Clement Mallet
73 avenue de Paris · 94165 Saint-Mandé CEDEX · (+33)1 43 98 84 36 ·
clement.mallet@ign.fr
Senior researcher in Geospatial Computer Vision.
Leader of the STRUDEL research team on the modelling and analysis of spatio-temporal information for territory dynamics retrieval.
Program Chair -- ISPRS 2020 Congress (Nice, France), now to be held 4-10 July 2021.
"SemCity Toulouse": a new benchmark dataset for building instance segmentation (with R. Roscher, M. Volpi, L. Drees, and J. D. Wegner)
IGN/EuroSDR/LandSense workshop on "The use of VGI for producing and maintaining authoritative LULC data" (Nov. 24-25, 2020): deadline 11 October 2020.
Currently editing a book for ISTE/Wiley on "Time Series Satellite Image Analysis" with Nesrine Chehata. Contact us if you are interested.
Chercheur senior HDR en Vision par Ordinateur Géospatiale.
Responsable de l'équipe STRUDEL sur l'analyse et la modélisation des dynamiques spatio-temporelles des territoires.
Responsable du Comité de Programme -- ISPRS 2020 Congress (Nice, France), désormais du 4 au 11 juillet 2021.
"SemCity Toulouse": un nouveau benchmark pour l'instanciation de bâtiments (avec R. Roscher, M. Volpi, L. Drees, and J. D. Wegner)
Workshop IGN/EuroSDR/LandSense "The use of VGI for producing and maintaining authoritative LULC data" (24-25 november 2020): date limite 11 October 2020.
Edition en cours d'un livre pour ISTE/Wiley intitulé "Time Series Satellite Image Analysis" avec Nesrine Chehata. Contactez nous si vous êtes intéressés.
Research Interests
Sujets de recherche
News
2020
- Oct. 19: PhD defense of R. Ratajczak (LIRIS, France), examiner.
- Sep. 25: PhD defense of E. Biabiany (Univ. Antilles, France), examiner.
- Sep.: Oussama Ennafii won one of the two best 2020 PhD thesis from EuroSDR ! Aug. 31-Sep. 2: We organize on-line the Virtual Event of the 2020 papers of the ISPRS Congress. Videos are here.
- August: Papers accepted at the 2020 edition of the XXIV ISPRS Congress are now freely available on ISPRS website. Have a look to our preface.
- July: The JURSE 2021 (Medellin, Colombia) conference is postponed to 1-4 February 2022 due to the COVID-19 situation.
- June: Release of a new benchmark dataset "SemCity Toulouse" for building instance segmentation, funded by ISPRS Scientific Initiative. You can download it here (with Ribana Roscher, Michele Volpi, Lukas Drees and Jan Dirk Wegner).
- May: The papers accepted at the 2020 edition of the ISPRS Congress will be presented during a Virtual Event (31 August-2 Septembre 2020).
- Apr.: 6 papers accepted in the 2020 proceedings of the ISPRS Congress and 2 papers at IGARSS'2020.
- Mar.: Due to the COVID-19, the ISPRS 2020 Congress is postponed to 4-10 July 2021, still in Nice (France).
- Mar.: The book series related to QGIS and remote sensing is now available in Spanish.
- Feb. 18: Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (starting in 2021).
- Feb. 12: PhD defense of T. Postadjian (IGN), co-supervisor. Committee: N. Vincent, T. Corpetti (reviewers), A. Puissant, J. Inglada (examiners), A. Le Bris, H. Sahbi (co-supervisors).
- Jan. 10: PhD defense of O. Ennafii (IGN), co-supervisor. Committee: F. Rottensteiner, G. Gesquière (reviewers), P. Memari, G. Vosselman, R. Marlet (examiners), A. Le Bris, F. Lafarge (co-supervisors).
2019
- Dec. 19: PhD defense of B. Tardy (CESBIO, France), reviewer.
- Dec. 3: First international large scale land cover mapping workshop (Paris, France).
- Nov.: AIMCI grant from Univ. Gustave Eiffel (Appel Incitatif à la Mobilité et à la Coopération Internationale).
- Oct: PhD of S. Rahmatollahi Namin (ANU, Australia), reviewer.
- Sep. 13: PhD defense of A. Harikumar and D. Marinelli (Univ. Trento, Italy), reviewer.
- Sep. 5: I have been recognized as "Chercheur senior" by the Ministry of Ecology I belong to. This is the highest possible level.
- Aug.: Paper accepted to the Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing journal. "A learning approach to evaluate the quality of 3D city models" (Ennafii, Mallet, Le Bris, Lafarge).
- June: Outstanding reviewer, CVPR 2019.
- June-August: Our team mates will attend CVPR, ICML, IGARSS and MultiTemp conferences. See you there.
- June 3-4: 50+ attendees to our 1st EuroSDR workshop on Geoprocessing and Archiving of Historical Aerial Images in IGN (France). Co-organized with Sebastien Giordano (IGN, France), Fabio Remondino (FBK Trento, Italy) and Jon Arne Trollvik (Kartverket, Norway).
- May 21-24: JURSE2019 was held in Vannes (France). 2021 edition will be in Medellin (Columbia) !
- Mar.: the EuroSDR Official Publication #70 on archival aerial images, co-edited with Sebastien Giordano, has just been released.
- Jan.: I now lead the STRUDEL team on the modeling and analysis of spatio-temporal geographic information for territory dynamics. The LaSTIG lab. is co-affiliated with IGN and Gustave Eiffel University.
2018
- Dec: The HIATUS project on Historical Image Analysis is funded by the French ANR for the 2019-2023 period (PI: Sebastien Giordano). See "Projects" for more details.
- Dec. 15: the special issue "Operational Land Cover/Land Use mapping" is now open for submission in Remote Sensing journal.
- Nov.: the new guidelines for writing and reviewing papers for ISPRS events are now out ! How to smoothly prepare the 2020 ISPRS congress.
- Oct. 11.: PhD defense of M. Parkan (EPFL, Switzerland), reviewer.
- Oct. 9-10: Program commitee member of the 3rd EuroSDR workshop "Preparation for the Sentinels in Europe", in Oslo (Norway). Full program available here.
- Oct.7: short talk and discussions about remote sensing and AI during the 2018 Science Festival (Cité des Sciences, Paris). It was pretty fun !
- Sep. 26: PhD defense of M. Laslier (Univ. Rennes 2), reviewer.
- Jul.: The MAESTRIA project is funded by the French ANR for the 2019-2023 period (CESBIO, INRA, IGN, with J. Inglada, M. Fauvel, and A. Le Bris). See "Projects" for more details.
- July 7-11: Invited seminar and lectures, K.N. Toosi University of Technology (Iran).
- June 25-28: French conference on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (CFPT), 2018, Marne la Vallée, France. Jointly held with RFIAP 2018 (Program Chair). 225 attendees. Proceedings (zip archives) and Photos.
- June, 19: Keynote speaker, EORSA 2018 conference (Xi'an, China).
- June: The Special Issue on "Geospatial Computer Vision" is now available in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
- June: Outstanding reviewer award, CVPR 2018.
- May: 3 papers accepted to CFPT 2018.
- April: 4 papers accepted to IGARSS 2018.
- Apr. 19: PhD defense of Q. Oliveau (Telecom ParisTech, France), examiner
- Jan: The series of books (4 volumes) on "QGIS and applications in remote sensing" is now published and available in French and in English.
- Jan, 2: I am appointed as head of the MATIS team of IGN (19 permanent researchers & engineers, ~30 people).
2017
- Dec, 20: PhD defense of G. Brigot (ONERA Palaiseau, France), examiner.
- Dec, 18: PhD defense of A. Coyac (ONERA Toulouse, France), reviewer.
- Dec, 4: PhD defense of C. Dechesne (IGN), co-supervisor. Committee: J. Chanussot, F. Morsdorf (reviewers), L. Bruzzone, V. Gouet, L. Hubert-Moy, A. Le Bris, F. Tupin (examiners)
- Oct.: Appointed as Associate Editor, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (starting in 2018)
- Oct., 6: 2 talks of the group in "Time-series image analysis" GDR ISIS day
- Sep.: PhD of A. Mellor (RMIT University, Australia), reviewer
- Sep.: Outstanding reviewer award, BMVC 2017
- Aug.: Paper accepted to ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. "A structured regularization framework for spatially smoothing semantic labelings of 3D point clouds" (Landrieu, Raget, Vallet, Mallet, Weinmann)
- Aug.: Invited talks in Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (Beijing, China) and UESTC (Chengdu, China)
- July: Attending IEEE IGARSS'17. 2 papers + 1 special session on "Advanced lidar data processing" with N. Chehata (ENSEGID, France)
- July: BIOM project (Building indoor/outdoor modelling) will be funded by French National Research Agency (ANR) for the 2018-2022 period.
- June: 4 papers in ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2017
- March: Paper accepted to Remote Sensing. "A classification-segmentation framework for the detection of individual trees in dense MMS point cloud data acquired in urban areas" (Weinmann, Mallet, Brédif)
- March 6-9: JURSE 2017 (Dubai, UAE), co-chair + 1 paper.
- Feb.: Paper accepted to ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. "Semantic segmentation of forest stands of pure species combining airborne lidar data and very high resolution multispectral imagery" (Dechesne, Mallet, Le Bris, Gouet).
2016
- Dec., 19: PhD defense of M. Pourrahmati (UMR Tetis, France), examiner
- Dec. 5: Habilitation defense (ENSG, Marne la Vallée) ! Committee: N. Baghdadi, K. Schindler, F. Tupin (reviewers), P. Gamba, C. Heipke, L. Hubert-Moy, N. Paparoditis, L. Polidori (examiners)
- Sep.: Best paper award at GEOBIA 2016 for the paper: "Detection, Segmentation and Localization of Individual Trees from MMS Point Cloud Data", M. Weinmann, C. Mallet, M. Brédif.
- Sep.: Horizon 2020 VOLTA project (RISE program) accepted !
- Aug.: Paper accepted to Remote Sensing. "Airborne Lidar Estimation of Aboveground Forest Biomass in the Absence of Field Inventory" (Ferraz, Saatchi, Mallet, Jacquemoud, Rito-Gonçalves, Silva, Soares, Tomé, Pereira)
- July: France has been elected by ISPRS General Assembly to host the 2020 Congress. I will be program chair. See you in Nice.
- July: Tremendously honoured to receive ISPRS/DGPF Schwidefsky Medal, with C. Toth, for the 2012-2016 period.
- July: Attending ISPRS Congress 2016. 2 papers & French bid for ISPRS Congress 2020
- July: IEEE JSTARS Special Issue on "Geospatial Computer Vision" is now out ! (Tuia, Wegner, Mallet, Yang).
- June: Paper accepted to Remote Sensing. "Mapping and characterization of hydrological dynamics in coastal marsh using high temporal resolution Sentinel-1 images" (Cazals, Rapinel, Frison, Bonis, Mercier, Mallet, Corgne, Rudant)
- May: Paper accepted to Remote Sensing of Environment. "Lidar Detection of Individual Tree Size in Tropical Forests" (Ferraz, Saatchi, Mallet, Meyer)
- May: Benchmark paper accepted to IEEE TGRS. "International Benchmarking of the Individual Tree Detection Methods for Modeling 3D Canopy Structure for Silviculture and Forest Ecology Using Airborne Laser Scanning" (Wang et al.) in open-access.
- Mar-Apr.: Jan Wegner (ETH, Switzerland) is visiting our group with Université Paris Est grant.
2015
- Dec.: Horizon 2020 LandSense project accepted !
- Dec.: Paper accepted to ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. "Large-scale road detection in forested mountainous areas using airborne topographic lidar data" (Ferraz, Mallet, Chehata). Featured article for the February issue !
- Dec.: Outstanding reviewer award, ICCV 2015.
- Nov., 30: PhD defense of S. Giordano (Université Paris Est), examiner.
- Sep. 28 - Oct. 2: ISPRS Geospatial Week. Program chair + co-chair of ISA'15 workshop. We hosted 11 events, welcomed more than 600 people for 52 countries
- Aug.: Our ISPRS Journal Special Issue on "Multitemporal remote sensing data analysis" is now out ! (Mallet, Chehata, Mercier)
- July: Attending IEEE IGARSS'15. 3 papers.
- May: Paper accepted to IEEE TGRS. "Canopy density model, a new ALS-derived product to generate multi-layer canopy cover maps" (Ferraz, Mallet, Jacquemoud, Rito-Gonçalves, Soares, Tomé, Bretar).
- Jan.: Paper accepted to Computer & Graphics. "Distinctive 2D and 3D Features for Automated Large-Scale Scene Analysis in Urban Areas" (Weinmann, Urban, Hinz, Jutzi, Mallet).
- Jan.: Paper accepted to ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. "Semantic point cloud interpretation based on optimal neighborhoods, relevant features and efficient classifiers" (Weinmann, Jutzi, Hinz, Mallet).
Experience
Leader of the STRUDEL team
LASTIG, IGN /Université Gustave Eiffel (France)
Responsible of the research in modelling and analysis of spatio-temporal information for territory dynamics retrieval (9 permanent researchers and engineers).
January 2019 - Present
Leader of the MATIS team
LASTIG, IGN (France)
Responsible of the research in photogrammetric computer vision and remote sensing (19 permanent researchers and engineers). MATIS was one of the four former labs of the research department of IGN.
January 2018 - January 2019
Senior researcher
MATIS, IGN (France)
Responsible of the research in remote sensing/land-cover mapping/change detection (6 permanent researchers and engineers).
December 2010 - December 2017
PhD student
MATIS, IGN (France) / Télécom ParisTech (France) / Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany)
Processing and analysis of airborne full-waveform lidar data.
October 2007 - November 2020
Research engineer
MATIS, IGN (France)
Large-scale processing of airborne lidar data
September 2005 - September 2007
Education
Université Paris-Est
Habilitation (HDR)
Geographical Information Science [Manuscript | Slides]
Committee:
- Reviewers: Nicolas Baghdadi (IRSTEA, France), Konrad Schindler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Florence Tupin (Télécom ParisTech, France);
- Examiners: Paolo Gamba (Univ. Pavia, Italy), Christian Heipke (Univ. Hannover, Germany), Laurence Hubert-Moy (LETG, France), Nicolas Paparoditis (IGN, France), Laurent Polidori (CESBIO, France).
December 2016
Télécom ParisTech
PhD
Image and Signal Processing [Manuscript | Slides]
Committee:
- Supervisors: Christian Heipke (Univ. Hannover, Germany), Michel Roux (Télécom ParisTech, France), Uwe Soergel (Univ. Hannover, Germany).
- Reviewers: Xavier Briottet (ONERA, France), Norbert Pfeifer (TU Wien, Austria);
- Examiners: Frédéric Bretar (IGN, France), Frédéric Jurie (Univ. Caen, France), Florence Tupin (Télécom ParisTech, France)
October 2007 - November 2010
ENSG
Engineering school
Geographical Information Science with emphasis in Remote Sensing
September 2002 - September 2005
Université Paris 6
Master in Fundamentals in Remote Sensing
September 2004 - September 2005
Publications
Journals
Conferences
Books and Chapters
Other Publications (Technical Reports, Dissertations, Dissemination)
Collaborations
People I (am delighted to) work with
- Nesrine Chehata (ENSEGID, University of Bordeaux, France)
- Florent Lafarge (INRIA, France)
- Jordi Inglada (CESBIO/CNES, France)
- Mathieu Fauvel (CESBIO/INRA, France)
- Martin Weinmann & Boris Jutzi (KIT, Germany)
- Devis Tuia (WUR, The Nederlands)
- Jan Dirk Wegner (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Shihua Li (UESTC, China)
- Yuchu Qin (RADI, China)
- Michael Ying Yang (University of Twente, The Nederlands)
- Antonio Ferraz (NASA-JPL, UCLA, United States)
- Hichem Sahbi (LIP6, France)
- Xavier Briottet (ONERA, France)
Projects
On-going research projects
MAESTRIA
Multi-modAl Earth obServaTion Image Analysis.
Funded by ANR (2019-2022)
HIATUS
Historical Image Analysis for Territory evolUtion Stories.
Funded by ANR (2019-2022).
Landsense
A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring. .
Funded by Horizon2020 (2017-2021)
AI4GEO
Artificial Intelligence for the automatic production of 2D and 3D geospatial information.
Funded by Banque Publique d'Investissement (2019-2023)
PARCELLE
Production cARtographique grande éChELle par téLédétEction.
Funded by CNES (2018-2019)
Past projects
- ANR HYEP (2014-2018), Hyperspectral imagerY for Environmental urban Planning (PI: Christiane Weber, UMR TETIS, France). Final report here.
- TOSCA OSO (2016-2018), Operational country-wide land-cover mapping (PI: Jordi Inglada/Mathieu Fauvel, CESBIO, France).
- TOSCA VEGIDAR (2015-2016), New methods for vegetation detection and mapping in urban areas (PI: Thomas Corpetti, LETG, France).
- FP7 IQmulus (2012-2016), A High-Volume Fusion and Analysis Platform forGeospatial Point Clouds, Coverages and Volumetric Data Sets (PI: SINTEF, Norway).
- EuroSDR (2011-2012), project on Change Detection in high resolution landuse/cover geodatabases. Co-PI with Emilio Domenech (FOMENTO, Spain).
- ANR FORESEE (2010-2014), Forest Resource Estimation for Energy (PI: FCBA, France).
- GDR ISIS (2009-2010), 3D city modelling from unstructured 3D point clouds. Co-PI with Florent Lafarge (INRIA, France).
- TOSCA ExFOLIO (2006-2010), Analysis of full-waveform lidar data for urban, forested and mountainous environments for forthcoming spaceborne sensors.
Scientific Animation
Societies
I am deeply involved in the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) since 2008.
- 2020 and 2021: Program Chair of the XXIVth ISPRS Congress
- 2016-2020: Secretary of the ISPRS Working Group II/6 on "Large-scale Machine Learning" of the Technical Commission II
- 2015: Program Chair of the ISPRS Geospatial Week (La Grande Motte, France)
- 2012-2016: Chair of the ISPRS Working Group III/3 on "Image Sequence Analysis" of the Technical Commission III
- 2008-2012: Secretary of ISPRS Technical Commission III on "Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image Analysis".
Editorial stuff
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IF: 7.319):
- Starting 2021: Editor-in-chief
- 2018-2020: Associate Editor
- 2013-2017: Member of the Advisory Editorial Board.
- Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (IF: 3.15): Associate editor (2016-2020).
- Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection (RFPT, IF: 0.35):
- 2016-2020: Associate editor
- 2011-2016: Editor-in-Chief
- Guest editors for several special issues:
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(IF: 5.994):
- Geospatial Computer Vision (2018);
- Multitemporal remote sensing data analysis (2015);
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IF: 2.777):
- Paving the Way for the Future of Urban Remote Sensing (2020)
- Urban Remote Sensing for Smarter Cities (2018)
- GeoVision: Computer Vision for Geospatial Applications (2017).
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (IF: 2.892): Analysis and Applications of Full-waveform lidar (2013).
- Remote Sensing (IF: 3.406):
Conferences & workshops
- IGN/EuroSDR/LandSense Workshop on "The use of VGI for producing and maintaining authoritative LULC data", November 2020 (Virtual): organizer with Ana-Maria Raimond (IGN, France), Joep Crompvoets (KU Leuven, Belgium), Inian Moorthy (IISA, Austria) and Bénédicte Bucher (IGN, France).
- XXIVth ISPRS Congress (Nice, France, 2020-2021): program chair
- EuroSDR workshop "Geoprocessing and Archiving Historical Aerial Images", 2019 (Paris, France): organizer with EuroSDR, Sébastien Giordano (IGN, France), Fabio Remondino (FBK, Italy) and Jon Arne Trollvik (Kartverket, Norway).
- 3rd EuroSDR workshop "Preparations for the Sentinels in Europe", 2018 (Oslo, Norway): organizer with EuroSDR, Norwegian Space Centre and the Norwegian Mapping Authority.
- Annual French conference on photogrammetry and remote sensing 2018 (Marne la Vallée, France): program chair
- Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE – 2019 (Vannes, France), 2017 (Dubai, UAE): technical co-chair with Devis Tuia (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- ISPRS/IEEE ICCV’15 workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Outdoor Dynamic Scene Understanding (Santiago, Chile): program co-chair with Alper Yilmaz (OSU, USA), Yury Vizilter (GosNIASS, Russia) and Michael Ying Yang (TU Dresden, Germany)
- ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 (La Grande Motte, France): program chair
- Image Sequence Analysis’15 (ISA’15), ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 workshop (La Grande Motte, France): co-chair with Alper Yilmaz (OSU, USA), Yury Vizilter (GosNIASS, Russia) and Michael Ying Yang (TU Dresden, Germany)
- ISPRS/IEEE CVPR’15 workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Outdoor Dynamic Scene Understanding (Boston, USA) : program co-chair with Alper Yilmaz (OSU, USA), Yury Vizilter (GosNIASS, Russia) and Michael Ying Yang (TU Dresden, Germany)
- EuroSDR workshop 2014 "Preparation for Sentinel-2 in Europe" (Oslo, Norway): co-organization with Jon Arne Trollvik (Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway), Arnt Kristian Gjertsen (Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Norway) and Guro Dahle Strøm (Norwegian Space Centre, Norway)
- ISPRS/IEEE CVPR’14 workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Outdoor Dynamic Scene Understanding (Colombus, USA): program co-chair with Alper Yilmaz (OSU, USA), Yury Vizilter (GosNIASS, Russia) and Michael Ying Yang (LUH, Germany).
- Sixth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science 2013 (Orlando, USA): co-chair with Monika Sester (LUH, Germany) and John Krumm (Microsoft, USA)
- Image Sequence Analysis’13 (ISA’13), ISPRS SSG’13 workshop (Antalya, Turkey): co-chair with Alper Yilmaz (OSU, USA), Yury Vizilter (GosNIASS, Russia) and Michael Ying Yang (LUH, Germany)
- Analyse de scènes urbaines en image et vision, GdR ISIS workshop (Paris, France, 2012): co-organisor with Florent Lafarge (INRIA, France).
Program committees
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, USA, February 2020
- International Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Valletta, Malta, February 2020
- ESA Phi-Unet challenge on building detection with VHR data (UNOSAT / CERN).
- Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for 3D Big Spatial Data Processing, In conjunction with IEEE ISM'19, San Diego, USA, December 2019.
- International Land Use Symposium (ILUS), Paris, France, December 2019.
- International Symposium on Applied Geoinformatics (ISAG), Istanbul, Turkey, November 2019.
- IEEE IGARSS 2019, Yokohama, Japan, July 2019: student paper competition
- EARTHVISION 2019, IEEE/ISPRS Workshop. Large Scale Computer Vision for Remote Sensing Imagery, In conjunction with CVPR'19, June 2019.
- PCV 2019, Workshop on Photogrammetric Computer Vision, In conjunction with CVPR'19, June 2019.
- ISPRS Semantics3D workshop, Enschede, The Nederlands, June 2019
- ESA Living Planet Symposium, Milano, Italy, May 2019
- IEEE IGARSS 2018, Valencia, Spain, July 2018: student paper competition
- ISPRS Technical Commission II symposium, Riva del Garda, Italy, June 2018.
- EORSA 2018, Fifth International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications, Xi'an, China, June 2018: program co-chair
- GEOBIA 2018, Montpellier, France, June 2018.
- MSF 2017, IEEE/ISPRS Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Dynamic Scene Understanding. In conjunction with ICCV'17, October 2017.
- EARTHVISION 2017, IEEE/ISPRS Workshop. Looking from above: When Earth observation meets vision. In conjunction with CVPR'17, July 2017.
- IEEE IGARSS 2017, Forth Worth, USA, July 2017: student paper competition
- ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2017, Hannover, Germany, June 2017
- GEOBIA 2016, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 2016
- ISPRS Congress 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2016: member of the International Program Committee
- Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA) 2016, Clermont-Ferrand,France, June-July 2016
- EARTHVISION’15: IEEE/ISPRS Workshop. Looking from above: When Earth observation meets vision. In conjunction with CVPR’15, Boston, USA, June 2015
- JURSE 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland, March-Avril 2015
- Photogrammetric Computer Vision (PCV’14), Zürich, Switzerland, September 2014
- The ISPRS Workshop on 3D Virtual City Modeling (VCM’13), in conjunction with CRV’13, Regina, Canada, May 2013
- IEEE International Workshop on Point Cloud Processing (PCP’12), in conjunction with CVPR’12, Providence, USA, June 2012
- IEEE/ISPRS Workshop on Computer Vision for Remote Sensing of the Environment (CVRS’11), in conjunction with ICCV’11, Barcelona, Spain, November 2011
- ISPRS Photogrammetric Image Analysis (PIA’11), Munich, Germany, October 2011
- ISPRS Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image Analysis symposium (PCV’10), Paris, France, September 2010.
Reviews
- Journals: Plos One, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactionson Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering &Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Applied Optics, Optics Express, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Information Fusion
- Conferences: IEEE CVPR (2019 outstanding reviewer acknowledgment, 2018 outstanding reviewer acknowledgment, 2017, 2016), BMVC (2018, 2017 outstanding reviewer award), ACCV (2018, 2016), ECCV (2018, 2016), IEEE ICCV (2019, 2017, 2015, outstanding reviewer award), RFIA (2016, 2014), Gretsi (2019, 2015, 2013), Digital Heritage Congress (2013), ISPRS Conference on "Serving Society with Geoinformatics" (2013), ISPRS Commission VII symposium (2010), ISPRS Laserscanning (2009), IEEE ICIP (2009-2012).
- Funding agencies: ANR (France), STAE (France), NSFC, BELSPO (Belgium), DFG (Germany), NWO (The Nederlands), SATW (Switzerland).
Commissions of trust
- Since Dec. 2019-: Member of the Scientific Council of NUMM department of INRAE;
- 2017-2019: Member of the advisory commission of IRSTEA "Territoires" department;
- Since 2018: Member of the Executif Board of Theia, the French national infrastructure on spatial imagery for land cover applications.
- Since 2013: Member of the scientific council of Theia.
Teaching
Teaching material may be provided upon demand. Lectures are mainly given in ENSG-Geomatique, the French engineer school in geomatics and geographic information, both for the engineer degree and various masters of science.
- Image processing [lectures+exercices]: Segmentation techniques - Object-based image analysis - Change detection - Time-series image analysis
- Machine learning [lectures+exercices]: Unsupervised and supervised classification - Feature selection & reduction - Graphical models
- Remote Sensing [lectures]: Introduction - fundamental principles - Sensors
- Airborne laser scanning [lectures+exercices]: Introduction & physical principles - 3D point cloud processing - Terrain and surface modelling - Forest analysis & 3D city reconstruction - Full-waveform data processing
- Land-cover mapping and change detection: I gave 2-weeks of e-learning lectures and exercices for EuroSDR, which was pretty challenging and fun. EuroSDR Eduserv 13 (2015) -- EuroSDR Eduserv 12 (2014)
Supervision
- Luc Baudoux (PhD, 2019-), co-supervised with Jordi Inglada (CESBIO). Multi-scale multi-label land-cover mapping (funded by ANR).
- Anatol Garioud (PhD, 2018-), co-supervised with Silvia Valero (CESBIO) and Sébastien Giordano (LaSTIG). Permanent grassland moniroting using multi-modal time series of satellite images (funded by CNES and ADEME).
- Erwan Giry-Fouquet (PhD, 2018-), co-supervised with Mathieu Fauvel (CESBIO). Large-scale semi-supervised learning (funded by ANR).
- Hermann Tagné (PhD, 2018-), co-supervised with Arnaud Le Bris (LaSTIG). Updating the national land-cover geodatabase with airborne and stallite images (funded by INC Cameroon).
- Oussama Ennafii (PhD, 2019), co-supervised with Florent Lafarge (INRIA) and Arnaud Le Bris (LaSTIG). Semantic-aware quality evaluation of 3D building models. A scalable approach (funded by IGN). Now at Gambi-M company.
- Tristan Postadjian (PhD, 2019), co-supervised with Hichem Sahbi (LIP6) and Arnaud Le Bris (LaSTIG). Towards large-scale land-cover mapping with VHR satellite imagery (funded by IGN). Now at AquilaData company.
- Clément Dechesne (PhD, 2017), co-supervised with Valérie Gouet and Arnaud Le Bris (LaSTIG). Semantic segmentation of forest stands with VHR multispectral imagery and 3D airborne lidar data (funded by IGN). Now post-doc at CNES.
- Adrien Gressin (PhD, 2014), supervised by Nicole Vincent (Univ. Paris 5) and Nicolas Paparoditis (IGN). Updating land-cover geodatabases in natural environments with VHR satellite imagery (funded by IGN). Now professor at HEIG-VD, Switzerland.
Awards
- 2020: EuroSDR best PhD thesis in 2020: Oussama Ennafii (co-supervised with Florent Lafarge and Arnaud Le Bris
- 2019: Outstanding Reviewer acknowledgment - CVPR 2019
- 2018: Outstanding Reviewer acknowledgment - CVPR 2018
- 2017: Outstanding Reviewer acknowledgment - BMVC 2017
- 2016: Schwidefsky Medal, from the ISPRS and the German Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, with Charles Toth (OSU, USA)
- 2016: Best paper award - GEOBIA 2016. M. Weinmann, C. Mallet, M. Brédif. Detection, Segmentation and Localization of Individual Trees from MMS Point Cloud Data.
- 2015: Outstanding Reviewer Award - ICCV 2015
- 2014: Best paper Award, Honourable Mention - ISPRS Photogrammetric Computer Vision 2014. M. Weinmann, B. Jutzi, C. Mallet. Semantic 3D scene interpretation: a framework combining optimal neighborhood size selection with relevant features.
- 2014: Outstanding Reviewer Award - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- 2010: Young researcher award, French Image and Vision community (GDR ISIS, CNRS), with Florent Lafarge (INRIA, France)