Service (non exhaustive lists, updt Feb'12)

Supervision   (go to top)

• Thanh-Toan Do, PhD, 3rd year, ``Challenging the Security of Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems''
• Gylfi Gudmundsson, PhD, 3rd year, ``Parallelism and Distribution for Very Large Scale Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval Systems''
• Romain Tavenard (ENS), PhD, ``Indexation de séquences de descripteurs'', defended Jul. 4, 2011.
• Sid-Ahmed Berrani, PhD, ``Recherche approximative de plus proches voisins avec contrôle probabiliste de la précision ; application à la recherche d'images par le contenu'', defended Feb. 6, 2004, Best French Thesis in Computer Science.


• Kári Harðarson, Visiting Professor (Reykjavik University), 2*4 months.


• Diana Moise, Engineer, 6 months.
• Denis Shestakov, Post Doc, 1 year.
• Priyank Bagrecha, Intern, 4 months.
• Panagiotis Hadjidoukas, Post Doc, 1 year.
• Antoine Doucet, Post Doc, 1 year.
• Hervé Jégou, Post Doc, 9 months.


• Loic Paulevé, Master (ENS).
• Yacine Belkadi, Master, 4 months.
• François Le Lay, Master, 4 months.


• Sophie Le Delliou, Engineer, 1 year.
• Pierre-Hugues Joalland, Engineer, 2 years.


• Priyank Bagrecha, Intern, 4 months.
• Sébastien Tonon, Intern (INSA), 4 months.
• Nicolas Basset, Intern (ENS), 4 months.
• Jia Zhen, Intern, 9 months.
• Brahm Kiran Singh, Intern, 4 months.
• Sylvain Bié, Intern, 9 months.

Committees   (go to top)

• Program committee member, MMM 2012
• Program committee member, ICMR 2012
• Program committee member, ICME 2012
• Program committee member, CBMI 2012
• Program committee member, VLDB PhD workshop 2011
• Program committee member, MMM 2011
• Reviewer for IET Information Security, 2011
• Reviewer for the ACM Computing Surveys 2011
• MsC committee member, Grímur Tómas Tómasson, ObjectCube: A Generic Multi-Dimensional Model for Media Browsing, M.Sc. thesis, Reykjavík University, June 2011
• MsC committee member, Haukur Pálmason, Large-Scale Music Classification using an Approximate k-NN Classifier, M.Sc. thesis, Reykjavík University, January 2011
• MsC committee member, Stefán Freyr Stefánsson, Using Range Information to Reduce Local Descriptor Computations, M.Sc. thesis, Reykjavík University, January 2011
• Program committee member, VLDB 2010
• Program committee member, LIVA 2010
• Program committee member, EDBT 2010
• Expert Evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2009
• Expert Evaluator for the French ANR, 2009
• Program committee member, BDA 2009
• Program committee member, CORIA 2009
• Program committee member, MMM 2009
• Reviewer for the ACM TOMCCAP Journal, 2009
• Program committee member, ACM Sigmod 2009
• Reviewer for the Int. VLDB Journal, 2008
• Program committee member, ACM Multimedia 2008
• Program committee member, BDA 2008
• Program committee member, MDM 2008
• Program committee member, WWW 2008
• Program committee member, MMM 2008
• Chairman of the workshops at EDBT 2008
• Organisation chair, CORIA 2008
• ACM Sigmod workshops coordinator, 2008
• MsC committee member, Arnar Ólafsson, Dynamic Behavior of Balanced NV-trees, M.Sc. thesis, Reykjavík University, May, 2008.
• Workshop Co-Chair, Third Computer Vision meets Databases Workshop (CVDB), 2007
• Program committee member, CORIA 2007
• Program committee member, MDM 2007
• Program committee member, AIMS 2007
• Program committee member, ExpDB 2007
• Program committee member, Europar 2007
• ACM Sigmod workshops coordinator, 2007
• Program committee member, BDA 2007
• MsC committee member, Friðrik Heiðar Ásmundsson, The NV-Network: A Distributed Architecture for High Throughput, August 2006, University of Reykjavík.
• MsC committee member, Hafþór Guðnason, Median Rank Aggregation in Face Recognition, June 2006, University of Reykjavík.
• Program committee member, BDA 2006
• Program committee member, CORIA 2006
• National expert, ARA, 2006.
• National expert, MDCA, 2006.
• ACM Sigmod workshops coordinator, 2006
• MsC committee member, Herwig Lejsek, The PvS-index, June 2005, University of Reykjavík.
• Program committee member, BDA 2005
• Organisation chair, BDA 2005
• First ACM Sigmod workshops coordinator, 2005
• Workshop Co-Chair, Second Computer Vision meets Databases Workshop (CVDB), 2005
• Program committee member, Majestic 2005
• Program committee member, IEEE EMMA'05
• Program committee member, CORIA 2005
• Program committee member, MIS 2005
• Program committee member, BDA 2004
• Program committee member, PCM 2004
• Workshop Co-Chair, First Computer Vision meets Databases Workshop (CVDB), 2004, Paris, France
• Program committee member, MIS 2004
• Program committee member, special edition of the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2004

Valorization, Contracts and Contacts with Industry (main and recent items only)    (go to top)

• Name: FIIA: Forensic Image Identifier and Analyser.
  Partners: Videntifier Forensic Tech, Forensic Pathways, TexMex.
  Main Workpackage: Ultrafast logo detection
  
  
• Name: Quaero.
  Main Partners: Quaero Consortium.
  Main Workpackage: Indexing Multimedia Objects
  
  
• Name: Eff² Tech.
  Main Partners: Eff² Tech, TexMex, University of Reykjavík.
  Technology Transfer: Our multidimensional indexing technique has been transfered to the Eff² Tech startup company. It is known now as the Videntifier^TM Forensic
  
  
• Name: Morgunbladid image bank.
  Main Partners: TexMex, University of Reykjavík, Morgunbladid.
  Duration: 24 months, starting Jan. 2006.
  Goal: Access granted to the image archive (300.000 images).
  
  
• Name: CNRS image bank.
  Partner: TexMex.
  Duration: 12 months, starting Jul. 2006.
  Goal: Access granted to the image archive (32.000).
  
  
• Name: MP2P -- Gestion de masses de documents dans les systèmes P2P.
  Partners: ATLAS (INRIA Rennes & IRIN-Nantes), GEMO (INRIA Futur, Saclay), PARIS (IRISA), TEXMEX (IRISA).
  Duration: 36 months, starting Sept 2003. Funded by the French Ministry of Research.
  Goal: Investigate issues related to the management of huge collections of multimedia documents within peer-to-peer systems.
  
  
• Name: REMIX -- Mémoire Reconfigurable pour l'Indexation de Masses de Données.
  Partners: SYMBIOSE (IRISA), TEXMEX (IRISA), EQUIPAGE (VALORIA, Vannes), R2D2 (IRISA).
  Duration: 36 months, starting Sept. 2003. Funded by the French Ministry of Research.
  Goal: Investigate the use of FPGA to facilitate multidimensional indexing.
  
  
• Name: Diphonet -- Diffusion de photos par Internet.
  Partners: TEXMEX (IRISA), Canon Research Center France, Andia Presse, CODES (INRIA), L2S.
  Duration: 33 months, starting Jan. 2001. Funded by the French Ministry of Research.
  Goal: Initial studies related to copyright infringment for professional photograpers.
  
  
• Network of Excellence, FP6: MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning).
  
  
• Integrated Project, FP6: AceMedia -- Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user-centered intelligent media services.
  Partners: Motorola Ldt (prime), Philips Research, Thomson, Queen Mary University of London, Fraunhofer FIT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Alinari, Telefónica Investigación y Desarollo, Dublin City University, CERTH-ITI, INRIA, France Télécom R&D, Belgavox, Karlsruhe University, Motorola Semiconductor SAS.
  Goal: Embedd smart media-tailored code within muldimedia documents to automatically adapt to varying users, network, display or encoding constraints.