Initially from Normandy, Mathieu joined ESIEA (Ecole d'Ingénieurs du Numérique), where he specialized in information systems and artificial intelligence. At the same time, he completed a double degree with the SKEMA business school. Mathieu joined ORINOX for his final internship. This internship, carried out in partnership with the LIRIS laboratory and INSA Lyon, allowed him to get a foot in the research world.
To follow up on this positive experience, he has decided to carry on in this way, by becoming ORINOX's first PhD student! In May 2021, Mathieu began a CIFRE thesis, co-supervised by Maxime Biou and Véronique Eglin, his thesis supervisor from the LIRIS / INSA Lyon laboratory. His thesis topic: "digital transformation of images of technical engineering documents and industrial plans".
In other words, it is about extracting information - texts, symbols, components - present on engineering documents, and then giving meaning to this information: which components are correlated, which tag to associate with which component... The objective is in fact to teach the machine to do automatically what a human would do when analyzing an engineering document.
The final application of this work for ORINOX is to give its customers the possibility, via an automatic tool, to recreate digital data from non-intelligent engineering data (photocopied plans, scanned P&IDs...). Indeed, many actors of building engineering have at their disposal data as documents, which they need to convert into digital and structured data, to form a digital twin of their industrial installations.
Thanks to the work of Mathieu and the R&D team, the user will be able to upload his documents on a SaaS interface, so that they are automatically analyzed by an algorithm. The user will then be able to retrieve his structured engineering data, and will then be able to explore, exploit and valorize them. This R&D work is planned for 3 years, and should end in 2024, with already promising first results.
Mathieu wrote his first scientific paper for the DAS 2022 conference - Document Analysis System, an international conference on document analysis and recognition. After being reviewed by a committee of experts on the subject, his article was validated by the international community and is now part of the scientific literature!
Congratulations to Mathieu for his success in this key step in his path to a PhD! It's also a great success for ORINOX and the R&D team, which has taken another step forward in the development of digitalization technologies.
Link to Mathieu's publication : HAL - Science ouverte
