The Signal Processing Lab 5 (LTS5) is a group of researchers led by Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran, working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. LTS5 is one of the EPFL Signal Processing Laboratories.

• [June 1st, 2010] nViso and LTS5 in the press. nViso, the start-up company of Matteo Sorci, is presented in an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, in the framework of a joint project with LTS5, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. See the on-line article here.

• [May 20109] Best MD-PhD thesis award for Dr Marie Schaer. Dr Marie Schaer, former MD-PhD student co-supervised by Prof. Stephan Eliez (School of Medicine, University of Geneva) and by Prof. Jean-Ph. Thiran, will received on June 15, 2010, the best MD-PhD thesis award from the prestigious "Fondation Arditi", for her thesis entitled "Understanding psychosis through cortical complexity : an MRI study 22q11.2 deletion syndrome". Congratulations Marie!
• [March 2010] The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) granted an important project to our lab, in collaboration with IDIAP (Martigny) to work on robust face tracking and audio-visual speech recognition.
• [January 2010] Our lab will remain involved in the third phase of the IM2 National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR), with a project on dynamic facial expression analysis.
• [December 2009] Our start-up company, StereoTools, founded in May 2009 by Prof. Thiran and Dr Claudio Pollo (CHUV), received an important award (130'000 fr) from Venture Kick, as well as several other important awards and prices.
• [December 9-11, 2009] Prof. Thiran went to the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, as a member of the jury of the "HDR" (Habilitation à Diriger a Recherche) of our colleague Solofo Rakotoniaina.
• [December 2009] The paper authored by Mihai Gurban and Jean-Philippe Thiran, entitled "Information theoretic feature extraction for audio-visual speech recognition" appeared in the December issue of the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing. Congratulations Mihai !
• [November 13, 2009] Xavier Gigandet completed the last step of his PhD, i.e. the final oral presentation, and received his PhD diploma. Congratulation Dr Xavier.
• [November 2009] The paper of Nawal Houhou, Jean-Philippe Thiran and Xavier Bresson (UCLA) entitled "Fast Texture Segmentation Based on Semi-Local Region Descriptor and Active Contour" appeared in the November issue of "Numerical Mathematics: Theory , Methods and Applications".

• [September 11, 2009] New book! The book entitled "Multimodal Signal Processing, theory and applications for human-computer interaction", edited by Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ferran Marqués (UPC Barcelona) and Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute & EPFL) is in press and will be published soon by Academic Press.
• [August 5, 2009] The paper "Congenital heart disease affects local gyrification in 22q11.2deletion syndrome" by Marie Schaer, Bronwyn Glaser, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Martin Debbane, Jean-Philippe Thiran and Stephan Eliez, has been published on-line in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. Congratulations Marie!
• [August 3, 2009] The paper "Fast Texture Segmentation Based on Semi-local Region Descriptor and Active Contour", by Nawal Houhou (LTS5), Jean-Philippe Thiran (LTS5) and Xavier Bresson (UCLA) has been accepted for publication in Numerical Mathematics: Theory , Methods and Applications.
• [July 29, 2009] The paper "Active Contour-Based Segmentation of Head and Neck with Adaptive Atlas Selection", by Subrahmanyam Gorthi (LTS5), Meritxell Bach Cuadra (LTS5 & CIBM), Pierre-Alain Tercier (Hôpital Fribourgeois), Abdelkarim S. Allal (Hôpital Fribourgeois) and Jean-Philippe Thiran (LTS5), has been accepted for an oral presentation at the MICCAI workshop on 3D Segmentation Challenge for Clinical Applications. Congratulations Gorthi!

• [June 10, 2009] The paper "A Scale-Space of Cortical Feature Maps" by D. Zosso and J.-P. Thiran, has been accepted in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and made the cover page of the Oct-Dec 2009 issue.
• [February 26, 2009] The paper "Classification of Tensors and Fiber Tracts Using Mercer-Kernels Encoding Soft Probabilistic Spatial and Diffusion Information", by Radhouène Neji and Nikos Paragios (Ecole Centale, Paris) and Jean-Philippe Thiran has been accepted at CVPR2009.
• [January 12, 2009] And another one: Nawal Houhou successfully presented her private PhD defense. Congratulations to Nawal! Public presentation on Friday, Feb. 27th.
• [December 2008] the paper entitled "Predicting Human Resting-State Functional Connectivity from structural Connectivity", by C. Honey, O. Sporns, L. Cammoun, X. Gigandet, J.-P. Thiran, R. Meuli and P. Hagmann, has been accepted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
• [December 17, 2008] Mihai Gurban successfully presented his thesis (private defense). Congratulation to him. The public presentation will take place on Friday, January 16th, 2009.
• [November 28, 2008] Another LTS5 PhD: Laura Gui successfully presented her PhD thesis entitled "A collaborative Approach to Image Segmentation and Behavior Recognition from Image Sequences". Congratulations!
• [November 2008] The paper entitled "Estimating the Confidence Level of White Matter Connections Obtained with MRI Tractography", by X. Gigandet, P. Hagmann, M. Kurant, L. Cammoun, R. Meuli and J.-P. Thiran, has been accepted in PLosOne.
• [September 10, 2008] Dr Marie Schaert, MD-PhD student co-supervised by Prof. Thiran and Prof. Stefan Eliez (Geneva School of Medicine) very successfully presented her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr Marie!
• [August 2008]] The paper entitled "Segmentation of head and neck lymph node regions for radiotherapy planning, using active contour based atlas registration", by S. Gorthi, V. Duay, N. Houhou, M. Bach Cuadra, U. Schick, M. Becker, A.S. Allal and J.-P. Thiran, has been accepted to the Journal of selected topics in signal processing.
• [June 20, 2008] Nicolas Fête, PhD student co-supervised by Prof. Thiran and Prof. Yann Barrandon, successfully presented his PhD thesis on "Acquisition and registration of confocal images of dense tissues". Congratulations Dr Fête.
• [May 2008] The paper entitled "Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex" has been accepted in PLos Biology.
• [April 2008] The LTS5 new website is online!!
• [March 2008] EUSIPCO-2008, the 16th European Signal Processing Conference, chaired by Prof. J.-Ph. Thiran, received more than 1'050 submissions of papers!
• [March 2008] The paper "Cooperative Object Segmentation and Behavior Inference in Image Sequences" by Laura Gui, Nikos Paragios (Ecole Centrale, Paris) and J.-Ph. Thiran has been accepted in the International Journal of Computer Vision, subject to minor revision.