Research interests
Information extraction from multimedia data and identification of structure in large multimedia databases. Main recent subjects: generation control [DAC24,DAC23,DAC22], visual scene understanding [AFC23b,AFC23], zero-shot learning [CBC19,CBC19b,CBC20a,CBC21], deep learning from streams [BBC18,BBCF20], informed segmentation for fashion item extraction [YRFC16], cross-modal retrieval and classification [TBC16,TBC16b], action localization in large video databases [SFBC15b], scalable "query by detector" [SFBC15a].
Career brief
Professor of computer science at Cnam Paris (since 2005), director of the CEDRIC (2010-2014), researcher at INRIA Rocquencourt (2002-2005), Habilitation to direct researches in computer science (University of Tours, 2001, "Neural networks, time-series modeling and information extraction"), assistant professor in computer science at the University of Tours (1995-2002), teaching assistant at the University of Paris XI (1994-1995), PhD in computer science at the University of Paris XI (1991-1994, "Structured representations in neural networks"), MS in computer science at the University of Paris XI (1990-1991), computer engineer (1989-1990), MEng in computer engineering (Polytechnical Institute of Iasi, Romania, 1984-1989). A tribute to my father, Vasile Crucianu, who was professor of mathematics at the University of Iasi in Romania.
