OBJECTIVE

A research position that requires my experience in stochastic modeling and/or in image processing
 

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
Master of Sciences  2001	University of Toulouse III, Toulouse, France Applied Mathematics
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

Image processing	Inverse problems, filtering,  estimation and detection, segmentation and classification, stochastic modeling, variational modeling, optimizing, mathematical morphology,  neural networks, stereo computer vision
Computer	FORTRAN, C/C++, Unix, Matlab
Languages	English: good working knowledge French: maternal language Spanish: basic

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 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 Developing 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 Developing in FORTRAN 90
1999	Summer jobs (2 months),  Cape May,  New Jersey, United State of America

Articles in journals
 
• 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. 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.

Research reports
 
• 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.

 

Referee on IEEE journals
 

2002, 2003     Lab instructor at ESINSA (French engineering school), projects in image processing
 

Sport activities         Swimming, horse riding, basketball, ski, roller skating

Leisure activities     Travelling, cinema, music
 

Josiane Zerubia
ARIANA
INRIA, BP 93, 2004 Route des Lucioles
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex - France
tel: +33 (0)4 92 38 78 65
http://www-sop.inria.fr/ariana/personnel/Josiane.Zerubia/index-eng.html

Patrick Bouthemy
IRISA / INRIA Rennes
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes Cedex - France
tel: +33 (0)2 99 84 72 74
http://www.irisa.fr/vista/Equipe/People/Patrick.Bouthemy.english.html