Organizers

Guillaume Chiron - guillaume.chiron(at)univ-lr.fr

Guillaume Chiron obtained his Ph.D in 2014 from University of La Rochelle. His research interests include general computer vision, statistical modeling, data-mining and machine learning. Guillaume is currently working for the French national library (Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF) under the scope of the AmeliOCR project, a collaboration started in July 2016 between the L3i Lab and the BnF.

Antoine Doucet - antoine.doucet(at)univ-lr.fr

Antoine Doucet is a tenured Full Professor at the L3i laboratory of the University of La Rochelle since 2014. Leader of the digital document and contents research group (about 40 people), his main research interests lie in the elds of information retrieval (structured and semi-structured) and natural language processing, in particular, the extraction and use of multi-word units. The central focus of his work is on the development of methods that scale to very large document collections and that do not require prior knowledge of the data (in particular, techniques that function for documents written in any language). Antoine Doucet obtained a PhD in computer science from the University in Helsinki (Finland) in 2005, and holds a French habilitation (HDR) since 2012.

Mickaël Coustaty - mickael.coustaty(at)univ-lr.fr

Mickaël COUSTATY is an associate professor at the L3i laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France. He got a PhD in Computer Science at the University of La Rochelle, supervised by Prof. Jean-Marc Ogier in 2011 on the analysis of historical documents images in order to propose a new complex indexing process for CBIR. His research interests include Structural Pattern Recognition, Document Image Analysis, Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, Graphics Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality and Semantic analysis.

Muriel Visani - muriel.visani(at)univ-lr.fr

Muriel Visani is an Associate Professor at the L3i laboratory of the University of La Rochelle since 2006. She obtained a PhD in computer science from the INSA Lyon (France) in 2005, and holds a French habilitation (HDR) since 2014. Until 2014, she was the leader of the Image, Documents, Complex Data research group (about 35 researchers) of L3i.

Jean-Philippe Moreux - jean-philippe.moreux(at)bnf.fr

Jean-Philippe Moreux, graduated from INSA Toulouse (Computer Science, 1990) and CERAM-CNRS Sophia-Antipolis (Software Engineering master, 1991), is the OCR and digital publishing formats expert at the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 2012. He works on all the BnF heritage digitization and enrichment programs (OCR, ebooks) and participates in European research projects on these topics (eg IMPACT, Europeana Newspapers, Succeed) and the application of research results to digital libraries.