Matei MANCAS

Research:

Current research

Matei focuses now on Computational Attention. This mechanism is used by humans in order to select "important" features in an image or a sound and it is the beginning of a higher level signal understanding. Matei assumes that computational attention is a step towards true artificial intelligence and it should be used in every algorithm which intends to have an intelligent behaviour.

More details on Computational Attention can be found on this dedicated page.

Past research

Matei's past research interests concern signal and, in particular, image processing. After a study on nonstationary shock signals in industrial tests at MBDA, he worked on medical image segmentation and set up an original iterative watershed segmentation technique.

A demonstration of the Iterative Watershed Segmentation method is currently online.

A copy of an article published on the study of nonstationary shock signals in industrial tests at MBDA is available here:

Matei MANCAS and Gilbert LE FLOC'H, "Missiles : influence des dérives dans les mesures de chocs mécaniques" in "Essais Industriels" magazine Nr. 25. Essais Industriels mainly deals with tests in technical environment and it is published by A.S.T.E. association.

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Groups :

• Image Processing
• Biomedical Data Processing

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Personal:

• More about my adventure on the Danube using a hand-made raft on http://www.atypiq.com/danube
• My father's paintings on http://www.atypiq.com/virgil
• More pictures about Céline and me on http://www.atypiq.com/nous
• More about the theatre club of Anzin on http://www.atypiq.com/pascale

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Publications :

Books or chapter in book

M. MANCAS, 2007, "Computational Attention: Towards Attentive Computers", Similar edition, CIACO University Distributors, ISBN : 978-2-87463-099-6.

PhD Dissertation

M. MANCAS, 2007, "Computational Attention: Modelisation&Application to Audio and Image Processing", PhD. thesis supervised by Prof. B. Gosselin.

Regular Papers in Journals

M. MANCAS, 2009, "Relative Influence of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention", Attention in Cognitive Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Volume 5395/2009, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00582-4, ISBN 978-3-642-00581-7, February 2009.

M. MANCAS, D. GLOWINSKI, G. VOLPE, A. CAMURRI, P. BRETECHE, J. DEMEYER, T. RAVET, P. COLETTA, 2009, "Real-Time Motion Attention and Expressive Gesture Interfaces", Journal On Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI), Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2007, "Perceptual Image Representation", EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing, Volume 2007, Article ID 98181, doi:10.1155/2007/98181.

K. MOUSTAKAS, M. G. STRINTZIS, D. TZOVARAS, S. CARBINI, J. E. VIALLET, S. RAIDT, M. MANCAS, M. DIMICCOLI, E. YAGCI, S. BALCI, E. I. LEON, 2006, "Masterpiece: Physical Interaction and 3D Content-Based Search in VR Applications", IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, pp. 92-100.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

M. MANCAS, D. GLOWINSKI, P. BRETECHE, J. DEMEYER, T. RAVET, G. VOLPE, A. CAMURRI, 2009, "Gestures Saliency: a Context-based Analysis", Gesture Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, February 2009.

M. MANCAS, 2008, "Image perception: Relative influence of bottom-up and top-down attention", Proc. of the WAPCV workshop of the ICVS conference, Santorini, Greece.

M. MANCAS, D. GLOWINSKI, P. BRETECHE, J. DEMEYER, T. RAVET, G. VOLPE, A. CAMURRI, P. COLETTA, 2008, "Tracking‐dependent and interactive video projection", Proc. eNTERFACE08, Paris, pp. 73-83.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2008, "Attention-based pathology visualization in head and neck area", Proc. of Liège Image Days 2008, Liège, Belgium..

M. MANCAS, L. COUVREUR, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2007, "Computational Attention for Event Detection", Proceedings of ICVS Workshop on Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA-2007) , Bielefeld, Germany, Mar 2007.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, D. UNAY, 2007, "Computational Attention for Defect Localisation", Proceedings of ICVS Workshop on Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA-2007), Bielefeld, Germany, Mar 2007.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2007, "A Three-Level Computational Attention Model", Proceedings of ICVS Workshop on Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA-2007), Bielefeld, Germany, Mar 2007.

C. MANCAS-THILLOU, M. MANCAS, 2007, "Comparison between Pen-scanner and Digital Camera Acquisition for Engraved Character Recognition", Proc. of Camera-based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2007), Curitiba (Brasil), pp 889-893.

L. COUVREUR, F. BETTENS, J. HANCQ, M. MANCAS, 2007, "Normalized Auditory Attention Levels for Automatic Audio Surveillance", Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE-2007), Malta, June 2007.

M. MANCAS, C. MANCAS-THILLOU, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2006, "A rarity-based visual attention map -application to texture description -", Proc. of IEEE International conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), Atlanta, USA.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2005, "Tumor Detection using Airways Asymmetry", Proc. of the IEEE EMBC, Shanghai, China.

C. MANCAS-THILLOU, B. GOSSELIN, M. MANCAS, 2005, "Segmentation en Caractères Individuels dans des Images de Scènes Naturelles", Proc. of Colloque sur le Traitement du Signal et des Images (GRETSI 2005), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2005, "Segmentation Using a Region Growing Thresholding", Proc. of the Electronic Imaging Conference of the International Society for Optical Imaging (SPIE/EI 2005), San Jose (California, USA).

K. MOUSTAKAS, D. TZOVARAS, S. CARBINI, O. BERNIER, J. E. VIALLET, S. RAIDT, M. MANCAS, M. DIMICCOLI, E. YAGCI, S. BALCI, E. I. LEON, 2005, "MASTER-PIECE: A Multimodal (Gesture+Speech) Interface for 3D Model Search and Retrieval Integrated in a Virtual Assembly Application", eNTERFACE'05 Multimodal Summer Workshop, Mons, Belgium.

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2005, "Fast and Automatic Tumoral Area Localisation Using Symmetry", Proc. of the IEEE ICASSP Conference, Philadelphia (Pensylvania, USA).

C. MANCAS-THILLOU, M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, 2005, "Camera-based Degraded Character Segmentation into Individual Components", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Documents Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul (South Korea).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2004, "Automatic Fast Detection of Tumor suspect areas on CT Scan", Proc. of the IEEE VIS 2004 conference, Austin (Texas, USA).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, 2004, "Towards an automatic tumor segmentation using iterative watersheds", Proc. of the Medical Imaging Conference of the International Society for Optical Imaging (SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, San Diego (California, USA).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, B. MACQ, 2004, "Risk Areas Segmentation for Radiotherapy Planning using Distance Maps", Posters at SPIE Optical Imaging at the NIH, Washington DC (Maryland, USA).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, 2003, "Fuzzy Tumor Segmentation based on Iterative Watersheds", Proc. of the 14th ProRISC workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (ProRISC 2003), Veldhoven (Netherland).

M. MANCAS, B. GOSSELIN, 2003, "Iterative Watersheds and Fuzzy Tumor Visualization", Proc. of the IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS 2003), Seattle (Washington, USA).

Technical Reports

M. MANCAS, M. BAGEIN, N. GUICHARD, H. SULLIVAN, C. MACHY, S. MAHMOUDI, X. SIEBERT, 2009, "Project #4.3: Augmented Virtual Studio", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 2, n° 1, March 2009.

M. MANCAS, R. BOSE, H. SULLIVAN, C. MACHY, R. BEN MADHKOUR, T. RAVET, 2009, "Morface: Face Morphing", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 2, n° 2, June 2009..

M. MANCAS, P. BRUNET, F. CAVALLERO, D. GLOWINSKI, C. MACHY, P.-J. MAES, S. PASCHALIDOU, M.K. RAJAGOPAL, S. SCHIBECI, L. VINCZE, 2009, "Hypersocial Museum: addressing the social interaction challenge with museum scenarios and attention-based approaches", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 2, n° 3, September 2009.

L. COUVREUR, F. BETTENS, T. DRUGMAN, C. FRISSON, M. JOTTRAND, M. MANCAS, A. MOINET, 2008, "Project #1: Audio Skimming", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 1, n° 1, March 2008.

L. COUVREUR, F. BETTENS, T. DRUGMAN, T. DUBUISSON, S. DUPONT, C. FRISSON, M. JOTTRAND, M. MANCAS, 2008, "Project #6: Audio Thumbnailing", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 1, n° 2, June 2008.

M. MANCAS, D. GLOWINSKI, P. BRETECHE, J. DEMEYER, T. RAVET, G. VOLPE, A. CAMURRI, P. COLETTA, 2008, "Project #3.1: Tracking-Dependent and Interactive Video Projection", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 1, n° 3, September 2008.

M. MANCAS, M. BAGEIN, N. GUICHARD, H. SULLIVAN, C. MACHY, S. MAHMOUDI, X. SIEBERT, 2008, "Augmented Virtual Studio", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 1, n° 4, December 2008.

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