Team Members
Permanent members
Marc-Emmanuel Bellemare
Associate professor
- Research activities : biomedical image analysis, deep-learning based image segmentation, registration
- Teaching activities : programming, signal processing, 3D modeling at Polytech’ Marseille and AMU
- Adjunct head of Marseille Imaging Institute
Jean-Marc Boï
Associate professor HDR
• Research Activities: scene analysis, image processing and segmentation.
• Teaching Activities: Computer science and interactions department.
• Jean-Marc is program director of the IMOVI specialization in the TSI Masters program.
Jean-Luc Damoiseaux
Associate professor
- Research Activities: Computer vision, video tracking, model interactions, and behavior analysis.
- Teaching Activities: Networking, Cybersecurity and Computer Science
Pierre Drap
CNRS Research Associate
Research Activities in computer vision, photogrammetry, image processing, underwater robotics, knowledge represenation and ontologies, machine learning applied to underwater archaeology, building archaeology, and marine biology.
Séverine Dubuisson
Associate professor HDR
- Research Activities: Computer vision, video tracking, model interactions, and behavior analysis.
- Teaching Activities: Polytech Marseille
- Séverine co-heads the IM team.
Rabah Iguernaissi
Associate professor
• Research Activities: Computer vision, Machine learning, behavior analysis, detection and tracking.
• Teaching Activities: Computer science, Telecommunications and Network Engineering.
• Rabah is head of studies for 1st year BUT.
Djamal Merad
Full Professor
- Research Activities: Computer vision, video tracking, and behavior analysis.
- Teaching Activities: BUT Telecommunications and Networs, Master in Signal and Image Processing.
- Djamel holds the position of head of signal and image division at LIS laboratory.
Abdellatif Moudafi
Full Professor
- Research Activities: Optimization, nonlinear and variational analysis, convex methods, system discretization, key algorithms, and solutions for fixed-point and equilibrium problems.
- Teaching Activities: Polytech Marseille.
Motasem Nawaf
Associate professor
- Research Activities: Computer vision, image processing, underwater robotics, and machine learning.
- Teaching Activities: Computer science and interactions department, involved in the Master program in Signal and Image Processing.
Nicolas Pirró
Full Professor
Nicolas is University Professor and Hospital Practitioner at Marseille Public University Hospitals (AP-HM). He is specialized in Digestive and Oncological Surgery. His research interests are mainly focused on medical imaging.
Non-permanent members
Raphaël Abele
Postdoctoral researcher
Raphaël works within the context of the A*midex PedIATrach project. His current research focuses on automating the processing, detection, and 3D reconstruction of the trachea using AI, including outlier detection.
Abderrahmen Bendimered
Research Engineer
Abderrahmen works on the analysis of the behavior of autistic children, particularly through the tracking of 3D gaze. This involves the development of solutions to estimate the direction of gaze using an RGB-D camera, combining head orientation and eye position. Additionally, person tracking is used to follow the child’s movements in a doctor’s office.
Rabih Chamas
Research Engineer
Rabih specializes in computer vision, focusing on medical imaging. He enhances classification accuracy and interpretability in dermatologic imagery by fusing generative models, such as Stable Diffusion, with classifiers to improve performance, reduce data bias, and provide interpretability solutions.
Marc-Adrien Hostin
Temporary Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER)
Marc-Adrien defended his PhD in artificial intelligence applied to automatic MRI analysis. His subject covers topics ranging from the segmentation of leg muscles in the context of neuromuscular diseases to the generation of images of synthetic patients by GAN. He is currying now a teaching mission at the faculty of science.
Jorge Rodriguez Ramos
Research Engineer
Jorge works as a biological image analysis engineer. His aim is to implement deep learning methods and tools for managing and analyzing electron microscopy images. The research tributes to the AMIDEX SEMENDO project, co-developed by LIS and IHU Méditerranée Infection—APHM, La Timone Hospital.
PhD students
Moncef Boujou
PhD Student
Moncef is pursuing his PhD in computer vision, deep learning, image processing, and works primarily on Multiple Camera Person Tracking. He also carries out teaching activities in computer science.
Bertrand Chemisky
PhD Student
Bertrand is pursuing his PhD, focusing on underwater optical surveys conducted from a robotic vehicle using real-time photogrammetry, including quality assessment and the implementation of corrective actions. Concurrently, he serves as the head of Civil Activities at iXblue.
Mira Razafindrambao
PhD Student
Mira works on artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging, particularly on the detection of pancreatic cancer from echo-endoscopic images using deep learning models.
Jules Collenne
PhD Student
Jules works on skin cancer diagnosis using machine learning. His current research focuses on Siamese neural networks, self-supervised visual representation learning and image classification. He is also a teaching assistant at the BUT Networks and Telecommunications.
Raul Alfredo De Sousa Silva
PhD Student
Already coming from a background on image processing on medical and biological field, he works on the modelling of complex autistic behaviour on mice through CV/DL techniques. It is also interested on the impact of induced obesity during pregnancy on autistic behaviour expression.
Marc-Adrien Hostin
PhD Student
Marc-Adrien is a PhD in artificial intelligence applied to automatic MRI analysis. His subject covers topics ranging from the segmentation of leg muscles in the context of neuromuscular diseases to the generation of images of synthetic patients by GAN.
Adrien Julia
PhD Student
Adrien works with the INMED on shape recognition and 3D visualization of neural circuitries from brain tissue clearing. Light Sheet Microscope allows neurobiologists to image large tissues in a short time, but requires a combined effort with computer scientists to process, model and analyze these data.
Mohamed Nennouche
PhD Student
With an engineering degree in general electronics and a master’s in signal and communication, he is currently pursuing his doctoral research on the use of Machine Learning and Deep Learning approaches in the context of underwater optical communications, more specifically in signal detection and channel estimation tasks.
Ex-members
Jilliana Monnier
PhD Student
Jilliana was a PhD student in onco-dermatology, she defended her PhD late 2023
Arthur Cartel Foahom Gouabou
Ex PhD & ATER
Arthur’ PhD focuses on automated diagnosis of skin cancers, but also on solving recurrent problems in the CV field such as class imbalance. Currently, He is AI researcher – Senior Data Scientist at DMSLOG.Ai