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Monique Thonnat, Deputy Scientific Director
Monique Thonnat is Deputy scientific director of Inria in charge of "Perception, Cognition, and Interaction". She devotes a portion of her activity to a mission of coordination of research, prospecting, and scientific leadership on one or more research topics in her field of expertise. She is also in charge of a cross-disciplinary mission related to national or international actions of Inria and, in this role, reports to the research director.
Monique Thonnat, a chief research director, is authorised to advise doctoral theses. A specialist in cognitive vision techniques, her research activity has always been on the frontier of computer vision and artificial intelligence. An optical and signal processing engineer in 1980, she obtained her PhD in 1982 in processing of astronomical images, prepared at the spatial astronomy laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Marseilles. She joined Inria in Sophia Antipolis in 1983 and became a research director in 1991.
Monique Thonnat has created two teams: in 1995, the ORION project-team in image interpretation and programme steering and, in 2008, the PULSAR project-team in video analysis for recognition of activities. She is co-founder and scientific advisor of the start-up Keeneo in video surveillance (created in 2005). She has published more than a hundred scientific articles and supervised 21 theses. She is currently a member of the scientific council of ENPC. Monique Thonnat is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
Keywords: Perception Interaction Cognition
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Monique Thonnat
Deputy scientific director
Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
- Tel.: +33 (0)4 92 38 78 67
- Secretary's office: +33 (0)4 92 38 76 57
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