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IRIT - UMR 5505

CNRS
INPT
UPS
UT1
UTM
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  Senac Christine


  Statut : Permanent
  Service / Equipe :  Structuration, Analyse et MOdélisation de documents Vidéo et Audio
  Contact : Christine.Senac@irit.fr
  Localisation : IRIT1 / Niveau 2, Pièce: 226
  Téléphone : 05 61 55 88 35
  Publications : Publications

 

Education

  • In 1985, she was graduate from  the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique et Hydraulique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) (Mathematics & Computer Sciences)

  • In 1989, she received a PhD in Computer Science from Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIII university, for her work intitled "Contribution à l'étude du décodage acoustico-phonétique" on Acoustic-Phonetic Decoding in Speech Processing.  Advisor: Guy Pérennou

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Research

Current research topics

Previous research topics

    • Spoken language processing : acoustic-phonetic decoding using two levels Hidden Markov Models 
    • Merging  visual and audio information to improve speech recognition systems
    • Soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents
    • Speaker segmentation and verification in noisy environment and classifiers fusion

 

Supervision

  • PhD Thesis
    • Philippe Ercolessy 2009- 2012 : " Audio visual content analysis and structuring methods for TV on demand services"
    • Elie El Khoury 2007-2010: "People indexing in the audiovisual  contents"
  •  2nd year - Master Degree 
    • Nourredine Besbes (2007-2008): "Indexation en intervenants d'un document vidéo par identification du visage"
    • Elie El Khoury (2006-2007): "Speaker diarization"
    • Jean-Pierre Desmoulins (2002-2003): "Segmentation  en locuteurs"
    • Julien Pinquier:(2000-2001): "Audio indexing: Speech/Music/Noise"
    • Ludovic Fontaine (1999-2000): "Soundtrack indexing"
  •  1st year - Master Degree 
    • Bui Dang Khoa & Chu Duc Quang & William Bourgeois(2008-2009): "Audiovisual speech recognition"
    • Julien Corjon & Caroline Barbat & Kompton Quam (2007-2008): "Biometric lock"
    • Jonathan Blanc & Christophe Jeannette & Samuel Rivals & Serge Scattolin(2004-2005): "Tools and interfaces for  textual data  contained in HTML and XML files"

Projects 

  • QUAERO 2008-2012 : OSEO project . Program promoting research and industrial innovation on technologies for automatic analysis and classification  of multimedia and multilingual documents.
  • ANR programme blanc - Masse de Données 2007-2010 « EPAC : Exploration of audio documents for the conversational speech extraction and processing».  
  • MUSCLE 2006-2008 : Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computing and Learning. IST Network of excellence .
  • BQR AO1  2007-2008 (project of the UPS):« Recherche automatique des intervenants dans une séquence audio-visuelle par une approche multimodale » . 
  • STIC-CNRS 2002-2004 « RAIVES : Automatic Retrieval of Audio & Speech Informations». 
  • RIAM  2002-2004: "FERIA : Framework for Indusdrial Realization and Experimentation of multimedia Applications".
  • RNRT 1999-2001 « AGIR : Global Architecture for Search and Indexing ». 
  • PRC-Informatique CNRS 1994-1998 : « AMIBE ». 
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Visibility,membership, committee

  • Teaching
    • M2R AVI : head of the module  "Characterization of the human in audiovisual contents"
    • M1 - Computer Science : head of the module "Multimedia Pattern Recognition and Modeling"
    • director of studies for  1st year - Licence Degree in 2009-2010
    • Elected member of the Educational Board (for computer science) of  UFR MIG (since 2008)
  • University Administration 
    • Appointed member of the  International Relations of the UPS  (2006-2008)
    • Appointed member of the board of  Health & Security of the UPS (since 2007)
  • Research 
    • Mobility 
      • Invited researcher  (2003-2004)  at the UNSW Sydney (Department of Signal processing)
    • Membership
      • Elected member  of the Selection Committee  (computer science) of  UPS until 2008
      • Appointed member of the Selection Committee  (computer science) of Paris Descartes University (since 2009)
      • Elected member of the AFCP (French Association of Spoken Communication) 
    • Program  Committees & Organizing Committes
      • Reviewer for  journals:  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Multimedia tools and application, EURASIP journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing
      • Reviewer for international conferences  ICASSP, CCCT'04, CARI03, for international workshop  MMUA 2006, and for national conference JEP
      • Scientific commettee for the international conference  ICINSI 2007
      • Organizing committee for the international  workshop MMUA 2006
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Teaching

Current courses

2nd year - Master Degree

    • M2R AVI Audio, Video, Image 
      •  Characterization of human in audiovisual contents (head of the module)
    • M2Pro  Image & Multimedia
      • Speech Processing
      • Advanced Pattern Recognition & Speech Processing

1st year - Master Degree

    • M1 - IUP SI Intelligent Systems - International Master
      • Human Machine Communication : Speech Processing 
    • M1 - Computer Science
      • Introduction to Multimedia Systems
      • Multimedia Pattern Recognition and Modeling  (head of the module)
      • Operation research - Linear programming

1st year -Licence Degree

    • L1 IMP 
      • Introduction to the computer science
      • Introduction to functional programming  with langage OCaml 
    • L1 IMM 
      • Introduction to algorithm, data structure, langage C

Previous courses

3rd year - Licence Degree

    • L3 - Computer Science
      •  Computer Architecture  & Assembler
    • L3 - IUP ISI 
      •  Introduction to Computer Architecture &Assembler
    • L3 - IUP SI Intelligent Systems
      • Image Processing
      • Speech Processing

2nd year - Licence Degree

    • L2 - Computer Science
      • Advanced programming in C

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