Publications

2021

• Narrow River Extraction from SAR Images Using Exogenous Information
  
  • Gasnier Nicolas
  • Denis Loïc
  • Fjørtoft Roger
  • Liege Frédéric
  • Tupin Florence
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE, 2021, 14, pp.5720 - 5734. Monitoring of rivers is of major scientific and societal importance due to the crucial resource they provide to human activities and the threats caused by flood events. Rapid revisit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors such as Sentinel-1 or the future surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) mission are indispensable tools to achieve all-weather monitoring of water bodies at the global scale. Unfortunately, at the spatial resolution of these sensors, the extraction of narrow rivers is extremely difficult without resorting to exogenous knowledge. This article introduces an innovative river segmentation method from SAR images using a priori databases such as the global river widths from Landsat (GRWL). First, a recently proposed linear structure detector is used to produce a map of likely line structures. Then, a limited number of nodes along the prior river centerline are extracted from the exogenous database and used to reconstruct the full river centerline from the detection map. Finally, an innovative conditional random field approach is used to delineate accurately the river extent around its centerline. The proposed method has been tested on several Sentinel-1 images and on simulated SWOT data. Both visual and qualitative evaluations demonstrate its efficiency. (10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3083413)
  DOI : 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3083413
• On the use and denoising of the temporal geometric mean for SAR time series
  
  • Gasnier Nicolas
  • Denis Loïc
  • Tupin Florence
  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. The increasing availability of SAR time series creates many opportunities for remote sensing applications, but it can be challenging in terms of amount of data to process. This letter discusses the interest of the geometric mean to average SAR time series. First, the properties of the geometric mean and of the arithmetic mean are compared. Then, a speckle-reduction method specifically designed to improve images obtained with the geometric mean is presented. This method is based on an adaptation of the MuLoG framework to take into account the specific distribution of the geometric mean. Finally, applications of this denoised geometric-mean image are presented. (10.1109/LGRS.2021.3051936)
  DOI : 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3051936
• Optical injection of mid-infrared extreme events in unilaterally coupled quantum cascade lasers
  
  • Spitz Olivier
  • Herdt Andreas
  • Elsassaer Wolfgang
  • Grillot Frédéric
  , 2021.
• Optimization of wireless sensor networks deployment with coverage and connectivity constraints
  
  • Elloumi Sourour
  • Hudry Olivier
  • Marie Estel
  • Martin Agathe
  • Plateau Agnès
  • Rovedakis Stephane
  Annals of Operations Research, Springer Verlag, 2021, 298 (1-2), pp.183-206. Wireless sensor networks have been widely deployed in the last decades to provide various services, like environmental monitoring or object tracking. Such a network is composed of a set of sensor nodes which are used to sense and transmit collected information to a base station. To achieve this goal, two properties have to be guaranteed: (i) the sensor nodes must be placed such that the whole environment of interest (represented by a set of targets) is covered, and (ii) every sensor node can transmit its data to the base station (through other sensor nodes). In this paper, we consider the Minimum Connected k-Coverage (MCkC) problem, where a positive integer k ≥ 1 defines the coverage multiplicity of the targets. We propose two mathematical programming formulations for the MCkC problem on square grid graphs and random graphs. We compare them to a recent model proposed by (Rebai et al 2015). We use a standard mixed integer linear programming solver to solve several instances with different formulations. In our results, we point out the quality of the LP-bound of each formulation as well as the total CPU time or the proportion of solved instances to optimality within a given CPU time. (10.1007/s10479-018-2943-7)
  DOI : 10.1007/s10479-018-2943-7
• Feature Clustering for Support Identification in Extreme Regions
  
  • Jalalzai Hamid
  • Leluc Rémi
  Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, 2021, 139, pp.4733-4743. Understanding the complex structure of multivariate extremes is a major challenge in various fields from portfolio monitoring and environmental risk management to insurance. In the framework of multivariate Extreme Value Theory, a common characterization of extremes' dependence structure is the angular measure. It is a suitable measure to work in extreme regions as it provides meaningful insights concerning the subregions where extremes tend to concentrate their mass. The present paper develops a novel optimization-based approach to assess the dependence structure of extremes. This support identification scheme rewrites as estimating clusters of features which best capture the support of extremes. The dimension reduction technique we provide is applied to statistical learning tasks such as feature clustering and anomaly detection. Numerical experiments provide strong empirical evidence of the relevance of our approach.
• Depth for Curve Data and Applications
  
  • de Micheaux Pierre Lafaye
  • Mozharovskyi Pavlo
  • Vimond Myriam
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis, 2021, 116 (536), pp.1881-1897. In 1975, John W. Tukey defined statistical data depth as a function that determines the centrality of an arbitrary point with respect to a data cloud or to a probability measure. During the last decades, this seminal idea of data depth evolved into a powerful tool proving to be useful in various fields of science. Recently, extending the notion of data depth to the functional setting attracted a lot of attention among theoretical and applied statisticians. We go further and suggest a notion of data depth suitable for data represented as curves, or trajectories, which is independent of the parameterization. We show that our curve depth satisfies theoretical requirements of general depth functions that are meaningful for trajectories. We apply our methodology to diffusion tensor brain images and also to pattern recognition of handwritten digits and letters. Supplementary materials for this article are available online. (10.1080/01621459.2020.1745815)
  DOI : 10.1080/01621459.2020.1745815
• Self-improving system integration: Mastering continuouschange
  
  • Bellman Kirstie
  • Botev Jean F
  • Diaconescu Ada
  • Esterle Lukas
  • Gruhl Christian
  • Landauer Christopher
  • Lewis Peter R.
  • Nelson Phyllis
  • Pournaras Evangelos
  • Stein Anthony
  • Tomforde Sven
  Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2021.
• Risks and security of internet and systems
  
  • Garcia‐alfaro Joaquin
  • Leneutre Jean
  • Cuppens Nora
  • Yaich Reda
  , 2021, 12528, pp.xi-378. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiTIS 2020, which took place during November 4-6, 2020. The conference was originally planned to take place in Paris, France, but had to change to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 16 full and 7 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. In addition, the book contains one invited talk in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections named: vulnerabilities, attacks and intrusion detection; TLS, openness and security control; access control, risk assessment and security knowledge; risk analysis, neural networks and Web protection; infrastructure security and malware detection. (10.1007/978-3-030-68887-5)
  DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-68887-5
• Maximizing the Number of Scheduled Lightpath Demands in Optical Networks by Conflict Graphs
  
  • Hudry Olivier
  International Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, Academic Research Foundations, 2021.
• A Stochastic Geometry Approach to EMF Exposure Modeling
  
  • Gontier Quentin
  • Petrillo Lucas
  • Rottenberg Francois
  • Horlin Francois
  • Wiart Joe
  • Oestges Claude
  • de Doncker Philippe
  IEEE Access, IEEE, 2021, 9, pp.91777-91787. (10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3091804)
  DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3091804
• Association between estimated whole-brain radiofrequency electromagnetic fields dose and cognitive function in preadolescents and adolescents
  
  • Cabré-Riera Alba
  • van Wel Luuk
  • Liorni Ilaria
  • Thielens Arno
  • Birks Laura Ellen
  • Pierotti Livia
  • Joseph Wout
  • González-Safont Llúcia
  • Ibarluzea Jesús
  • Ferrero Amparo
  • Huss Anke
  • Wiart Joe
  • Santa-Marina Loreto
  • Torrent Maties
  • Vrijkotte Tanja
  • Capstick Myles
  • Vermeulen Roel
  • Vrijheid Martine
  • Cardis Elisabeth
  • Röösli Martin
  • Guxens Mònica
  International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Elsevier, 2021, 231, pp.113659. (10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113659)
  DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113659
• Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases
  
  • Weikum Gerhard
  • Dong Xin Luna
  • Razniewski Simon
  • Suchanek Fabian M.
  , 2021, 10 (2-4), pp.108-490. Equipping machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their relationships has been a long-standing goal of AI. Over the last decade, large-scale knowledge bases, also known as knowledge graphs, have been automatically constructed from web contents and text sources, and have become a key asset for search engines. This machine knowledge can be harnessed to semantically interpret textual phrases in news, social media and web tables, and contributes to question answering, natural language processing and data analytics. This article surveys fundamental concepts and practical methods for creating and curating large knowledge bases. It covers models and methods for discovering and canonicalizing entities and their semantic types and organizing them into clean taxonomies. On top of this, the article discusses the automatic extraction of entity-centric properties. To support the long-term life-cycle and the quality assurance of machine knowledge, the article presents methods for constructing open schemas and for knowledge curation. Case studies on academic projects and industrial knowledge graphs complement the survey of concepts and methods. (10.1561/1900000064)
  DOI : 10.1561/1900000064
• Automated neurosurgical stereotactic planning for intraoperative use: a comprehensive review of the literature and perspectives
  
  • Zanello Marc
  • Carron Romain
  • Peeters Sophie
  • Gori Pietro
  • Roux Alexandre
  • Bloch Isabelle
  • Oppenheim Catherine
  • Pallud Johan
  Neurosurgical Review, 2021, 44, pp.867-888.
• The Vagueness of Vagueness in Noun Phrases
  
  • Paris Pierre-Henri
  • El Aoud Syrine
  • Suchanek Fabian
  , 2021. Natural language text has a great potential to feed knowledge bases. However, natural language is not always precise-and sometimes intentionally so. In this position paper, we study vagueness in noun phrases. We manually analyze the frequency of vague noun phrases in a Wikipedia corpus, and find that 1/4 of noun phrases exhibit some form of vagueness. We report on their nature and propose a categorization. We then conduct a literature review and present different definitions of vagueness, and different existing methods to deal with the detection and modeling of vagueness. We find that, despite its frequency, vagueness has not yet be addressed in its entirety.
• Self-healing Networks via Self-organising Mobile Agents
  
  • Rodriguez Arles
  • Gomez Jonatan
  • Diaconescu Ada
  Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS), 2021.
• Computer-aided diagnosis tool for cervical cancer screening with weakly supervised localization and detection of abnormalities using adaptable and explainable classifier
  
  • Pirovano A.
  • Almeida Leandro G
  • Ladjal Saïd
  • Bloch Isabelle
  • Berlemont S.
  Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, 2021, 73, pp.102167. While pap test is the most common diagnosis methods for cervical cancer, their results are highly dependent on the ability of the cytotechnicians to detect abnormal cells on the smears using brightfield microscopy. In this paper, we propose an explainable region classifier in whole slide images that could be used by cyto-pathologists to handle efficiently these big images (100,000x100,000 pixels). We create a dataset that simulates pap smears regions and uses a loss, we call classification under regression constraint, to train an efficient region classifier (about 66.8% accuracy on severity classification, 95.2% accuracy on normal/abnormal classification and 0.870 KAPPA score). We explain how we benefit from this loss to obtain a model focused on sensitivity and, then, we show that it can be used to perform weakly supervised localization (accuracy of 80.4%) of the cell that is mostly responsible for the malignancy of regions of whole slide images. We extend our method to perform a more general detection of abnormal cells (66.1% accuracy) and ensure that at least one abnormal cell will be detected if malignancy is present. Finally, we experiment our solution on a small real clinical slide dataset, highlighting the relevance of our proposed solution, adapting it to be as easily integrated in a pathology laboratory workflow as possible, and extending it to make a slide-level prediction. (10.1016/j.media.2021.102167)
  DOI : 10.1016/j.media.2021.102167
• Optimal transport between determinantal point processes and application to fast simulation
  
  • Decreusefond Laurent
  • Moroz Guillaume
  Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications, VTEX, 2021, 8 (2), pp.209--237. We analyze several optimal transportation problems between de-terminantal point processes. We show how to estimate some of the distances between distributions of DPP they induce. We then apply these results to evaluate the accuracy of a new and fast DPP simulation algorithm. We can now simulate in a reasonable amount of time more than ten thousands points. (10.15559/21-VMSTA180)
  DOI : 10.15559/21-VMSTA180
• DNN-based mask estimation for distributed speech enhancement in spatially unconstrained microphone arrays
  
  • Furnon Nicolas
  • Serizel Romain
  • Essid Slim
  • Illina Irina
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, 29, pp.2310 - 2323. Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithms in microphone arrays have now proven to be efficient solutions to speech understanding and speech recognition in noisy environments. However, in the context of ad-hoc microphone arrays, many challenges remain and raise the need for distributed processing. In this paper, we propose to extend a previously introduced distributed DNN-based time-frequency mask estimation scheme that can efficiently use spatial information in form of so-called compressed signals which are pre-filtered target estimations. We study the performance of this algorithm named Tango under realistic acoustic conditions and investigate practical aspects of its optimal application. We show that the nodes in the microphone array cooperate by taking profit of their spatial coverage in the room. We also propose to use the compressed signals not only to convey the target estimation but also the noise estimation in order to exploit the acoustic diversity recorded throughout the microphone array. (10.1109/TASLP.2021.3092838)
  DOI : 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3092838
• Les mégadonnées et l'essor de l'intelligence artificielle
  
  • Clémençon Stéphan
  Les Cahiers français : documents d'actualité, La Documentation Française, 2021 (419), pp.68.
• Phoneme Level Lyrics Alignment and Text-Informed Singing Voice Separation
  
  • Schulze-Forster Kilian
  • Doire Clement S J
  • Richard Gael
  • Badeau Roland
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. The goal of singing voice separation is to recover the vocals signal from music mixtures. State-of-the-art performance is achieved by deep neural networks trained in a supervised fashion. Since training data are scarce and music signals are extremely diverse, it remains challenging to achieve high separation quality across various recording and mixing conditions as well as music styles. In this paper, we investigate to which extent the separation can be improved when lyrics transcripts are used as additional information. To this end, we propose a joint approach to phoneme level lyrics alignment and text-informed singing voice separation. It is based on DTW-attention, a new monotonic attention mechanism including a differentiable approximation of dynamic time warping. Experimental results show that the method can align phonemes with mixed singing voice with high precision given accurate transcripts. It also achieves competitive results on challenging word level alignment test sets using less training data than state-of-the-art methods. Sequential alignment and informed separation lead to improved separation quality according to objective measures. Text information helps preserving spectral phoneme properties in the separated voice signals. (10.1109/TASLP.2021.3091817)
  DOI : 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3091817
• Approximate Inference and Learning of State Space Models with Laplace Noise
  
  • Neri Julian
  • Depalle Philippe
  • Badeau Roland
  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, 69, pp.3176 - 3189. State space models have been extensively applied to model and control dynamical systems in disciplines including neuroscience, target tracking, and audio processing. A common modeling assumption is that both the state and data noise are Gaussian because it simplifies the estimation of the system's state and model parameters. However, in many real-world scenarios where the noise is heavy-tailed or includes outliers, this assumption does not hold, and the performance of the model degrades. In this aper, we present a new approximate inference algorithm for state space models with Laplace-distributed multivariate data that is robust to a wide range of non-Gaussian noise. Exact inference is combined with an expectation propagation algorithm, leading to filtering and smoothing that outperforms existing approximate inference methods for Laplace-distributed data, while retaining a fast speed similar to the Kalman filter. Further, we present a maximum posterior expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm that learns the parameters of the model in an unsupervised way, automatically avoids over-fitting the data, and provides better model estimation than existing methods for the Gaussian model. The quality of the inference and learning algorithms are exemplified through a diverse set of experiments and an application to non-linear tracking of audio frequency. (10.1109/tsp.2021.3075146)
  DOI : 10.1109/tsp.2021.3075146
• Méta-apprentissage : classification de messages en catégories émotionnelles inconnues en entraînement
  
  • Guibon Gaël
  • Labeau Matthieu
  • Flamein Hélène
  • Lefeuvre Luce
  • Clavel Chloé
  , 2021, pp.199-208. Dans cet article nous reproduisons un scénario d’apprentissage selon lequel les données cibles ne sont pas accessibles et seules des données connexes le sont. Nous utilisons une approche par méta-apprentissage afin de déterminer si les méta-informations apprises à partir de messages issus de médias sociaux, finement annotés en émotions, peuvent produire de bonnes performances une fois utilisées sur des messages issus de conversations, étiquetés en émotions avec une granularité différente. Nous mettons à profit l’apprentissage sur quelques exemples (few-shot learning) pour la mise en place de ce scénario. Cette approche se montre efficace pour capturer les méta-informations d’un jeu d’étiquettes émotionnelles pour prédire des étiquettes jusqu’alors inconnues au modèle. Bien que le fait de varier le type de données engendre une baisse de performance, notre approche par méta-apprentissage atteint des résultats décents comparés au référentiel d’apprentissage supervisé.
• Sum-capacity of Uplink Multiband Satellite Communications with Nonlinear Impairments
  
  • Louchart Arthur
  • Ciblat Philippe
  • Poulliat Charly
  , 2021. A compact and closed-form expression of capacity is derived for a uplink multiband satellite system in the presence of nonlinear interference. The nonlinear effect comes from the satellite high-power amplifier modeled by a Volterra series expansion. The derivations reveal that the nonlinear interference can provide a constructive power contribution that could be used to increase the transmission rate. Consequently, decoders designed by viewing this interference as only an additional noise are suboptimal. Numerical results confirm this claim and also shows that an appropriate power allocation amongst the subbands may be of interest.
• Screening Rules and its Complexity for Active Set Identification
  
  • Ndiaye Eugene
  • Fercoq Olivier
  • Salmon Joseph
  Journal of Convex Analysis, Heldermann, 2021, 28 (4), pp.1053--1072. Screening rules were recently introduced as a technique for explicitly identifying active structures such as sparsity, in optimization problem arising in machine learning. This has led to new methods of acceleration based on a substantial dimension reduction. We show that screening rules stem from a combination of natural properties of subdifferential sets and optimality conditions, and can hence be understood in a unified way. Under mild assumptions, we analyze the number of iterations needed to identify the optimal active set for any converging algorithm. We show that it only depends on its convergence rate. (10.48550/arXiv.2009.02709)
  DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2009.02709
• The Role of Digital Technologies in Responding to the Grand Challenges of the Natural Environment: The Windermere Accord
  
  • Blair Gordon
  • Bassett Richard
  • Bastin Louis
  • Beevers L.
  • Borrajo Garcia Maribel
  • Brown Mike
  • Dance Sarah L
  • Diaconescu Ada
  • Edwards Elizabeth
  • Ferrario Maria Angela
  • Fraser Robert
  • Harriet Fraser
  Patterns, Cell Press Elsevier, 2021.