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Besserer, E. Decencière and <b>A. Hassaïne</b>, <i>Method of and device for reproduction of an audio signal and/or an audio track</i>, European Patent Application, Publication No. EP 2341390 A1 published on 6 July 2011. <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, S. Al-Ma'adeed, J. Alja'am, A. Jaoua and A. Bouridane, <i>The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest</i>, in 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, China. September 2011.</li> <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, E. Decencière, B. Besserer, N. Ricordel and C. Comte, <i>Restoration of optical soundtracks in motion picture films by digital image processing</i>, in Joint Technical Sumposium, Digital Challenges and Digital Opportunities in Audiovisual Archiving, Oslo, Norway, May 2010.<br /></li> <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, <a href="http://cmm.ensmp.fr/~hassaine/these_hassaine.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>Restauration des Pistes Sonores Optiques Cinématographiques : Approche par Traitement d'Images</i></a>, PhD thesis, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Mines Paris-Tech, December 2009.<br/></li> <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, E. Decencière and B. Besserer, <i>Efficient restoration of variable area soundtracks</i>, Image Analysis &amp; Stereology. June 2009.<br /></li> <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, E. Decencière and B. Besserer, <i>Restoration of variable density film soundtracks</i>, in 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, UK. August 2009.</li> <li>J. Taquet, B. Besserer, <b>A. Hassaïne</b> and E. Decencière, <i>Detection and correction of under/overexposed optical soundtracks by coupling image and audio signal processing</i>, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2008.</li> <li>B. Besserer, <b>A. Hassaïne</b> and E. Decencière, <i>Restoration of Under/Overexposed Optical Soundtracks</i>, Archiving 2008, Bern, Switzerland, 2008.</li> <li>E. Brun, <b>A. Hassaïne</b>, B. Besserer and E. Decencière, <i>Restoration of variable area soundtracks</i>, in 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, Texas, USA.</li> <li><b>A. Hassaïne</b>, V. Eglin and S. Bres, <i>Une méthode de compression sans perte pour les images de documents basée sur la séparation en couches</i> (A lossless compression method for document images based on layers separation), CORESA 2007. Montpellier, France.<br /></li> </ul> <h2>Miscellanea</h2> <ul> <li>From Soundtracks and Signatures to Stars and Galaxies: <a href="http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/10/04/from-soundtracks-and-signatures/">Ali Hassaïne and Eu Jin Lok on finishing third on the Mapping Dark Matter Challenge.</a></li> <li>How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter: <a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/crowdsourced-data-modeling-will-help-cosmologists-refine-dark-matter-measurements">Earthly skills like handwritten signature verification turn out to be useful on a cosmological scale as well.</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/12/22/mapping-the-universe-through-collective-brainpower-and-competition/">Mapping The Universe Through Collective Brainpower.</a></li> </ul> <h2>Curriculum Vitae</h2> <ul> <li>You can download my C.V. <a href="./cv_hassaine.pdf">here</a>.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </body> </html>