The Sino-French IT LabThe Sino-French IT Lab

StStéphane Grumbachéphane Grumbach

Laboratoire Franco-Chinois d’Informatique, Laboratoire Franco-Chinois d’Informatique, d’Automatique et de Mathématiques Appliquéesd’Automatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées

http://liama.ia.ac.cnhttp://liama.ia.ac.cn

StStéphane Grumbachéphane Grumbach

Laboratoire Franco-Chinois d’Informatique, Laboratoire Franco-Chinois d’Informatique, d’Automatique et de Mathématiques Appliquéesd’Automatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées

http://liama.ia.ac.cnhttp://liama.ia.ac.cn

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What is LIAMA?What is LIAMA?

A Joint Lab a team of around 40 researchers and students working on half a dozen research projects

initiated in France by INRIA hosted by the Institute of Automation

of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS located in the heart of Zhongguancun in Beijing

The Chinese silicon valley

A Joint Lab a team of around 40 researchers and students working on half a dozen research projects

initiated in France by INRIA hosted by the Institute of Automation

of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS located in the heart of Zhongguancun in Beijing

The Chinese silicon valley

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INRIA, the founding partnerINRIA, the founding partner

French National Institute for Computer Science and Control2700 scientists including 950 PhD studentsBudget of 135 MEuros

A major European actor of research in ITMore than 100 projects in FP6Coordination of 3 projects on grid CoreGrid (NoE); GridComp (STREP); XtreemOS (IP)

120 project-teams divided into 5 scientific areas Communicating systems Cognitive systems Symbolic systems Numerical systems Biological systems

Leader in technology transfer 80 spin-off companies (Ilog)

French National Institute for Computer Science and Control2700 scientists including 950 PhD studentsBudget of 135 MEuros

A major European actor of research in ITMore than 100 projects in FP6Coordination of 3 projects on grid CoreGrid (NoE); GridComp (STREP); XtreemOS (IP)

120 project-teams divided into 5 scientific areas Communicating systems Cognitive systems Symbolic systems Numerical systems Biological systems

Leader in technology transfer 80 spin-off companies (Ilog)

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CASIA, the host partnerCASIA, the host partner

The institute of Automation

One of the IT institutes of CAS in BeijingCreated in 1956

National Laboratory of Pattern Recognitionimage processing and graphics, machine vision, pattern recognition,

speech recognition and understanding, natural language processing,

Key Laboratory of Complex systemsadvanced robotic control, artificial intelligence, intelligent sensing technology, human-machine interfaces, advanced manufacturing systems, cognitive science,

A famous spin-off: Hanwang

The institute of Automation

One of the IT institutes of CAS in BeijingCreated in 1956

National Laboratory of Pattern Recognitionimage processing and graphics, machine vision, pattern recognition,

speech recognition and understanding, natural language processing,

Key Laboratory of Complex systemsadvanced robotic control, artificial intelligence, intelligent sensing technology, human-machine interfaces, advanced manufacturing systems, cognitive science,

A famous spin-off: HanwangQuickTime™ and a

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A history of almost a decadeA history of almost a decade

LIAMA was established in January 1997 by The Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, and The French Institute for Computer Science and Control, INRIA

To promote cooperation in the areas of computer science, automation and applied mathematics

Following an annual call for proposalssmall research projectsfunded by both parties have been selected each yearby a joint scientific committee

LIAMA was established in January 1997 by The Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, and The French Institute for Computer Science and Control, INRIA

To promote cooperation in the areas of computer science, automation and applied mathematics

Following an annual call for proposalssmall research projectsfunded by both parties have been selected each yearby a joint scientific committee

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A hub for the cooperation in ITA hub for the cooperation in IT Joint research projects Exchange of students

LIAMA hosts an increasing number of French studentsLIAMA sends Chinese students to Europe

Promotion of open source software Scientific computing software, Scilab

Development projects with French industryAlcatel Space, France Telecom, etc.

Promotion of Sino-European cooperation1st FP5 IST EU-China project, ANFAS, 1999

1st OIF Marie Curie fellowship for China, 2005

Joint research projects Exchange of students

LIAMA hosts an increasing number of French studentsLIAMA sends Chinese students to Europe

Promotion of open source software Scientific computing software, Scilab

Development projects with French industryAlcatel Space, France Telecom, etc.

Promotion of Sino-European cooperation1st FP5 IST EU-China project, ANFAS, 1999

1st OIF Marie Curie fellowship for China, 2005

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Why are we

working

in China ?

Why are we

working

in China ?

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A very dynamic environment A very dynamic environment

Zhongguancun, the Chinese silicon valley About 1/3 of the institutes of the Academy of Science

Institute of software, Institute of computing technology Famous universities, 350% increase of students in China 1998->2003

Tsinghua, Peking U., Beihang, etc.Active hitech park

Lenovo, etc. Research labs of most industrial IT players,

Motorola, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Google, etc.

A strong French network Industrial labs: France Telecom, Thomson, French engineering university: Ecole Centrale de Pékin

Zhongguancun, the Chinese silicon valley About 1/3 of the institutes of the Academy of Science

Institute of software, Institute of computing technology Famous universities, 350% increase of students in China 1998->2003

Tsinghua, Peking U., Beihang, etc.Active hitech park

Lenovo, etc. Research labs of most industrial IT players,

Motorola, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Google, etc.

A strong French network Industrial labs: France Telecom, Thomson, French engineering university: Ecole Centrale de Pékin

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Boom of IT in ChinaBoom of IT in China

Rapidly increasing IT penetration 380 millions mobile phones (1st rank) 120 millions people online (2nd rank)

2nd linguistic group online

30% computer equipped urban home

Rapidly expanding IT industry 3rd rank (behind USA and Japan) 2nd for manufactured products (PC, etc.)

Lenovo (IBM PC), Huawei

1st for export since 2004 (ahead of the USA)

Rapidly increasing IT penetration 380 millions mobile phones (1st rank) 120 millions people online (2nd rank)

2nd linguistic group online

30% computer equipped urban home

Rapidly expanding IT industry 3rd rank (behind USA and Japan) 2nd for manufactured products (PC, etc.)

Lenovo (IBM PC), Huawei

1st for export since 2004 (ahead of the USA)

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Priorities of IT research in ChinaPriorities of IT research in China

Hardware: High performance computing 1er DOE, USA, BlueGene

IBM, 131072 processors, 2005 42e Shanghai, China Dawning 4000A,

Dawning, 2560 processors, 2004

SoftwareOnly 33% of software used in China is homemadeIncrease of outsourcing activitiesAsianux: linux with Japan and KoreaDesktop chinese office

StandardsEVD, WAPI, TD-SCDMA

Theoretical Computer ScienceProcess calculi for real time systemsAndrew Yao, Turing award 2000, back in Tsinghua

ApplicationsEmphasis on environmental issues (hazard prediction, agronomy, etc.)

Hardware: High performance computing 1er DOE, USA, BlueGene

IBM, 131072 processors, 2005 42e Shanghai, China Dawning 4000A,

Dawning, 2560 processors, 2004

SoftwareOnly 33% of software used in China is homemadeIncrease of outsourcing activitiesAsianux: linux with Japan and KoreaDesktop chinese office

StandardsEVD, WAPI, TD-SCDMA

Theoretical Computer ScienceProcess calculi for real time systemsAndrew Yao, Turing award 2000, back in Tsinghua

ApplicationsEmphasis on environmental issues (hazard prediction, agronomy, etc.)

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What are we

working on

at LIAMA?

What are we

working on

at LIAMA?

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Current projects in LIAMACurrent projects in LIAMA

Research projects GreenLab, Plant Growth modeling and Applications Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Image Understanding CAD - Computer Graphics Pervasive data processing Biometry

Development project Scilab, Promotion of the scientific computing software

Research projects GreenLab, Plant Growth modeling and Applications Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Image Understanding CAD - Computer Graphics Pervasive data processing Biometry

Development project Scilab, Promotion of the scientific computing software

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The GreenLab projectThe GreenLab project

Stochastic, functional and interactive models for Plant Growth and Architecture simulation

Cooperation with INRA, CIRAD, INRIA

Philippe de Reffye, CIRAD, Marc Jaeger, CIRAD, Alexia Stokes, INRAThierry Fourcaud, CIRADHU Baogang, CASIA,ZHENG Xiaopeng, CASIA

Two main directions :

1) plant growth modeling2) eco-engineering

Stochastic, functional and interactive models for Plant Growth and Architecture simulation

Cooperation with INRA, CIRAD, INRIA

Philippe de Reffye, CIRAD, Marc Jaeger, CIRAD, Alexia Stokes, INRAThierry Fourcaud, CIRADHU Baogang, CASIA,ZHENG Xiaopeng, CASIA

Two main directions :

1) plant growth modeling2) eco-engineering

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The GreenLab project (2)The GreenLab project (2)

Research Axis 1Plant growth modeling, botany ecophysiologyand landscape visualization

Research objectives Development of structural-functional models of plant growth based on

architectural knowledge;

Development of visualization techniques for application at large scales

Supported by MOST 863, NSFC

Research Axis 1Plant growth modeling, botany ecophysiologyand landscape visualization

Research objectives Development of structural-functional models of plant growth based on

architectural knowledge;

Development of visualization techniques for application at large scales

Supported by MOST 863, NSFC

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The GreenLab project (3)The GreenLab project (3)

Research Axis 2: Eco-engineering ecological management of slopes and forest

against natural hazards

Research objectives Physical based models for- soil fixation by vegetation

(erosion, landslides);- trees and forest wind firmness

(tree biomechanics, aerodynamic turbulence)Development of a Slope Decision Support System for eco-engineering

Research Axis 2: Eco-engineering ecological management of slopes and forest

against natural hazards

Research objectives Physical based models for- soil fixation by vegetation

(erosion, landslides);- trees and forest wind firmness

(tree biomechanics, aerodynamic turbulence)Development of a Slope Decision Support System for eco-engineering

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The Remote Sensing projectThe Remote Sensing project

Remote sensing, data fusion and understanding

Cooperation with INRIA, ESA

Véronique PRINET, CASIAPAN Chunhong, CASIA

Main objective: change detection from data fusion

Remote sensing, data fusion and understanding

Cooperation with INRIA, ESA

Véronique PRINET, CASIAPAN Chunhong, CASIA

Main objective: change detection from data fusion

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The Remote Sensing project (2)The Remote Sensing project (2)

Research objectives Image understanding

Knowledge representation, object modelingIncomplete or inaccurate sources of information

Pattern/object recognition Geometric / Probabilistic modeling

Deformable models, harmonic decomposition Bayesian modeling, Markov Random Fields

Computer vision Interferometry processing

Research objectives Image understanding

Knowledge representation, object modelingIncomplete or inaccurate sources of information

Pattern/object recognition Geometric / Probabilistic modeling

Deformable models, harmonic decomposition Bayesian modeling, Markov Random Fields

Computer vision Interferometry processing

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The Remote Sensing project (3)The Remote Sensing project (3)

Application domains Flood monitoring

Urban planning

ANFAS, Data Fusion For Flood Analysis and Decision SupportEU-China FP5 IST project with MOST , WorldBank

Urban, Multi-source data fusion and urban development planning decision supportMOST863 project with Alcatel-space

Dragon project, earth observation program (2004-2007)ESA, NRSC MOST

Application domains Flood monitoring

Urban planning

ANFAS, Data Fusion For Flood Analysis and Decision SupportEU-China FP5 IST project with MOST , WorldBank

Urban, Multi-source data fusion and urban development planning decision supportMOST863 project with Alcatel-space

Dragon project, earth observation program (2004-2007)ESA, NRSC MOST

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The computational geometry projectThe computational geometry project

New project 2004

Cooperation with INRIA, CNRS

Jean-Claude Paul, CNRS

Sun Jiaguang, Yong Yun Hai, Tsinghua University

Curves and Surfaces

Geometry Processing - Multi resolution Geometry and Simulation

Multi-scale Modeling of Light

New project 2004

Cooperation with INRIA, CNRS

Jean-Claude Paul, CNRS

Sun Jiaguang, Yong Yun Hai, Tsinghua University

Curves and Surfaces

Geometry Processing - Multi resolution Geometry and Simulation

Multi-scale Modeling of Light

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The biometry projectThe biometry project

New project 2005Bernadette Dorizzi, INTTAN Tieniu, CASIA

European Network of Excellence BIOSECURE CASIA Biometry Lab

Research objectivesiris and face recognition

New project 2005Bernadette Dorizzi, INTTAN Tieniu, CASIA

European Network of Excellence BIOSECURE CASIA Biometry Lab

Research objectivesiris and face recognition

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The pervasive data processing projectThe pervasive data processing project

New project 2005Stéphane Grumbach, CNRS

Research objectivesAdaptive algorithms for query evaluation

in dynamic networks of communicating devices

Applications:

Social networking, France Telecom

Sensor networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems,

New project 2005Stéphane Grumbach, CNRS

Research objectivesAdaptive algorithms for query evaluation

in dynamic networks of communicating devices

Applications:

Social networking, France Telecom

Sensor networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems,

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The Scilab projectThe Scilab project

Scilab An open source scientific software package for numerical

computations (linear algebra, control, signal processing, simulation, etc.)

An alternative to Matlab

Scilab consortium (created in June 2003)

20 companies (incl. CEA, CNES, DASSAULT-AVIATION, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, EADS,

EDF, IFP, INRIA, PSA, RENAULT, THALES)

Development team at INRIA Rocquencourt

Scilab An open source scientific software package for numerical

computations (linear algebra, control, signal processing, simulation, etc.)

An alternative to Matlab

Scilab consortium (created in June 2003)

20 companies (incl. CEA, CNES, DASSAULT-AVIATION, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, EADS,

EDF, IFP, INRIA, PSA, RENAULT, THALES)

Development team at INRIA Rocquencourt

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The Scilab project (2)The Scilab project (2)

Promotion of Scilab in ChinaHU Baogang, CASIA

LI Shi, CASIA

Software distribution: 23 000 downloads (in China)Annual seminar with scilab contest since 2002Several toolboxes developed Two books in ChineseHigh school mathematics Textbook using Scilab

http://www.scilab.org.cn

Promotion of Scilab in ChinaHU Baogang, CASIA

LI Shi, CASIA

Software distribution: 23 000 downloads (in China)Annual seminar with scilab contest since 2002Several toolboxes developed Two books in ChineseHigh school mathematics Textbook using Scilab

http://www.scilab.org.cn

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LIAMA team in December 2005LIAMA team in December 2005

CASIA Researchers: Baogang HU, Veronique PRINET,

Xiaopeng ZHANG, Chunhong PAN, Shi LI,

French researchers:Marc Jaeger, Thierry FOURCAUD, CIRAD

Jean-Claude PAUL, Stéphane Grumbach, CNRS

Alexia STOKES, Luc Jouneau, INRA

Students1 Postdoc, 14 Ph.D. Students, 12 Master/Internship students

Secretary Bizhen HONG

CASIA Researchers: Baogang HU, Veronique PRINET,

Xiaopeng ZHANG, Chunhong PAN, Shi LI,

French researchers:Marc Jaeger, Thierry FOURCAUD, CIRAD

Jean-Claude PAUL, Stéphane Grumbach, CNRS

Alexia STOKES, Luc Jouneau, INRA

Students1 Postdoc, 14 Ph.D. Students, 12 Master/Internship students

Secretary Bizhen HONG

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The partners in ZhongguancunThe partners in Zhongguancun

Tsinghua University Beijing university Beihang University Chinese Agriculture University Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences

Institute of Software France Telecom R&D

etc.

Tsinghua University Beijing university Beihang University Chinese Agriculture University Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences

Institute of Software France Telecom R&D

etc.

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The partners in FranceThe partners in France

Research InstitutesINRIA, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, BRGM

Universities Ecole Centrale Paris & Lyon, Ecole Polytechnique, INSA, INPT, ParisTech, etc.

IndustriesFrance Telecom, Alcatel Space,

AgenciesFFSCA Foundation, AFCRST

and in Europe ERCIM Wageningen University, etc.

Research InstitutesINRIA, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, BRGM

Universities Ecole Centrale Paris & Lyon, Ecole Polytechnique, INSA, INPT, ParisTech, etc.

IndustriesFrance Telecom, Alcatel Space,

AgenciesFFSCA Foundation, AFCRST

and in Europe ERCIM Wageningen University, etc.

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PerspectivesPerspectives

2007: 10th anniversary of LIAMA

Objectives Increased European participation

ERCIM ?

International Research Unit New projects

Medical imaging ?

Intelligent Transportation systems ?

2007: 10th anniversary of LIAMA

Objectives Increased European participation

ERCIM ?

International Research Unit New projects

Medical imaging ?

Intelligent Transportation systems ?