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ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS
P H D T H E S I S
to obtain the title of
PhD of Science
of Ecole Centrale Paris
Specialty : Applied Mathematics
Defended by
R´egisBehmo
Visual Feature Graphs and
Image Recognition
Thesis prepared at Ecole Centrale Paris,
Laboratoire de Math´ematiques Appliqu´ees
Jury:
President Patrick Bouthemy - INRIA
Reviewers Mihai Datcu - DLR - T´el´ecom ParisTech
Edwin Hancock - University of York
Examinator Fr´ed´eric Jurie - Universit´e de Caen
Co-directors Nikos Paragios - Ecole Centrale Paris
V´eronique Prinet - Institute of Automation,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
tel-00545419, version 1 - 10 Dec 2010tel-00545419, version 1 - 10 Dec 2010Cette th`ese est d´edi´ee a` Gwilym Phillips, a` sa m´emoire,
`a son affection, et `a sa passion pour la Technique.
tel-00545419, version 1 - 10 Dec 2010tel-00545419, version 1 - 10 Dec 2010Acknowledgments
I like to think of thesis as the accomplishment of a four year long collabo-
ration across two continents. Bridging the continental gap between France
and China has not been an easy task, to say the least; for that, a few people
deserve my warm thanks. First and foremost, I would like to express my
deepest gratitude to Veronique Prinet whose careful eye and unwavering
support has been the driving force behind my work for the past four years.
I am also extremely grateful to Prof. Nikos Paragios, whose scientic exper-
tise and profound humanity will remain as an example that I shall remember
throughout my whole career.
The nancial support of this thesis was granted by INRIA (Institut Na-
tional pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) and the Ecole
Centrale Paris, which are the two French institutions at the forefront of
scientic collaboration with China. The LIAMA (Laboratoire en Informa-
tique, Automatique et Mathematiques Appliquees), from the Institute of
Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (-Ñbêv@), in
Beijing, provided me with a fantastic working environment for almost two
years, between 2006 and 2009.
The most fruitful results of my research work have been obtained in col-
laboration with a small handful of people, to whom I feel especially indebted.
In particular, I have greatly beneted from the sharp intellectual insights of
Jean-Baptiste Bordes, PhD; from the lively support of Cyril Cassisa, Yves
Piriou, YuanFei and He LiangLiang; from rewarding exchanges with Martin
de La Gorce, PhD, Ahmed Besbes and Radhouene Neji, PhD.
The second part of my thesis was mainly the result of a joint work
with Paul Marcombes, then a Master student at LIAMA, and Prof. Arnak
Dalalyan; I would like to thank them both for their level of commitment, as
their contribution was immensely benecial to me.
Research and wanderlust have this in common, that their raison d'^etre
is the discovery and understanding of what is yet unknown. I would like to
believe that what I have discovered and understood during these past four
years has made me a slightly richer person, somehow.
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