Julien Mille

Julien Mille is an Associate Professor at INSA Centre Val de Loire and Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Tours, France. He conducts research with the RFAI team (Reconnaissance des Formes et Analyse d'Images) at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée in Tours. Previously, he was an associate professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (2009-2015), affiliated with the LIRIS laboratory and Imagine team.

• Key research areas: Pattern recognition, image analysis, active contours/surfaces, optimal transport, human activity recognition
• Technical contributions: Developed open-source tools for image labeling (PixelLabeling), DeepFlowCUDA optimization

Scientific contributions span computer vision, biomedical imaging, and plant science applications. Notable work includes:

• Optimal transport methods for image restoration
• Hierarchical skeletonization for shape matching
• Pose-driven attention mechanisms for video analysis
• 3D segmentation of medical images

His research has been published in leading journals like SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, International Journal of Computer Vision, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding, along with major conferences including CVPR, ECCV, and ICIP.