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Nozha Ben Hajel - Boujemaa

Director of Research - Head of the IMEDIA Research Group

Office: 11-23

Phone: +33 1 39 63 51 54

Fax: +33 1 39 63 56 74

Email: Nozha.Boujemaa(a)inria.fr

Nozha Boujemaa is Director of Research at INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt. She obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science in 1993 (in Medical Imaging at Paris V) and her "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" in Computer Science in 2000 (in Clustering and Multimedia Indexing at University of Versailles). She has been graduated previously with a Master degree with Honors from University of Tunis.

Her topics of interests include Multimedia Content Search, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. She develops methods for automatic visual content enrichment, structuring and browsing together with interactive and personalized information retrieval mechanisms. Her research activities are leading to next generation of multimedia search engines. She's very keen to tackle fundamental and generic problems expressed from real use-cases and scenarios so that research results have impact on diverse real-life application domains including audio-visual archives, security, biodiversity, and satellite images …

Nozha Boujemaa is the co-author of over 150 international journals and conference proceedings publications. She has supervised over 25 PhD and master students. She is member of the Steering Committee of The ACM International Conference of Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2008-2012) and founding member of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR). She serves as General Chair of ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval 2010, Chair of "Brave New Ideas" Program within ACM Multimedia 2010 and Track Chair (Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval) within the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010. She organizes and co-chairs several international events: ACM MIR'06, ACM MIR'07, International workshop on Visual and Multimedia Digital Libraries (VMDL 2007), CHORUS Event on National Initiatives on Audio-Visual Search Engines, CHORUS Workshop on "Use-cases and New Services", Muscle-Delos Summer School'06 on "Multimedia digital libraries Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval", NSF-INRIA-BERKLEY-IBM joint workshop on "MultiMedia Content Based Indexing and Retrieval" (MMCBIR'01), … (see more in "Events"). She has served on numerous scientific program committees in international conferences (WWW Multimedia Track, ACM Multimedia, ACM MIR, IAPR ICPR, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICME, ACM CIVR, CBMI, RIAO...) in the area of visual information retrieval and pattern recognition. She acts as plenary speaker for 6 international conferences.

She takes in charge the Scientific Coordination of 4 European projects: MUSCLE Network of Excellence (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning – see in ICT Results "Results that lead the way") gathering 42 Europeans research labs, VITALAS Integrated Project: "Video & image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale" (see “Les Echos”), CHORUS CA: "Coordination Action over existing European and National Efforts on Multimedia Search Engines" (see "Search For Tomorrow: International Herald Tribune"). Chorus delivered a European multidisciplinary prospective study on challenges and gaps in the field of multimedia search engines and now Chorus+ (extended effort of Chorus over 3 years). She is involved in other EU projects: Glocal, I-search, and previously ACEMEDIA IP, TRENDS Strep, DELOS NoE, "STOP" (fighting against child abuse together with DCPJ, Europol…) as well as national projects (ANR R2I, ACI QuerySat, ACI Biotim…).

Dr. Boujemaa supervises research and development of IKONA: IMEDIA Search Engine that wins ImagEval/TechnoVision Benchmark (all image retrieval tasks). She is member of the steering committee of the first international contest in the topic of "Video copy detection" co-organised within TrecVid'08.

Dr. Boujemaa has served as a scientific expert for numerous international governmental research programs such as the NSF (National Science Foundation - USA) and the European Commission, Nwo and Token programs (Netherlands), CNRSG (Canada), A*Star (Singapore). She acts as French Expert for COST ICT Domain and has served as a member of "European Commission Task Force on Networked Media: long term research". She is appointed as expert for the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the period 2008-2009 and 2009-1010. She has been invited to several experts' panels to discuss the European commission FP7 Work Program objectives and priorities. She is elected in the Steering Board of NEM ETP (Networked and Electronic Media European Technology Platform). At the national level, she served as scientific expert for the French Parliament (Law on Digital Economy “LEN”) as well as for the French Ministry of Interior. She has served as elected member at the INRIA National Evaluation Committee (2004-2008).

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