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Raffi Enficiaud

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Occupation

I completed my PhD in Mathematical Morphology (Center of Mathematical Morphology, Paris School of Mines) under the supervision of Michel Bilodeau. I then joined DxO Labs, a start-up company specialized in digital image quality enhancement. I was involved in the "Image Quality Evaluation" business line. I am currently a research fellow (postdoc) at INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, IMEDIA research team. My topics are: multimedia databases, scalable summarization techniques, feature extraction and machine learning.

My research interests include color processing, segmentation, distance transforms, tracking, robust features extraction, dimension reduction, distributed computing, mathematical morphology.

Check out my new project: YAYI ! An highly generic and powerful platform for image processing (started from scratch).

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My detailed resume here.

Publications

PhD dissertation

english flag   Multidimensional and multispectral algorithms in the field of Mathematical Morphology : The meta-programming approach.
The PhD focuses on the use of the meta-programming approach (namely C++) for developing Mathematical Morphology and Image Processing tools. Several algorithms using the proposed multidimensional and multispectral framework are presented (watershed in any dimension, viscous watershed, contrained flooding, exact discrete convex distances transforms, algebraic and statistical colour approach, etc.).
Detailed summary (also here).
Complete manuscript (on Pastel servers, in French, PDF, 52 MB)


french flag   Algorithmes multidimensionnels et multispectraux en Morphologie Mathématique : approche par méta-programmation.
Le sujet de ma thèse concerne l'approche par méta-programmation (C++) pour le développement d'une bibliothèque complète de Morphologie Mathématique et de Traitement d'Images. De nombreux algorithmes (distance, segmentation, couleur) sont également développés dans ce cadre.
Résumé complet (également sur PASTEL).
Manuscrit complet (serveurs Pastel, français, PDF, 52 MB)

Conferences

english flag   Queue and Priority Queue based Algorithms for Computing the Quasi-Distance Transform
Raffi Enficiaud
in "ICIAR 2010 : International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Portugal 2010"
The source code is available in Yayi (file $YAYI_ROOT/core/yayiDistances/include/quasi_distance_T.hpp)
english flag   New challenges for visual information retrieval in biodiversity applications
Raffi Enficiaud, Nozha Boujemaa
in "TDWG 09 : Biodiversity Information Standards, Montpellier 2009"
english flag   The Pl@ntNet project : Plant Computational Identification and Collaborative Information System
Daniel Barthélémy, Nozha Boujemaa, Daniel Mathieu, Jean-François Molino, Pierre Bonnet, Raffi Enficiaud, Elise Mouysset
in "Congrès Mondial de Foresterie 2009"
english flag   Advances in taxonomic identification by image recognition with the generic content-based image retrieval IKONA
Mathieu Coutaud, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly, Raffi Enficiaud, Nozha Boujemaa and Daniel Barthélémy
in "e-Biosphere 09 : International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics, London 2009"
english flag   Clovis - A generic framework for general purpose visual surveillance applications.
Raffi Enficiaud, Bruno Lienard, Nicolas Allezard, Raphaël Sebbe, Serge Beucher, Xavier Desurmont, Patrick Sayd and Jean-François Delaigle
in "The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, Graz 2006 (VS2006)"
english flag   Contour-based object tracking with gradient-based contour attraction field.
Petr Dokladal, Raffi Enficiaud and Eva Dejnozkova
in "International Conference in Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal 2004 (ICASSP 2004)"

Seminars

english flag   Yayi : Bibliothèque générique de traitement morphologique d'images.
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris, March 2010
Link to the webpage / The slides
english flag   The VITALAS project : Video and Image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale.
International Symposium of the THESEUS Research Program - Kick-off talks, Berlin, June 2009
Link to the Symposium
english flag   Pl@ntNet: Un réseau collaboratif et une plate-forme informatique dédiés à la compilation et au partage d’outils et de connaissances en Botanique
Raffi Enficiaud, Pierre Bonnet. Agropolis Fondation, Montpellier, March 2009.
Link to the webpage
english flag   IKONA: un moteur d'indexation, de navigation et de recherche d'information par le contenu visuel. Application aux bases d'image en botanique.
Nozha Boujemaa and Raffi Enficiaud. International Agricultural Show (SIA), Paris, Feb. 2009.
Link to the webpage
english flag   Programmation C++ avancée / Advanced C++ programming.
Training at INRIA (3x 8hours), Paris-Rocquencourt, Feb. 2009
The slides
english flag   Morph-M et généricité en traitement d'images.
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris, Jan. 2008
Link to the webpage / The slides
english flag   Nouveaux outils sur l'utilisation de la couleur et la segmentation en Morphologie Mathématique.
ENST, Paris, Jan. 2007
Link to the webpage / The slides

Patent

english flag   Video coding method
Inventors : Raffi Enficiaud and Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu
Assignee "Koninkl Philips Electronics NV (NL)"
Application number : 09/947781 / Publication date : 04/27/2004

Scientific exchanges

Students

Contact

You can reach me at the following email address : raffi dot enficiaud at mines-paris dot org