Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• François Brémond was a member of the Management Committee and COST Action IC1307 in 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• François Brémond was an Area and Session Chair of AVSS - 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Lecce, Italy, August 29th - September 1st, 2017.

• François Brémond was an Area Chair of ICIAP - 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing; Area Chair; in Catania, Italy, September 11-15, 2017.

• Antitza Dantcheva was program and session chair at the 17th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2017

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• François Brémond was program committee member of the conferences and workshops: IWT4S 2017, COMSI17, SP-CROWD 2017, ICPRS-17, ICDP2017, AVSS17 and WACV17-18.

• Antitza Dantcheva was program committee member of the conference International Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2017).

• Jean-Paul Rigault is a member of the Association Internationale pour les Technologies à Objets (AITO) which organizes international conferences such as ECOOP.

Reviewer

• François Brémond was reviewer for the conferences : CVPR2017-18, ICCV2017, VISION4HCI17, WACV 2017, SAV17, ICVS 17, ISG 18, BER17, BMVC17, IROS17.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• François Brémond was handling editor of the international journal "Machine Vision and Application".

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• François Brémond was reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Editorial Office.

• Monique Thonnat is a reviewer for the journals Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIIM (Elsevier) and The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press).

• Antitza Dantcheva reviewed for journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), The Visual Computer, Entropy, Pattern Recognition Letters.

Invited Talks

• François Brémond was invited by Huawei Research, within Video Intelligence Event, on People Re-ID, Dublin, 21st November 2017.

• Antitza Dantcheva:“Personalized facial expression and activity recognition during mnemotherapy-sessions for patients with major neurocognitive disorders”, IBME, University of Oxford, UK, November 2017

• Antitza Dantcheva: “New Advances in Soft Biometrics”, Biometrics Congress, London, UK, November 2017

• Antitza Dantcheva: “Can a smile reveal your gender?”, Day of Biometrics, Caen, France, July 2017

• Alexandra Koenig was invited by Dr. Dimitrios Kokkinakis to give a talk on ICT for monitoring dementia patients and in particuler Automatic Speech analysis for the assessment of cognitive impairment, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 18 September 2017.

• Alexandra Koening was invited by Dr Jessica Peter to give a talk on Automatic Analysis of the Semantic Verbal Fluency performance in elderly people, University of Bern, Swiss, 18 October 2017.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Monique Thonnat is President of the University Hospital Institute IHU Liryc in Bordeaux on cardiac electrical disorders since 2015.

• Antitza Dantcheva serves in the Technical Activities Committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council 2017.

Scientific Expertise

• François Brémond was expert for a research program at the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

• François Brémond was expert for the European CHIST-ERA ERA-NET Call 2016, for the project "SUPER CARE".

• François Brémond was expert for the project call "Recherche - Enseignement Supérieur - Plateformes Mutualisées" de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, March 2017.

• François Brémond was expert for the "Revue Retraite et société", April 2017.

• Monique Thonnat was an expert to review COFECUB research project (Scientific cooperation between Brasil and France) for the French government.