Felicien VALLET

R&D Engineer

Participation in national or
international programs

Interest
Multimedia content analysis and description
Skills
Audio and Video Digital Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Analysis, Analysis of Textual Data, etc.
Research projects
2008-2013
QUAERO Collaborative research and development program, centered at developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications such as the automatic analysis, classification, extraction and exploitation of information.

2007-2009
K-Space « Knowledge Space of Semantic Inference for Automatic Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Content ». K-Space integrates leading European research teams to create a Network of Excellence in semantic inference for semi-automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content.
2006-2009
Infom@gic Multimodal analysis of numerical data. Creation of powerful multimedia search, information retrieval and knowledge mining tools.
Scientific background

2011 PhD degree in Computer Science (Digital Signal Processing) Automatic structuring of TV talk shows. Joint PhD INA/Télécom ParisTech.

2007 Engineer’s degree of Télécom ParisTech.
Publications

Book chapters :
F. Vallet, S. Essid, J. Carrive, G. Richard. "High-Level TV talk show structuring centered on speakers' interventions". Chapter for TV Content Analysis, CRC Press, Taylor Francis LLC, 2012.

Conference papers :

F. Vallet, S. Essid, J. Carrive, G. Richard. "Robust visual features for the multimodal identification of unregistered speakers in TV talk-shows". International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong-Kong, China, 2010.

S. Bozonnet, F. Vallet, N. Evans, S. Essid, G. Richard, J. Carrive. "A multimodal approach to initialisation for top-down speaker diarization of television shows". European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aalborg, Denmark, 2010.

F. Vallet, S. Essid, J. Carrive, G. Richard. "Descripteurs visuels robustes pour l'identification de locuteurs dans des émissions télévisées de talk-shows". Compression et Représentation des Signaux Audiovisuels (CORESA), Lyon, France, 2010.
Z. Harchaoui, F. Vallet, A. Lung-Yut-Fong, O. Cappé. "A Regularized Kernel-based Approach to Unsupervised Audio Segmentation". In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009.
F. Vallet, G. Richard, S. Essid, J. Carrive. "Detecting artist performances in a TV show". In Proc. K-Space PhD Jamboree, Paris, France, July 2008.
P. Wilkins, T. Adamek, D. Byrne, G. Jones, H. Lee, K. McGuiness, N. E. O'Connor, A.F. Smeaton, A. Amin, Z. Obrenovic, R. Benmokhtar, E. Galmar, B. Huet, S. Essid, R. Landais, F. Vallet, G. Th. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Spyrou, Y. Avrithis, R. Morzinger, P. Schallauer, W. Bailer, T. Piatrik, K. Chandramouli, E. Izquierdo, M. Haller, L. Goldmann, A. Samour, A. Cobet, T. Sikora, P. Praks. "K-Space at TRECVid 2007", October 2007.
F. Vallet, M. McKinney. "Perceptual constraints for automatic vocal detection in music recordings". In Proc. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2007.