LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
2009 Current work in preparation
R. Azencott, W. Zhang, V. Seghal, R. Azevedo, T. Cooper
MLE estimation of genotype specific growth and mutation rates
{to be submitted in 2009}
R. Azencott, S.Jain, E. Papadakis
Rotation Steerable multi-resolution analysis of 3D images and texture identification
{to be submitted in 2009}
R. Azencott, A. Cooney, R. Drabek, P. Gunaratne, D. Lonard, Z. Luo, C. Shaw
Modeling Genes Transcription Networks by large ODE systems
{to be submitted in 2009}
R. Azencott, J. Lacaille, C. Lehalle, M. Mougeot, J. Wang
Automatic learning , information theory, and pattern recognition
{book in preparation for Springer Lecture Notes}
2009 Submitted Papers
Optimal sub-sampling for parameter estimation of Gaussian SDEs
R. Azencott, A. Beri, I. Timofeyev ; Submitted to Journal Statistical Physics, 2009
SpaceTime modulation of Speckle Noise in Echocardiographic image sequences
R. Azencott, D. Khoury MD, Y. Li ; Submitted to Trans. IEEE Signal Processing, 2009
Sensitivity of option pricing PDEs to parametric estimation of stock/volatility SDEs
R. Azencott, Y. Ghadyan, R. Glowinski ; Submitted to Stochastic Dynamics, 2009
A) Publications in reviewed Journals
A controllability approach to Shape Identification by elastic matching
R. Azencott, R. Glowinski, A. Ramos; App. Math. Letters doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2007.08.013, 2007
Refined Exponential Rates in Vapnik-Chervonenkis inequalities
R. Azencott, N. Vayatis ; ComptesRendus Ac. Science vol 332 ser. I, p.563-568 , Paris , 2001
Texture classification using windowed Fourier filters
R. Azencott, JP. Wang, L. Younes ; IEEE Trans. PAMI , vol 19 n°2 pp 148-152 , 1997
Transfer function estimation, film fusion, and image restauration
R. Azencott, B. Chalmond, J.P. Wang , CVGIP Graphics and Image process, vol 58, pp 65-74, 1996
Markov fusion of noisy images to detect intensity valleys
R. Azencott, B. Chalmond, F. Coldefy ; Int. Jour. Comp. Vision. vol 16 , pp 135-145, 1994
Synchronous Boltzmann machines and curve identification tasks
R. Azencott, A.Doutriaux, L.Younes ; Network (vol 4) , pp 461-480, 1993
Synchronous Boltzmann machines and artificial vision
R. Azencott, J. Lacaille, L. Younes ; invited survey, Courrier CNRS, vol 79, Paris, 1992
Image compression and back propagation
R. Azencott, B. Angeniol, M. Mougeot ; Neural Networks, Vol 4, p 467-476 , 1991
Small random perturbations of dynamic systems : asymptotic expansions
R. Azencott; Bull.Soc.Math.France vol 109 pp 253-308 , 1985
Random mixing of differential equations : Large deviations theory
R. Azencott, G.Ruget ; Zeitschrift Wahrscheinlichkeit Geb. vol 38 pp 1-54, 1977
Homogeneous manifolds with negative curvature
R. Azencott, E.Wilson ; Trans.Am.Math.Soc. vol 215 pp 323-362 , 1976
Large Deviations and slow learning processes
R. Azencott, G.Ruget ; Comptes Rendus Ac. Sciences, Paris, vol 281 serA pp 529-532 , 1975
Homogeneous manifolds with negative curvature
R. Azencott, E.Wilson ; Comptes Rendus Ac. Sciences, Paris, vol 278 serA pp 561-562, 1974
Behaviour of diffusion semi-groups at infinity
R. Azencott; Bull.Soc.Math.France vol 102 pp 193-240, 1974
Diffusion processes on differentiable manifold
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. ; Paris, vol 276 serA pp 363-365, 1973
Diffusion processes on differentiable manifold
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris, vol 274, pp 651-654, series A, 1972
Stability of group representations and Haar spectrum
R. Azencott, W.Parry , Trans.Am.Math.Soc. vol 172 pp 317-327, 1972
Anosov Diffeomorphisms and Bernouilli schemes
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris vol 270 ser A pp 1105-1107, 1970
Poisson spaces of Lie groups
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris vol 268 serA pp 139-142, 1969
Random walks on locally compact groups
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris vol 268 serA.pp 1406-1409, 1969
Poisson spaces of semi-simple Lie groups
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris vol 266 serA pp 970-973, 1968
Poisson spaces of locally compact groups
R. Azencott; ComptesRendus Ac. Sci. Paris vol 267 ser A pp 513-516, 1968
B) Publications in Conference Proceedings
Speckle Noise tracking in Echocardiographies
R. Azencott, Y. Li, D. Khoury; Proc. IPCV'09 Image Proc., Comp. Vision, Patt. Rec., Las Vegas, 2009
SEM-images analysis for Quality Control of Nanoparticles,
R. Azencott, S. Alexander, B. Bodmann, A. Bouamrani, M. Ferrari, X. Liu, E. Tasciotti;
Proc. CAIP, Lect. Notes Comp. Sci., v. 5702, p 590-597, Springer, 2009
Steerlets: A novel approach to rigid-motion covariant multiscale transforms*
R.Azencott, B. Bodmann, E. Papadakis; Proc. SPIE. Wavelets XIII , vol.7446,
V. Goyal, E. Papadakis D.Van der Ville (Eds.), pp. 74460 A1-10, 2009.
Option price sensitivity to modeling errors in the stochastic dynamics
R. Azencott, Y. Gadhyan, R. Glowinski ;
Proc. SIAM Conf. Maths for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers, 2009
Accurate parameter estimation for coupled stochastic dynamics
R. Azencott, Y. Ghadyan; Proc. 7th AIMS Conf. "Dyn Syst., Diff. Equ. and Appl." Arlington, 2008
Isotropic Multiresolution analysis for 3D-Textures in Cardiovascular Imaging
S. Alexander, R. Azencott, E. Papadakis ; Proc. Wavelets XII, SPIE 2007, p 1-12, vol 6701, 2007
Online health monitoring of mechanical hazards in Formula 1 car races
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle , Proc. FISITA World Automotive Congress 2004
Auto adaptive monitoring of complex industrial processes
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle; Proc. Coll. “Fiability of Production Lines” Madrid, Spain, 2004
Auto adaptive analysis of engine noise / vibrations for online diagnosis
R. Azencott, J. Besnard, C.A. Lehalle
Proc. Conf. “Automobile / Railway : Acoustics, Vibratory, Thermal confort”, Douai, France, 2004
Stability of nonlinear control by piecewise affine neural networks
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle; Proc. Int. Conf. Artificial Neural Networks, Edinburgh, UK, 1999
Piecewise Affine Perceptrons can emulate stable nonlinear controls
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle; Proc. Int. Symp. "Intelligent Control", Cambridge, USA, 1999
Piecewise affine neural networks and nonlinear control
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle; Proc. Int. Conf. "Artificial Neural Networks", Skovde, Sweden, 1998
Automatic control by piecewise affine neural networks
R. Azencott, C.A. Lehalle; Proc. “Nonlinear control Theory/Appl.” CransMontana, Switzerland, 1998
Large deviations theory and Vapnik exponential bounds for learning speed
R. Azencott; invited lecture at Brown University 50 th anniversary
Internat. Colloquium , Maths Dept , Brown University, Providence USA , 1997
Automated camera detection of defects using Markov Random Fields
R. Azencott, J.F. Yao ; Proc.12th Int. Congress Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, 1996
A distance for elastic matching in object recognition
R. Azencott, F. Coldefy, L. Younes ; Proc. Int. Conf. Pattern Recogn. ICPR 96; Vienna,1996
Multiscale identification of buildings in compressed large aerial scenes
R. Azencott, F. Durbin, J. Paumard ; Proc. Int. Conf. Pattern Recogn. ICPR 96; Vienna,1996
Robust recognition in compressed large aerial scenes
R. Azencott, F. Durbin, J. Paumard ; Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing , Lausanne, 1996
Stochastic Neural Nets applied to optimization and pattern recognition
R. Azencott; Proc. Int. Summer School “Image Analysis and Automatic learning”
Le Breau , France Publications EDF / CEA / INRIA 1994
Geodesics in diffeomorphisms groups : deformation distance between shapes
R. Azencott; Int. Conf. Stoch. structures and Monte-Carlo Optim. , Cortona, Italy, 1994
Detection of seismic horizons : Gibbs fields techniques
R. Azencott, JL.Guiziou, JF.Yao; Proc. 6th Conf. Image Proc. Como 1991, World Sci. Singapore, 1992
Adaptive smoothing and Markov fields for “valleys” detection on images
R. Azencott, B.Chalmond, F.Coldefy, Proc. 11th IAPR Cong. “Image Speech Signal”, La Haye, 1992
Non supervised image segmentation and multi-level Markov Random fields
R. Azencott, C. Graffigne; Proc. 11th IAPR Cong. “Image, Speech, Signal Analysis”, La Haye, 1992
Markov Random Fields in image analysis : a 1986-1992 survey
R. Azencott; DEA Prob. Stats lecture notes , 8 pp, Publi Univ. Paris Sud , 1992
Unsupervised learning for the visual cortex
R. Azencott, M.Mougeot ; Proc. Int. Conf. Neural Nets, Seattle, WorldScientific, Singapore, 1991
Contour lines extraction in images by synchronous Boltzmann machines
R. Azencott, J.Lacaille; Actes Congress Neuro-Nimes p 507-518, Nimes, France, 1991
Smooth contour lines in images and Boltzmann machines
R. Azencott, J.Lacaille ; Proc. Int. J. Conf. Neural Nets, Seattle, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991
Synchronous Boltzmann machines and artificial vision
R. Azencott ; " Neural Networks : Les Entretiens de Lyon" p 135-143, Springer, 1990
Synchronous Boltzmann machines and outline based image classification
R. Azencott, A.Doutriaux, L.Younes ;ProcIEEE Neural Nets,Paris1990, Kluwer, Boston, 1990
Self-organization of orientation selective cells in the visual cortex
R. Azencott, M.Mougeot ; in Proc. Neurosciences Congr., Aussois, France 1990
Proceedings of 1990 Int. Autumn School : “Object Oriented Languages”
R. Azencott; Editor and Sci. Director, Publ. Thomson / Inst. ENS Ulm, Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1990
Simulated Annealing
R. Azencott ; Invited Lecture 697 in “Actes Seminaire Bourbaki” 1988 , Editor Bourbaki
Publications Soc. Math. France, Collection Asterisque , p 223-237, 1989
Proceedings of 1989 Int. Autumn School: Image Analysis and Artificial Vision
R. Azencott, Editor and Sci. Director, Publ. Thomson / Inst. ENS Ulm, Jouy-en-Josas, France 1989
Image analysis and Markov fields
R. Azencott; Proc SIAM 87 Conf "Industrial and Appl.Maths", Paris, SIAM Publ. Philadelphia, 1988
Proceedings of 1988 Int. Autumn School “Image Analysis and Artificial Vision”
R. Azencott; Editor and Sci. Director, Publ. Thomson / Inst. ENS Ulm, Jouy-en-Josas, France 1988
Mandrake, expert software and algorithms for time series forecast
R. Azencott, B. and Y. Girard, R. Astier, P. Jacoubowitz, M.M. Martin
Proc. 8th Int. Symp. "Forecasting" Amsterdam, 1988
Gibbs fields, simulated annealing and low level vision tasks
R. Azencott; Proc. RFIA 87 “Shape Rec. and Artif. Intell.” Antibes AFCET, vol II, p 1183-1191, 1987
Proceedings of 1987 Internat. Autumn School “Artificial Intelligence”
R. Azencott; Editor and Sci. Director, Publ. Thomson / Inst. ENS Ulm, Jouy-en-Josas, France 1987
Simulated Annealing and Image analysis
R. Azencott; invited lecture, Proc. Conf “Math. and Artif. Vision” Soc.Math.France, 16 pp, 1986
Atiyah-Singer Index theorem : Bismut’s approach
R. Azencott ; invited lecture, “Seminaire Bourbaki 1984”, Publ. Soc. Math. France, Asterisque, 1985
Martin boundaries of random walks on locally compact groups
R. Azencott and P.Cartier ; Proc. 6th Berkeley Symp. on Prob. Stat. vol 3, pp 87-129 , 1970
Poisson Spaces
R. Azencott, Proc. Coll. Probability / Algebra pp 23-31 ClermontFerrand, France , CNRS Publ., 1969
C ) Robert Azencott : Books and Monographs
Simulated annealing : Parallelization techniques
R. Azencott, Editor , with contributions by
R. Azencott, O. Catoni, C. Grafigne, L.Younes, A. Trouve, M. Dreyfus, P. Garda, H. Lutton
Interscience Wiley 242 pages New York , 1992
Time Series of irregular observations
R. Azencott, D. Dacunha Castelle ; augmented 3rd edit., (Japanese), 206 pages, Tokyo, 1989
Time Series of irregular observations
R. Azencott, D. Dacunha Castelle; augmented 2nd edit., (English) 198 pages, Springer, NewYork, 1985
Series d’observations irregulieres
R. Azencott, D.Dacunha Castelle; 1st edition, ( French ), 190 pages , Masson, Paris, 1983
Geodesics and small time behaviour of diffusions on manifolds
R. Azencott, editor, with contributions by
R.Azencott, P. Baldi, A. Bellaiche, L. Elie, M. Chaleyat-Maurel
Publ. Soc Math France , Coll. Asterisque vol 84-85; 250 pages Paris, 1982
Large Deviations theory and Applications
R. Azencott; invited advanced course, Saint-Flour Summer school on Probability Th.
Lecture Notes Math , vol 774 176 pages Springer-Verlag 1980
Homogeneous manifolds with negative curvature
R. Azencott, E.Wilson ; Memoirs American Math.Soc. vol 8 ; 178 , 101 pages , 1976
Poisson spaces of locally compact groups
R. Azencott ; Lecture Notes Math vol 148 , 141 pages Springer , 1970
Elements of Algebraic Geometry
R. Azencott, P. Berthelot; based on F. Bruhat ENS Lectures, 120 pages, Publ. ENS Ulm Paris 1966
D ) Book Chapters
Simulated Annealing and Image analysis
R. Azencott; in book “Selected Papers Soc.Math.France” (edit. J.M. Kantor) , 2003
Distribution-Dependent Vapnik-Chervonenkis Bounds
R. Azencott, N. Vayatis , in Computational Learning Theory, Edit. P. Fischer, H. Simon,
Lect.Notes in Computer Sciences, vol 1572, pp 230-240, 1999
An energy minimization method for matching structured object representations
R. Azencott, L. Younes ; in book “Energy minimization methods in computer vision and pattern recognition” Lecture Notes Computer Science vol 1223, pp 441 - 456 , 1997
Non homogeneous transfer function estimation for X-rays films fusion
R.Azencott, J.P. Wang;“Tomographic image reconstruction”,vol 9336, Publ. ENS CMLA,France 1993
Boltzmann machines : High order interaction and synchronous learning
R. Azencott, in book "Stochastic models in image analysis" Editor P.Barone,
Lecture Notes in Statistics. Vol 74. p 14 - 45 Springer 1992
Edge detection and segmentation of textured images
R. Azencott, C. Graffigne, C. Labourdette; in book "Stochastic models in image analysis" Editor P. Barone, Lecture Notes in Statistics. Vol 74, Springer p 75 - 88, .1992
Bayesian 3D path search in Images of seismic data
R. Azencott, B. Chalmond, P. Julien; in “Stochastic Models in Image Analysis"
Editor P. Barone, Lecture Notes in Statistics. Vol 74, Springer-Verlag p 46 - 74 , 1992
Simulated annealing: speed of convergence and acceleration techniques
R. Azencott; in book "Simulated annealing" pp 1-10 Intersciences, Wiley , 1992
Large deviation framework for sequential and parallel annealing
R. Azencott; in book "Simulated annealing” pp 11-24 Intersciences, Wiley , 1992
Parallel annealing : basic techniques
R. Azencott; in book "Simulated annealing" pp 37-46 Intersciences, Wiley , 1992
Parallel annealing :interacting multiple searches
R. Azencott, C.Graffigne; in book "Simulated annealing" pp 81-90 , Intersci. , Wiley 1992
Image compression through backpropagation
R. Azencott, M. Mougeot, B. Angeniol; in book "NeuroComputing" Ed. F. Fogelman
Nato Asi Lecture Notes Series, vol F- 68 p 333-336 Springer, 1990
Synchronous Boltzmann machines and Gibbs fields
R. Azencott, in book "Neurocomputing" Editors F. Fogelman- Y. Hierault
NATO ASI Lecture Notes Series, vol F68 p 51-62 Springer, 1990
Schroedinger Equation as « h » tends to zero : a probabilistic approach
R. Azencott and H. Doss; in book “Stochastic aspects of classical and quantum systems”
Edit. Albeverio, Lecture Notes in Maths. Springer, vol 1109, pp 1 - 17 , 1985
Asymptotic small time expansions for densities of diffusion processes
R. Azencott; in book “Probabilites Sem. Univ. Strasbourg”, Editor J. Azema,
Lecture Notes Maths vol 1059 pp 402-498 Springer, 1984
Stochastic Taylor Formula and Feynmann integrals
R. Azencott; in book “Seminaire Prob. XVI, Geometrie differentielle stochastique”
Lecture Notes Math.vol 921 pp 237-285 Springer, 1982
Diffusions processes on differentiable manifolds
R. Azencott ; in book "Geodesiques et diffusions" Editor R. Azencott
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 84-85 pp 17-32 , 1981
Local and Global Estimates for the density of diffusion processes
R. Azencott ; in book "Geodesiques et diffusions" Editor R. Azencott
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 84-85 pp 131-150 , 1981
Cramer Transforms and small time diffusions processes
R. Azencott ; in book "Geodesiques et diffusions" Editor R. Azencott
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 84-85 pp 215-226 , 1981
Diffusion Processes on the Heisenberg group
R. Azencott ; in book "Geodesiques et diffusions" Editor R. Azencott
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 84-85 pp 227-236 , 1981
Parameters Estimation through Rank Tests
R. Azencott; in book "Estimation robuste" Editor D. Dacunha-Castelle,
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 43, pp 41-64 , 1977
Robustness of R-estimators
R. Azencott; in book "Estimation robuste" Editor D. Dacunha-Castelle
Publ. Soc Math France , Collection Asterisque vol 43, pp 189-202 , 1977
Methods of localization and diffusions on manifolds
R. Azencott; in Invited Lecture Series, 63 pages
Publ. Istituto Matematico "Ulisse Dini" Firenze, Italy, 1971
E ) Patents (Inventor Robert Azencott)
Patent 1 : A method for anomaly detection
Non supervised algorithmics for automatic learning of critical features and anomaly detection in signal analysis
Patent delivered : Europe N° 00 410 009 5 ; USA N° 09 519 597 2003
Patent 2 : A method to monitor process performance indicators
Auto-adaptive rigorous probabilistic computation of global performance score, based on simultaneous analysis of large heterogeneous families of dynamic performance indicators.
Patent delivered : Europe N° 00 410 069 9 ; USA N° 09 784 134 2003
Patent 3 : A system for automatic real time identification of specific sounds
Automatic live audio-surveillance systems for urban buses, trains, airplanes, involving on board microphones and sound identification software, auto-calibrated by off line automatic learning.
Patent delivered : Europe N° 03 054 14 2003
Patent 4 : A technique for geometric shapes identification of curves
Automatic on line analysis of sensor recorded signals to detect occurences of specific families of fuzzy geometric shapes with self-calibration by automatic learning.
Patent delivered : Europe N° 00 410 036.8 ; USA N° 09 616 055 2003
Patent 5 : A system for content driven navigation in multimedia databases
Automatic content indexation algorithms and softwares for large databases of images and texts; automated iterative browsing among documents with similar contents.
Patent delivered : Europe N° 00 410 103.6 ; USA N° 09 783 621 2002
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