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 University Lille 1 partner — of the MADRAS project supported by the ANR (January 2008 – December 2010, extended to September 2011), 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
  "Learning boundary edges for 3D-mesh segmentation"
  Computer Graphics Forum - Eurographics Association - Ed. Blackwell, volume 30, issue 8, pp. 2170-2182, December 2011.
  (BiBTeX | web | material | hal)
• Hedi Tabia, Mohamed Daoudi, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre and Olivier Colot
  "A new 3D-matching method of non-rigid and partially similar models using curve analysis"
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 33, number 4, pp. 852-858, April 2011.
  (PDF | BiBTeX | web | hal)
• 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, volume 26, number 12, pp. 1451-1466, December 2010.
  (PDF | BiBTeX | web | hal)
• 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 | hal)
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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 | hal)
• 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.
  (PDF | BiBTeX | web | hal)

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.

Former students:

• Halim Benhabiles, "3D-mesh segmentation: automatic evaluations and a new learning-based method" (2008-2011). PhD thesis defended on 18 October 2011 at TELECOM ille 1, granted within the framework of the ANR MADRAS project, and supervised in collaboration with Guillaume Lavoué and Mohamed Daoudi.
• Hedi Tabia, "Contributions to 3D-shape matching, retrieval and classification" (2008-2011). PhD thesis defended on 27 September 2011 at TELECOM Lille 1, granted by the French Department of Research (allocation de recherche du Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche). Thesis mainly supervised by Mohamed Daoudi and Olivier Colot. I was not directly implied in the supervision but was closely associated to Hedi Tabia's daily work and publications.
• Julien Tierny, "Reeb graph based 3D shape modeling and applications" (2005-2008). PhD 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). PhD 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.