Ongoing projects

M2-BDA (2025 - 2028)

Multi-Modal Big Data Analytics: knowledge distillation and deep learning for actionable insights

• Involvement: Member (25%)
• Funding: ANR
• Partners: LIPADE (Paris), IRIMAS (Mulhouse), LIVE (Strasbourg), ITES (Strasbourg), DATA TERRA (Montpellier)
• Satellite Image Time Series Self-supervised learning Knowledge distillation

AFRUMAR (2023 - 2026)

Apprentissage frugal et compressé pour l’interprétation des scènes sous-marines

• Involvement: Member (25%)
• Funding: ANRT and Thales
• Partners: LIPADE (Paris), L@bISEN (Brest), Thales (Brest)
• underwater image/video segmentation knowledge distillation transformer

Past projects

CAMOR (2023-2024)

CApacités d’observation de l’îlot MORgol

• Involvement: Member (25%)
• Funding: OFB (Brest)
• Partners: L@bISEN (Brest et Nantes)
• seal counting transformer

AFB_SEAS (2019-2020)

Système d'Étude Autonome et de Surveillance de la faune patrimoniale en milieu protégé

• Involvement: Member (25%)
• Funding: OFB (Brest)
• Partners: L@bISEN (Brest et Nantes)
• seal recognition convolutional neural network

PhD Students

1. Gabriel Gueganno (Since 03/2024)
   • Latest degree: Engineering from ENSTA, France
   • Topic: Frugal and compressed learning for the interpretation of underwater scenes
   • Funding: ANRT CIFRE, in collaboration with Thales
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Thibault Napoléon (ISEN), Ayman AL Falou (ISEN), Franck Florin (Thales)
2. Youssef Qarssis (Since 03/2024)
   • Latest degree: Master en intelligence artificielle et analyse des données (Université Moulay Ismail, Morocco)
   • Topic: Multidisciplinary Optimization of Hydrogen Storage Tanks via Artificial Intelligence
   • Funding: UM6P
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Mostapha Tarfaoui (UM6P), Mourad Nachtane (UM6P), Abdessamad Faik (UM6P)
3. Adnan Ben Mansour (Since 11/2023)
   • Latest degree: Master en intelligence artificielle (Ecole normale supérieure, France)
   • Topic: Vision-Language Models for Automatic Document Analysis
   • Funding: ANRT CIFRE, in collaboration with BeYs
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, David Naccache (ENS)
4. Salima Bourbia (Since 12/2020)
   • Latest degree: Master en Informatique et Télécommunications (Université Mohammed V, Morocco)
   • Topic: Quality assessment of 3D point cloud using deep learning
   • Funding: ISEN, CNRST, IFM
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Mohammed EL Hassouni (UM5), Aladine Chetouani (USPN), Maher Jridi (ISEN)

Master and Eng (M.Sc.) - Research internships

1. Hamza Masmoudi (03/2024 - 07/2024)
   • Latest degree: Engineering from ENSMR, Morocco
   • Topic: Seal counting through deep learning
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Thibault Napoléon (ISEN)
2. Youssef Qarssis (05/2023 - 10/2023)
   • Latest degree: Master en intelligence artificielle et analyse des données (Université Moulay Ismail, Morocco)
   • Topic: Damage detection of material composites using deep learning
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Mostapha Tarfaoui (ENSTA)
3. Salima Bourbia (03/2020 - 09/2020)
   • Latest degree: Master en Informatique et Télécommunications (Université Mohammed V, Morocco)
   • Topic: Quality assessment of stereoscopic images using deep learning
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Mohammed EL Hassouni (UM5), Aladine Chetouani (USPN)
4. Yassine Khaldi (03/2018 - 09/2018)
   • Latest degree: Master en Informatique et Télécommunications (Université Mohammed V, Morocco)
   • Topic: Segmentation of hyperspectral images using representation-based classification methods
   • Supervisors: Ayoub Karine, Mohammed EL Hassouni (UM5)

Services

• Journals :
Reviewer : Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Taylor and Francis International Journal of Remote Sensing, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, MDPI Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis European Journal of Remote Sensing, ELSEVIER Computers and Electrical Engineering
• Conferences :
• Co-General Chair : ORASIS 2025
• Reviewer : ICASSP 2023, ACADIS 2023, ICME 2023, ICATH2023'2022'2021, ICIP2021'2022'2023'2025, ICATH 2021, WINCOM 2019, DSSGA/MEDI 2019, IndabaX 2019, ORASIS 2019, ISIVC 2018, ATSIP 2017, AICCSA 2017, IPTA 2017, AICCSA 2016, SETIT 2016
• Program Committee Member : EGC 2023, WINCOM 2019, DSSGA/MEDI 2019, IndabaX 2019, ORASIS 2019
• Organizing Committee Member : ORASIS 2025, ORASIS 2019, ATSIP 2017, SIGMA 2016, IWAISE 2016, URAC 2015
• Chairman : ORASIS 2025, ICATH 2023, ORASIS 2023

Talks

• March 2023 : Beyond Pixels and 3D point Clouds: Exploring Deep Learning for Semantic Image Segmentation and 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment. IAMLIS , Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Expertises

• Member of PhD Committee (Jury de thèse)
  • Victor Martin-Lac, IMT Atlantique : "Aerial navigation based on SAR imaging and reference geospatial data" defended on 04/2024
• Member of Individual PhD Mornitoring Committee (Comité de suivi individuel, CSI)
  • Yahaya Idris Abubakar, Université Paris-Est Créteil : "Detection of Rare Events and Data Simulation using Artificial Intelligence Approaches" started on 2023

2024 - 2025

• [FILLED] M2/Ecole d’Ingénieur Internship : Self-supervised learning for satellite image time series interpretation

Responsabilities

[2019 - 2024] ISEN Nantes (engineering school), France

• [2021 - 2024] Co-responsible for Networks, Web and Artificial Intelligence teaching programs
• [2023 - 2024] Head of the third year
• [2020 - 2023] Head of the third year of CGSI (Cycle Généraliste des Sciences de l'Ingénieur)
• [2019 - 2020] Head of the second year of CGSI (Cycle Généraliste des Sciences de l'Ingénieur)

Classes

[Since 2024] IUT de Paris - Rives de Seine , Université Paris Cité, France

• BUT3 Computer Sciences
  • Introduction to digital image processing (module responsible)
• BUT2 Computer Sciences
  • Algorithmic Complexity and data structure (module responsible)

[2019 - 2024] ISEN Nantes (engineering school), France

• 5th year
  • Deep learning
• 3rd year
  • Web full-stack, machine learning
• 2nd year
  • Web back-end, C++, Python
• 1st year
  • Web front-end

[2017 - 2019] IUT de Mulhouse , Université de Haute-Alsace, France

• L3 Multimedia and Internet
  • Web full-stack, XML, Algorithmic
• DUT2 Multimedia and Internet
  • Web Front-end, Mathematics

[2015 - 2017] Faculty of science , Université Mohammed V , Morocco

• BUT3 Network and telecommunication
  • Operating systems, network security