Hervé Jégou

I am a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, holding a M.S. (2002) and PhD (2005) from University of Rennes I. During my PhD, I worked on error-resilient compression and joint source channel coding. After that, I turned out to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. I joined the LEAR group (INRIA Grenoble) as a permanent researcher in 2006, and moved to INRIA Rennes in 2009. I am not anymore at Inria.

My work is mainly focused on computer vision, with most of my contributions focused on large scale indexing techniques (vectors/images/video), focusing on compressed-domain search techniques that scale from millions to billions of vectors/images such as product quantization, that I proposed to search in a compressed set of vectors without decompressing it.

Selected posts

• I am on leave from Inria since May 2015: I have joined FAIR as a research scientist.
• Since September 2014, I am associate editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
• Micro-workshop on Computer Vision on October 2nd 2014.
• I have defended my HDR on October 1st, 15:30, in Room Metivier at IRISA/Inria Rennes
• Tutorial at CVPR‘2014 on Large scale visual recognition
• Tutorial at ICMR‘2014 on Large scale visual recognition (References)
• Jointly with Xerox Research Europe, we won the FGCOMP‘2013 fine-grained classification challenge.
• Tutorial at CVPR‘2013 on Large scale visual recognition
• Invited lecturer at the SSMS‘2012 summer school on Very large-scale image and video retrieval.
• Keynote speaker at the ECCV‘2012 Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media.
• Tutorial at BMVC‘2012: Large-scale and larger-scale image search.
• Tutorial at CVPR‘2012 on Large-Scale Image Retrieval and Classification, together with Florent Perronnin.
• Sample image search demo on 10,000,000 images based on my indexing technique (2008): Bigimbaz

Projects

• VIAMASS, 2014-2015. ERC starting grant focused on very large image databases.
• Fire-id, 2012-2015. ANR project on fine-grain recognition in large image databases, jointly with Xerox.
• Quaero, 2008-2013. Automatic analysis and classification of multimedia and multilingual documents. I am involved in image and video search.
• ICOS-HD, 2007-2010. ANR project on indexation and scalable compression for high-definition video content.
• RAFFUT, 2007-2009. ANR project on large-scale video indexing for copyright enforcement. Jointly with Advestigo.

Students and collaborators

Post-docs

• Ronan Sicre, 2014-2015,
• Andrei Bursuc, 2014-2015,
• Giorgos Tolias, 2013-2015,
• Wanlei Zhao, 2012-2013, co-advised with G. Gravier
• Josip Krapac, 2012-2013
• François Lecellier, 2009-2010, co-advised with P. Pérez

Ph.D. students

• Ahmet Iscen, 2014- co-advised with T. Furon
• Mihir Jain, 2011-2014, co-advised with P. Gros
• Simon Malinowski, 2005-2008, co-advised with C. Guillemot

Visiting PhD students

Internships (3-12 months) from students making a PhD in a foreign University.

• Miaojing Shi (Pekin University), 2014-2015
• Giorgos Tolias (NTUA), 2012-2013
• Michele Trevisiol (Yahoo Research Barcelona), 2012, co-advised with G. Gravier
• Jiangbo Yuan (Florida State University), 2011, co-advised with G. Gravier

Undergraduate students

• Vedran Vukotic, M.Sc. University of Zagreb, FER, 2014, co-advised with A. Bursuc
• Ahmet Iscen, M.Sc. Bilkent University, 2014, co-advised with P-H. Gosselin and G. Tolias
• Agni Delvinioti, M.Sc. NTUA, 2013, co-advised with L. Amsaleg
• Amélie Royer, B.S. ENS Rennes, 2013, co-advised with T. Furon
• Esteban Frossard, B.S. ENS Cachan Bretagne, 2012, co-advised with T. Furon
• Philippe Weinzaepfel, B.S. ENS Cachan Bretagne, 2010, co-advised with P. Pérez
• Harsimrat Sandhawalia, M.S. Université Joseph Fourier, 2008-2009
• François Visconte, M.E., 2007-2008 Université Joseph Fourier, co-advised with M. Douze
• Sameh Hamrouni, M.S. ENSI Tunis, 2007-2008, co-advised with C. Schmid
• Hedi Harzallah, M.S. ENSI Tunis, 2006-2007, co-advised with C. Schmid
• Adrien Fontvielle, M.S. Ensimag, 2008, co-advised with M. Douze

Research engineers

• Rachid Benmokhtar, 2011-2013
• Jonathan Delhumeau, 2011-2013
• Benoit Mordelet, 2007-2008
• Christophe Smekens, 2007-2008

Kids

Joanne, Hermine and Mika