Three-dimensional model indexing and topological analysis. The 3D-models are often used in video games, virtual worlds, simulation, cultural heritage,etc. Consequently, indexing and analysing this kind of data has become a key issue.

• Member (and scientific manager for USTL partner) of the MADRAS project supported by the ANR (2008-2010), project reference ANR-07-MDCO-015.
• Member of the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries DELOS No. 507618 (European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST)).
• Member of the RNRT project SEMANTIC-3D (November 2002 to January 2006).
• Member of the GdR ISIS, representative for the LIFL.

• Halim Benhabiles, Guillaume Lavoué, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre and Mohamed Daoudi
  "A subjective experiment for 3D-mesh segmentation evaluation"
  IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'2010), Saint-Malo, France, October 4-6, 2010.
  (PDF (soon) | BiBTeX)
• Hedi Tabia, Mohamed Daoudi, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Olivier Colot
  "3D-shape retrieval using curves and HMM"
  20th IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010.
  (PDF (soon) | BiBTeX)
• Halim Benhabiles, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Guillaume Lavoué and Mohamed Daoudi
  "A comparative study of existing metrics for 3D-mesh segmentation evaluation"
  The Visual Computer – International Journal of Computer Graphics, Springer Editions, published online: 17 April 2010.
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• Halim Benhabiles, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Guillaume Lavoué and Mohamed Daoudi
  "A framework for the objective evaluation of segmentation algorithms using a ground-truth of human segmented 3D-models"
  IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), Beijing, China, June 26-28, 2009.
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• Julien Tierny, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Mohamed Daoudi
  "Partial 3D Shape Retrieval by Reeb Pattern Unfolding"
  Computer Graphics Forum - Eurographics Association - Ed. Blackwell, volume 28, number 1, pp. 41-55, March 2009.
  (PDF | BiBTeX | web)
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  Stefano Berretti, Mohamed Daoudi, Alberto del Bimbo, Tarik Filali Ansary, Pietro Pala, Julien Tierny and Jean-Philippe Vandeborre
  "3D Object Indexing and Retrieval"
  Chapter of the book "3D Object Processing: Indexing, Compression and Watermarking", Jean-Luc Dugelay, Atilla Baskurt, Mohamed Daoudi (co-editors), John Wiley & Sons Editions, ISBN 978-0-470-06542-6, April 2008.
  (BiBTeX | web)
• Julien Tierny, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Mohamed Daoudi
  "Enhancing 3D Mesh Topological Skeletons with Discrete Contour Constrictions"
  The Visual Computer – International Journal of Computer Graphics, Springer Editions, volume 24, number 3, pp. 155-172, March 2008.
  (PDF | BiBTeX | web)
• Tarik Filali Ansary, Mohamed Daoudi, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre
  "A Bayesian 3D Search Engine using Adaptive Views Clustering"
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, volume 9, number 1, pp. 78-88, January 2007.
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The complete list of publications in which I am co-author is also available.

• Rachid El Khoury, since September 2009, "3D-model indexing by parts". PhD Thesis granted within the framework of Futur et Ruptures program from the Institut Telecom and supervised in collaboration with Mohamed Daoudi.
• Halim Benhabiles, since September 2008, "Segmentation of static meshes: automatic evaluation of segmentation methods and application to partial shape indexing". PhD thesis granted within the framework of the ANR MADRAS project and supervised in collaboration with Guillaume Lavoué and Mohamed Daoudi.

Former students:

• Julien Tierny, "Reeb graph based 3D shape modeling and applications" (2005-2008). Thesis defended on 2 October 2008 at TELECOM Lille 1, granted by the French Department of Research (allocation de recherche du Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche), and supervised in collaboration with Mohamed Daoudi.
• Tarik Filali Ansary, "3D models indexing from 2D views" (2003-2006). Thesis defended on 6 October 2006 at TELECOM Lille 1, granted within the framework of the SEMANTIC-3D project, and supervised in collaboration with Mohamed Daoudi.

• Co-organisor of CORESA 2004 [fr], 25-26 May 2004 in TELECOM Lille 1, Lille Métropole, France.

• On-line 3D search engine 3DRetrieval, demonstration of Tarik Filali Ansary Ph.D. thesis work.
• Videos illustrating Julien Tierny's Ph.D. thesis work: video for a publication in Pacific Graphics 2006 and a video for a publication in SMI 2007.

• 3D-models indexing (MSc in Computer Science degree at USTL)
• TCP/IP networks (MSc level - fifth year students at TELECOM Lille 1)
• Computer graphics (MSc level - fifth year students at TELECOM Lille 1)
• Introduction to Unix and system programing (BSc level - third year students at TELECOM Lille 1)

• X-Window system (MSc level - fifth year students at TELECOM Lille 1)
• Computer Networks: architectures, models and protocols (BSc level - third year students at TELECOM Lille 1)
• C language coding and data structures (BSc level - third year students at TELECOM Lille 1)
• Micro-processors architectures (BSc level - third year students at TELECOM Lille 1)

Some teaching documents (lessons, labwork, etc.) I wrote. More papers in a near future. But, sorry, only in French.

• Installation and exploration of an operating system: Linux (PDF [fr]). Based on the Slackware Linux Distribution version 9.0.