Publications & Patents

Ph.D. Thesis

  1. S.-A. Berrani. Recherche approximative de plus proches voisins avec contrôle probabiliste de la précision ; application la recherche d'images par le contenu. Ph.D. thesis - University of Rennes 1, February 2004 (PDF).

Academic Journals

  1. G. Manson, S.-A. Berrani. Automatic TV Broadcast Structuring. In the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. 2010.
  2. S.-A. Berrani, G. Manson, P. Lechat. A Non-Supervised Approach for Repeated Sequence Detection in TV Broadcast Streams. Signal Processing: Image Communication, special issue on "Semantic Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services", ed. Elsevier. 23(7):525-537, 2008.
  3. S.-A. Berrani, C. Garcia. Robust Detection of Outliers for Projection-Based Face Recognition Methods. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, ed. Springer, 38(2):271-291, 2008.
  4. L. Amsaleg, P. Gros, S.-A. Berrani. Robust Object Recognition in Images and the Related Database Problems. Special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, ed. Springer, 23(3):221-235, 2004.
  5. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Recherche approximative de plus proches voisins : application à la reconnaissance d'images par descripteurs locaux. Technique et Science Informatiques, ed. Hermes - Lavoisier, 22(9):1201-1230, 2003.
  6. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Recherche par similarité dans les bases de données multidimensionnelles : panorama des techniques d'indexation. RSTI - Ingénierie des systèmes d'information. Bases de données et multimédia, ed. Hermes - Lavoisier, 7(5-6):9-44, 2002.

Chapters

  1. A. E. Abduraman, S.-A. Berrani, B. Merialdo. TV Program Structuring Techniques: A Review. In TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications, Y. Kompatsiaris et al. (eds.). RC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. To appear by March 2012.

Patents

  • Co-inventor of four other patents filed by France Telecom since 2009.
  • Link to espacenet.
  1. G. Manson, S.-A. Berrani. Method for Merging Audiovisual Programs, and Corresponding Device and Computer Program Product (WO2010089488). Filed by France Telecom. February 2nd, 2009.
  2. P. Lechat, S.-A. Berrani, B. Besset. Method for Cutting Multimedia Content, and Corresponding Device and Computer Program (WO2010055242). Filed by France Telecom. November 13th, 2008.
  3. N. Gengembre, S.-A. Berrani. Determination of Key Elementary Entity in Multimedia Content (WO2010046599). Filed by France Telecom. October 24th, 2008.
  4. N. Gengembre, P. Lechat, S.-A. Berrani. Method for Identifying a Multimedia Document in a Reference Base, Corresponding Computer Program and Identification Device (WO2009095616). Filed by France Telecom. January 30th, 2008.
  5. N. Gengembre, S.-A. Berrani. Method for Analysing a Piece of Multimedia Content and Corresponding Computer Software Product and Analysis Device (WO2009081016). Filed by France Telecom. December 24th, 2007.
  6. S.-A. Berrani, P. Lechat. Structuring a Digital Data Stream (WO2008065297). Filed by France Telecom. December 1st, 2006.
  7. S.-A. Berrani, C. Garcia. Classification Method for an Object's Image and Corresponding Device (WO2008081143). Filed by France Telecom. December 22nd, 2006.
  8. S.-A. Berrani, C. Garcia. Method of Identifying Faces from Face Images and Corresponding Device and Computer Program  (WO2006103240). Filed by France Telecom. March 29th, 2005.
  9. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Nearest Neighbor Searches in Multidimensional Databases (FR2835940).Filed by Thomson R&D. February 8th, 2002.

International Conferences

  1. A. E. Abduraman, S.-A. Berrani, B. Merialdo. Audio Recurrence Contribution to a Video‐based TV Program Structuring Approach. Proc of The  IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Dana Point, CA, USA. December 2011. 
  2. A. E. Abduraman, S.-A. Berrani, J.-B. Rault, O. Le Blouch. From audio Recurrences to TV Program Structuring. Proc. of the ACM International Workshop on Automated Media Analysis and Production for Novel TV Services, Scottsdale, AZ, USA. December 2011.
  3. A. E. Abduraman, S.-A. Berrani, B. Merialdo. An Unsupervised Approach for Recurrent TV Program Structuring. Proc of The European Interactive TV Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. June 2011.  
  4. Y. Bennezeth, S.-A. Berrani. Unsupervised Credit Detection in TV Broadcast Streams. Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Taichung, Taiwan. December 2010.
  5. G. Manson,  S.-A. Berrani. Content-Based Video Segment Reunification for TV Program Extraction. Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, CA, USA. December 2009.
  6. X. Naturel,  S.-A. Berrani. Content-based TV Stream Analysis Techniques towards Building a Catch-Up TV Service. Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, CA, USA. December 2009.
  7. G. Manson, X. Naturel,  S.-A. Berrani. Automatic Program Extraction From TV Streams. The European Interactive TV Conference, Leuven, Belgium. June 2009. [Demo paper]
  8. G. Manson,  S.-A. Berrani. Repetition Density-Based Approach fot TV Program extraction. Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, London, UK, May 2009.
  9. G. Manson,  S.-A. Berrani. TV Broadcast Macro-Segmentation using the Repetition Property of Inter-programs. Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2009.
  10. G. Manson, X. Naturel,  S.-A. Berrani. Online Macro-Segmentation of Television Streams. The 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, Sophia-Antipolis, France. January 2009. [Demo paper]
  11. S.-A. Berrani, N. Gengembre. A Real-Time Content Based Video Copy Detection System. The 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, Sophia-Antipolis, France. January 2009.[Demo paper]
  12. G. Manson,  S.-A. Berrani. An Inductive Logic Programming-Based Approach for TV Stream Segment Classification. Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Berkeley, CA, USA. December 2008.
  13. G. Manson,  S.-A. Berrani. A TV Stream Macro-segmentation System. The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Berkeley, CA, USA. December 2008. [Demo paper]
  14. N. Gengembre, S.-A. Berrani. The Orange Labs Real Time Video Copy Detection System - TrecVid 2008 Results. Proc. of the TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburgs, MD, USA. November 2008.
  15. N. Gengembre, S.-A. Berrani. A Probabilistic Framework for Fusing Frame-based Searches within a Video Copy Detection System. Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Niagara Falls, Canada. July 2008.
  16. N. Gengembre, S.-A. Berrani, and P. Lechat. Adaptive Similarity Search in Large Databases – Application to Video Copy Detection. Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, London, UK. June 2008.
  17. R. Benmokhtar, B. Huet and S.-A. Berrani. Low-Level Feature Fusion Models for Soccer Scene Classification. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Hannover, Germany. June 2008.
  18. G. Akrivas, S.-A. Berrani, G. Papadopoulos, M. Douze, J. Heinecke, N. O'Connor, C. Saathoff, and S. Waddington. aceMedia: Knowledge-based Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Content. Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies, Genova, Italy. December 2007.
  19. S.-A. Berrani, P. Lechat, G. Manson. TV Broadcast Macro-Segmentation: Metadata-Based vs. Content-Based Approaches. Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 2007.
  20. R. Benmokhtar, B. Huet, S.-A. Berrani, P. Lechat. Video Shots Key-Frames Indexing and Retrieval Through Pattern Analysis and Fusion Techniques. Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, Quebec City, Canada. July 2007.
  21. S.-A. Berrani, C. Garcia. Enhancing Face Recognition from Video Sequences using Robust Statistics. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Como, Italy. September 2005.
  22. F. Pitié, S.-A. Berrani, R. Dahyot, A. Kokaram. Off-line Multiple Object Tracking using Candidate Selection and the Viterbi Algorithm. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy. September 2005.
  23. S.-A. Berrani, C. Garcia. On the Impact of Outliers on High-Dimensional Data Analysis Methods for Face Recognition. Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases, Baltimore, MD. USA, June 2005.
  24. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Robust Content-Based Image Searches for Copyright Protection. Proc. of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2003.
  25. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Approximate Searches: k-Neighbors + Precision. Proc. of the 12th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2003.
  26. L. Amsaleg, P. Gros, S.-A. Berrani. A Robust Technique to Recognize Objects in Images, and the DB Problems it Raises. Proc. of the Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Capri, Italy, November 2001.
  27. A. Rahmoun, S.-A. Berrani. A Genetic-based Neuro-Fuzzy Generator: NEFGEN. Proc. of the ASC/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2000.

National Conferences

  1. Gaël Manson, S.-A. Berrani. Structuration automatique de flux télévisés. 22e Colloque francophone GRETSI - Traitement du Signal et des Images. Dijon, France, September 2009.
  2. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Application de la recherche approximative de plus proches voisins à la recherche d'images par le contenu pour la détection des copies. 20e journées Bases de Données Avancées, BDA'04, Montpellier, France, October 2004.
  3. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Recherche d'images par le contenu pour la détection des copies. 14e Congrès Francophone AFRIF-AFIA de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, RFIA 2004, Toulouse, France, January 2004.
  4. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Probabilistically Controlling the Precision of Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Searches. Actes des 19e journées Bases de Données Avancées, BDA'03, Lyon, France, October 2003.

Invited talks

    1. S.-A. Berrani. TV Stream Analysis: Advances and Challenges. Invited talk at the Sigmedia Research Group, Trinity College - University of Dublin. February 4th, 2010. Dublin. Ireland.
    2. S.-A. Berrani. Multimedia Indexing Technologies of the Orange ICM R&D Group. Invited talk at Motorola Labs UK, June 25th, 2007. Basingstoke, UK.
    3. S.-A. Berrani. Automatically structuring an audio-visual broadcast. The 38e IrisaTech meeting on « Multimedia indexing: usages and perspectives ». December 1st, 2006. Rennes. France. 
    4. S.-A. Berrani. Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Searches: Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval. Invited talk at the Statistical Learning and Image Processing Research Unit of Genova University. Decembre 15th, 2005. Genova, Italy.
    5. S.-A. Berrani. Similarity Searches in Image Databases. Invited talk at the Center for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University. June 22nd, 2004. Dublin. Ireland.
    6. S.-A. Berrani, L. Amsaleg, P. Gros. Recherche par similarité dans les bases de données multimédia. French invited talk at the workshop « Analyse de données, statistiques et apprentissage pour la fouille d’images ». January 2004. Toulouse. France.
    7. S.-A. Berrani. Recherche approximative de plus proches voisins. French invited talk at the CNRS-AS workshop on image mining. April 1st, 2003. Paris.