Speakers
Pr. B. BOASHASH (UQ, Australia/ Qatar University)
Pr. A. BEGHDADI (University of Paris 13, France)
Dr. A. NAIT- ALI (University of Paris- 12, France)
Dr. N. DAHNOUN (University of Bristol, UK)
Dr. K. ABED-MERAIM (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Dr. M. Deriche (EE Dept, KFUPM, Saudi Arab)
Dr. M-C.Larabi (University of Poitiers, France)
Pr. A. BELOUCHRANI (ENP, Algeria)
Pr. A. OUAMRI (USTO, MB, Oran, Algeria)
Pr. N. BERRACHED (USTO, MB, Oran, Algeria)
Dr. M. KECHE (USTO, MB, Oran, Algeria)
Dr. M. BEKHTI (CTS, Arzew, Algeria)
Dr. A. SI MOHAMED (CTS, Arzew, Algeria)
Dr. S. KAHLOUCHE (CTS, Arzew, Algeria)
Dr. Y. SMARA (USTHB, Algeria)
Dr. A. SERIR (USTHB, Algeria)
Dr. A. El SADIK (OTTAWA University, Canada)
Dr. M. IBN KAHLA (Queens Univ., Canada)
Speakers
Presentation
Pr. B. BOASHASH: Boualem Boashash obtained a
Diplome d'ingenieur-Physique-Electronique from Institut de
Chimie et de Physique Industrielles de Lyon (ICPI),
University of Lyon, France, in 1978, the M.S. and Doctorate
(Docteur-Ingenieur) degrees from the Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1979 and 1982,
respectively. In 1979, he joined Elf-Aquitaine Geophysical
Research Centre, Pau, France. In May 1982, he joined the
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France.
In 1984, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Queensland, Australia, as a Lecturer. In 1990,
he joined Graduate School of Science and Technology, Bond
University, as a Professor of electronics. In 1991, he
joined Queensland University of Technology as the foundation
Professor of signal processing and Director of the Signal
Processing Research Centre. B. Boashash is the Editor of
three books and has written over four hundred technical
publications. His research interests include time-frequency
signal analysis, spectral estimation, signal detection and
classification, and higher-order spectra. Professor Boashash
is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, Fellow of IREE, and
Fellow of IEEE. Pr. A. BEGHDADI: Azeddine BEGHDADI
is Professor at the University of Paris 13 (Institut Galilée) and a researcher at L2TI laboratory
where he does all his research in Image and video Processing. He started his undergraduate studies
at ENSEP and Physics Institue at University Es-Senia Oran. After completing the six first semesters
(S1-S6 credits), he came to Paris to complete his graduate studies at ENSTelecom Paris and University
Paris 11 (Orsay). He received Maitrise in Physics and Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Optics and Signal
Processing from University Orsay-Paris XI (Equivalent : Masters of Sciences) in June 1982 and June 1983
respectively and the PhD in Physics (Specialism : Optics and Signal Processing) from University Paris 6
in June 1986. Dr. Beghdadi worked at different places including the "Groupe d'Analyse d'Images Biomédicales"
(CNAM Paris )and "Laboratoire d'Optique des Solides" (University of Paris 6). From 1987 to 1989, he has been
a "Assistant Associé" (Assistant Professor) at University Paris 13. During the period 1987-1998, he was with
LPMTM CNRS Laboratory working on Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) materials image analysis. He published
over than 140 international refereed scientific papers. He is a funding member of the L2TI laboratory.
His research interests include image quality enhancement and assessment, compression, bio-inspired models
for image analysis and physics-based image analysis. Dr. Beghdadi has served as conference chair of ISSPA 2003,
technical chair of ISSPA 2005, Track chair of ISSPA 2007 and program co-chair of the first intenational
workshop on Visual Signal Processing and Analysis. He also served as session organizer and a member of
the organizing and technical committees for many IEEE conferences. Dr Beghdadi is a Senior member of IEEE.
Pr. A. NAIT- ALI:
Amine NAIT-ALI is born in 1972. He received in 1994 the B.sc degree in
Electrical Engineering (USTO, Oran, then the DEA degree “Diplôme
des Etudes Approfondies” in Automatic and Signal Processing
from the University Paris XI (Orsay, 1995). In 1998, he
received the Ph.D. degree in Biosignal Processing and the
degree “Diplôme d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”
(DHDR) from the University Paris XII, in 2007. Since 1999,
he was an Associate Professor and currently he is a
Professor at the same university. His research interests are
focused on applied digital signal processing including
biosignal processing, biometrics, optimization, modeling and
biomedical signal and image compression. He has co-authored
many international peer-reviewed papers and edited and
co-edited three books in the biomedical engineering field
(Springer, ISTE-Wiley and Hermes). He has organized and/or
has run several national, european and international
workshops and served also as a reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, EURASIP journal on
advances in Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing
and Control and Digital Signal Processing. He is also a
member of: IEEE, SFGBM, GDR ISIS and STIC-Santé. Finally, he
has co-initiated the Medical Database for the Evaluation of
Image and Signal Processing Algorithms (MeDEISA, available
at www.medeisa.net).
Dr. N. DAHNOUN: Naim Dahnoun received his
"Ingeniorat d'Etat" in El ectronics in 1983 from University of Science and Technology, Oran, Algeria.
He worked as an electronic engineer for two years for the Algerian Air Force and after that he was awarded a PhD
grant from the Algerian Ministry of High Education. In 1990, he completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering
at Leicester University and worked at t he Leicester Royal Infirmary as Researcher and then as Lecturer
at Lei cester University. In 1993, he started new research in optical communi cation at UMIST
University in Manchester before joining Electrical Engineering at Bristol University in 1994 where
he is now holding the position of Senior Teaching Fellow. Naim has been involved in DSP implementation
since 1987 and published a variety of teaching materials that have been used by over 4,000 academics
over the world. Naim has been giving industrial trainings since 1994 for major telecom,
automotive and video surveillance companie s such as Texas instruments, Toshiba, Fijutsu, Alcatel,
Cisco and H arman/Becker. In 2003, in recognition of the important role playe d by Universities
in educating engineers in new technologies such as real-time Digital Signal Processing (DSP),
Texas Instruments (TI) (NY SE:TXN) presented the first Texas Instruments DSP Educator Award
to D r. Naim Dahnoun for his outstanding contributions to furthering edu cation in DSP technology.
Naim's main research interests include digital sign al processing applied to biomedical, communications,
video survei llance, automotive and optics. Dr. K. ABED-MERAIM:
Karim Abed-Meraim
was born in 1967. He received the State Engineering degree
from the École Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1990, as
well as from École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 1992, the M.S.
degree from Paris XI University, Orsay, France, in 1992, and
the Ph.D. degree from École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 1995 (in the
field of signal processing and communications). From 1995 to
1998, he was a Research Staff Member at the Electrical
Engineering Department of the University of Melbourne where
he worked on several research projects related to blind
system identification for wireless communications, blind
source separation, and array processing for communications,
respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor (since
1998) at the Signal and Image Processing Department of ENST.
His research interests are in signal processing for
communications and include system identification, multiuser
detection, space-time coding, adaptive filtering and
tracking, array processing, and performance analysis. He is
an IEEE Senior Member and a past Associate Editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Dr. M. Deriche:
Mohamed Deriche received his undergraduate degree
from the National Polytechnic School of Algeria in 1985. He then joined
the University of Minnesota, USA, where he completed his MS and PhD in 1988,
and 1992 respectively. He worked as a Post Doctorate Fellow with the University
of Minnesota Radiology Department in the area of MRI. He then joined the Queensland
University of Technology, Australia, as a Lecturer in 1994, then Associate Professor in 2000.
In 2001, He joined the EE Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia,
where he is currently leading the signal processing group.
He was awarded the ``Best Electrical Engineering Student'' in 1985.
He has published over one hundred fifty refereed papers. He delivered a number
of tutorial and invited talks at international conferences. He is a recipient of the
IEEE third Millennium Medal for 2000.
Dr. Deriche supervised more than 20 PhD and Master students and more than 60 BS theses
in the areas of signal & image processing. He completed more than 20 Major
Funded Research Projects including grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arab. Dr. M-C. LARABI:
Dr. Chaker Larabi received his PhD from the University of Poitiers in
2002. He is currently associate Professor, in charge of the perception,
colour and quality team. He is the president of French National Colour
Imaging Group (GFINC) founded in 2002. His actual scientific interests
deal with image and video coding and optimization, and more specifically
image and video quality assessment. He works on the Human Visual System
modelling (spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal) for the enhancement of
several tools such as compression, digital cinema, etc. He is also member
of the French National Body for the ISO JPEG, since 2000 and chair of the
Advanced Image Coding group. He is an active member of divisions 1 and 8
of CIE and a senior member of IEEE.. Pr. A. BELOUCHRANI:
Adel Belouchrani received the State Engineering degree in
1991 from École Nationale Polytechnique (ENP), Algiers,
Algeria, the M.S. degree in signal processing from the
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France,
in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and image processing
from Télécom Paris (ENST), France, in 1995. He was a
Visiting Scholar at the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley,
from 1995 to 1996. He was with the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova,
PA, as a Research Associate from 1996 to 1997. He is
currently and since 1998 with the Electrical Engineering
Department of ENP as a Full Professor. His research
interests are in statistical signal processing and (blind)
array signal processing with applications in biomedical and
communications, time-frequency analysis, time-frequency
array signal processing, and wireless and spread spectrum
communications. Pr. A. OUAMRI:
Abdelaziz Ouamri was born in Algeria, he received
the BSc degree in electrical engineering from ENSI(CAEN),
the DEA degree in automatic and signal processing from
University Paris XI in 1979, and the PhD degree in signal
processing from University Paris XI in 1986. He is currently
a Professor at University of Sciences and Technology of
Oran, Algeria. His research interests are focused on high
resolution spectral methods, deconvolution, compression,
tracking and source separation. Pr. N. BERRACHED:
Nasr-Eddine Berrached was born in 1954 in Tlemcen, Algeria. He
received the Eng.Degree in Electronics from the University of Sciences and
Technology of Oran (USTO, Algeria) in 1978, and the Dr. Eng.
Degree from the University of Sciences and Technology of
Lille (USTL, France) in 1982. He also received the Dr. of
Eng. Degree in Computer Science from the Tokyo Institute of
Technology (TIT, ) in 1992, and the Dr. 'd’Etat” degree in Electronics from USTO in 1994. He joined USTO in 1982, where he is professor at the
Department of Electronics.From 1986 he was leading the Laboratory of Robotics, and from
2000 he is leading the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory of the same university. He is
also the coordinator of the Doctoral School in “New Information and Communications Technologies,
Intelligent Systems and Robotics.His interests include, man-machine interfaces, telerobotics, machine vision, pattern recognition, and
learning. Dr. M. KECHE:
Mokhtar Keche received the Engineering degree in
Telecommunications from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications (ENST), Paris, FRANCE in 1978, and the Doctor
of Engineering degree and PHD from the University of Rennes
in France and the University of Nottingham in U.K in 1982
and 1998, respectively. He is actually an associate
professor at the Electronic Department of University of
Sciences and Technology, Mohamed Boudiaf, (USTO, MB) Oran (Algeria).
His research interests are in the area of Digital
Communications, Array Processing, and Multitarget tracking.
Dr. M. BEKHTI: Dr. A. SI MOHAMED: Arezki Si Mohamed est chercheur enseignant (Maître de recherche A),responsable de la division de mécanique spatiale et chef d'équipe de recherche "estimation et contrôle d'orbite & d'attitude des satellites" au Centre des Techniques Spatiales (CTS).
Il assure dans le cadre de l'ecole doctorale "technologie spatiale & applications", le module d'estimation et de contrôle d'attitude des satellite, à l'USTO, Oran.
Il est également membre de l'équipe projet Alsat-1 premier microsatellite Algérien et responsable du sous système SCAO d'Alsat-1.
Ses travaux de recherche ont fait l'objet de plusieurs communications et publications internationales et il est aussi reviewer (Elsevier).
Dr. S. KAHLOUCHE: Salem Kahlouche, a obtenu son
diplôme d’ingénieur d’Etat en Géodésie 1981, à l’Ecole Nationale des Sciences géodésiques
(Arzew), puis a préparé un Diplôme d’Etudes approfondies à l’Ecole Nationales des Sciences
Géographiques (Paris), avant de soutenir sa thèse de Doctorat à l’Institut Géographique
National (IGN – Paris) en 1986. Il a d’abord intégré comme enseignant l’Ecole Nationale
des Sciences Géodésiques (1986-1987), avant d’occuper le poste de chargé de recherche
et responsable du laboratoire de Géodésie au Centre National des Techniques Spatiales (Arzew).
Depuis 2004, il assure la Direction de la Division de Géodésie Spatiale du CNTS avec le grade
de Directeur de recherche, et est responsable depuis 1998, de la formation Magister en
« techniques spatiales et applications ». Il est auteur d’une trentaine de publications
internationales dans les domaines liées au positionnement par satellite (GPS, altimétrie spatiale,..),
et à ses applications (géodynamiques, auscultation, champ de gravité, modélisation ionosphérique, ...).
Il a aussi conduit ou participé à divers projets de recherche (PNR) et de valorisation au profit de diverses
structures nationales, et encadré des travaux recherche dans le cadre de thèses de doctorat, ainsi qu’une
quarantaine de mémoires de magister et d’ingénieur. Dr. Y. SMARA: Youcef SMARA received the State
Engineering degree in 1976 from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique (ENP), Algiers, Algeria,
the Magister degree in Image processing from the Houari Boumediene University of Sciences and Technology
of Algiers, Algeria in 1985, and the Doctorat d’état degree in Remote Sensing and Image Processing from
the same university, Algiers, Algeria in 1998. He is currently a full Professor (since 2003) and director
of the Image Processing and Radiance Laboratoty of the Faculty of Electronic and Computer Science of
the Houari Boumediene University of Sciences and Technology of Algiers. His research interests are in
image processing for remote sensing applications and GIS and include radar imagery, speckle noise
reduction, satellite image fusion. Dr. A. El SADIK:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is University Research Chair and Professor, SITE,
University of Ottawa and recipient of the Professional of the Year Award (2008), the
Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research; Award from Germanys Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s
Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New
Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research
Laboratory (MCRLab). He is a Theme co-Leader in the LORNET NSERC Research Network. He is Associate Editor of the ACM
t;Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
(ACM TOMCCAP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE TCIAIG) and Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals.
Dr. El Saddik has been serving on several technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the
General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 20
international conferences symposia and workshops on
collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia
communications and instrumentation and measurement. He was
the general co-chair of ACM MM 2008. He is leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures,
collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and
communications. He has authored and co-authored two books and more than 250
publications. He has received research grants and contracts
totaling more than $10 million and has supervised more than
90 researchers. His research has been selected for the BEST
Paper Award three times. Dr. El Saddik is a Senior Member of
ACM, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering and the IEEE.