September 2025: Cyril Barrelet successfully defended his PhD thesis on application of Deep Learning to underwater robotics.
September 2025: A new researcher, Pauline Puteaux arrived in the ICAR team.
September 2025: William Puech, Guillaume Picaud, Guillaume Fourret and Valentin Noyé presented their research at the IEEE ICIP conference in Anchorage (U.S.A.).
July 2025: Olivier Strauss presented research about ``fuzzy'' neural networks.
June 2025: the ICAR Ph.D. team (left to right, G. Picaud, G. Fourret, E. Dias; K. Planolles is not on the image) won the 2nd place to the PinkCC Challenge about tumor segmentation.
May 2025: Guillaume Fourret presented research about Few-Shot Learning for UAV imagery at the ICUAS conference in Charlotte (U.S.A.).
May 2025: Mathieu Ladeuil presented research about 3D mesh clustering at the Eurographics conference in London (UK)..
April 2025: Audrey Lamouroux successfully defended her PhD thesis on micro-imagery for post-mortem fetal anatomy..
March 2025: William Puech presented the projet NextLife project to the Workshop Interdisciplinaire sur la Sécurité Globale organized by ANR at Paris-Saclay (France).
December 2024: Pauline Puteaux, Norman Hutte and William Puech attended the PEPR Cyber Day 2024 as participants to the COMPROMIS project.
November 2024: Marc Chaumont (left, with M.T. Pham, IRISA/OBELIX) presented research about applying IA algorithms to Satellite Image Time Series at BMVC in Glasgow (U.K.).
November 2024: Khelian Larvet, Erwan Reinders, William Puech, Marc Chaumont and Norman Hutte presented 4 papers at the CORESA conference in Rennes (France).
October 2024: Guillaume Picaud presented research about AI algorithms for image wound analysis at the DFUC workshop, MICCAI in Marrakech (Morocco).
October 2024: (from left to right) William Puech, Norman Hutte and Erwan Reinders presented their work on multimedia security at IPTA conference in Rabat (Morocco).
October 2024: Tao Laurent and Dorian Kauffmann (taking the picture) held a stand at the Montpellier Fête de la Science, organized at the Village des sciences.
September 2024: Nicolas Dibot successfully defended his PhD thesis on using IA algorithms to study the attractiveness of faces among mandrils and humans.
September 2024: Robin Jarry successfully defended his PhD thesis on Deep Learning methods for the prediction of socio-economic data from a sequence of satellite images.
September 2024: A new researcher, Nicolas Lutz, arrived in the ICAR team.
September 2024: The ICAR team leader is now Olivier Strauss (right). The deputy team leader is Noura Faraj (left).
August 2024: Prof. Woon-Seng Gan (NTU, Singapore), IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, was invited by the ICAR team to give a talk at LIRMM.
July 2024: Olivier Strauss and Tristan Cossin presented their research on imprecise filtering and control at the IPMU conference in Lisbon (Portugal).
July 2024: Seminar of the ICAR team in the old town of Montpellier.
July 2024: Marc Hartley received the best student award at the Computer Graphics International conference in Geneva (Switzerland).
July 2024: Hard time at the Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle conference in La Rochelle (France) for the ICAR Ph.D. students (closest to furthest: R. Jarry, G. Fourret, K. Planolles, G. Picaud)!
June 2024: Eugênio Dias Ribiero Neto (at center) spent 1 month in South-East Asia with CIRAD collaborators of the SEA-Dog-SEA project.
May 2024: The Light My Cells Challenge team (Emmanuel Faure and Dorian Kauffmann) at IEEE ISBI conference in Athens (Greece).
April 2024: William Puech presented his research on 3D mesh encryption at the IEEE ICASSP conference in Seoul (Korea).
April 2024: Juan Pablo Rojas successfully defended his PhD thesis on application of Deep Learning for the evaluation of the architecture of fruit trees.
March 2024: Vincent Creuze created a new research team called RSM on underwater robotics and left ICAR team. Frédéric Comby will also work part-time with RSM.
February 2024: Emmanuel Faure successfully defended his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches on quantitative morphogenesis.
December 2023: Yassine Hmidy successfully defended his PhD thesis on imprecise linear modelling.
November 2023: Bianca Jansen Van Rensburg successfully defended her PhD thesis on security of 3D data.
November 2023: the JFIG2023 workshop, which gathered more than 110 French experts in computer graphics, was organized in Montpellier by Noura Faraj.
October 2023: Anass Bairouk successfully defended his PhD thesis on astronomical image time-series classification.
October 2023: there were 2 ICAR stands (one with Cyril Barrelet and March Chaumont and the other with Tao Laurent and Benjamin Gallean) at the Fête de la Science organized at LIRMM.
October 2023: Bianca Jansen van Rensburg and William Puech presented their research on watermarking and compression at the IEEE ICIP conference in Kuala-Lumpur (Malaysia).
September 2023: Nicolas Dibot spent 3 months in the Centre international de recherches médicales de Franceville (Gabon) to analyze the behavior of mandrills when seeing AI-generated images of other mandrills, in the context of his Ph.D. theses cosupervised by William Puech.
September 2023: Laetitia Lemière successfully defended her PhD thesis on digital tools to assist the design of agroforestry systems.
September 2023: Bianca Jansen van Rensburg and William Puech presented their research at the IEEE MMSP workshop in Poitiers (France).
August 2023: Marc Chaumont presented his research on reidentification at the GRETSI conference in Grenoble (France).
June 2023: Marc Chaumont presented his research on steganalysis at the IEEE ICASSP conference in Rhodes (Greece).
June 2023: 4 Ph.D. students of the ICAR team (B. Jansen van Rensburg, E. Reinders, G. Fourret, G. Picaud) presented their research at the CORESA conference in Lille (France).
April 2023: Noura Faraj was nominated Young Researcher Fellow by the French Chapter of Eurographics.
March 2023: Bianca Jansen van Rensburg presented her work to the Occitanie-Est final of "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes" competition.
February 2023: Emmanuel Faure (left) and Guillaume Gay (right) animated the France Bio Imaging Data Sprint - a week to work on FAIR image data management.
February 2023: a new poster describes the work of the ICAR researchers.
January 2023: Bianca Jansen van Rensburg presented at Electronic Imaging 2023 a paper which describes the first results of Samuel Ducros's PhD.
December 2022: Maxime Chapuis successfully defended his PhD thesis on the analysis of 3D dental models.
November 2022: 6 ICAR members attended the JFIG workshop and presented 2 papers. The next edition in 2023 will be organized by the team in Montpellier!
November 2022: Anthony Brunel successfully defended his PhD thesis on autonomous exploration planning by an aerial drone to reconstruct complex environnements.
November 2022: the paper written by Bianca Jansen van Rensburg and William Puech was shortlisted for the Top 10% Paper Award of MMSP'2022.
Yacine Hmidy (right) and Olivier Srauss (left) attended the international conference SUM'2022 in Paris (France) and then went to Toulouse (France) for LFA'22.
October 2022: William Puech attended ICIP'2022 in Bordeaux (France) and met there 3 former ICAR PhD and Master students (Pauline Puteaux, Lionel Pibre and Felix Yriarte).
October 2022: Cyril Barrelet spent 3 weeks in Venice to implement algorithms on the cable robot of the MAELSTROM European Project.
October 2022: Benjamin Galléan (left) and Tao Laurent (right) presented a demonstration of MorphoNet VR for the 30th anniversary of the LIRMM.
September 2022: Anass Bairouk presented his PhD research at the IN2P3/IRFU Machine Learning Workshop.
September 2022: Morgan Fouque successfully defended his PhD thesis on inspection of manufactured objects via terahertz imaging.
September 2022: Anass Bairouk (left) and Cyril Barrelet (right) presented their research work at GRETSI 2022 in Nancy (France).
August 2022: Marc Chaumont (left) and Cyril Barrelet (right) attended ICPR 2022 in Montreal (Canada) and presented their research work at the CVAUI workshop.
July 2022: The ICAR team leader is now Marc Chaumont (left) who succeeded to Gérard Subsol (right). The deputy team leader is still William Puch (center).
April 2022: Valentin Favier received the Interdisciplinary PhD Thesis Award of the Collège Doctoral of the University of Montpellier.
April 2022: interview in the CNRS journal of Pauline Puteaux, former ICAR Ph.D. student and currently CNRS researcher.
February 2022: Marc Chaumont was nominated IEEE Senior Member.
January 2022: As many researchers, Maxime Chapuis (right) presented remotely his work at Electronic Imaging 2022.
December 2021: Vincent Creuze received the 2021 Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Systems Innovation Prize of Montpellier Université Excellence.
December 2021: the 13th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security was chaired by William Puech and organized in Montpellier by several members of the ICAR team.
December 2021: Valentin Favier successfully defended his PhD thesis on simulation of endonasal skull base surgery.
December 2021: Paul Tresson successfully defended his PhD thesis on quantification of pest regulation based on image analysis.
November 2021: Noura Faraj (center) and her collaborators (left to right: Thomas Richard, Maxime Chapuis, Marc Hartley and Thibault de Villèle) attended and presented some of their work at Journées Françaises de l'Informatique Graphique 2021, Sophia Antipolis (France).
November 2021: (from left to right) Maxime Chapuis, William Puech, Hugo Ruiz and Bianca Jansen Van Rensburg (and also Lara Bertojo) presented their work at CORESA 2021, Sophia Antipolis (France). Laura and Hugo's papers were selected to be submitted in a long version in the international journal Signal Processing: Image Communication.
October 2021: Younès Zegaoui successfully defended his PhD thesis on detection and loclization of urban objects in 3D LiDAR point clouds.
August 2021: Research focus on some Deep-Learning based methods applied to the protection of the marine megafauna (e.g. dugongs). See also this paper).
July 2021: Publication of two books about multimedia security supervised by William Puech with chapters written by several members of the ICAR team.
April 2021: The ICAR research-team belongs to the network Tête-Cou" (Face-Neck) which is one of the French rare-disease clinical research network.
March-June 2021: Emmanuel Faure, William Puech and Vincent Creuze participated to science popularization events (Bar des Sciences, Soirée'Cult) or resources (Zeste de Sciences).
February 2021: Publication of a new poster which presents the ICAR Ph.D. students and their research topics.
February 2021: It it the internship period for Master's students. 10 of them are currently supervised by members of the ICAR team.
January 2021: two Professors of Medicine, Guillaume Captier (left) and Christian Herlin (right), join the ICAR team as associate researchers.
November 2020: ICAR joins the Montpellier node of France Bio Imaging, the national research infrastructure for biological imaging. Emmanuel Faure is Image Data Co-Officer.
November 2020: Ahmad Zakaria successfully defended his PhD thesis (by visioconference) on batch steganography and pooled steganalysis.
October 2020: Christophe Destruel successfully defended his PhD thesis by Validation of Acquired Experience.
October 2020: Pauline Puteaux successfully defended her PhD thesis on image processing and analysis in the encrypted domain.
September 2020: ICIP 2020 Top Reviewer Recognition for Marc Chaumont.
September 2020: Vincent Creuze's research work on underwater robotics for preventive archeology is described in the ''CNRS News'' journal.
July 2020: Jean-Daniel Taupiac successfully defended his PhD thesis (by visioconference) on the design of relevant learning environments in Virtual Reality.
May 2020: PhD Thesis Award for Florentin Kucharczak by the French Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, the French Chapter of IEEE EMBS and AGBM.
April 2020: Due to COVID-19 pandemy, all the members of the ICAR research-team work from home. Research goes on.
February 2020: Quentin Pentek successfully defended his PhD thesis on 3D map generation from an airborne multi-sensor system.
December 2019: Marion Morand successfully defended her PhD thesis on analysis of 3D symmetry.
December 2019 : Maxime Ferrera successfully defended his PhD thesis on automatic cartography for an underwater robot.
November 2019: Noura Faraj received the Vladimir Lorman Prize for the Best Poster Presentation of the 8th scientific days of the LabEx NUMEV.
November 2019: Mehdi Yedroudj successfully defended his PhD thesis on Deep Learning techniques for steganalysis.
November 2019: Florentin Kucharczak successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on nuclear medical imaging.
November 2019: Sébastien Beugnon successfully defended his PhD thesis on 3D mesh security.
November 2019: Sébastien Villon successfully defended his PhD Thesis on fish recognition and identification in underwater images.
October 2019: Christophe Fiorio gave a lecture at Polytech Montpellier on Mobile App Development in front of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.
October 2019: William Puech (sitting at extreme left) presented ICAR results of the DEFALS challenge in Paris. Standing is Loïc Dubois, ANR project manager and former ICAR PhD student.
September 2019 : Paul Tresson (at right) and Dominique Carval, Paul’s cosupervisor at CIRAD attended the international conference MMSP 2020.
Sept 2019: William Puech and Pauline Puteaux presented a paper at ICIP 2019 in Taipei (Taiwan). Congratulations to Pauline who won the Three Minute Thesis Presentation Award.
September 2019: 3D surface scanning of anatomical structures (Muse project VESALE 3D). Guillaume Captier (extreme left), Gérard Subsol, Marion Morand (resp. third and second from right).
July 2019: The ICAR research team wishes you nice summer holidays !
June 2019: Younès Zegaoui presented his PhD work about Deep Learning and 3D point cloud at the « Big Data » workshop organized at LIRMM.
June 2019: Emmanuel Faure and collaborators published a paper in Nature Communications:
interactive online morphological browser to explore complex multi-scale data.
June 2019: Ahmad Oulad Amara participated to the Nordic Probabilistic School in Trondheim, Norway.
June 2019: Alexandre Duhant successfully defended his PhD Thesis on Terahertz imagery.
May 2019: Sébastien Beugnon, Pauline Puteaux and William Puech attended the international conference IEEE ICASSP 2019.
March 2019: Jean-Daniel Taupiac attended the international IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces at Osaka, Japan and presented two papers.
Seasons Greetings for 2019 from all the ICAR team members at LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, France.
December 2018: William Puech, Pauline Puteaux and Ioulia Tkachenko (now with University of Lyon) attended the international conference IEEE WIFS 2018.
December 2018: Christophe Fiorio was bestowed the Knight's title in the Order of the Academic Palms.
November 2018: Lionel Pibre successfully defended his PhD thesis on Deep Learning and multi-source aerial imagery.
November 2018: Marc Chaumont, Vincent itier and William Puech presented their research at the Digital Security Workshop organized at LIRMM.
October 2018: Marc Chaumont presented a survey "Deep Learning in Steganography and Steganalysis since 2015" at the Image Signal & Security Mini-Workshop at Rennes (France).
October 2018: Paper 'Persistence Atlas for Critical Point Variability in Ensembles' co-authored by Noura Faraj is presented at the IEEE VIS 2018 conference.
October 2018: Silvère Gauthier successfully defended his PhD thesis on 3D retrodeformation.
The ICAR team brings together researchers from the Robotics and Computer Science departments around the research topic of "image" and more generally visual data. The team is currently composed of 9 permanent research members from University of Montpellier, CNRS and CHU Montpellier, but also counts among its close collaborators researchers in remote sensing from the TETIS laboratory or in agronomy modelling from CIRAD.
The ICAR team develops research themes associating interaction and processing of visual data such as 2D, 3D, multi-spectral (nD) images, videos or nD+t image sequences and 3D objects whether in the form of 3D meshes or parametric modelling.
The team is structured according to 4 research themes : Analysis & Processing Multimedia Security 3D Modelling & Visualisation Artificial Intelligence for Visual Data