Sep. 29: PhD defense of H. Tagné (LASTIG/Univ. Douala, Cameroon), co-supervisor. Committee: N. Chehata, C. Tchawoua (reviewers), S. Janicod, A. Mokraoui, L. Polidori (examiners), A. Le Bris, D. Monkam (co-supervisors).
Sep. 22: PhD defense of H. El Amouri (ICUBE), co-supervisor. Committee: S. Amer-Yehia, R. Tavenard (reviewers), T.-B.-H. Dao, C. Wemmert (examiners), P. Gançarski, T. Lampert (co-supervisors).
July: Paper accepted to Pattern Recognition. "Constrained DTW Preserving Shapelets for Explainable Time-Series Clustering" (El Amouri, Lampert, Gançarski, Mallet).
Jun. 15: PhD defense of S. Deschamps (LIP6, France), examiner.
May. 17-19: A successful JURSE conference in Heraklion. Next edition in Tunisia in 2025 !
Apr. 13: PhD defense of I. de Gelis (Univ. Bretagne Sud, France), reviewer.
Mar. 22: PhD defense of Y. Chen (LASTIG/LRE), co-supervisor. Committee: V. Eglin, L. Hurni (reviewers), N. Vincent, M. Aubry (examiners), J. Perret, J. Chazalon (co-supervisors).
Mar. 20: PhD defense of R. Wenger (Univ. Strasbourg, France), reviewer.
Jan. 30: PhD defense of L. Baudoux (LASTIG/CESBIO), co-supervisor. Committee: A. Comber, G. Forestier (reviewers), B. Demir, Y. Tarabalka (examiners), J. Inglada (co-supervisors).
2022
Dec. 9: Habilitation defense of A. Chan Hon Tong (ONERA, France), examiner.
Dec. 2: Invited talk, HEIG-VD and 3sigma, Switzerland.
Nov. 16: Habilitation defense of N. Rivière (ONERA, France), reviewer.
Aug.: Paper accepted to the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. "Multi-nomenclature, Multi-resolution joint translation: An application to land-cover mapping" (Baudoux, Inglada, Mallet).
Jun.: Paper accepted to ECML PKDD'22. Congrats Hussein !
Jun.: Paper accepted to the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. "Predicting Vegetation Stratum Occupancy from Airborne LiDAR Data with Deep Learning" (Kalinicheva, Landrieu, Mallet, Chehata).
4-11 Jun.: Eventually, the ISPRS Congress was held in Nice !
May 20: PhD defense of A. Garioud (LASTIG/CESBIO), co-supervisor. Committee: C. Atzberger, D. Ienco (reviewers), M. Weiss, J. Verrelst, N. Delbart, T. Corpetti (examiners), S. Giordano, S. Valero (co-supervisors).
Feb. 3-4: JURSE conference (co-chair), 2022 edition, is online ! More details here.
Jan. 7: PhD defense of V. Sainte-Fare-Garnot (LASTIG), co-supervisor. Committee: K. Schindler, J. Chanussot (reviewers), F. Tupin, P. Pérez (examiners), N. Chehata, L. Landrieu (co-supervisors).
2021
Dec. 17: PhD defense of A. Guyot (Univ. Rennes 2, France), reviewer.
Dec. 16: PhD defense of G. Frati (Univ. Nantes, France), reviewer.
Nov. 8: PhD defense of Y.J.E. Gbodjo (TETIS, France), reviewer.
Oct.: Paper accepted to the Pattern Recognition Letters journal. "Fast estimation for robust supervised classification with mixture models" (Giry-Fouquet, Fauvel, Mallet).
Oct.: Paper accepted to BMVC'21. Well done Yizi and Minh.
Jul.: The 2021 digital edition of the XXIVth Congress is over and it was rather cool: 670 participants from 50+ countries, 231 live speakers, 7 keynote speakers, 7 technology sessions, 23 digital booths, 313 poster presentations and 400+ oral presentations in the ISPRS Digital library.
Jul.: Invited talk, French Optics Congress, Lidar Club.
Jun.: The JURSE 2021 conference will be held online with a brand new "Lounge" format. More details here.
Jun.: Paper accepted to the Remote Sensing Letters journal. "Investigating operational country-level crop monitoring with Sentinel 1 and 2 imagery" (David, Giordano, Mallet).
Mar.: Paper accepted to the Remote Sensing of Environment journal. "Recurrent-based regression of Sentinel time series for continuous vegetation monitoring" (Garioud, Valero, Giordano, Mallet).
Mar.: Paper accepted to the Remote Sensing journal. "Toward a yearly country-scale CORINE Land-Cover map without using images: a map translation approach" (Baudoux, Inglada, Mallet).
Jan. 25: PhD defense of F. Guiotte (Univ. Rennes 2, France), examiner.
Jan. 22: PhD defense of P. Godet (ONERA, France), examiner.
Jan. 10: The IEEE JSTARS Special Issue related to the JURSE 2019 conference is now available (Lefèvre, Corpetti, Kuffer, Taubenböck, Mallet). Our foreword can be found here.
Dec. 8: the ANR Soduco project launched the ICDAR 2021 Historical Map Segmentation: open datasets, open codes, and a lot of fun ! Organized with EPITA-LRDE and EHESS.
Nov. 24-25: EuroSDR/LandSense workshop on VGI for land-cover/land-use mapping: more than 50 virtual participants (with Ana-Maria Raimond, Bénédicte Bucher, Joep Crompvoets, Inian Moorthy).
Nov. 4: PhD defense of N. Karasiak (DYNAFOR, France), examiner.
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 organized on-line the Virtual Event of the 2020 papers of the ISPRS Congress (2000+ registered attendees). 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. 12: PhD defense of T. Postadjian (LASTIG), 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 (LASTIG), 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.
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).
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.
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).
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)
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.
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: 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.
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).