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Bertrand Coüasnon

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Bertrand Coüasnon

Education #

M.Sc. in Computer Science, Univ. Rennes 1 – 1991

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Univ. Rennes 1 – 1996

HDR in Computer Science, Univ. Rennes 1 – 2012 (Habilitation - accreditation to supervise research)

Professional Situation #

Associate Professor, HDR Insa de Rennes, since 1996 (interruption 2002-2005)

  • Co-head of the Research Master in Computer Science, M2 SIF, since June 2021

  • Scientific Head of Media and Interactions Department of IRISA (2016-2021)

  • Member of the Scientific Board of IRISA (2016-2021)

  • Scientific Excellence Bonus, since 2007

  • Research in the team Intuidoc of IRISA (UMR 6074)

Previous experience

  • Co-founder of start-up Evodia, concours scientifique (2005-2010)

  • Temporary assignment to Inria (2002-2005)

  • AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA (1996)

  • ATER (Temporary Lecturer) Univ Rennes 1 (1995-1996)

  • National Service VFI Univ Rennes 1 (1991-1992)

Scientific Activity #

Keywords #

Structured Documents Analysis and Recognition, Handwriting Recognition, Layout Analysis, Generic System, Knowledge Modeling, Bidimensional Grammar, Definite Clause Grammar, Perceptive Vision, Interaction, Deep Learning, Combination of Deep Learning and Syntactical Methods, Archives Documents, Ancient Documents, Table Structures, Forms, Musical Scores, Mathematical Formulae, Business Letters

Research Grants and Contracts #

19 contracts as Local Principal Investigator for INSA:

  • 2001-2003: MEGALIS (Region Bretagne)
  • 2002-2007: Archives des Yvelines 1
  • 2002-2003;2005-2007: Archives Nationales
  • 2003-2006: MADONNE (ACI project)
  • 2005-2009: Archives ville de Lannion
  • 2007-2010: NAVIDOMASS (ANR Project)
  • 2007-2011: Archives des Yvelines 2
  • 2011: Archives de la Mayenne
  • 2012-2014: MAURDOR (PEA DGA)
  • 2012-2015: IgiDoc (Region Bretagne)
  • 2013-2014: Old Newspapers 1 (SATT Ouest Valorisation)
  • 2014-2015: Old Newspaper 2 (Rennes Metropole)
  • 2017-2022: HBDEX (ANR Project)
  • 2018-2021: EURHISFIRM (European project H2020, InfraDev)
  • 2019-2022: CIFRE collaboration (Doptim company)
  • 2020-2023: CIFRE collaboration (InterDigital company)
  • 2020-2024: Musical Directory Project (BNF)
  • 2021-2024: CIFRE collaboration (AriadNext company)
  • 2021-2024: CollabScore (ANR Project)

1 contrat as member:

  • 2009-2013: MobiSketch (ANR Project)

Supervision #

Ph.D. co-supervised

  • Aurélie Lemaitre, Introduction of perceptive vision for document structure recognition, 2008
  • Isaac Martinat, Design of a language for describing tabular structures and the associated recognition system. Application to tables in archival documents, 2009
  • Joseph Chazalon, Contextual and assisted interpretation of digitized fonds: application to sales registers from the 18th century, 2013
  • Cérès Carton, Semi-automatic and interactive rule inference with or without ground truth for document structure recognition, 2016
  • Kwon-Young Choi, Interactive combination of deep learning and syntactical methods for contextual segmentation and structure learning in document recognition, 2021
  • Solène Tarride, Combining physical and textual approaches for parish register recognition, 2022
  • Camille Guerry, Historical big-Data: modeling of analysis strategies for collections of documents, started in 2018
  • Killian Barrere, Deep neural networks and attention mechanisms for handwriting recognition, started in 2020
  • Martin Dornier, Deep learning in the wild, started in 2020
  • Timothée Neitthoffer, Joint analysis of localization of writing and its recognition in structured documents, started in 2021

18 Graduate Students

10 engineers (fixed-term contract): 15.5 man-years

  • 2002-2005, 69 months
    • Nicolas Brieuc
    • Laurent Pasquer
    • Grégory Maitrallain
    • Fabrice Boyer
  • 2008-2011, 38 months
    • Laurent Guichard
    • Sylvain Peyrefitte
  • 2013-2015, 18 months
    • Éric Le Lay
  • 2018-2021, 30 months
    • Simon Bouvier
  • 2020-2022, 28 months
    • Iwan Le Floch
  • 2021, 4 months
    • Kwon-Young Choi

2 postdoc (fixed-term contract): 3.7 man-years

  • 2008-2009, 12 months
    • Alejandro Toselli
  • 2012-2014, 32 months
    • Baptiste Poirriez

Research Animation #

Scientific Head of Media and Interactions Department of IRISA (2016-2021)

  • 120 people, 6 research teams

  • Co-writing of the HCERES IRISA report 2020-2021 campaign

Member of the Scientific Board of IRISA (2016-2022)

  • 850 people, 40 research teams, 7 departments

Conference organization

  • Co-Chair of CORIA-CIFED, Toulouse, France, 2016

  • Organizing Chair of International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP), Nancy, France, 2015

  • Co-Chair of International Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR), San Francisco, USA, 2014

  • Co-Chair of International Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR), San Francisco, USA, 2013

  • Third Erasmus Seminar on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Rennes, France, 1997

Transfer of Technology #

Co-founder of Evodia startup (2005-2010)

  • Concours scientifique from 2005 to end 2010 (specific status for researchers to help a startup, while keeping their initial position). Evodia has had up to 12 employees.

Software Licenses

  • Collective Annotation Platform (co-author 34%); DMOS_Compil (author 100%); xDMOS (author 100%); DMOS-P_Compil (author 100%); xDMOS-P (co-author 90%); EPF_RegMat (author 100%)

Scientific Diffusion #

  • International collaboration with RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), Rochester, NY, USA

  • International collaboration with ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) of Kolkata, India

  • Ph.D Committee: Examiner (8) and Reviewer (5)

  • HDR Committee: Examiner (1)

  • Invited talks

    • Invited talk at 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Applications, Kolkata, India, 2018.

    • Invited talk at CIFED-CORIA 2012, « Fusion des connaissances en analyse de documents. Exemples sur des documents d'archives. », Bordeaux, 2012.

    • Invited talk at the INRIA IST Seminar: « Pérenniser le document numérique », Amboise, 2006.

    • Invited talk at the national colloquium “Numériser et valoriser en région le patrimoine écrit et graphique”, Rennes, 2005.

    • Invited web conference of RTP-Doc, « Atelier Numérisation », Lyon, 2005.

    • Invited talk at the université d’été européenne « Nouvelles technologies et sauvegarde du patrimoine », La Rochelle, 2003.

  • Member of 49 Program Committees in 14 conferences

    • 11 International Program Committee member (with all editions: 40 PC)

      • ICDAR, ICPR, CAIP, DRR, GREC, HIP, ICDAR-OST, IADAR, IMPRESS, AXMEDIS, WEDELMUSIC

    • 3 National Program Committee member (with all editions: 9 PC)

      • CIFED, Numérisation du Patrimoine, JIM

  • Reviewer of International journals

    • IJDAR, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition

Scientific Publications #

  • 92 publications

  • 17 participations to competitions (14 international, 3 national)

  • 26 deposit registrations to the Agency for the Protection of Programs (APP)

Educational Activity #

Co-head of the Research Master in Computer Science, M2 SIF, since June 2021

  • Co-accredited with CentraleSupélec, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes, Université de Bretagne Sud, Université de Rennes 1.

  • Preparation of the new co-accreditation 2022-2027

Co-head of master DJINN Hack-Medias (Journalism Development in Digital Innovation)

  • Master proposed by Sciences-Po Rennes and Insa Rennes

  • Expected start-up: September 2022

Current courses modules

  • module Java and Algorithm, coordination of 14 groups (L1)

  • module logical programming (L3)

  • module “Practical study”, yearly sofware development project (L3)

  • module “Software Project”, yearly sofware development project (M1)

  • module “From Know-How to Let Know” (M2)

  • module COLQ “Colloqium” (M2)

Experience of 23 different courses at all levels of B.Sc. and M.Sc.

Around 230 teaching hours each year.

Collective Responsibilities #

Participation to Councils #

  • Member of the IRISA laboratory council (since 2022)

  • Elected member of the IRISA-INSA component council (since 2011)

  • Scientific Council of Insa de Rennes (2001-2002)

  • Insa Computer Science Department Council (1996-1999, then 2005-2008)

  • Committee IDPE (Ingénieur diplômé par l’État) – Computer Science (since 2010)

Responsibilities in Projects and Collective Life of Insa de Rennes and IRISA #

  • In charge of the communication of the computer science department of INSA Rennes since 2020

    • Organization of the INSA open days for the Computer Science Department, in connection with the organization at the school level.

  • Member of the "Gender Equality" commission of IRISA and of the INRIA RBA center since 2019

  • Responsible for the Industrial Relations for the Computer Science Department of Insa (2010-2018)

  • Co-responsible for the Socrates European Exchanges for the Computer Science Department of Insa (1996-2002)

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