Research Interests

Keywords

Current: My current research interests center on machine learning approaches for application domains where social justice and fairness are at stake. These include in particular film analysis for gender-related aspects, or pedestrian trajectory prediction for the visually impaired persons.

Past: My past research interests included various aspects of optimization for computer networks and multimedia systems, some in connection with HCI.

Selected recent publications

A. R. Alliche, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and L. Sassatelli. O-DQR: a Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multihop Routing in Overlay Networks, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Oct. 2024.

F. Franco Gallo, H.-Y. Wu, and L. Sassatelli, DiVR: incorporating context from diverse VR scenes for human trajectory prediction, European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV) CV4Metaverse workshop (full paper), Milano, Italy, Sep. 2024.

J. Tores, L. Sassatelli, H.-Y. Wu, C. Bergman, L. Andolfi, V. Ecrement, F. Precioso, T. Devars, M. Guaresi, V. Julliard, and S. Lécossais , “Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation,” in 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, USA. Highlight award (Top 2% of 17000 submissions)
Pre-print: arXiv:2401.13296, 2024.

F. Franco Gallo, H.-Y. Wu, and L. Sassatelli, "Human Trajectory Forecasting in 3D Environments: Navigating Complexity under Low Vision,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE), 2024, pp. 57–63.pdf

Q. Guimard, L. Sassatelli, F. Marchetti, F. Becattini, L. Seidenari, and A. D. Bimbo, “Deep Variational Learning for 360 Adaptive Streaming,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2024.

Q. Guimard, L. Sassatelli, F. Marchetti, F. Becattini, L. Seidenari, and A. Del Bimbo. Deep Variational Learning for Multiple Trajectory Prediction of 360° Head Movements. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Athlone, Ireland, Jun. 2022.
ACM Reproducibility Badges.
Best paper award

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and F. Precioso. TRACK: A New Method from a Re-examination of Deep Architectures for Head Motion Prediction in 360-degree Videos. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3070520., Apr. 2021.

Posts

Lucile Sassatelli, Is data fixable? On the need of socially-informed practices in ML research and education - Part 1: Deployment failures and approaches to data, Medium, 3IA Côte d'Azur, Jan. 2023.

Lucile Sassatelli, Is data fixable? On the need of socially-informed practices in ML research and education - Part 2: A more holistic perspective on data creation and expectations, Medium, 3IA Côte d'Azur, Jan. 2023.

Lucile Sassatelli, Is data fixable? On the need of socially-informed practices in ML research and education - Part 3: AI ethics and our ML education practices, Medium, 3IA Côte d'Azur, Jan. 2023.

Ongoing projects

[Project coordinator]

ANR (French Research Agency) Collaborative Research Project (PRC) project TRACTIVE: Towards a computational multimodal analysis of film discursive aesthetics, 2022 - 2026 (772K€), 6 partners.

Fellowship of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF): Machine Learning for Network Streaming of Immersive Media, 2019 - 2024 (75K€).

Scientific Director of Ecole Française de l'Intelligence Artificielle EFELIA Côte d'Azur, 2022-2027 (8M€)

[Project member]

EU project AI4Media, one of the 4 Networks of Excellence Centers in AI (ICT-48-2020): A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy, 2020-2024, PI for 3IA-UniCA

ANR (French research agency) Jeunes Chercheu·se·r·s project CREATTIVE3D: Creating Attention-Driven 3D Environments for Low Vision, 2022-2026, leader: Hui-Yin (Helen) Wu, INRIA.

ANR (French research agency) Jeunes Chercheu·se·r·s project ARTIC: Artificial Intelligence for Cloud Network Control, 2020-2023, leader: Ramon Aparicio-Pardo, UniCA.

Students

PhD Students

[Current]

Julie Tores (2022-2025) - Deep Learning to detect objectification in films and visual media - Co-supervised with Frédéric Precioso and Hui-Yin Wu, funded by ANR PRC project TRACTIVE.

Franz Fabini Franco Gallo (2022-2025) - Modeling of 6DoF Navigation and the Impact of Low Vision in Immersive VR Contexts - Co-supervised with Hui-Yin Wu, funded by ANR JCJC project CREATTIVE3D.

Florent Robert (2021-2024) - Analyzing and Understanding Embodied Interactions in Extended Reality Systems - Co-advised with Hui-Yin Wu and Marco Winckler, funded by UCA PhD grants.

[Past]

Quentin Guimard (Oct. 2020 - Defended Dec. 2023) - Machine Learning-based Control for Streaming and Experiencing Virtual Reality - Funded by UCA PhD grants.

Abderrhamane Redha Alliche (Oct. 2020 - Defended June 2024) - Artificial Intelligence-based cloud network control - Co-supervised with Ramon Aparicio-Pardo, funded by ANR JCJC project ARTIC.

Miguel Romero (2017 - Defended Sep. 2021) - Streaming Virtual Reality: Learning for Attentional Models and Network Optimization - Co-supervised with Frédéric Precioso (UCA). Funded by UCA PhD grants.

Vitalii Poliakov (Oct. 2015 - Defended Dec. 2018) - Combining In-network Caching, HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Multipath to improve Video Quality of Experience - Co-supervised with Damien Saucez (Inria). Funded by Labex UCN@Sophia.

Neetya Shrestha (Mar. 2012 - Defended Apr. 2015) - Inter-session Network Coding in Mobile Social DTNs - Funded by ANR project TRouP WilMA.

Arshad Ali (Oct. 2009 - Defended Nov. 2012) - Topics in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs): Reliable Transport, Estimation and Tracking - Co-supervised with Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis) and Eitan Altman (Inria).

Awards

Highlight award at IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024 for "Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation" (Top 2% of 17000 submissions, top 10% of the 2500 accepted articles).
Best poster award for Julie Tores for "Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation" at the Soph.IA summit 2023.
Best paper award at the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) for our article "An integrated framework for understanding multimodal embodied experiences in interactive virtual reality".
Best paper award at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2022, for our article "Deep Variational Learning for Multiple Trajectory Prediction of 360° Head Movements".
Junior fellowship with Institut Universitaire de France, Oct. 2019.
Outsanding reviewer award at ACM International Conference on Multimedia (A*), Oct. 2019.
Award “Excellence in MPEG-DASH” (2nd place) by the MPEG-DASH Industry Forum et ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2018, for our article “Film Editing : New Levers to Improve VR Streaming”.
The UCA4SVR project selected amongst 5 success stories at the UCA-enterprises meeting day, May 2018.
Selected for the research bonus - Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR), since 2014.

Publications

From 2009, as a Maître de conférences at the university, my teaching duties range from 200 to 250 hours a year (except on my leave Sep. 2016-Aug. 2017). As a IUF member starting from fall 2019, my teaching duty will be 64 hours a year.
(*) Authors appear in alphabetical order.

Book chapters

H.-Y. Wu, J. Delachambre, M. Winckler, L. Sassatelli. Through the Eyes of Women in Engineering: An Immersive VR Experience. In "Texts of Discomfort", M. C. Reyes and J. Pope (Eds), Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press (Digital and Interaction Design), doi: 10.1184/R1/17071172, ISBN 978-1-7948-8071-9, Nov. 2021. trailer, description, Web app.

L. Sassatelli and M.-J. Montpetit. Technologies and Architectures for Future IP Television Services. In "Comprehensive Guide to IPTV Delivery Networks", S. Mohamed Fati, S. Azad, A. K. Pathan (Eds.), ISBN: 978-1-119-39791-5, Wiley, 2018.

A. Ali, M. Panda, L. Sassatelli, T. Chahed and E. Altman. Reliable Transport in Delay Tolerant Networks. In "Routing in Opportunistic Networks", Woungang, I.; Dhurandher, S.K.; Anpalagan, A.; Vasilakos, A.V. (Eds.), Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-3513-6.

Journal articles

H.-Y. Wu, F. Robert, B. Passin-Cauneau, B. Graulier, T. Fafet, L. Sassatelli, and M. Winckler. Designing Guided User Tasks in VR Embodied Experiences. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), 2022.

L. Sassatelli, M. Winckler, T. Fisichella, A. Dezarnaud, J. Lemaire, R. Aparicio and D. Trevisan. New Interactive Strategies for Virtual Reality Streaming in Degraded Context of Use. Elsevier Computers & Graphics, vol. 86, pp: 27 - 41, Feb. 2020.

N. Shrestha and L. Sassatelli. Inter-Session Network Coding-based Policies for Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15(11), pp. 7329-7342, Nov. 2016.

L. Sassatelli, A. Ali, M. Panda, T. Chahed and E. Altman. Reliable Transport in Delay Tolerant Networks with Opportunistic Routing. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13(10), pp.5546-5557, Oct. 2014.

E. Altman, L. Sassatelli and F. De Pellegrini. Dynamic Control of Coding for Progressive Packet Arrivals in DTNs. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12(2), pp. 725-735, Feb. 2013.

L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. Non-binary hybrid LDPC codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56(10), pp. 5214-5334, Oct. 2010.

W. Henkel, K. Hassan, N. von Deetzen, S. Sandberg, L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. UEP concepts in modulation and coding. Hindawi Advances in Multimedia, vol 2010, 2010.

Conferences

F. Franco Gallo, H.-Y. Wu, and L. Sassatelli, DiVR: incorporating context from diverse VR scenes for human trajectory prediction, European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), CV4Metaverse workshop (full paper), Milano, Italy, Sep. 2024.

F. Franco Gallo, H.-Y. Wu, and L. Sassatelli, Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Human Trajectory Prediction in Virtual Reality, European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), CV4Metaverse workshop (extended abstract), Milano, Italy, Sep. 2024.

F. Franco Gallo, H.-Y. Wu, and L. Sassatelli, “Human Trajectory Forecasting in 3D Environments: Navigating Complexity under Low Vision,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems, 2024, pp. 57–63.

F. Robert, H.-Y. Wu, L. Sassatelli, and M. Winckler, “Task-based methodology to characterise immersive user experience with multivariate data,” in 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), IEEE, 2024, pp. 722–731.

H.-Y. Wu et al., “Exploring, walking, and interacting in virtual reality with simulated low vision: a living contextual dataset,” preprint, 2023.

F. Robert, H.-Y. Wu, L. Sassatelli, S. Ramanoel, A. Gros, and M. Winckler, “An integrated framework for understanding multimodal embodied experiences in interactive virtual reality,” in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2023, pp. 14–26. Best paper award

F. Robert, Q. Guimard, L. Sassatelli, H.-Y. Wu, M. Winckler, and A. Gros, “PEM360: A dataset of 360 videos with continuous Physiological measurements, subjective Emotional ratings and Motion traces,” in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences Workshops, 2023, pp. 94–94.

Q. Guimard and L. Sassatelli, “SMART360: Simulating Motion prediction and Adaptive bitRate sTrategies for 360° video streaming,” in Proceedings of the 14th Conference on ACM Multimedia Systems, 2023, pp. 384–390.

R. A. Alliche, T. D. S. Barros, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and L. Sassatelli, “prisma-v2: Extension to Cloud Overlay Networks,” in 2023 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), IEEE, 2023, pp. 1–4.

A. R. Alliche, T. Da Silva Barros, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and L. Sassatelli. Impact Evaluation of Control Signalling onto Distributed Learning-based Packet Routing. IEEE International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 34), Shenzhen, China, Sep. 2022.

Q. Guimard, F. Robert, C. Bauce, A. Ducreux, L. Sassatelli, H.-Y. Wu, M. Winckler, and A. Gros. On the Link between Emotion, Attention and Content in Virtual Immersive Environments. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Bordeaux, France, Oct. 2022.

Q. Guimard, L. Sassatelli. Effects of Emotions on User Motion Predictability in 360° Videos. ACM International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE), Athlone, Ireland, Jun. 2022.

Q. Guimard, F. Robert, C. Bauce, A. Ducreux, L. Sassatelli, H.-Y. Wu, M. Winckler, and A. Gros. PEM360: A dataset of 360° videos with continuous Physiological measurements, subjective Emotional ratings and Motion traces. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Open Dataset and Software track, Athlone, Ireland, Jun. 2022.

A. R. Alliche, T. Da Silva Barros, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and L. Sassatelli. PRISMA: A Packet Routing Simulator for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. IFIP International Workshop on Network Intelligence, Catania, Italy, Jun. 2022.

H.-Y. Wu, L. Nguyen, Y. Tabei, and L. Sassatelli. Evaluation of deep pose detectors for automatic analysis of film style. EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing, Reims, France, Apr. 2022.

M. Romero, D. Zanca, S. Melacci, M. Gori, and L. Sassatelli. HeMoG: A White-Box Model to Unveil the Connection between Saliency Information and Human Head Motion in Virtual Reality. IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), pp. 10-18, doi: 10.1109/AIVR52153.2021.00012, Nov. 2021.
Nominated for the Best Paper Award

L. Gao, Q. Mao, J. Chen, M. Dong, R. Chinnam, L. Sassatelli, M. Romero Rondon, and U. Sharma. Reproducibility Companion Paper: On Learning Disentangled Representation for Acoustic Event Detection. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 3638–3641, doi: 10.1145/3474085.3477938, Oct. 2021.

H.-Y. Wu, J. Delachambre, M. Winckler, and L. Sassatelli. Through the Eyes of Women in Engineering. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), Art Exhibition track, Bournemouth, UK, Nov. 2020. app

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and F. Precioso. TRACK: A Multi-Modal Deep Architecture for Head Motion Prediction in 360-Degree Videos. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 2020.

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and F. Precioso. A Unified Evaluation Framework for Head Motion Prediction Methods in 360° Videos. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Open Dataset and Software track, Istambul, Turkey, June 2020.

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, R. Aparicio-Pardo, and F. Precioso. User-Adaptive Rotational Snap-Cutting for Streamed 360° Videos. EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing, Norrköping, Sweden, May 2020.

L. Sassatelli, M. Winckler, T. Fisichella and R. Aparicio-Pardo. User-Adaptive Editing for 360 degree Video Streaming with Deep Reinforcement Learning. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Demo track, Nice, France, October 2019.

M. Xiao, S. Wang, C. Zhou, Li Liu, Z. Li, Y. Liu, S. Chen, L. Sassatelli and G. Simon. Companion Paper for "MiniView Layout for Bandwidth-Efficient 360-Degree Video". ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Nice, France, October 2019.

L. Sassatelli, M. Winckler, T. Fisichella, R. Aparicio-Pardo and A.-M. Pinna-Déry. A New Adaptation Lever in 360° Video Streaming. 29th ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Amherst, MA, USA, June 2019.

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, F. Precioso and R. Aparicio-Pardo. Foveated Streaming of Virtual Reality Videos. Demo track, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018.

S. Dambra, G. Samela, L. Sassatelli, R. Pighetti, R. Aparicio-Pardo and A.-M. Pinna-Déry. Film Editing: New Levers to Improve Virtual Reality Streaming. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018. (Acc. rate: 21%)
2nd place of the "Excellence in DASH award", awarded by the DASH Industry Forum.
ACM Reproducibility Badge.

V. Poliakov, D. Saucez and L. Sassatelli. An ns-3 Distribution Supporting MPTCP and MPEG-DASH Obtained by Merging Community Models. Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3), Mangalore, India, June 2018.

L. Sassatelli, A.-M. Pinna-Déry, M. Winckler, S. Dambra, G. Samela, R. Pighetti and R. Aparicio-Pardo. Snap-changes: a Dynamic Editing Strategy for Directing Viewer's Attention in Streaming Virtual Reality Videos. ACM International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Grosseto, Italy, May 2018.

V. Poliakov, L. Sassatelli and D. Saucez. Adaptive video streaming, multipath and caching: can less be more?. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May. 2018.

G. Calvigioni, R. Aparicio-Pardo, L. Sassatelli, J. Leguay, S. Paris and P. Medagliani. Quality of Experience-based Routing of Video Traffic for Overlay and ISP Networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr. 2018. (Acc. rate: 19%)

H. Pedersen, L. Sassatelli and R. Aparicio-Pardo. Random Linear Coded Distributed Caching for Video Streaming over D2D. IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services (WONS), Isola, France, Feb. 2018.

R. Aparicio-Pardo and L. Sassatelli. A Green Video Control Plane with Fixed-Mobile Convergence and Cloud-RAN. IEEE International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Genoa, Italy, Sep. 2017.

R. Aparicio-Pardo and L. Sassatelli. A Cost Model for Green Fog Computing and Networking. Invited paper, IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Gerona, Spain, July 2017.

M. Bouzian, M. Bouhtou, T. En-Najjary, L. Sassatelli and G. Urvoy-Keller. Joint Optimization of QoE and Wasted resources due to users abandonment in Mobile Video Streaming. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017.

L. Sassatelli and M. Médard. Thwarting Pollution Attacks in Network Coding for Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks. International Conference on Internet of Things, Data and Cloud Computing, Cambridge, UK, Mar. 2017.

V. Poliakov, L. Sassatelli, D. Saucez. Case for caching and Model Predictive Control quality decision algorithm for HTTP Adaptive Streaming: is cache-awareness actually needed?. IEEE Globecom Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Dec. 2016.

S. Livi, L. Sassatelli and G. Urvoy-Keller. HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Access Router Management: the Users’ and Network’s Perspectives. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and the Internet (ICCCI), Wuhan, China, Oct. 2016.

R. Aparicio Pardo and L. Sassatelli. Adaptive video streaming and fixed-mobile convergence: A good team to reduce backhaul power consumption and improve users' QoE. Invited paper, IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Trento, Italy, July 2016.

V. Poliakov, L. Sassatelli, D. Saucez. Impact of Caching on HTTP Adaptive Streaming Decisions: towards an Optimal. IEEE Infocom Student Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, Apr. 2016.

M. Bouzian, T. En-Najjary, M. Bouhtou, L. Sassatelli and G. Urvoy-Keller. QoE Optimization of ON/OFF Video Streaming Strategy in Wireless Networks. IFIP Wireless Days, Toulouse, France, Mar. 2016.

N. Shrestha and L. Sassatelli. Inter-Session Network Coding in Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks: an Empirical Study. IEEE Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), WoWMoM workshop, Boston, MA, USA, Jun. 2015.

N. Shrestha and L. Sassatelli. On Control of Inter-session Network Coding in Delay-Tolerant Mobile Social Networks. ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2014. (Acc. rate: 22%)

S. Belhareth, D. Lopez-Pacheco, L. Sassatelli, D. Collange and G. Urvoy-Keller. Understanding Synchronization in TCP Cubic. IEEE International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Kalskrona, Sweden, Sep. 2014.

S. Belhareth, L. Sassatelli, D. Collange, D. Lopez-Pacheco and G. Urvoy-Keller. Understanding TCP Cubic Performance in the Cloud: a Mean-field Approach. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), San Francisco, USA, Nov. 2013. (Acc. rate: 28%)

N. Shrestha and L. Sassatelli. On Optimality of Routing Policies in Delay-Tolerant Mobile Social Networks. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

L. Sassatelli and M. Médard. Inter-session Network Coding in Delay-Tolerant Networks under Spray-and-Wait Routing. IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Paderborn, Germany, May 2012.

A. Ali, E. Altman, T. Chahed, D. Fiems, M. Panda and L. Sassatelli. Estimating File-Spread in Delay Tolerant Networks under Two-Hop Routing. IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.(*) (Acc. rate: 28%)

A. Ali, E. Altman, T. Chahed, M. Panda and L. Sassatelli. A New Proposal for Reliable Unicast and Multicast Transport in Delay Tolerant Networks. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

S. Shintre, L. Sassatelli and J. Barros. Generalized Delay-Secrecy-Throughput Trade-offs in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. IEEE International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications/Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (ICEAA/APWC), Torino, Italy, Sep. 2011

A. Ali, E. Altman, T. Chahed, M. Panda and L. Sassatelli. A New Reliable Transport Scheme in Delay Tolerant Networks Based on Acknowledgments and Random Linear Coding. IEEE/ACM International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Sep. 2011.(*) (Acc. rate: 33%)

E. Altman, F. De Pellegrini and L. Sassatelli. Dynamic control of coding in Delay Tolerant Networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), pp: 1-5, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2010. (Acc. rate: 17.5%)

L. Sassatelli, S. K. Chilappagari, B. Vasic, and D. Declercq. Two-bit message passing decoders for LDPC codes over the binary symmetric channel. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp: 2156-2160, Seoul, Korea, June 2009.

L. Sassatelli, D. Declercq, and C. Poulliat. Low Rate Hybrid LDPC Codes. IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics (ISTC), pp: 225-230, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 2008.

L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. Analysis of Non-binary Hybrid LDPC Codes. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp: 2261-2265, Nice, France, June 2007.

W. Henkel, N. von Deetzen, K. Hassan, L. Sassatelli, and D. Declercq. Some UEP Concepts in Coding and Physical Transport. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, pp: 1-5, Princeton, NJ, USA, Apr. 2007.

L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. Non-binary Hybrid LDPC Codes : Structure, Decoding and Optimization. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), pp: 71-75, Chengdu, China, Oct. 2006.

L. Sassatelli, W. Henkel, and D. Declercq. Check-Irregular LDPC Codes for Unequal Error Protection. IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics (ISTC), Munich, Germany, Apr. 2006.

National conferences

F. Robert, H.-Y. Wu, M. Winckler, L. Sassatelli. Création de jeux sérieux à l'aide d'un langage dédié pour des expériences incarnées en réalité virtuelle. Journées Françaises de l'Informatique Graphique (JFIG), Nov. 2021.

M. Romero, L. Sassatelli. Une approche multi-modale à la prédiction des mouvements de tête en réalité virtuelle. CORESA 2020.

L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. Quelques résultats sur les codes LDPC Hybrides. 21ème colloque GRETSI, Troyes, France, Sept. 2007.

L. Sassatelli and D. Declercq. Codes LDPC Hybrides. Journées françaises du codage et de la cryptographie, Carcans, France, Mars 2008.

Theses

L. Sassatelli. User-Centric Approaches for Opportunistic and Multimedia Networking. Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université Côte d'Azur, Dec. 2019.

L. Sassatelli. Hybrid LDPC codes and iterative decoding methods. PhD dissertation, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, October 2008.

L. Sassatelli. Unequal error protection LDPC codes. MSc dissertation, International University Bremen, September 2005.

Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (Professorial thesis)

Defended on December 6, 2019
Title: User-Centric Approaches for Opportunistic and Multimedia Networking
Jury: Rev.: Prof. Silvia Giordano (SUPSI), Prof. Carsten Griwodz (Univ. of Oslo), Prof. Gwendal Simon (IMT Atlantique), Exam.: Prof. Marco Cagnazzo (Telecom ParisTech), Prof. Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (UCA), Pres.: Prof. Patrick Le Callet (Univ. of Nantes)

Softwares (until 2022)

Deep Variational Learning for Multiple Trajectory Prediction of 360° Head Movements
Q. Guimard, L. Sassatelli, F. Marchetti, F. Becattini, L. Seidenari, and A. Del Bimbo
Code and data described in the ACM MMSys article below, June 2022.
ACM Reproducibility Badges obtained: Artifacts Available, Artifacts Evaluated – Reusable, and Results Validated - Reproduced

PEM360: A dataset of 360° videos with continuous Physiological measurements, subjective Emotional ratings and Motion traces
Q. Guimard, F. Robert, C. Bauce, A. Ducreux, L. Sassatelli, H.-Y. Wu, M. Winckler, and A. Gros
Code and data described in the ACM MMSys Open Software and Dataset track below, June 2022.
ACM Reproducibility Badges obtained: Artifacts Available

GuST-3D : Guided User Tasks in VR Embodied Experiences
H.-Y. Wu, F. Robert, B. Passin-Cauneau, B. Graulier, T. Fafet, L. Sassatelli, and M. Winckler
Invention disclosure application IDDN.FR.001.160035.000.S.P.2022.000.31235 registered with "Agence de Protection des Programmes", Apr. 2022. Code detailed in PACM EICS article below, and available at GUsT-3D.

A unified evaluation framework for head motion prediction methods in 360° videos
M. Romero, L. Sassatelli, R. Aparicio-Pardo and F. Precioso
Code used for the 2021 TPAMI journal article below, and described in the ACM MMSys Open Software and Dataset track below, May 2020.
ACM Reproducibility Badges obtained: Artifacts Evaluated and Functional

TOUCAN-VR: Testbed Oriented to User-Centric Approaches for Networking Virtual Reality
L. Sassatelli, S. Dambra, G. Samela, R. Pighetti, R. Aparicio-Pardo and A.-M. Pinna-Dery
Invention disclosure application registered with "Agence de Protection des Programmes", Feb. 2018. Code detailed in MMSys 2018 article below, and available at TOUCAN-VR.
ACM Reproducibility Badges obtained: Artifacts Available

QoE-based Routing
G. Calvigioni, R. Aparicio-Pardo, L. Sassatelli, J. Leguay, S. Paris and P. Medagliani
Simulation platform based on ns-3 used in the IEEE Infocom article below, Jan. 2018.

Green Video Control Plane
R. Aparicio-Pardo and L. Sassatelli
Testbed used in the IEEE ITC article below, Apr. 2017.

HLS BBA testbed: Http Live Streaming Buffer Based Adaptation
S. Livi, L. Sassatelli and G. Urvoy-Keller
Testbed used in the IEEE ICCCI article below, Feb. 2016.

Past projects:

[Project coordinator]

UCA (Université Côte d'Azur) Idex - Academy 1 project ACTIVATE: A Continuum to Virtual Reality for Streaming, Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019 (52K€).

UCA (Université Côte d'Azur) Idex - Academy 1 project UCA4SVR: User-Centric Approaches for Streaming Virtual Reality, Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017 (38.5K€).

ANR (French research agency) Jeunes Chercheu·se·r·s project TRouP WilMA: Transport and Routing Protocols in Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc Networks, 2010-2014 (160K€).

Scientific Administration

Responsibilities and membership

Scientific director of EFELIA Côte d'Azur: Ecole Française d'Intelligence Articielle in Côte d'Azur, 2022-present.
Co-director of XR²C²: Multidisciplinary Center for Research and Creation on eXtended Reality, regroups 13 laboratories of Université Côte d'Azur, created in 2020, 2020-2022.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Academy on Complex Systems of Université Côte d'Azur, 2021 - present.
Member of the Scientific Committee of Academy on Humanities and Social Sciences of Université Côte d'Azur, 2018 - 2021.
Member of the Program Committee for Advanced Research of Université Côte d'Azur, 2018 - 2020.
Member of the ACM Multimedia Reproducibility Committee.

Editorial Service:

Editor of the review board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications.
Technical Program chair of ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia Systems: MMSys 2021.
Area Editor for Elsevier Computer Communications.
Chair fo the ACM IMX workshop XR in Games, 2021.
Executive Editor for Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2016 - 2020.
TPC co-chair for ACM Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2020.
TPC co-chair for the Open Source Competition of ACM Multimedia 2020.
ACM Reproducibility Chair for ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 2020.
ACM Reproducibility co-chair for ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 2019.
Member of the technical program committees of international conferences (recent: ACM Multimedia Conference 2019, 2020, Area Chair in 2021, ACM MMSys 2020-2022, IEEE ICC 2018-2020, PIMRC 2018-2019).