OBJECTIVE
A research position that requires my experience in stochastic modeling and/or in image processingEDUCATION
| PhD expected in October 2004 | University of Nice,
in ARIANA, joint
research group CNRS/INRIA/UNSA, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Image Processing Thesis title: Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing by Markov Object Process Adviser: Josiane Zerubia Problem statement: Unsupervised extraction of line networks from optical and radar images Proposed solution: Modeling line network by a Markov Object Process, without any specific initialization; optimization by simulated annealing using a RJMCMC algorithm Development in C++ |
| Master of Sciences 2001 | University of Toulouse III,
Toulouse, France Applied Mathematics - Major: statistics and probabilities |
| Engineering degree 2001 | INSA (Institut National des Sciences
Appliquées), Génie
Mathématiques et Modélisation, Toulouse, France
Mathematical Modeling |
| Two-year university degree 1998 | University of Bordeaux I, Bordeaux,
France Mathematics and computer science |
| Baccalauréat 1996 | French secondary school diploma |
SKILLS
| Image processing | Inverse problems, filtering, estimation and
detection, segmentation and classification, stochastic modeling,
variational modeling, optimizing, mathematical morphology, neural
networks, stereo computer vision |
| Computer | C/C++, FORTRAN, Unix, Matlab |
| Languages | |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2001 | Internship (5 months) in VISTA
, joint research group INRIA/CNRS/INSA/University
of Rennes, IRISA, Rennes, France Title: A statistical approach to video summarization Adviser: Patrick BOUTHEMY Goal: extract from a video document a brief abstract representative of its content Proposed solution: Gibbsian Modeling of the dynamic content of micro-sequences of the video; temporal segmentation by a content based clustering; selection of units of interest by hidden Markov model Development in C++ |
| 2000 | Internship (3 months) in the CERFACS Climate Modelling and Global Change
team, CERFACS, Toulouse, France Title: Study of the interannual variability of the tropical cyclones genesis over the period 1948-1997 Adviser: Laurent TERRAY Empirical estimation of the cyclone genesis from atmospheric and oceanic simulations Validation with respect to observations Study of the interannual variability of cyclone genesis using Principal Composant Analysis Study of the influence El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on cyclone genesis using Singular Value Decomposition Development in FORTRAN 90 |
| 1999 | Summer jobs (2 months), Cape May, New Jersey, United State of America |
PUBLICATIONS
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia, N. Baghdadi. Extraction automatique des réseaux linéiques à partir d'images satellitaires et aériennes par processus Markov objet. Bulletin de la SFPT No. 170 (2003-2) pp. 13-22.
Proceedings conferences
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia, N. Baghdadi. Unsupervised line network extraction from remotely sensed images by polyline process. EUSIPCO'04, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
X. Descombes, F. Kruggel, C. Lacoste, M. Ortner, G. Perrin, J.
Zerubia. Marked point process in
image analysis : from context to
geometry. International
Conference on Spatial Point Process Modelling and its Application
(SPPA), Castellon, Spain, April 2004.
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia, N. Baghdadi. A Bayesian geometric model for line network
extraction from satellite images. ICASSP'04, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, May 2004.
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia. Road network extraction in remote sensing by a Markov Object process. ICIP'03, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia, N. Baghdadi. Extraction de réseaux linéiques à partir d'images satellitaires par processus Markov objet. GRETSI'03, Paris, France, September 2003.
C. Lacoste, R. Fablet, P. Bouthemy, Y.-F. Yao. Création de résumés de vidéos par une approche statistique. RFIA'02, Angers, France, January 2002.
C. Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia. A
Comparative Study of Point Processes for Line Network Extraction in
Remote Sensing. Research report INRIA No. 4516, July 2002.
Submission
C.
Lacoste, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia. Point
Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Submitted in 2003. Revised
version sent in august 2004.
COMMUNICATIONS
A comparative study of point processes for line network extraction from images. Mini-Symposium in Stochastic Geometry, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2002.
Extraction du réseau
linéique en télédétection par Processsus
Markov Objet. French Geological Survey (BRGM),
Orléan, France, October 2002.
Extraction du Réseau
Linéique en Télédétection par Processsus
Markov Objet. Symposium
Ariana - Mistral: ``Stratégies stochastiques d'exploration
d'état appliquées au traitement d'image et à la modélisation
de réseaux, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, May
2003.
Line network extraction in remote sensing by spatial processes. Symposium DLR-Ariana, DLR, Oberpfaffenoffen, Germany, November 2003.
CAROLINE: a CARtographic Oriented
LIne Network Extraction model. Spatial
Point Process Modelling and its Applications (SPPA), Castellon,
Spain, April 2004.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIESS
Referee on IEEE journals
Leisure activities Travelling,
cinema, music