Sébastien Ambellouis

Dr. Sébastien Ambellouis

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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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17 January 2017 in Sensors
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JMJulien Moreau
Julien Moreau
SASébastien Ambellouis
Sébastien Ambellouis
YRYassine Ruichek
Yassine Ruichek
A precise GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) localization is vital for autonomous road vehicles, especially in cluttered or urban environments where satellites are occluded, preventing accurate positioning. We propose to fuse GPS (Global Positioning System) data with fisheye stereovision to face this problem independently to additional data, possibly outdated, unavailable, and needing correlation with reality. Our stereoscope is sky-facing with 360° × 180° fisheye cameras to observe surrounding obstacles. We propose a 3D modelling and plane extraction through following steps: stereoscope self-calibration for decalibration robustness, stereo matching considering neighbours epipolar curves to compute 3D, and robust plane fitting based on generated cartography and Hough transform. We use these 3D data with GPS raw data to estimate NLOS (Non Line Of Sight) reflected signals pseudorange delay. We exploit extracted planes to build a visibility mask for NLOS detection. A simplified 3D canyon model allows to compute reflections pseudorange delays. In the end, GPS positioning is computed considering corrected pseudoranges. With experimentations on real fixed scenes, we show generated 3D models reaching metric accuracy and improvement of horizontal GPS positioning accuracy by more than 50%. The proposed procedure is effective, and the proposed NLOS detection outperforms CN0-based methods (Carrier-to-receiver Noise density).

3 May 2021 in Sensors
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VHVu Tuan Hung
Vu Tuan Hung
JBJacques Boonaert
Jacques Boonaert
SASébastien Ambellouis
Sébastien Ambellouis
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abdelmalik taleb-ahmed
Recently, most state-of-the-art anomaly detection methods are based on apparent motion and appearance reconstruction networks and use error estimation between generated and real information as detection features. These approaches achieve promising results by only using normal samples for training steps. In this paper, our contributions are two-fold. On the one hand, we propose a flexible multi-channel framework to generate multi-type frame-level features. On the other hand, we study how it is possible to improve the detection performance by supervised learning. The multi-channel framework is based on four Conditional GANs (CGANs) taking various type of appearance and motion information as input and producing prediction information as output. These CGANs provide a better feature space to represent the distinction between normal and abnormal events. Then, the difference between those generative and ground-truth information is encoded by Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR). We propose to classify those features in a classical supervised scenario by building a small training set with some abnormal samples of the original test set of the dataset. The binary Support Vector Machine (SVM) is applied for frame-level anomaly detection. Finally, we use Mask R-CNN as detector to perform object-centric anomaly localization. Our solution is largely evaluated on Avenue, Ped1, Ped2, and ShanghaiTech datasets. Our experiment results demonstrate that PSNR features combined with supervised SVM are better than error maps computed by previous methods. We achieve state-of-the-art performance for frame-level AUC on Ped1 and ShanghaiTech. Especially, for the most challenging Shanghaitech dataset, a supervised training model outperforms up to 9% the state-of-the-art an unsupervised strategy.


30 May 2011 in Image and Vision Computing
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SLSébastien Lefebvre
Sébastien Lefebvre
SASébastien Ambellouis
Sébastien Ambellouis
FCFrançois Cabestaing
François Cabestaing

31 August 2020
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TMTony Marteau
Tony Marteau
SASitou Afanou
Sitou Afanou
DSDavid Sodoyer
David Sodoyer
SASébastien Ambellouis
Sébastien Ambellouis
Fouzia ElbahharFouzia Elbahhar
Fouzia Elbahhar

26 February 2019 in International Journal of Speech Technology
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LMLarbi Mesbahi
Larbi Mesbahi
DSDavid Sodoyer
David Sodoyer
SASébastien Ambellouis
Sébastien Ambellouis
The goal of this paper is to analyse and to characterise the shout of a people to develop an automatic detector. We define a shout as a voiced part of an audio signal maintained over time. We show that a set of formants parameters can be defined to discriminate a typical “shout” from a “neutral” part of a speech. Moreover, it appears clearly that the duration of the window used to estimate these parameters is critical to yield better results. We conclude by presenting a performance analysis in the noisy context of a transport surveillance application.