Publications

Thesis

  • Xavier Pic,
    Coding algorithms for long-term storage of digital images on synthetic DNA molecules,
    Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS, September 2024
    [Manuscript PDF] [Slides PDF]

Journal Articles

  • Zahra Ziran, Xavier Pic, Simone Undri Innocenti, Daniele Mugnai, Simone Marinai,
    Text alignment in early printed books combining deep learning and dynamic programming,
    Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 133, pp. 109-115, May 2020
    [Paper PDF]

Conference & Workshop Papers

  • Xavier Pic, Raja Appuswamy,
    Combining Progressive Image Compression and Random Access in DNA Data Storage,
    25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2025), June 2025
    [Paper PDF] [Presentation PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Trung Hieu Le, Xavier Pic, Jérémy Mateos, Marc Antonini,
    Implicit Neural Multiple Description for DNA-Based Data Storage,
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), April 2024
    [Paper PDF] [Poster PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Eva Gil San Antonio, Marc Antonini,
    MQ-Coder inspired arithmetic coder for synthetic DNA data storage,
    30th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2023), October 2023
    [Paper PDF] [Poster PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Eva Gil San Antonio, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Marc Antonini,
    Image storage on synthetic DNA using compressive autoencoders and DNA-adapted entropy coders,
    25th IEEE Workwhop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2023), September 2023
    [Paper PDF] [Presentation PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Trung Hieu Le, Xavier Pic, Marc Antonini,
    INR-MDSQC: Implicit Neural Representation Multiple Description Scalar Quantization for robust image Coding,
    25th IEEE Workwhop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2023), September 2023
    [Paper PDF] [Poster PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Eva Gil San Antonio, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Marc Antonini,
    Rotating labeling of entropy coders for synthetic DNA data storage,
    24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2023), pp. 1367-1371, April 2023
    [Paper PDF] [Presentation PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Marc Antonini,
    A constrained Shannon-Fano entropy coder for image storage in synthetic DNA,
    30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022), pp. 1367-1371, August 2022
    [Paper PDF] [Poster PDF] [Preprint PDF]

Posters in Workshops

  • Xavier Pic, Raja Appuswamy,
    Hierarchical Encoding of JPEG2000-compressed Images for DNA data storage,
    New Trends in DNA based Data Storage (DBDS 25), June 2025, Prague, Czechia
    [Poster PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Marc Antonini,
    Image coding algorithm for DNA data storage combining JPEG and autoencoders,
    Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (MWCC 2022), June 2022
    [Poster PDF]
  • Iulia Mitrica, Xavier Pic, Eva Gil San Antonio, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Marc Antonini,
    Efficient classification of DNA reads for robust decoding of data stored in synthetic DNA,
    Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (MWCC 2022), June 2022
    [Poster PDF]

Other Contributions

Softwares

Communications

  • Xavier Pic, Marc Antonini,
    Constrained and robust image coding for molecular storage,
    CNRS's GDR ISIS Meeting, July 2023, Paris, France
    [Presentation PDF]
  • Xavier Pic, Marc Antonini,
    Image Storage on Synthetic DNA Using Autoencoders,
    Arxiv, March 2022
    [Preprint PDF]
  • Marc Antonini, Luis Cruz, Eduardo da Silva, Melpomeni Dimopoulou, Touradj Ebrahimi, Siegfried Foessel, Eva Gil San Antonio, Gloria Menegaz, Fernando Pereira, Xavier Pic, António Pinheiro, Mohamad Raad,
    DNA-based Media Storage: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, Use Cases and Requirements,
    JPEG Communication, January 2022
    [Document Link]