Publications

International Journals

  1. A Cognitive and Video-based Approach for Multinational License Plate Recognition.
    Nicolas Thome, Antoine Vacavant, Lionel Robinault, Serge Miguet. Machine Vision and Applications (5-year-IF: 1.152) , DOI 10.1007/s00138-010-0246-3, ISSN 0932-8092 (Print) 1432-1769 (Online), March 2010.
  2. A Real-Time, MultiView Fall Detection System: a LHMM-Based Approach. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome, Serge Miguet, Sébastien Ambellouis. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    (5-year-IF: 3.187), Special Issue on Event Analysis in Videos, vol 18, Issue 11, p.1522-1532, November 2008.
  3. Learning Articulated Appearance Models for Tracking Humans: a Spectral Graph Matching Approach. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome, Djamel Mérad, Serge Miguet. Signal Processing: Image Communication (5-year-IF: 1.238), vol. 23, issue 10, p.769-787, December 2008.

International Conferences

  1. Contextual Detection of drawn Symbols in old Maps
    J. Guyomard, N. Thome, M. Cord, T. Artières. ICIP 2012. To appear.
  2. Learning geometric combinations of Gaussian kernels with alternating Quasi-Newton algorithm [pdf] D. Picard, N. Thome, M. Cord, A. Rakotomamonjy. ESANN 2012. To appear.
  3. Text Detection and Recognition in Urban Scenes. [pdf]
    R. Minetto, N. Thome, M. Cord, J. Stolfi, F. Précioso, J. Guyomard, N.J Leite. CVRS workshop - ICCV 2011. To appear.
  4. HMAX-S: Deep scale representation for biologically inspired image categorization. [pdf]
    Christian Theriault, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord. ICIP 2011. To appear.
  5. BOSSA: extended BoW formalism for image classification. [pdf]
    Sandra Avila, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Eduardo Valle, Arnaldo de Albuquerque. ICIP 2011. To appear.
  6. SnooperTrack: Text Detection and Tracking for Outdoor Videos. [pdf]
    Rodrigo Minetto, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Neucimar Leite, Jorge Stolfi. ICIP 2011. To appear.
  7. Learning Invariant Color Features with Sparse Topographic RBM. [pdf]
    Hanlin Goh, Lukasz Kusmierz, Joo-Hwee Lim, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord. ICIP 2011. To appear.
  8. Efficient Bag-of-Feature kernel representation for image similarity search. [pdf]
    Frederic Precioso, Matthieu Cord, David Gorisse, Nicolas Thome. ICIP 2011. To appear.
  9. Pedestrian head detection and tracking using graph skeleton for people counting in crowded environments. [pdf]
    Kheir-Eddine AZIZ, Djamal MERAD, Nicolas THOME, Bernard FERTIL. 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2011). To appear.
  10. Biasing Restricted Boltzmann Machines to Manipulate Latent Selectivity and Sparsity. [pdf] [supplementary]
    Hanlin Goh, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord. NIPS 2010 Workshop on Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning. To appear.
  11. An efficient System for combining complementary kernels in complex visual categorization tasks. [pdf]
    David Picard, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010) , p 3877-3880, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7992-4, Hong-Kong, 26-29 Sep 2010.
  12. SnooperText: A Multiresolution System for Text Detection in Complex Visual Scenes. [pdf]
    Rodrigo Minetto, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Jonathan Fabrizio, Beatriz Marcotegui. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), p 3861-3864, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7992-4 , Hong-Kong, 26-29 Sep 2010. To appear.
  13. Fast People Counting using Head Detection from Skeleton Graph. [pdf]
    Djamel Merad, Kheir Eddine Aziz, Nicolas Thome. International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (IEEE AVSS), pp.233-240, Boston, 29 august-1 september 2010. To appear.
  14. A Bottom/Up, View Point Invariant Human Detector. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome and Sébastien Ambellouis. 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Tampa, Florida, December 8-11 2008.
  15. A Combined Statistical-Structural Strategy for Alphanumeric Recognition. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome and Antoine Vacavant. 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Lake Tahoe, Nevada, California, November 26--28 2007.
  16. A HHMM-Based Approach for Robust Fall Detection. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome and Serge Miguet. 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (IEEE ICARCV) , Singapore, 4-9 december 2006.
  17. Human Body Part Labeling and Tracking Using Graph Matching Theory. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome, Djamel Mérad and Serge Miguet. International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (IEEE AVSS) , Sydney, 21-24 november 2006.
  18. A Robust Appearance Model for Tracking Human Motions. [pdf]
    Nicolas Thome and Serge Miguet. International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (IEEE AVSS) , Como, 15-16 september 2005. Best Paper Award.

PhD Thesis

Hierarchical Representations for Shape Recognition, People Identification and Motion Analysis in Image Sequences, 11 July 2007.