Josiane Zerubia - Director of Research INRIA (DR1) - Head of the Ayin project (2012-2016),
of the Ariana project (1998-2011) and of the Pastis project (1995-1997).

CV

Consult my bio (PDF): short / medium / full.

Publications

Consult the list of my publications in Ariana and the list of my publications in Ayin.

Consult the list of all my publications (4 books, 14 book chapters, 88 journals, 250 conference publications, 94 research reports, 2 theses and 1 HdR).

Citation indexes: Google Scholar (h: 49, i10: 172), ResearchGate (RG Score: 39.88)

Demos

Consult the list of my demos in Ariana and the list of my demos in Ayin.

Softwares

• 6 patents: 1 patent deposit 0110189 INPI in 2001 (75% INRIA, 25% CNRS); 5 patents OA09437, OA09438 in 2009; OA11016, OA11017 in 2010 and FR1260390 in 2012 (50% INRIA, 50% Galderma)
• 37 deposits at the APP between 1989 and 2015
• One free software: FLAMINGO under CeCill-C licence

Honors, awards and prizes

• IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017)
• INI Women in Mathematics Fellowship in 2017 (one week at Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (VMVW02))
• Medal for Excellence of Université Côte d'Azur in 2016
• IEEE Clémentina SADUWA Prize for a post-doctoral fellow (advisor) in 2016
• Best Journal Young Author Paper Award (co-author) of the French Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SFPT) journal in 2011
• SITIS Best Young Author Paper Award (co-author) in 2010
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (Europe section) best PhD thesis prize (co-advisor, in collaboration with LIAMA, CAS, Beijing) in 2008
• EUSIPCO Best Young Author Paper Award (co-author) in 2004
• IEEE Fellow in 2003
• "Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" (proposed by the French Minister of Research) in 2002
• British Council fellowship in 1997 (7 weeks in the University of Cambridge (Trinity College & Eng. Dept.))
• 2 Fellowships of the French Committee of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique in 1987 (stay in Beijing) and in 1988 (stay in New York)
• IBM Academic and Research fellowship in 1987
• Rotary Youth Leadership Award in 1982
• Prize of the Société d'Entraide de la Légion d'Honneur in 1978
• "Prix de la Résistance et de la déportation" from the city of Antibes in 1974

Editorial activities

• Member of the editorial board of "Foundation and Trends in Signal Processing" since 2007
• Associate editor of the on-line resource "Earthzine" (IEEE CEO and GEOSS) since 2006
• Member of the editorial board of the French Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SFPT) since 1998
• Member of the editorial board of IJCV from 2004 to March 2013
• Area editor of IEEE Trans. on IP from 2003 to 2006
• Guest co-editor of a special issue of IEEE Trans. on PAMI in 2003
• Associate editor of IEEE Trans. on IP from 1998 to 2002

IEEE activities

• Member of the IEEE IVMSP TC from 2008 till 2013
• Member of the IEEE BISP TC from 2004 till 2012
• Member of the IEEE IMDSP TC from 1997 till 2003
• Member-at-large of the Board of Governors of the "IEEE SP Society" from 2002 to 2004

Other activities

• Member of the scientific council of UCA-Jedi Idex Academy of Excellence 3 since 2016
• Member of the center committee of INRIA-SAM since 2016
• Member of the Board of Governors of SFPT since 2014
• Member of the Gilles Kahn PhD Prize committee (French Acad. of Science/SIF) in 2011
• Member of the project committee of INRIA-SAM from 1995 to 2016
• President of the doctoral committee of INRIA-SAM from 1999 to 2001
• Member of the fellowship committee of INRIA-SAM from 1997 to 1999
• Member of several recruitment committees for permanent positions at INRIA (CR2, CR1, head of SAEPR)

Plenary / Invited talks and seminars

• Plenary talks given to the Signal, Image, Video and Communications Symposium ISIVC'16, the conference JDS'11, the ICCV workshop on Computer Vision for Remote Sensing of the Environment CVRS'11, the workshop on random processes for signals and images modeling PHARES'10, the ISPRS workshop in urban remote sensing CMRT'09, the image processing conferences ACIVS'08 and EUSIPCO'02...
• Invited talks in specialized workshops: SIMA'14 in Ein-Gedi in May 2014, Imaging in Geospatial Applications organized by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and by the Geospatial National Intelligence Agency (GNA) in Minneapolis in September 2013, Stochastic Geometry and Spatial Statistics organized by EURANDOM in Eindhoven in April 2000
• Invited talks or seminars given in more than 130 Universities or Research Centers
  • in France: ENS Ulm, ENS Cachan, UPMC (Paris VI), Telecom ParisTech, Pasteur Institute, INRA...
  • in Europe: University of Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, University of Bristol, TC Dublin, ETHZ, EPFL, CNR Pisa, University of Genoa, UPC Barcelona, University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, Belgium Royal Military Academy, KU Leuven, CWI in Amsterdam, University of Iceland, University of Thessaloniki, University of Szeged, Academy of Science of Hungary, West University of Timisoara, Bucharest Polytechnic University...
  • in the world: MIT, Harvard, Courant Institute (NYU), Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC, USC, University of Maryland, University of Montreal, McGill University, McMaster University, University of British Columbia, Academy of Science of China, UST in Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, NTU Singapour, University of Sao Paulo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, University of Haïfa, Technion, Weizmann Institute, SUP'COM Tunis, ENSI Tunis, University of Tunis-El Manar, CNRST in Rabbat, Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi...
  • as well as in numerous companies: CNES in Toulouse, Sagem/Safran in Argenteuil, Galderma R&D in Sophia Antipolis, BASF in Levallois-Perret, Philips R&D in Eindhoven, General Electric R&D in Herzliya, MBRSC in Dubai, Google in Mountain View...
• Invited talks in schools: Summer schools SSIMA 2016 in Bucharest and SSIMA 2015 in Sinaia, Spring School of the CNRS at La Grande-Motte in 2000, Summer School CIMPA-UNESCO in 1991

Conference organization

Member of the organizing committees of the conferences below and:

• Scientific advisor to congress Director of ISPRS’20 (Nice, France)
• Co-chair of the workshop "Earthvision" at IEEE CVPR 2017 (Honolulu, United States)
• GRETSI’17 Symposium (Juan les Pins, France)
• Chair of the workshop "Stochastic Geometry and Big Data" 2015 (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
• Co-chair of plenary talks at EUSIPCO 2015 (Nice, France)
• Co-chair of the workshop "Earthvision" at IEEE CVPR 2015 (Boston, United States)
• Tutorial co-chair of IEEE ICIP 2014 (Paris, France)
• Publicity chair of IEEE ICIP 2011 (Brussels, Belgium)
• Co-chair of the special sessions at IEEE ICASSP 2006 (Toulouse, France) and IEEE ISBI 2008 (Paris, France)
• Scientific program chair of a workshop on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for Urban Areas Pixels et Cités (Marne la Vallée, France, 2003)
• Co-chair of 2 workshops on "Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" (EMMCVPR'01, Sophia Antipolis, France, EMMCVPR'03, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Co-chair of a workshop on "Image Processing and Related Mathematical Fields" (IPRM'02, Moscow, Russia)

Lectures

• SUP'COM Tunis (2015): Hierarchical Markovian Models and Optimisation Techniques of Type MCMC (6H lecture in French)
• Master 2 SVS-ISAB at UNS (2012-2016): Numerical Image Processing Applied to Biology (Coordinator of 25H lecture in French including 3H taught, 25H tutorial) (slides)
• Master 2 BIOCOMP at UNS (2009-): Deconvolution and Denoising for Confocal Microscopy (Coordinator of 24H lecture in English including 12H taught) (slides)
• Master 1 ENS Lyon by UNS and ENS Lyon (2006-2011): Images Analysis (Coordinator with Georges Drettakis from EPI REVES of 24H lecture in French including 12H taught) (slides)
• final year at ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse (1999-): Image Processing Advanced Techniques (2016-) (Coordinator of 30H lecture in French including 15H taught) (slides), Signal and Image Advanced Techniques (2012-2015) (Coordinator of 40H lecture in French including 20H taught) (slides), Spatial Imaging Advanced Techniques (1999-2011) (Coordinator of 40H lecture in French including 20H taught) (slides) and organisation of the students annual tour at INRIA-SAM
• Master 2 ISI-VIM at UNS (2008-2009): Random Models in Images Processing (Coordinator of 21H lecture in French including 15H taught) (slides)
• Master 2 IGMMV at UNS (2004-2008): Stochastic Models in Images Processing (Coordinator of 15H lecture in French, 15H taught)
• Master 2 Environnement Tropical et Valorisation de la Biodiversité at UAG in Pointe-à-Pitre (2002-2003): Remote Sensing and Spatial Imaging (Coordinator of 17H lecture in French, 17H taught)
• final year at Ecole Navale in Brest (1998-2000): Remote Sensing (Coordinator of 6H lecture in French, 6H taught)
• final year at ENSTA ParisTech by UNS and ENSTA (1997-2000): Remote Sensing (Coordinator of 6H lecture in French, 6H taught)
• Master 2 Astrophysique et Sciences de l'Univers at UNS (1997-2004): Remote Sensing (Coordinator of 15H lecture in French, 15H taught)
• Master 2 SICIV at UNS (1995-2004): Markovian Fields in Images Processing (Coordinator of 15H lecture in French, 15H taught)
• University of Sao Paulo (1993): Markovian Fields in Images Processing (Coordinator of 20H lecture in French, 20H taught)
• Advanced Master at Mines de Paris/X (ISIA) (1991-1997): Neural Networks seminar (3H lecture taught in French)
• Master 2 Robotique et Vision at UNS (1990-1994): Images Processing (Coordinator of 12H lecture in French, 12 taught) and Probabilities refresher (6H lecture taught in French)

Supervision and cosupervision

58 Masters students, 20 interns from foreign universities (Masters or PhDs), 33 PhD students and 23 post-doc students

Academic projects

• Principal Investigator of an ANR project (DIAMOND) and one ARC DeMiTRI on Bioimaging
• Principal Investigator of one COLORS ODEUR
• Coordinator of one research project funded by EADS Foundation
• Principal Investigator of several bilateral collaboration projects in image processing with Russia (NATO, ECONET, Lyapunov Institute), the USA (Associated Team SHAPES, NATO), Hungary (Balaton), Italy (Galileo), the Netherlands (NWO), UK (Alliance), Israel (P2R, AFIRST) and Brazil (CNPq)
• ARIANA coordinator of 3 EU projects (MOUMIR, IMAVIS within the 5^th Framework, MUSCLE within the 6^th Framework)

Academic mobility

• Invited researcher (UIUC partial funding) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in Urbana (9.5 weeks, Aug. – Nov. 2016)
• Invited researcher (ENST/Télécom ParisTech Fellowship) in the Signal and Image Processing Dept. at ENST (Telecom ParisTech) in Paris (5 weeks, Aug. 1999)
• Invited researcher (British Council Fellowship) in the Engineering Dept. at the University of Cambridge (7 weeks, July and Aug. 1997)
• Post-doctoral position (INRIA Fellowship) at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC in Los Angeles (one year, 1988 - 1989)

Industrial collaborations

• Expert in images processing for Earth observation to CERT "Spatial systems" (CNES), nominated by the President of CNES (2005-2011)
• Expert in space imaging to the technical Director of CS company (2005-2006)
• Consultant with Sanofi (2006-2010) and with Galderma (2011-)
• 34 industrial contracts from 1989 to 2015 (including 30 as a coordinator). Main collaborators:
  • ESA, JRC, ISA, CNES, IGN, BRGM, DGA, ...
  • TAS/AAS, Aérospatiale, Foundation EADS/Airbus Group, MBDA, Astrium/Airbus DS, CS, Akka Tech/Silogic, Galderma, L'Oréal, Philips...

Media

• Chinese portrait (in French) for the 50th anniversary of INRIA in 2017: Portraits d'hommes et de femmes qui travaillent au centre Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
• Ercim News n°108 in january 2017: Natural Disaster Monitoring: Multi-Source Image Analysis with Hierarchical Markov Models
• Earthzine in 2016 : The Three Musketeers: Making an Impact in French Remote Sensing and Breaking Down Gender Barriers
• Ercim News n°95 in october 2013: Boat extraction in harbours from high resolution satellite images
• Participation in 2013 to a debate (in French) animated by a journalist, organized by SKEMA Business School (with other partners) on the topic Technology for Information and Communication (TIC): a revolution for women
• Short papers on the blogs of the web sites of MPT2013 (in French) and MPE2013 (in English): Les ports vus du ciel and Extracting Boats in Harbors from High-resolution Satellite Images
• Earthzine in 2009: La Vie de Josiane Zerubia: A Very Modern Woman of Science
• Code source (in French) n°42 in 2008 (p 8): Comptage automatique d'une population de flamants roses
• Code source (in French) n°38 in november 2007 (p 4): Détection automatique de houppiers par modélisation
• Interstices (podcast in French) in 2008: Quand le traitement d'images participe à la gestion des ressources naturelles
• INRIA Activity Report in 2007 (pp 36-37): From umbrella pines to... flamingos
• LISA in may 2007: Télédétection et environnement : un exemple de traitement d'images dans le projet ARIANA
• Interstices (demo in French) in 2006: Traitement d'images pour l'évaluation des ressources forestières
• Ercim News n°65 in april 2006: Galaxy Filament Detection using the Quality Candy Model
• Ercim News n°61 in april 2005: Image Processing for Forest Monitoring
• Ercim News n°50 in july 2002: Marked Point Processes in Image Analysis
• Ercim News n°46 in july 2001: Modelling SAR Images of Urban Areas
• INédit number 43 in march 2004: Mieux exploiter les images satellitaires ou aériennes
• INédit number 20 in july 1999: Problèmes inverses en observation de la Terre : le projet Ariana
• French news channel 2 in 1996
• E=m6 (scientific magazine on french channel 6) in 1991
• 2 scientific videos made by INRIA in 1995 and 1991

Contact

Mail : Josiane.Zerubia at inria.fr
Phone : (+33)4-92-38-78-65
Postal address : INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée - 2004, route des Lucioles - BP 93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France