Gabriela Csurka

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Research Scientist

I joined XRCE in July 2002 and I am a member of the Textual & Visual Pattern Analysis group. My main research interest concerns the exploration of new technologies for content and aesthetic analysis, categorization and automatic quality enhancement of images.

Referree for different international journals and conferences

  • Journals: PAMI, IJCV, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEE Proceedings -- Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Traitement du Signal
  • Conferences: ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ICIP,CAIP

I am co-organizing the International Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding (MMIU) in conjoinction with Visapp 2008.

Short biography

  • Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Timisoara, Rumania (1991), she obtained the Master of Robotics and Vision (1992) and her Ph.D. degree (1996) in Computer Science (Science of engineering) from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France. Her PhD thesis prepared within the group Robotvis, at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis studies the possibility of a projective representation of the three-dimensional environment using a pair of views obtained with uncalibrated cameras.
  • She spent two years (1996 - 1998) as a postdoctoral associate within the groups Movi, INRIA Rhône-Alpes and Vista, IRISA Rennes where her research work concerned self-calibration and reconstruction from stereo image sequences and motion analyses of video sequences.
  • Between 1998-1999 she was research and teaching assistant at CUI, University of Geneva, where she was involved in research on watermarking digital images and videos for copyright protection within the Computer Vision Group of the Computer Science Department. She continued research work on watermarking technologies as research engineer within the Image and Video group of the Multimedia Communications Department, at Institut Eurécom (2000-2001)

Publications before I joined XRCE

Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

  • C. Rey, G. Doeer, G. Csurka and J-L. Dugelay, Toward generic image dewatermarking?, International Conference of Image Processing (ICIP'02), Rochester, NY, September 2002.
  • R. Horaud, G. Csurka and D. Demirdjian, Stereo Calibration Using Rigid Motions, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) volume 22, number 12, pp 1446-1452, December 2000.
  • F. Deguillaume, G. Csurka and T. Pun, Countermeasures for unintentional and intentional video watermarking attacks, In Ping Wah Wong and Edward J. Delp eds., IS&T/SPIE's 12th Annual Symposium, Electronic Imaging 2000: Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Content II, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 3971, Paper EI 3971-33, San Jose, California USA, January 2000.
  • G. Csurka, D. Demirdjian and R. Horaud, Finding the Collineation Between two Projective Reconstructions, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU),Vol 75, Nr 3, pp 260-269, September 1999.
  • G. Csurka and P. Bouthemy, Direct Identification of Moving Objects and Background from 2D Motion Models, In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV'99), Vol 1, pp 566-571, Kerkyra, Greece, September 1999.
  • G. Csurka, F. Deguillaume, J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh and T. Pun, A Bayesian approach to affine transformation resistant image and video watermarking, In International Workshop on Information Hiding, Vol. LNCS 1768, Springer Verlag, pp. 270-285, Dresden, Germany, September 1999.
  • J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh and G. Csurka, A Bayesian Approach To Spread Spectrum Watermark Detection and Secure Copyright Protection for Digital Image Libraries, In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99), Vol. 1, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, pp. 207-212, June 1999.
  • S. Pereira, J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh, F. Deguillaume, G. Csurka and T. Pun, Template based recovery of Fourier-based watermarks using log-polar and log-log maps, In IEEE Multimedia Systems 99, International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 870-874, Florence, Italy, June 1999.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Algebraic and geometric tools to compute projective and permutation invariants, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol 21, Nr 1,pp 58-65, January 1999.
  • F. Deguillaume, G. Csurka, J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh and T. Pun, Robust 3D DFT Video Watermarking, In Ping Wah Wong and Edward J. Delp eds., IS&T/SPIE's 11th Annual Symposium, Electronic Imaging '99: Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 3657, Paper EI 3657-13, San Jose, California USA, January 1999.
  • D. Demirdjian, G. Csurka and R. Horaud, Autocalibration in the presence of critical motions, In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'98), pp. 751-759,University of Southampton, UK, September 1998.
  • J. Khedari, J. Khedari, G. Csurka and J. Hirunlabh, Completing Angström's principle of heat propagation in solid materials, In Association for Modelling & Simulation in Enterprises (AMSE), Editor : Prof. Dr. Christian Berger-Vachon, Special issue 1998.
  • J. Khedari, J. Khedari, G. Csurka and J. Hirunlabh, Analytical modeling of heat transfer in isotropic solid materials under periodic steady regime and cylindrical coordinates, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Contribution of Cognition to Modelling (CCM'98), pp. 9.10-9.13, Lyon-Villeurbanne, France, July 1998.
  • G. Csurka, D. Demirdjian, A. Ruf and R. Horaud, Closed-Form Solutions for the Euclidean Calibration of a Stereo Rig, In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'98), pp. 426-442, Freiburg, Germany, June 1998.
  • A. Ruf, G. Csurka and R. Horaud, Projective Translations and Affine Stereo Calibration, In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'98), pp. 475-481, Santa Barbara, California, USA, June 1998.
  • O. Faugeras, L. Robert, S. Laveau, G. Csurka, C. Zeller and Cyril Gauclin et Imad Zoghlami, 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes from Image Sequences, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 69, 3, pp. 292-309, March 1998.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Computing Three-dimensional Projective Invariants from a Pair of Images Using the Grassmann-Cayley Algebra, Image and Vision Computing (IVC), 16, 1, pp. 3-12, January 1998.
  • R. Horaud and G. Csurka, Self-Calibration and Euclidean Reconstruction Using Motions of A Stereo Rig, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'98), pp. 96-103, Bombay, India, January 1998.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Algebraic and geometric tools to compute projective and permutation invariants, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Algebraic Frames for the perception-action cycle (AFPAC'97), Vol. LNCS 1768, Springer Verlag, pp. 207-218, Kiel, Germany, September 1997.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Computing Projective and Permutation Invariants of Points and Lines, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'97), Vol. LNCS 1296, Springer Verlag, pp. 66-73, Kiel, Germany, September 1997.
  • G. Csurka, C. Zeller, Z. Zhang and O. Faugeras, Characterizing the Uncertainty of the Fundamental Matrix, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 68, 1, pp. 18-35, October 1997.
  • C. Rothwell, O. Faugeras and G. Csurka, A Comparison of Projective Reconstruction Methods for Pairs of Views, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 68, 1, pp. 36-58, October 1997.
  • C. Rothwell, G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, A Comparison of Projective Reconstruction Methods for Pairs of Views, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'95), pp. 932-937, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 1995.
  • G. Csurka and O.D. Faugeras, Computing Three-dimensional Projective Invariants from a Pair of Images Using the Grassmann-Cayley Algebra, In Proceedings of Europe-China Workshop on Geometrical Modelling and Invariants for Computer Vision (GMICV'95), pp. 150-157, Xian, China, April 1995.
  • C. Rothwell, O. Faugeras and G. Csurka, Different Path towards Projective Reconstruction, In Proceedings of Europe-China Workshop on Geometrical Modelling and Invariants for Computer Vision (GMICV'95), pp. 245-252, Xian, China, April 1995.
  • O. Faugeras, S. Laveau, L. Robert, C. Zeller and G. Csurka, 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes from Sequences of Images, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Automatic Extraction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images, pp. 145-168, Ascona, Switzerland, April 1995.

Other conferences with full paper, panel presentation or abstract

  • G. Csurka, J.-L. Dugelay, C. Mallauran, J.-P. Nguyen and C. Rey, Attaque malveillante d'images tatouées basée sur l' autosimilarité, In 7èmes Journées d'Études et d'Échanges ``Compression et Représentation des Signaux Audiovisuels'' (CORESA 2001), Dijon, France, November 2001.
  • J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh and G. Csurka, Watermarking methods, In 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH'99), Panel ``Digital watermarking: what will it do for me? And what it won't!'', Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 1999.
  • G. Csurka, F. Deguillaume, J. J. K. Ó Ruanaidh and T. Pun, Tatouage d'images basé sur la transformée de Fourier discrète, In 5èmes Journées d'Études et d'Échanges ``Compression et Représentation des Signaux Audiovisuels'' (CORESA 99), Sophia-Antipolis, Alpes-Maritimes, France, June 1999.
  • D. Demirdjian, R. Horaud and G. Csurka, Autocalibration d'un capteur stéréoscopique en mouvement planaire, In Proceedings of the Journées Francophones Orasis organized by sc Gdr-Prc Chm, pp. 7-16, Sophia-Antipolis , France, October 1997.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Invariants projectifs des différents configurations de points/plans et/ou de droites dans l'espace et à partir d'une paire de vues, In Proceedings of the Journées Orasis organized by sc Gdr-Prc Chm, pp. 117-122, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Mai 1996.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Invariants projectifs en vision stereoscopique : étude directe du cas de quatre droites et caracterisation de l'incertitude., In Actes du 9ème Congrès AFCET de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, pp. 187-196, Paris, France, January 1994.
  • G. Csurka and O. Faugeras, Invariants projectifs en vision stereoscopique : étude directe du cas de quatre droites et caracterisation de l'incertitude., In Proceedings of the Journées Orasis organized by sc Gdr-Prc Chm, pp. 54-57, Mulhouse, France, October 1993.

Ph.D. Theses

  • G. Csurka, Modelisation projective des objets tridimensionnels en vision par ordinateur . Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, April 1996.

Technical Reports

  • G. Csurka, R. Horaud and K. Daumüller-Claudel, Finding the Collineation Between two Projective Reconstructions, Research Report RR-3468, INRIA, August 1998.
  • R. Horaud, G. Csurka and D. Demirdjian, Stereo Calibration from Rigid Motions, Research Report RR-3467, INRIA, August 1998.
  • G. Csurka, C. Zeller, Z. Zhang and O. Faugeras, Characterizing the Uncertainty of the Fundamental Matrix, Research Report RR-2560, INRIA, June 1995.
  • C. Rothwell, O. Faugeras and G. Csurka, 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes from Sequences of Images, Research Report RR-2572, INRIA, June 1995.
  • C. Rothwell, O. Faugeras and G. Csurka, A Comparison of Projective Reconstruction Methods for Pairs of Views, Research Report RR-2538, INRIA, April 1995.

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