1. General information 1.1.

Presentation of the LTCI

SEIDO, our common lab with EDF has been opened to the COMELEC departement and Tele-
com SudParis (as well as to LAAS in Toulouse). In 2017, EDF, Telecom ParisTech and Telecom
SudParis signed a general scientific cooperation agreement. We also signed a similar agreement
between CEA and Telecom ParisTech. In March 2018, we kicked off BART, a research initia-
tive on the blockchain together with Inria, Telecom SudParis and IRT SystemX. Today, Ecole
polytechnique and Mines ParisTech asked to join BART.
Since 2016, we also have initiated together with CEA and CentralSupelec a new lab on 5G
telecommunication which will gather many academic partners from Saclay: LRI, Inria, UVSQ,
Ecole polytechnique, as well as three major industrial partners of the domain: Orange, Thales and
Nokia.
Last but not least, during the period, we launched a number of chairs and common labs
with several French companies and one US company (Cisco). We also actively participate to the
Franco-German Academia between IMT and TUM working on industry 4.0.

Image, Data and Signal department (Gaël Richard). The Image, Data and Signal (IDS)
department (formerly Signal and Image Processing (TSI) department) headed by Gaël Richard
covers all aspects of signal and image processing (computer graphics and 3D images, video cod-
ing, audio applications, medical imaging, statistical signal processing . . .) with a specialization in
further topics such as emotional aspects in human-agent interactions or statistical learning. The
department has faced a significant reorganization following the leave of nine CNRS researchers at
the end of 2016. It is now organized in three teams, a development group and transversal research
topics. The three teams are:

– Machine learning, Statistics and Signal (S2A) which gathers the former Statistics and Appli-
cations (STA) and Audio, Acoustics and Waves (AAO) teams and two researchers involved
in machine learning from the former Multimedia team. The team is headed by Stephan
Clémençon.
– Multimedia (MM) which now focuses on its core activities on coding, transmission and
orchestration of multimedia signals and related interactive services. The team is headed by
Marco Cagnazzo.
– Image, Modeling, Analysis, Geometry, Synthesis (IMAGES) which evolved with the depar-
ture of its CNRS members (more than 1/3 of the team) on the one hand, and the launch
of new scientific directions (in particular in artificial intelligence and machine learning) on
the other hand. The team is headed by Florence Tupin.

The new development group, which gathers three persons, operates in a project mode and supports
software development projects in turn for the three teams.
In parallel, eight transversal research topics were defined to facilitate collaboration and scientific
animation on more focused important research directions, and to better cope with the variable team
sizes. Each topic has its own seminar and mailing lists. The topics are: Machine learning, Audio
data analysis and signal processing, Computer graphics, Probabilities and statistics, Mathematics
for images, Remote Sensing Data and Images, Social Computing, Biomedical image and digital
health.

1.1.2 Permanent staff, postdocs and PhD students

Overall, the permanent staff of the LTCI consists of 118 professors from Télécom ParisTech (62
of them being associate professors and 56 full professors), 13 engineers and 3 technicians and
10 people in the administrative staffs working primarily in the service of research. The detailed
evolution of the staff of permanent researchers and professors is given in Table 1.2. It can be
observed that the main event of the period is the departure of all the CNRS researchers (18 in
total), because of the end of the UMR CNRS.

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