Name: Antitza Dantcheva
Nationality: Austrian
Address: Sophia Antipolis, France
E-mail: Antitza.Dantcheva@inria.fr
Website: https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Antitza.Dantcheva/
Research interests: video generation, learning representations, human analysis, assisted living.
Awards and honors
- My former Ph.D. student David Anghelone has received for his Ph.D. the second prize in informatics from the Côte d’Azur University, 2023.
- Winner of ECCV’22 competition New Technologies Show at the European Conference with the idea of VerbaLIA, the startup, which is currently developed within the Inria Startup Studio.
- Best Poster Award for Robust remote heart rate estimation from face utilizing spatial-temporal attention at the IEEE Int. Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019), the flagship face analysis conference.
- Winner of ECCV’18 challenge, on bias estimation in face analysis (BEFA) at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018). The team was composed of A. Das (Inria), A. Dantcheva (Inria), F. Brémond (Inria).
- ANR Jeunes chercheuses / Jeunes chercheurs (JCJC) personal grant, November 2017 - October 2020
- Best Paper Award (Runner Up) IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2017)
- Laboratory of Excellence (Labex UCN@Sophia) Fellowship, March 2016 - February 2017
- Marie Curie Fellowship under the ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Programme 2014-2015
- Best Poster Award IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2013)
- Best Tabula Rasa Spoofing Attack Award 2013
- IBM Best presentation Award IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)
- Doctoral Consortium International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2011)
- Qualcomm travel grant for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)
- Travel grant for International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2011)
Career
September 2021Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) from Université Côte d'Azur, France
October 2019 – present
Chargée de recherche (CRCN) permanent researcher at Inria Center at Université Côte d'Azur, France
March 2014 – September 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow at Inria (Marie Curie and Labex Fellowships), France under François Brémond
January 2013 – February 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow at MSU (Michigan State University), USA under Arun Ross
January 2012 – December 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow at WVU (West Virginia University), USA under Arun Ross
June 2008 – December 2011
Ph.D. at EURECOM and Telecom ParisTech, France under Jean-Luc Dugelay
February 2006 – May 2008
Researcher at FTW, Austria
October 1999 – April 2007
MSc in EE – Telecommunication Engineering at TU Wien, Austria
September 1994 – June 1999
College certificate (with honors) at Technical College for Telecommunication Engineering, Austria
Further working experience includes positions at Siemens VDO, Austria; Flextronics International, Austria and Althofen Electronics, Austria.
Technical and organizing committees
Workshop Chair in CVPR 2024Area Chair at ECCV 2024
Associate Editor Patern Recognition 2019-2024, Trans. Multimedia 2023-2024
Program Chair of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2017-2021)
Editorial Board of Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications
Technical Activities Committee of IEEE Biometrics Council 2018 - 2021
Education Committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council 2014 - 2017
Publications Co-chair: FG 2019
Media Co-chair: BTAS 2013
Co-Organizer: ECCV 2012 Workshop “What’s in a Face?”, Workshop “mobile TV” at FTW 2007
Session chair: VISAPP 2014, ECCV 2012 Workshop “What’s in a Face?”, SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing: Biometric Technology for Human Identification IX
TPC and Reviewer: EUSIPCO 2018, ICPR 2018, IJCB 2014, 2017, IEEE BTAS 2012-2016, IAPR ICB 2016, IEEE ChaLearn Looking at People 2016, Workshop on affective interaction with virtual assistants within the healthcare context, CIBEC 2012; ICCV 2013, BIAPR ICB 2013, EUSIPCO 2010, IEEE EUVIP 2011, HST 2011, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCSVT
Invited Talks
- A. Dantcheva. “Face analysis by artificial intelligence”, Cententary of Capgras Syndrome, Paris, France, April 2024
- A. Dantcheva. “Generation and detection of deepfakes”, University of Cagliari, Italy, February 2024
- A. Dantcheva. “Generation and detection of deepfakes”, Inst. for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2023
- A. Dantcheva. “Generation and detection of deepfakes”, European Association For Signal Processing (EURASIP) JIVP Webinar, March 2022
- A. Dantcheva. “Generation and detection of deepfakes”, Webinar at the European Association of Biometrics (EAB), September 2021
- A. Dantcheva. “Generation and detection of deepfakes”, Seminar @Imagine seminar in LIRIS Lyon 2, February 2021
- A. Dantcheva. “A video is worth more than 1000 lies. Comparing 3DCNN approaches for detecting deepfakes”, Work- shop on Deepfakes and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics in conjunction with the Winter Conference on Computer Vision (WACV) 2020
- A. Dantcheva. “Deep neural networks for face analysis”, Women in Biometrics special session at the 12th IAPR International Conference On Biometrics, June 2019
- A. Dantcheva. “Facial analysis: from biometrics to healthcare”, Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA, September 2018
- A. Dantcheva. “Facial analysis: from biometrics to healthcare”, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, August 2018
- A. Dantcheva. “Facial behavior analysis for healthcare”, Summer School Brain Innovation Generation @ UCA (Big@UCA, http://www.innovation-alzheimer.fr/summer-school-program-2018), Sophia Antipo- lis, August 2018
- A. Dantcheva, J.-L. Dugelay. “L'histoire de la biométrie : d'Alphonse Bertillon à l'iPhone X”, Cafe TECHNO, Sophia Antipolis, January 2018 - see abstract here
- A. Dantcheva. “New Advances in Soft Biometrics”, Biometrics Congress, London, UK, November 2017
- A. Dantcheva. “Can a smile reveal your gender?”, Journee de la Biometrie 2017, Caen, France, July 2017
- A. Dantcheva. “Soft Biometrics: Applications in Security, Beauty Estimation and Healthcare”, SBA, Vienna, Austria, July 2015
- A. Dantcheva. “Soft Biometrics. Traits and Applications”, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 2015
- A. Dantcheva. “Faces and Cosmetics: Analyzing the Impact of Facial Cosmetics on Face Recognition”, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2013
- A. Dantcheva. “Facial Soft Biometrics”, West Virginia University, USA, September 2011
- A. Dantcheva. “Person recognition using a bag of soft biometrics (BoSB)”, Workshop on 3D and 2D face analysis and recognition, Lyon, France, January 2011
Teaching Activities
- TA for “Pattern Recognition” West Virginia University, Spring 2012
- TA for “Image for security applications watermarking, biometrics and video surveillance” EURECOM, 2008-2011
- TA for “Image and video compression and processing” EURECOM, 2008-2011
- Supervision of master student projects at EURECOM and West Virginia University
Research Projects
- Project Investigator (PI) of the Inria Eploratory Actions project “XGAN. Interpretable Representation Learning for Video GANs” (Project duration: July 2023 - June 2025)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the joint research project Inria - BITS Pilani Hyderabad “GDD. Generalizable Deepfake Detection” (Project duration: November 2022 - October 2024)
- Inria Project Investigator (PI) of the project ANR PRCI (French-German) “RESPECT. Reliable, Secure and Privacy preserving multibiometric Person Authentication” (Project duration: April 2019 - March 2022)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the project ANR JCJC “ENVISION. Computer Vision for Automated Holistic Analysis of Humans” (Project duration: November 2017 - October 2020)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the joint research project Inria - CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) “FER4HM. Facial expression recognition with application in health monitoring” (Project duration: November 2017 - October 2020)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the project Labex “Big Data and Biometrics” (Project duration: 2016-2017)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the project ERCIM ABCDE Project n°246016 of the European Commission “Facial Analysis for Health Monitoring” (Project duration: 2014-2015)
- Project Investigator (PI) of the project “Impact of Cosmetics on the Performance and Security of Face Recognition” Funded by CITeR (Center for Identification Technology Research) (Project duration: July 2012 – June 2013)
- Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the project “Fusing Biometric and Biographic Information in Identification Systems” Arun Ross (MSU), Antitza Dantcheva (MSU), Anil K. Jain (MSU), Don Adjeroh (WVU), Bojan Cukic (WVU) Funded by CITeR (Center for Identification Technology Research) (Project duration: Winter 2013 – Winter 2014)
- Participant of the “ACTIBIO – Unobtrusive Authentication using Activity Related and Soft BIOmetrics” European Commisision under FP7-215372 (Project duration: March 2008 – March 2011)
Supervision of research activities
Current PostDoc supervision:- Baptiste Chopin
- Valeriya Strizhkova. Topic: Deep Learning for Emotion detection.
- Snehashis Majhi. Topic: Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition in Real-World Videos.Valeriya Strizhkova, Topic: Deep Learning for Emotion detection.
- Tanay Agrawal. Topic: Feature extraction for video understanding based on Transformer architectures.
- Arnab Dey. Topic: BioMechanicsCapture: Deep learning based Real-time Biomechanics Capture.
- Charbel Yahchouchi. Topic: Generative models for image harmonization of unpaired images with physical constraints.
- Yaohui Wang, former Ph.D. student, research scientist at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China.
- David Anghelone, former Ph.D. student, data scientist with The bank Lombard Odier, Switzerland.
- Cunjian Chen, former Ph.D. student, Research Fellow at Monash Suzhou and an Adjunct Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Monash University Australia.
- Ester Gonzalez Sanchez, former Ph.D. student, Machine Learning Research Engineer at Nokia, Spain.
- Abhijit Das, former PostDoc, Ass. Prof. at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
- S L Happy, former PostDoc, Data Scientist at HP Bangalore, India.
- Michal Balazia, former PostDoc, Permanent researcher (ISFP) at the STARS, Inria.
- Indu Joshi, former PostDoc, Ass. Prof. at IIT Mandi, India.
