Christian VIARD-GAUDIN

• IRONOFF : Dual Online-Offline Handwriting Database
• DRR2012 : Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference, 22-26 January, 2012, San Francisco
• DEPART : Documents Ecrits et Paroles – Reconnaissance et Traduction
• CIEL : Conversion et Indexation de l’Ecriture en-Ligne, 2007-2010

Name	:	Professor Dr. Christian Viard-Gaudin
Designation	:	Full Professor
Qualification	:	HDR: Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (Qualification for being full PhD adviser, 2003. PhD (automatic control), 1981. DEA (Master by research) Diplôme d’études Approfondies, laboratoire d’automatique LAN, Nantes, 1979. Engineer degree, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, major in automatic contor, Nantes, 1979. Baccalaureate, scientific series, Grenoble, 1974.
Organization	:	Electrical & Electronic Engineering Dept, University of Nantes
Email	:	Christian.Viard-Gaudin@univ-nantes.fr
Telephone No	:	+33.2.40.68.30.40
Fax No	:	+33.2.40.68.32.32
URL	:	http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~viardgau/

Employment

• Full Professor, IUT de Nantes, 2006-current.
• Associate Professor, IUT de Nantes, 1985-2006.
• Lecturer, IUT de Nantes, 1982-1985.

Teaching and Administration

• Head of Image and VideCommunication, research group, IRCCyN. UMR CNRS 6597, June 1999 – July 2003.
• Coordinator, French National project ANR Techno CIEL, 2007-2010.
• Expert for French national agency for funding new projects.
• Cofounder of a spin-off company, Vision objects (International leader in online handwriting recognition, 50 people in 2010).

Teaching Interests

• Digital electronics
• Automatic control
• Computer science

Research Interests

• Document image processing and handwriting recognition.
• Automatic mail sorting series, offline and online handwriting recognition, mathematical recognition, writer identification and document categorization.

Publications & Presentations

He has published more than 100 journal articles including international journals, reports and conference papers.

· Selection of recent journal articles:

[1] C. Viard-Gaudin, P.M. LALLICAN, S. KNERR

“Recognition-directed recovering of temporal information from handwriting images”,

Pattern Recognition Letter, Elsevier, 26 (2005), pp. 2537-2548, 2005.

[2] P. LE CALLET, C. Viard-Gaudin, D. BARBA

“A convolutional neural network approach for objective video quality assessment”

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 17, N° 15, pp. 1316-1327, Sept. 2006.

[3] E. CAILLAULT, C. Viard-Gaudin

“Mixed Discriminant Training of Hybrid and ANN/HMM systems for online handwritten word recognition”

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007) 117–134, 2007.

[4] G. TAN, C. Viard-Gaudin, A. KOT

“Automatic Writer Identification Framework for Online Handwritten Documents Using Character Prototypes”

Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 3313-3323, 2009.

[5] G. FENG, C. VIARD-GAUDIN, Z. SUN

“On-line Hand-drawn Electric Circuit Diagram Recognition Using 2D Dynamic programming”

Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 3215-3223, 2009.

[6] S. PEÑA SALDARRIAGA, C. VIARD-GAUDIN, E. MORIN

“Impact of On-line Handwriting Recognition Performance on Text Categorization”

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Volume 13, Number 2 / juin 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s10032-009-0108-6.

[7] G. TAN, C. Viard-Gaudin, A. KOT

“ Individuality of alphabet knowledge in online writer identification”

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Volume 13, Number 2 / juin 2010 DOI: 10.1007/s10032-009-0110-z

[8] S. PEÑA SALDARRIAGA, E. MORIN , C. VIARD-GAUDIN

“Ranking Fusion Methods Applied to On-line Handwriting Information Retrieval”

C. Gurrin et al. (Eds.): ECIR 2010, 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 5993, p. 253-264, 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Information Retrieval. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_24

[9] Patrizio Campisi, Emanuele Maiorana, Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Alessandro Neri

“Handwriting Analysis”, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (2nd ed.), Springer, 2011.

Research Activities

• Former PhD students

[1] N. NORMAND, « Représentation d’images et distances discrètes basées sur les éléments structurants à deux pixels ». Thèse de Doctorat, Spécialité Electronique, Ecole Doctorale Sciences pour l’Ingénieur de Nantes, soutenue le 15 Janvier 1997 à l’IRESTE. Directeur de thèse D.BARBA,. Co-encadrement C. VIARD-GAUDIN (30 %).

Current position: associate professor EPUN

[2] PM LALLICAN, « Reconnaissance de l’Ecriture Manuscrite Hors-ligne : Utilisation de la Chronologie Restaurée du Tracé ». Thèse de Doctorat, Spécialité Electronique, Ecole Doctorale Sciences pour l’Ingénieur de Nantes, soutenue le 24 Novembre 1999 à l'IRESTE. Directeur de thèse D.BARBA, Co-encadrement C. VIARD-GAUDIN (90 %).

Current position: Director R&D Vision Objects

[3] Yong Haur TAY, “ Offline handwriting recognition using artificial neural network and hidden Markov models”. Thèse de doctorat Université de Nantes-Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, soutenue le 13 mars 2002. Directeurs de thèse : D. BARBA, K. MARZUKI, Co-encadrement C. VIARD-GAUDIN (70 %),

Current position: Associate professor, Malaysia.

[4] E. CAILLAULT, « Réseaux de neurones à convolutions et reconnaissance de l’écriture manuscrite », soutenance le 12 décembre 2005. Directeur de thèse : C. VIARD-GAUDIN.

Current position: Associate professor, Université du Littoral.

[5] F. PERRAUD, « Modèle de langage et reconnaissance de l’écriture », soutenance le 19 décembre 2005. Directeur de thèse : B. DAILLE, Co-encadrement C. VIARD-GAUDIN (50 %)

Current position: Engineer R&D, Vision Objects.

[6] AHMAD Abdul Rahim, « On-line Handwriting Recognition using Support Vector Machines and Hidden Markov Models approaches », soutenance le 29 décembre 2008. Directeur de thèse : C. VIARD-GAUDIN

Current position: Deputy Dean of University Tenaga National, Malaysia.

[7] FENG Guihan « Sketch Understanding of Electric-Circuit Diagrams», soutenance 18 mai 2009. PhD student of Nanjing University, P.R.China, Co-Supervision Doctor Project, hosted in IRCCyN dec. 2006-dec. 2007.

Current position: Lecturer Software Institute Nanjing, China.

[8] PEÑA SALDARRIAGA Sebastián « Indexation et recherche de documents manuscrits en ligne », soutenance avril 2010. Directeur de thèse : C. VIARD-GAUDIN.

Current position: Post-doctoral position in Synchromedia Lab, Montreal.

[9] AWAL Ahmad Montasser, « Reconnaissance de structures bidimensionnelles : application aux expressions mathématiques manuscrites en-ligne », thèse financée par le projet ANR CIEL, soutenance le 12 novembre 2010, Directeur de thèse : C. VIARD-GAUDIN.

Current position: Post-doctoral position in INSA de Lyon.

• Currently 3 PhD students are working under his supervision. All the topics are related with online handwriting modeling and recognition.

1. Writer Identification from On-line Handwriting (G.X. Tan)

2. Spatial Relationship Modeling for handwriting recognition (J. Li)

3. Fusion Strategies for Handwriting and Speech Modalities – Application in Mathematical Expression Recognition (S. Medjkoune)

Funded Research Grant

• MIMEMA Project (2006-2007)
• MILES Project(2007-2009)
• CIEL Project (2007-2010)
• DEPART Project (2010-2012)

Professional Activities

• Co-advisor of PhD with University Technology of Malaysia (UTM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
• Co-advisor of Master thesis with Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).
• Host PhD students and Post-doctoral students from China.
• Invited lecture, IMAGE’03, “From off-line document to on-line document analysis,” April 2003, Kuching, Malaysia.
• Reviewer for many conferences (ICDAR, IWFHR, ICPR, CIFED, GRETSI) or journal (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern & Recognition, Traitement du Signal, ETRI Journal Information-Telecommunications & Electronics, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition: IJDAR, ELCVIA.
• Session chair for many conferences (CIFED, RFIA, ICICS).
• Program committee member for conference (IWFHR 2004, 2006, CIFED 1996-2006, ICDAR 2007, 2009, DRR 2010).
• Organization committee member for the French-Malaysian workshop IMAGE ’03.
• External examiner for PhD i.e. Portsmouth University (UK), March 2007.
• Program committee President for International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR 2006, La Baule, 23-26 October 2006).
• Conference Chair for Document Recognition and Retrieval Conferences 2011 and 2012, Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco.