Scientific Prizes and Awards

The Télécom group of the Institut Mines-Télécom Schools' Researchers and Students

2006

18 December 2006: A doctoral student at ENST Bretagne is awarded the industrial property prize for his work on co-axial loudspeakers
Hmaied Shaiek, a doctoral student at ENST Bretagne and a member of the team led by Jean-Marc Boucher, a professor in the Signal and Communications department, was awarded the intellectual property prize for the "four-way active co-axial loudspeaker piloted by digital signal processor" project. This prize is in recognition of research work conducted in collaboration with the Brest-based company Cabasse, which specializes in top-of-the-range loudspeakers. The process developed by Mr. Shaiek is designed to digitally improve listening quality by correcting the speaker's residual flaws in order to optimize its acoustic response. Listeners then hear the music in conditions similar to a live performance. Worth €3000, the prize was awarded to Hmaied Shaiek on 18 December 2006.
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4 December 2006: A Eurécom doctoral student is awarded the ECOWS 2006 best article prize
Slim Trabelsi, a doctoral student in the Business Communications department at the Eurécom Institute, was awarded the best article prize at the ECOWS 2006 web services conference for his paper on "Secure Web service discovery; overcoming challenges of ubiquitous computing".

09-10 November 2006: Best paper prize for a doctoral student at Télécom Lille 1 awarded at CORESA 2006
At the Audiovisual Signal Compression and Representation event (CORESA), Chafik Samir, a doctoral student supervised by Mohamed Daoudi at Telecom Lille1, was awarded the "young researcher" best paper prize. The winning paper is entitled "Reconnaissance de visages 3D utilisant l'Analyse de Formes des Courbes Faciales" or "Recognition of 3D faces using Facial Curve Shape Analysis" (C. Samir, M.Daoudi and A. Srivastava).
Organized by France Telecom R&D, LUSAC and GREYC, the event was held in Caen on 9 and 10 November 2006.

6 October 2006: Artemis receives the Gold Exhibition Award at the ITEA Symposium
At the ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) Symposium held on 5-6 October, INT’s Artemis Department received the Gold Exhibition Award for its ITEA Passepartout project. The team was praised for its ability to communicate the objectives, achievements and results of its project in an easy-to-understand and dynamic manner. The Passepartout project aims to develop new ambient intelligence technologies inspired by virtual reality in order to create the interactive and customized digital television of tomorrow. The Artemis Department is responsible for the project’s 3D media component, bringing together 19 partners and 5 different nationalities. ITEA 2006 was also an opportunity for Artemis to present two innovative services (in collaboration with Philips, Thomson, and Eindhoven University of Technology): “3D on Demand” and “My Multimedia World”.
Consult the ITEA press release

6 September 2006: Christian Roux wins the INSERM 2006 Prize
Christian Roux, director of LATIM and professor in the Image and Information Processing department at ENST Bretagne, has just been awarded the INSERM 2006 prize in the "research" category. This prize is in recognition of the exceptional work conducted by Christian Roux and his team in the field of medical information processing and more specifically the geometric modeling of biomedical forms. He will be awarded the INSERM prize on Tuesday 17 October 2006 at the Collège de France in the presence of Xavier Bertrand, the Minister of Health and Solidarity and François Goulard, Minister delegate for Higher Education and Research. Christian Roux is also the Assistant Scientific Director responsible for monitoring scientific relations between ENST Bretagne and Europe, the French Agencies and the Carnot Federation. In addition, he is project manager with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French national research agency).

28 August 2006: René Garello, winner of IEEE Oceanic Engineering's "Distinguished Service Award"
René Garello, a professor within the Image and Information Processing Department at ENST Bretagne, has just been rewarded by the learned society IEEE Oceanic Engineering for his key role in the organization of international "OCEANS" congresses. The "Distinguished Service Award" will be handed over to him on 20 September 2006 during the Oceans'06 Congress to be held in Boston. This ceremony will be an opportunity to thank René Garello for his dedication, which has benefited the entire oceanic engineering research community. René Garello is Vice-President of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering society and co-editor of the "Journal of Oceanic Engineering".

June 2006: Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu receives the CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, a professor in the Signal and Image Processing Department at Télécom Paris, received the "Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Circuits and Systems society for the article she wrote in collaboration with Deepak S. Turaga and Mihaela van der Schaar. The award recognizes the best paper published by the journal, in terms of its quality and originality on video encoding. Published in the "IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology" journal in August 2005, the title of the article is "Complexity scalable motion compensated wavelet video encoding". Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu has also been elected a member of the "IEEE Signal Processing Society, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee"

June 2006: Jean-Pierre Delmas appointed IEEE Senior Member
Jean-Pierre Delmas, a professor in the Communications, Image and Information Processing Department (CITI) of INT, has just been appointed Senior Member of IEEE. Jean-Pierre Delmas is also the Deputy Director of INT's UMR 5157 CNRS Samovar laboratory. “Senior Member” is the highest rank within the IEEE. Only 7.5% of the 367,000 IEEE members enjoy this international recognition.
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March 2006: Jean Louis De Bougrenet wins the SPIE Technology Achievement Award 2006
Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, head of the Optics department at ENST Bretagne, has won the 2006 Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). This prize is in recognition of both the researcher's talent and the dynamism of the entrepreneur. The prize will be awarded at the next SPIE conference to be held in Strasbourg on 3 April 2006.
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02 February 2006: 2006 Chaptal prize awarded to Claude Berrou
The 2006 Chaptal prize for physics arts will be awarded to Claude Berrou, a professor at ENST Bretagne, by Serge Dassault (President of Dassault Aviation) at a ceremony to be held in the Hôtel de l'Industrie. Awarded by the Société d’encouragement pour l’Industrie nationale (SPI), the Chaptal prize recognizes the excellence of Claude Berrou’s work in the field of information coding and is testimony to the importance of this work for the development of French industry.
Previous winners of the prize include personalities such as Marc Lassus, President of Gemplus (the world leader in the field of smart cards) or Pierre Haren, the founder of the company which develops Ilog software. The ceremony will be held on 02 February 2006 at 5.30 p.m. in the Hôtel de l’Industrie, 4 place Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris.

30 January 2006: Walid Ben Ameur (INT) receives the Robert Faure Prize
On 6 February 2006, the Robert Faure Prize will be presented to Walid Benhameur, Associate Research Professor in INT’s Mobile Multimedia Networks and Services department, at the annual ROADEF conference in Lille. The Robert Faure Prize (awarded as a tribute to the French operational research pioneer) is designed to encourage original contributions to the field of operational research and decision-making aids. It is awarded every three years by the “Société Française de recherche opérationnelle et d'aide à la decision” (French Society for Operational Research and Decision-Making Aids) (ROADEF) to young researchers under the age of 35. The prize, synonymous with national recognition, rewards Walid Ben Ameur for his operational research work in the field of network optimization, graph theory and mathematical optimization.
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From 25 to 27 January 2006: 2nd AFRIF prize for three Télécom Paris professors
At the RFIA 2006 conference ("Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle" or Recognition of Forms and Artificial Intelligence), Isabelle Bloch, Elsa Angelini and Olivier Colliot from the Signal and Image Processing Department at Télécom Paris won second prize from the French Association for the Recognition and Interpretation of Forms (AFRIF). This prize was awarded for their paper: Segmentation of brain tumors and integration into an anatomical model.
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January 2006: Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu appointed IEEE Senior Member
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, a professor in the Signal and Image Processing Department at Télécom Paris, has just been appointed Senior Member of IEEE. “Senior Member” is the highest rank within the IEEE. Only 7.5% of the 367,000 IEEE members enjoy this international recognition.
Consult list of members appointed in January 2006

1 January 2006: Two GET professors amongst IEEE Fellows 2006
This honor will be effective from 1 January 2006.
It is given to:
- René Garello, professor in the Image and Information Processing department at ENST Bretagne, for his contribution to signal processing in the field of marine remote sensing.
- Dirck Slock, professor in the Mobile Communications department at the Eurecom Institute, for his contribution to signal processing and adaptive filtering for wireless communications.
List of IEEE Fellows 2006

In 2006: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award 2005 for two Télécom Paris professors
Olivier Cappé and Eric Moulines, professors in the Signal and Image processing Department at Télécom Paris, were honored by the IEEE for their contribution to the paper "Long-range dependence and heavy-tail modeling for teletraffic data", written in collaboration with E. Pesquet, J.C. Petropulu and A.P. Xueshi Yang. The prize for the best paper published in Signal Processing Magazine is awarded for a paper of exceptional value in the field of signal processing research. They will receive their awards at the ICASSP 2006 conference, to be held from 15 to 19 May in Toulouse.
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