional SME incubator Emergys

Since January 2008, C. Labit is scientific adviser of INRIA's Research Department in charge of the relationships with ANR and the scientific coordination for SUPCOR unit ("Support Services for Collaborative Research Initiatives").

He is member of the scientific boards of Rennes1 (in June 2008) and Rennes2 Universities, ENS-Cachan, Institut TELECOM (ex-GET: "Groupe des Ecoles des Telecoms") and "La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie"

A short CV is available in french or in english . A complete resume and list of publications are available in french or in english

Research Activities

His major research interests are concerned with image sequence analysis and coding: 2D motion analysis, motion compensation coding, hybrid spatio-temporal and frequential compression schemes. 2D/3D motion-based video object segmentation and description, augmented reality, MPEG standardization context.

He was supervisor of about 25 Ph-D thesis, author of more than 50 scientific publications in image communication journals or international conferences, reviewer for image processing journals, member of scientific program or steering committees of national and international conferences.

He participated to several european R&D projects in Race, Cost, Eureka, Esprit and more recently IST programs. He was co-leader of the TMR network “Manadix” involved in image communication. He was expert and contributor in the national RNRT (“Réseau national de recherches en Télécommunications”) and is currently member of the Organizing Committee of the RIAM network (“Réseau d’innovation en Audiovisuel et Multimédia”).

He was recently chairman af the evaluation committee of the program "Audiovisuel et Multimedia" from the National Agency for Research (ANR)