Projects:

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• DREAMS (2025-2029), Principal Coordinator, ANR JCJC, 313 k€

  • Distilling Resource-Efficient AI Models for Rapid Mapping from Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery

  • Partnership: SERTIT (ICUBE), DLR (German Space Agency)

• AXOLOTL (2024-2027), Local PI (UBS coordinator), HORIZON  EUROPE WIDERA, 1.5 M€ (334 k€ for UBS)

  • From sky to seafloor observation: Achieving excellence in oceanic surveillance and conservation through deep learning (https://axolotl-project.eu/)

  • Consortium: CMMI Cyprus (main PI), UBS France and VLIZ Belgium

• DeepForMaP (2025-2028), Member, HORIZON  EUROPE MSCA-PF, 226 k€

  • Deep learning for forest mapping using point clouds

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• ROMMEO (2022-2024), Principal Investigator (PI), SAD Postdoc Grant, 63 k€

  • Robust multitask learning via mutual knowledge distillation for earth observation 

• OTTOPIA (2021-2024), Member, ANR, 467 k€

  • Earth observation by optimal transport for artificial intelligence

• OWFSOMM (2020-2023), Member, ANR/FEM, 529 k€

  • Offshore wind farm surveys of marine megafauna: standardization of tools and methods for monitoring at OWF scales 

• SEMMACAPE (2019-2023), Member, ADEME, 300 k€ (128 k€ for UBS)

  • Monitoring and study of marine megafauna by automatic characterization in wind farms

• ANR MULTISCALE (2019-2023), Member

  • Multi-variate, -temporal, -resolution and -source remote sensing image analysis and learning 

• ANR DEEPDETECT (2018-2020), Main postdoc researcher

  • Detection and recognition of multiple objects on variable backgrounds by deep learning

• R&T CNES CARS (2018-2019), Member

  • Vehicle counting by deep learning from Pléiades images

• DELORA (2016-2018), Main postdoc researcher

  • Augmented reality detection and relocation of buried networks

Supervision

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• Hoang-An Le (Postdoc, 2021 - )

• Shivam Pande (Postdoc, upcoming 2026 - )

• Pierre Adorni (PhD student, 2024 - )

• Manuel Nkegoum (PhD student, 2024 - )

• Louis François-Downey (PhD student, 2025 - )

-------- Past --------

• Paul Berg (PhD student, 2021 - 2024, defended 12/2024), then Postdoc at Bern University of Applied Sciences

• Manal Hamzaoui (PhD student, 2019 - 2023, defended 05/2023), then ATER at ESIR Rennes

• Hugo Gangloff (Postdoc, 2021 - 2022), then Permanent Research Engineer at INRAE

• Deise Santana Maia (Postdoc, 2019 - 2021), then Assistant Professor at University of Lille 

• Shivam Pande (Postdoc, 2023 - 2024), then Postdoc at University of Ghent

• Quentin Hamard (Research Engineer, 10/2022 - 11/2023 employed by FEM )

• Louis François-Downey (Msc student, 2025), then PhD student IRISA/UBS

• Anh-Kiet Duong (Msc student, 2024), then PhD Student at La Rochelle University

• Maria Rodriguez (Msc student, 2024), then R&D Eng.

• Oscar Narvaez Luces (Msc student, 2023), then Engineer in SERTIT/ICUBE 

• Tanya Singh (Msc student, 2022), then Engineer in Austria

• Anthony Frion (Msc student, 2021), then PhD student at IMT Atlantique

• Paul Berg (Msc student, 2021), then PhD student IRISA/UBS

• Alexandre Chojnacki (Msc student, 2019), then Engineer DGA

• Alexandre Bravo (Bsc student, 2025), then M. Eng student ENSAT

Expertise and activities:

• PhD Committees

  • 2025 (upcoming): Saad Lahlali, CEA France, Reviewer and Examinator

  • 2025: Sreelekshmi V, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri (India), Reviewer and Examinator

  • 2024: Edoardo Arnaudo, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Reviewer and Examinator

  • 2021: Sara Akodad, Université de Bordeaux, IMS Lab, Examinator

• PhD Mornitoring Committees (Comité de suivi individuel, CSI)

  • Huy-Thong Bui, CY Cergy Paris Université/ETIS, CSI 2025

  • Matilin Le Beux, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, CSI 2025

  • Bruno Bio Nikki, Université Montpellier, CSI 2024, 2025

  • Eugenio Dias Ribero Neto, Université Montpellier, CSI 2024, 2025

  • Shuo Yang, CY Cergy Paris Université, CSI 2023, 2024, 2025

  • Kévin Planolles, Université Montpellier, LIRMM Lab., CSI 2023, 2024

• Evaluator

  • ANRT Cifre 2023

  • ANR AAP CE23 – "Intelligence Artificielle", 2021

  • Mentor and Evaluator of IT Swin Hackaton 2023,  2024 (Proptech/EduTech/HealthTech)

• Guest Editor

  • Special issue on "Machine learning for earth observation data", Machine Learning, 2021

  • Special issue on "Feature-based methods for remote sensing image classification", Remote Sensing, 2020

• Responsibilities

  • 2025 - now: Member of the Executive Board of AFRIF (The French Association of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision)

  • 2023 - now: IRISA Corresponding Contact (Vannes campus) of GdR IASIS

  • 2022 - now: Member of the Editorial Board, Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier)

  • 2022 - now: Member of the IRISA's Laboratory Council

  • 2019 - now: Co-chair of the MACLEAN workshop @ ECML/PKDD

  • 2019 - 2022: Co-chair of the MACLEAN session at GDR MADICS.

• Organization Committee: JURSE 2019, cAP/RFIAP 2022, AI4EO 2025

• Reviewer: 

  • Journals: IEEE TIP, ISPRS-JPRS, IEEE TGRS, IEEE GRSM, IEEE GRSL, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TSP Patern Recog., Remote Sensing, Machine Learning

  • Conferences: ECAI, BMVC, WACV, CVPRW, ECMLW, ICIP, IGARSS, JURSE, ISMM, ISPRS Congress, MultiTemp, GRETSI, RFIAP, ORASIS

Seminars

• 04/2024: [Invited Talk] Self-supervised and weakly-supervised learning applied to Earth observation, Forum UTIAS2, CNES, Toulouse, France

• 08/2023: [Invited Seminar]  Weakly supervised detection of marine megafauna from aerial images, Institut Francophone International (IFI), Vietnam (virtual).

• 07/2022: [Talk] From supervised to unsupervised deep learning for automatic detection of marine megafauna, MACLEAN workshop, CAP/RFIAP, Vannes, France

• 07/2021: [Invited Seminar] Small object detection in remote sensing, Machine Learning for Remote Sensing reading and discussion group, University of Maryland/NASA Harvest (USA) (virtual)

• 11/2019: Seminar at School of Surveying & Geospatial Sciences, The Technical university of Kenya (TUK), Nairobi, Kenya.

• 07/2018: [Seminar] Remote sensing image processing: tree-based and graph-based approaches, RSLab, University of Trento, Italy

• 06/2018: [Colloquium Talk] Graph of keypoints for remote sensing image analysis, Big Data Management Group, TU Berlin, Germany

• 11/2017: [Talk] Deep learning and remote sensing: models and applications, DL2T (THEIA - CES Detection - CNRS - PEPS), Paris, France

• 09/2017: [Seminar] LFAPs for remote sensing image classification, OBELIX team, IRISA, Vannes, France 

• 03/2017: [Seminar] CBIR using the local extrema features, OBELIX team, IRISA, Vannes, France 

• 11/2016: [Invited seminar] Pointwise approach for SAR image change detection and texture tracking, LAPP team,LISTIC, Annecy, France

• 06/2016: [Seminar] Content-based image retrieval using the local extrema,TOMS team,LabSTICC, Brest, France 

• 09/2015: [Invited seminar] Local texture characterization from VHR images, AYIN team, INRIA Sofia Antipolis, Nice, France