The Sino-French it lab Stéphane Grumbach

The Sino-French IT Lab

• Stéphane Grumbach

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

• http://liama.ia.ac.cn

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

INRIA, the founding partner

• French National Institute for Computer Science and Control

• 2700 scientists including 950 PhD students
• Budget of 135 MEuros

• A major European actor of research in IT

• More than 100 projects in FP6
• Coordination 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)

CASIA, the host partner

• The institute of Automation

• One of the IT institutes of CAS in Beijing
• Created in 1956

• National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition

• image processing and graphics, machine vision, pattern recognition,
• speech recognition and understanding, natural language processing,

• Key Laboratory of Complex systems

• advanced robotic control, artificial intelligence,
• intelligent sensing technology, human-machine interfaces,
• advanced manufacturing systems, cognitive science,

• A famous spin-off: Hanwang

A 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 proposals

• small research projects
• funded by both parties
• have been selected each year
• by a joint scientific committee

A hub for the cooperation in IT

• Joint research projects

• Exchange of students

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

• Promotion of open source software

• Scientific computing software, Scilab

• Development projects with French industry

• Alcatel Space, France Telecom, etc.

• Promotion of Sino-European cooperation

• 1st FP5 IST EU-China project, ANFAS, 1999
• 1st OIF Marie Curie fellowship for China, 2005

• Why are we

• working

• in China ?

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

Boom 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)

Priorities 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

• Software

• Only 33% of software used in China is homemade
• Increase of outsourcing activities
• Asianux: linux with Japan and Korea
• Desktop chinese office

• Standards

• EVD, WAPI, TD-SCDMA

• Theoretical Computer Science

• Process calculi for real time systems
• Andrew Yao, Turing award 2000, back in Tsinghua

• Applications

• Emphasis on environmental issues (hazard prediction, agronomy, etc.)

• What are we

• working on

• at LIAMA?

Current 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

The 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, INRA

• Thierry Fourcaud, CIRAD

• HU Baogang, CASIA,

• ZHENG Xiaopeng, CASIA

• Two main directions :

• 1) plant growth modeling

• 2) eco-engineering

The GreenLab project (2)

• Research Axis 1

• Plant growth modeling, botany ecophysiology

• and 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

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

The Remote Sensing project

• Remote sensing, data fusion and understanding

• Cooperation with INRIA, ESA

• Véronique PRINET, CASIA

• PAN Chunhong, CASIA

• Main objective: change detection from data fusion

The Remote Sensing project (2)

• Research objectives

• Image understanding
• Knowledge representation, object modeling
• Incomplete or inaccurate sources of information
• Pattern/object recognition
• Geometric / Probabilistic modeling
• Deformable models, harmonic decomposition
• Bayesian modeling, Markov Random Fields
• Computer vision
• Interferometry processing

The Remote Sensing project (3)

• Application domains

• Flood monitoring
• Urban planning

• ANFAS, Data Fusion For Flood Analysis and Decision Support

• EU-China FP5 IST project with MOST , WorldBank

• Urban, Multi-source data fusion and urban development planning decision support

• MOST863 project with Alcatel-space

• Dragon project, earth observation program (2004-2007)

• ESA, NRSC MOST

The 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

The biometry project

• New project 2005

• Bernadette Dorizzi, INT
• TAN Tieniu, CASIA

• European Network of Excellence BIOSECURE

• CASIA Biometry Lab

• Research objectives

• iris and face recognition

The pervasive data processing project

• New project 2005

• Stéphane Grumbach, CNRS

• Research objectives

• Adaptive algorithms for query evaluation

• in dynamic networks of communicating devices

• Applications:

• Social networking, France Telecom

• Sensor networks,

• Intelligent Transportation Systems,

The 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

The Scilab project (2)

• Promotion of Scilab in China

• HU Baogang, CASIA
• LI Shi, CASIA
• Software distribution: 23 000 downloads (in China)
• Annual seminar with scilab contest since 2002
• Several toolboxes developed
• Two books in Chinese
• High school mathematics Textbook using Scilab

• http://www.scilab.org.cn

LIAMA 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

• Students

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

• Secretary Bizhen HONG

The 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.

The partners in France

• Research Institutes

• INRIA, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, BRGM

• Universities

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

• Industries

• France Telecom, Alcatel Space,

• Agencies

• FFSCA Foundation, AFCRST

• and in Europe

• ERCIM

• Wageningen University, etc.

Perspectives

• 2007: 10th anniversary of LIAMA

• Objectives

• Increased European participation
• ERCIM ?
• International Research Unit
• New projects
• Medical imaging ?
• Intelligent Transportation systems ?