Samia Bouchafa | Short CV
University of Evry Val d’Essonne/University Paris-Saclay, 40 rue du Pelvoux, 91020 Evry
Ó +33 1 60 47 06 48 • Q samia.bouchafa@ibisc.univ-evry.fr
Samia Bouchafa graduated from Computer Science National Institute (Algiers) in 1993. She received the
MS degree in Robotics from University Pierre et Marie Curie in 1994 and in 1998 the PhD degree (highest
honours) in electrical and computer engineering from University Paris Pierre et Marie Curie and IFSTTAR.
Her thesis work was undertaken in the framework of the European project CROMATICA (DG XIII), dealing
with crowd monitoring by image processing in the subway. In 1999, she has been an assistant professor
at University Paris Sud (IEF Lab) then an associate professor in 2011. In 2011, she was employed for one
year by the french institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks (IFSTTAR).
Since 2012, she has a full professor position at University of Evry Val d’Essonne. She is managing the
first and second year of the Master "Automated mobile systems" of university Paris-Saclay while she was
elected to co-direct the IBISC Laboratory. Her research interests include robust primitive extraction and
decision strategy for image matching applied to motion analysis, registration or stereovision. Currently, she
focuses on cumulative and voting decision strategies for motion or stereo based applications in the context
of automatic driver assistance systems. She has supervised 10 Phd thesis. She has been involved on the
technical program committee of several conferences : "International Conference On Neural Computation"
2010 and 2011, IEEE "International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence" 2010, IEEE "International
Conference on Networking Sensing and Control" ICNSC 2013, IEEE "International Conference On Image
Prcessing Theory Tools and Applications" IPTA 2014, Intelligent Transportation Systems IEEE ITSC 2017,
1st IEEE International Symposium on Last Mile Smart Mobility en 2016. Since 2017, she is responsible for
IBISC lab of the French Agency/DGA Project LOCA3D that was selected in the framework of the challenge
MALIN (Indoor Person Positioning Challenge MAîtrise de la Localisation INdoor).
Professional positions
University of Evry Val d’Essonne/ University Paris-Saclay France
Full professor of 1st class Since sept. 2016
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UFR ST). IBISC Laboratory.
University of Evry Val d’Essonne/University Paris-Saclay France
Full professor Since 2012
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UFR ST). IBISC Laboratory.
IFSTTAR France
Associate professor 2011
LIVIC (Laboratory for Vehicle Infrastructure Driver Interactions)
University Paris Sud/Institut of Fondamental Electronics (IEF) France
Assistant professor 1999–2010
Autonomous Systems Group (ACCIS)
CITILOG company France
Research engineer in Image Processing 1999
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Education
University Paris Sud Paris, France
Habilitation to supervise Phd students (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), 2011
"Vision fruste revisitée. Application à la vision dynamique des systèmes".
University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
Phd, Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1998
Crowd abnormal motion detection in subway corridors using image processing.
University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
Master degree, Robotics 1994
Master internship in Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris
National School of computer science Algiers, Algeria
Engineering degree 1993
Main current responsibilies
Deputy director of IBISC lab, since 2015 then Director from january 1st, 2019.
Head of the 2nd year of the MS degree "Automated mobile Systems".
University of Evry Val
d’Essonne/University Paris-Saclay, since 2015.
Elected member representing full professors at the national university council in Electrical Engi-
neering, Conseil National des Universités (CNU), since 2016.
Elected external member representing full professors at the Consultative Committee of Specialists
in Electrical Engineering (CCSU 61) of University Paris Sud, since 2014.
Elected Member representing full professors at the Council of school of Science and Technology
(UFR), University of Evry Val d’Essonne, since 2012.
Elected Member representing full professors at IBISC Laboratory council, since 2013.
Member of the steering committee of the Federal Research Structure on Movement Science
Fédération Demenÿ-Vaucanson (FEDEV) (http://fedev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/), since 2015.
Main current Research projects
LOCA3D project (2017–):
Grants of the French Agency/DGA for LOCA3D project that was selected in
the framework of the challenge MALIN (Indoor Person Positioning Challenge MAîtrise de la Localisation
INdoor). I am responsible of the project for the laboratory (6 involved assistant professors and 1 post-doc).
Research activities
Keywords:
robust feature extraction, motion analysis, optical flow, stereovision, image matching and
registration, 3D computer vision, visual SLAM and localization, visual odometry, autonomous vehicles.
Peer review:
IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Traitement du Signal, IET Computer Vision, IEEE Trans. On
Intelligent Transportation Systems, ICAE (Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering). IROS (IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems), ITSC (IEEE Conference on Intelligent
Transportation systems), ICIP (International Conf. On Image Proc.), IV (Intelligent Vehicle).
TCP member of international conference:
ITSC 2017, 1st IEEE International Symposium on Last Mile
Smart Mobility 2016, IEEE International Conference On Image Processing Theory Tools and Applications
(IPTA) 2014, IEEE International Conference on Networking Sensing and Control (ICNSC) 2013, IEEE
"International Conference on Machine and Web Intelligence" 2010, International Conference On Neural
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Computation 2010 and 2011.
Phd committee member (several universities in France) as president, referee or member of the
commission):
Miguel GARCIA, Aymeric DUJARDIN, Andres BURBANO, David CARUSO, Laurent
DELOBEL, Li YU, Viachaslau KACHURKA, Fabien Bonardi, Marion Morel, Maxime Derome, Coralie
Bernay-Angeletti, Stéphane Michelet, Rawia MHIRI, Nicolas Gimonet, Aleksandr SETKOV, Muhammad
Owais MEHMOOD, Bihao WANG, Ali SEBA, Sonia AKOUL, Bilal KARABAGLI, Wassima AIT FARES,
Hui DING, Houssam HALMAOUI, Dominik RAMIK.
Member of the recruitment committee member in several universities (France) for full professors
or assistant professors recruitment:
University Pierre et Marie Curie, University Paris Sud, IUT Cachan,
University of Rouen, University of Versailles Saint Quentin, University of Limoges.
Current Phd Students:
Hicham Touzani (2018-2021), Mahmoud Khairallah (2018-2021), Tan-Khoa
MAI (2015-2018).
Former Phd Students:
Houssem BENSEDDIK (2017), Qiong NIE (2015), Yasser ALMEHIO (2012),
Adrien BAK (2011), Fang ZI (2010), Nikom SUVONVORN (2006).
Supervision of 23 master Thesis: University Paris Sud and University of Evry Val d’Essonne.
Invited speaker:
TechMeeting SATT Paris-Saclay, may 2017. Smart Mobility Labs Pitch Meeting, Paris
Région Entreprise, nov. 2017.
Current Teaching activities
Master degree: Automated mobile systems specialization : Dynamic perception, image processing, obstacle
detection. Electrical Engineering specialization: Signal processing,
International Master degree: In Aerial robotics, double degree with University of Poznan, Advanced
perception systems.
Bachelor degree: C programming, C++ programming, Oriented object concepts, algorithmic.
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