Research

The Imagine team at LIRIS specializes in computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition. It has 21 permanent members (8 PR, 3 MCF-HDR and 10 MCF), lecturers and researchers from University of Lyon 1, University of Lyon 2, École Centrale de Lyon and INSA Lyon. In 2019, it also has 29 doctoral and 17 post-doctoral fellows among its members.

The various research activities carried out by the Imagine team share the same general objectives aimed at understanding multi-source and multi-sensor images, thus integrating a very wide variety of content around images of people, objects and scenes in 2D and 3D (natural or urban scenes, aerial and satellite images, faces…), image sequences and video streams, as well as digital documents (maps, written and printed texts, scores and symbols…). The notion of visual object, in the broadest sense, thus constitutes a common denominator of our research.

Research interest

The Imagine team’s activities are divided into different themes related to the implementation of methods for indexing, modelling, classification and recognition of content (objects, actions, concepts), with particular attention paid to the development of automatic learning methods for computer vision.

The research carried out in the Imagine team aims to build bridges to bridge the semantic gap between, on the one hand, low-level information present in raw data (sampled data from the signal), possible multi-source data from other modalities or sensors (in particular embedded applications) and higher-level semantic information based on content modeling, classification and identification.

The Imagine team’s research activity falls under 5 major sub-themes that constitute the core of its applications.