Guillaume Touya
6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal · 77455 Marne la Vallée CEDEX 2 · (+33)6 89 71 61 97 ·
guillaume.touya@ign.fr
Senior researcher in GI Science, geovisualization, and map generalization.
Member of the MEIG research team, PI of the LostInZoom ERC project
Directeur de recherche IGN en sciences de l'information géographique, géovisualisation, et généralisation cartographique.
Membre de l'équipe MEIG, porteur du projet ERC LostInZoom
Research Interests
Sujets de recherche
Interactions in multi-scale maps
Interactions dans les cartes multi-échelles
Automated cartography: text placement, schematization, conflation
Cartographie automatique: placement de texte, schématisation, recalage géométrique
News
Actualités
Newsfeed
Fil d'infos
01/09/2022:
We received the 2nd Best Poster award at AGILE 2023 for our work on the MapDraw tool. Check out the paper and the poster and the tool itself. #LOSTINZOOM.
Nous avons reçu le 2ème prix du meilleur poster à AGILE 2023 pour notre travail sur l'outil MapDraw. Allez voir l'article et le poster et l'outil lui-même. #LOSTINZOOM.
01/09/2022:
Two new papers co-authored with Jakub Wabiński and Albina Mościcka on map generalisation for tactile maps have been published in the Cartographic Journal and CaGIS. #ACTIVMAP.
Deux nouveaux articles co-écrits avec Jakub Wabiński et Albina Mościcka sur la généralisation pour les cartes tactiles ont été publiés dans les revues Cartographic Journal et CaGIS. #ACTIVMAP.
01/05/22:
LostInZoom recruits two PhD students (offer 1 and offer 2).
LostInZoom recherche deux doctorants (sujet 1 et sujet 2).
19/05/2022:
I give an invited talk at the CompCarto2002 workshop in Bonn, on the connections between map generalisation and computational cartography.
Je donne une conférence invitée à l'atelier CompCarto2002 à Bonn, sur les relations entre généralisation carto et algorithmie géométrique.
01/07/21:
I organise a workshop on benchmarks for map generalisation prior to ICC'21 in December in Florence, Italy. Submit your benchmark data before 15th September. Read more here.
j'organise un atelier sur les benchmarks pour la généralisation carto avant l'ICC'21 en décembre à Florence, en Italie. Soumettez vos jeux de données avant le 15 septembre. Plus d'information ici.
01/02/21:
I am now a research fellow at CRENAU research team from AAU lab in Nantes.
je suis maintenant chercheur associé à l'équipe CRENAU du laboratoire AAU à Nantes.
09/12/20:
I received an ERC Consolidator Grant 2020, for the project LostInZoom. #ERCCoG.
J'ai obtenu une bourse ERC Consolidator 2020, pour le projet LostInZoom. #ERCCoG.
Experience
Past jobs and roles in research
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10-09-2004
Research assistant
I start working at IGN France as a research assistant in the COGIT research team, assisting Cécile Duchêne and Anne Ruas on map generalisation.
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01-01-2008
PhD student
My PhD, obtained in June 2011, was supervised by Cécile Duchêne and Anne Ruas, and dealt with collaborative map generalisation.
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01-07-2011
Senior researcher at COGIT research team, IGN
After my PhD, I become a senior researcher, still in COGIT team, at IGN France. I'm part of the group on automated cartography and geovisualization.
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04-05-2017
Habilitation defense
Defense of my habilitation (HDR) in GI science, which allows in France to be the main supervisor of PhD students.
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15-07-2017
Head of COGIT research team
I take over the leadership if the COGIT research team from Sébastien Mustière.
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01-09-2018
Vice-head of LASTIG lab
I become the vice-head of the new LASTIG lab.
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01-04-2021
LostInZoom project
With the start of the LostInZoom. project, I become the fulltime Principal Investigator of the project.
Education
Université Paris-Est
Paris-Est University
Geographical Information Science
Sciences de l'information géographique
May 2017
Mai 2017
Université Paris-Est
Paris-Est University
January 2008 - June 2011
Janvier 2008 - Juin 2011
ENSG
Engineering school
école d'ingénieurs
Geographical Information Science
Sciences de l'information géographique
September 2001 - September 2004
Septembre 2001 - Septembre 2004
Université Paris-Est
Paris-Est University
Master in Geographical Information Science
DEA en Sciences de l'information géographique
September 2003 - September 2004
Septembre 2003 - Septembre 2004
Publications
Journals
Conferences
Books and Chapters
Workshops and Posters
Other Publications (Technical Reports, Dissertations, Dissemination)
Invited Talks
Projects
On-going and past research projects
Other research activities
Software development
DeepMapGen
Open source Python library for deep learning based map generalization.
CartAGen4Py
Python port of the CartAGen library for map generalization.
Other research activities
- Chair of the ICA commission on Map Generalisation and Multiple Representation since Jul. 2017
- Chair de la commission ACI sur la généralisation cartographique et la représentation multiple depuis Jul. 2017
- Research fellow in the CRENAU research team from AAU lab in Nantes since 2021.
- Chercheur associé à l'équipe CRENAU de l'UMR AAU (ENSA Nantes, CNRS, Centrale Nantes) à Nantes depuis 2021.
- Co-chair of the GDR MAGIS CNRS commission on crowdsourcing and VGI (2017-2021)
- Co-chair de l'action prospective sur les données géographiques volontaires du GDR MAGIS CNRS (2017-2021)
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cartography and Geographical Information Science (CaGIS, Taylor & Francis) (2020-...)
- Membre du comité éditorial du Journal of Cartography and Geographical Information Science (CaGIS, Taylor & Francis) (2020-...)
- Member of the COST Network ENERGIC IC1203 (MC member, 2013-2016)
- Membre du réseau COST ENERGIC IC1203 (MC member, 2013-2016)
- Member of the COST Network Mapping and the citizen sensor TD1202 (2013-2016)
- Membre du réseau COST Mapping and the citizen sensor TD1202 (2013-2016)
PhD and post-doc Supervisions
Thèses et post-doc encadrés
- Jean-François Girres (Post-doc, 2012-2013)
- Jean-François Girres (Post-doc, 2012-2013)
- Adrien Maudet (PhD, 2016), co-supervised with Cécile Duchêne (LASTIG) and Sébastien Picault (CRISTAL, Lille)
- Adrien Maudet (PhD, 2016), encadrant, thèse dirigée par Cécile Duchêne (LASTIG) et Sébastien Picault (CRISTAL, Lille)
- Jérémie Ory (Post-doc, 2017-2018)
- Jérémie Ory (Post-doc, 2017-2018)
- Marion Dumont (PhD, 2018), co-supervised with Cécile Duchêne (LASTIG), PhD award 2019 from MAGIS CNRS
- Marion Dumont (PhD, 2018), co-dirigée avec Cécile Duchêne (LASTIG), prix de thèse MAGIS CNRS 2019
- Quy Thy Truong (PhD, 2020), co-supervised with Cyril de Runz (LIFAT, Tours)
- Quy Thy Truong (PhD, 2020), co-dirigée avec Cyril de Runz (LIFAT, Tours)
- Azelle Courtial (PhD, 2023), co-supervised with Xiang Zhang (Wuhan University, China)
- Azelle Courtial (PhD, 2023), co-dirigée avec Xiang Zhang (Wuhan University, Chine)
- Jérémy Kalsron (PhD), co-supervised with Jean-Marie Favreau (LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand)
- Jérémy Kalsron (PhD), co-dirigée avec Jean-Marie Favreau (LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand)
- Maïeul Gruget (PhD), co-supervised with Ian Muehlenhaus (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Maïeul Gruget (PhD), co-dirigée avec Ian Muehlenhaus (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Quentin Potié (PhD), co-supervised with William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Quentin Potié (PhD), co-dirigée avec William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Sylvain Galopin (PhD), co-supervised with Freddie-Jeanne Richard (EBI, Poitiers)
- Sylvain Galopin (PhD), co-dirigée avec Freddie-Jeanne Richard (EBI, Poitiers)
- Bérénice Le Mao (PhD)
- Bérénice Le Mao (PhD)
Internship and student project Supervisions
Encadrement de stagiaires et projets d'étudiants
- Bérénice Le Mao (2022), user surveys for multi-scale cartography of earthquakes, co-supervised with Samuel Auclair (BRGM) and Jean-François Girres (Univ Montpellier 3)
- Ridley Campbell (2021), online GIS platform to design tactile maps
- Thileli Hadjeb (2021), multi-scale cartography of earthquakes, co-supervised with Samuel Auclair (BRGM) and Jean-François Girres (Univ Montpellier 3)
- Walid Houfaf-Khoufaf, Chloé Marcon, Alex Van Hecke (2020), spatio-temporal visualization of local COVID-19 data
- Achraf El Ayedi (2019), deep learning for mountain roads generalisation
- Hugo Boulze, Anouk Schleich (2018-2019), derivation of contour lines from a DTM in karstic plateaus
- Valentin Hue, Priscillia Labourg (2018-2019), deep learning experiments for building generalisation
- Matthieu Dufait (2017), anonymization of OpenStreetMap data, co-supervised with Arnaud Le Guilcher
- Justin Berli (2016), experiments on the distribution of map generalisation processes, co-supervised with Imran Lokhat and Nicolas Regnauld
- Blandine Decherf, Mayeul Lalanne (2015-2016), clutter measures for maps
- Matthieu Baley (2013), LOD Harmonisation of OpenStreetMap data
- Camille Delahaye (2010), Sensitivity analysis of map generalisation processes to the way urban areas are delineated
- Aurélien Velten (2007), 3D building generalisation
- Nicolas Culson (2006), Highway interchange detection and generalisation
Reviewing
Awards
- 2018 Henry Johns Award for the most outstanding paper published in 2017 in the Cartographic Journal
- 2022 AGILE best short paper Award for Representing Vector Geographic Information As a Tensor for Deep Learning Based Map Generalisation - A. Courtial, G. Touya, X. Zhang