Supervision

Students & postdocs

Current and former PhD students and postdoctoral researchers I have supervised.

PhD students (ongoing)

Kawtar Zaher

2022–2026 · Novel class retrieval in audiovisual archives with human-in-the-loop · INA, University of Montpellier

Théo Larcher

2024–2027 · Multi-scale species prediction · University of Montpellier (LIRMM), EU JRC, Inria

Giulio Martellucci

2024–2027 · Analysis of images of plant cover to characterise crop biodiversity · INRAE (LISAH), CIRAD (AMAP), Inria

Sébastien Gigot-Léandri

2024–2027 · Prediction uncertainty of deep species distribution models · University of Montpellier (LIRMM & MARBEC labs)

Raphaël Benerradi

2024–2027 · Analysis of temporal trends in plant species using citizen science data · University of Montpellier (LIRMM), Inria

Romane Dubois

2024–2027 · Assessment of the severity of plant pathogen symptoms · INRAE (IGEPP)

Post-docs (ongoing)

Noémie Coulon

2025–2026 · Fish species assemblages stability analysis using generative Deep SDMs

Former PhD students

Cesar Leblanc

2022–2025 · Species assemblages modelling using AI · Inria, University of Montpellier

Matteo Contini

2022–2025 · Multi-scale mapping of changes in tropical reefs · Ifremer, University of Montpellier

Tanguy Lefort

2021–2024 · Uncertain labels, crowdsourcing and expert feedback · University of Montpellier

Camille Garcin

2020–2023 · Loss functions for set-valued classification · University of Montpellier

Joaquim Estopinan

2019–2022 · A predictive approach to determining the joint conservation status of species · Inria, University of Montpellier

Benjamin Deneu

2019–2022 · Understanding Deep Species Distribution Models · Inria, INRAE, University of Montpellier

Alena Shilova

2018–2021 · Scheduling Strategies for High Performance Deep Learning · University of Montpellier

Titouan Lorieul

2017–2020 · Uncertainty issues in fine-grained image classification · University of Montpellier

Christophe Botella

2017–2019 · Species Distribution Modelling from Crowdsourced Data · University of Montpellier

Valentin Leveau

2013–2016 · Large-scale visual entities recognition · University of Montpellier

Pierre Letessier

2011–2014 · Frequent Visual Objects Mining in Large Multimedia Collections · Telecom Paris-tech

Riadh Trad

2011–2013 · Visual-based event mining in Social Media · Telecom Paris-tech

Saloua Litayem

2009–2013 · Hash-Based Support Vector Machines Approximation · Telecom Paris-tech

Amel Hamzaoui

2010–2012 · Shared-Neighbours methods for visual content structuring and mining · University of Paris-sud

Ahmed Rebai

2009–2011 · Interactive object retrieval using interpretable visual models · University of Paris-sud

Former postdocs

Lukáš Picek

2023–2025 · AI-based species prediction and distribution modeling · Inria

Maxime Ryckewaert

2024–2025 · Convergence of AI and Poisson process in species distribution modelling · Inria

Jules Van de Putte

2023–2024 · Plant disease datasets alignment for automated plant disease diagnostic · Inria

Sue Han Lee

2018–2019 · New perspectives on plant disease identification with deep learning

Julien Champ

2012–2015 · Deep learning for biodiversity informatics

Vera Bakic

2011–2013 · Image-based plant identification