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Lessons from architecture, integration or UI pattern decisions. Drawn from professional and personal projects.

Publications

Computer vision · 2018-2020

Four papers from my research master's at the University of La Rochelle (MIA Laboratory). Detailed summaries here; PDFs are not hosted (IEEE copyright).

IEEE IPAS 2020

Colorizing genuine archival photos: palette + scribbles

CNN colorization networks are trained on colour photos converted to grayscale, which makes them ill-suited to genuine archival B&W (silver halide). I improve the output with two hints: an automated global palette + manual scribbles where it matters (flags, monuments).

Colorization Deep learning Archival CNN Interactive
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IEEE MCNA 2020

Colorizing a B&W movie with a salient-colour palette

A palette of 'salient' scene colours (distinct from the 'memorable' ones the network already infers well) is injected into the CNN as an additional input. One palette covers hundreds of frames, which suits movie colorization without per-frame scribbling.

Colorization Deep learning Colour palette CNN Movie
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EUVIP 2019

Detecting handwriting anomalies via a convolutional autoencoder

A convolutional autoencoder that detects, without annotation, that a portion of text was written by another hand. Tile splitting + partial Radon transform. Discrimination emerges during training via batch-to-batch shuffling.

Deep learning Handwriting Outlier detection Autoencoder Radon
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IEEE EUVIP 2018

Visible + NIR information for CNN face recognition

An original VNIR dataset (52 identities, 3 poses) captured by removing the ICF of a consumer camera. Two CNNs compared. Finding: 3-channel full-spectrum beats 4-channel RGB+I, and the blue channel benefits the most from NIR.

CNN Face recognition NIR Multispectral Dataset
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