Ce travail de thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre de la caractérisation optique à haute cadence en temps réel. Des outils de métrologie ultrarapides ont ainsi été utilisés pour l’étude d’une source laser impulsionnelle ainsi que pour l’imagerie de phénomènes physiques. La mise en place et la caractérisation temporelle d’une source laser impulsionnelle a permis l’observation d’événements anormalement intenses pour certains régimes de fonctionnement, et ces dynamiques ont pu être confirmées numériquement. La compréhension de ces phénomènes présente un intérêt fondamentalmais également pratique, notamment en vue de limiter les dommages optiques dans les sources laser. L’utilisation d’une technique d’imagerie appelée « imagerie par étirage temporel » a permis l’observation de jets liquides à une cadence de 80MHz. Reposant sur le principe de Transformée de Fourier Dispersive, cette technique permet de rendre compte de phénomènes non-répétitifs à des cadences élevées, et ainsi d’outrepasser les limitations imposées par les systèmes d’enregistrement conventionnels. La technique a également permis l’étude d’ondes de choc générées par ablation laser, et la détermination du profil de vitesse de l’onde de choc à travers la zone de mesure. Le phénomène de réflexion d’une onde de choc sur une paroi a également pu être observé. / This PhD work is dedicated to optical characterization in real time. Ultrafast metrology tools have thus been used to study a pulsed laser source and also for physical phenomena imaging. The implementation of a temporally well characterized pulsed laser source allowed the observation of events involving abnormally high intensity, the dynamics of which have also been numerically studied and confirmed. Understanding of these phenomena addresses a fundamental and interesting need to prevent optical damage in laser sources. The use of the imaging technique called “time-stretch imaging” allowed the imaging of liquid sprays at an 80MHz repetition rate. Based on Dispersive Fourier Transform, this technique enables the study of non-repetitive events at high sampling frequency, and thus goes beyond the performance of traditional imaging devices. This technique also allowed the tracking of shockwaves, and thus profiling the shockwave’s velocity variation through its propagation along a certain measuring distance. Shockwave reflection has also been observed.

Visualization, processing and editing of audio, directly on a time-frequency surface, is the scope of this thesis. More precisely the scalogram produced by a Gabor Wavelet transform is used, which is a powerful alternative to traditional techinques where the wave form is the main visual aid and editting is performed by parametric filters. Reconstruction properties, scalogram design and enhancements as well audio manipulation algorithms are investigated for this audio representation.The scalogram is designed to allow a flexible choice of time-frequency ratio, while maintaining high quality reconstruction. For this mean, the Loglet is used, which is observed to be the most suitable filter choice.  Re-assignmentare tested, and a novel weighting function using partial derivatives of phase is proposed.  An audio interpolation procedure is developed and shown to perform well in listening tests.The feasibility to use the transform coefficients directly for various purposes is investigated. It is concluded that Pitch shifts are hard to describe in the framework while noise thresh holding works well. A downsampling scheme is suggested that saves on operations and memory consumption as well as it speeds up real world implementations significantly. Finally, a Scalogram 'compression' procedure is developed, allowing the caching of an approximate scalogram.

[pt] Em apresentações hipermídia, umas das principais tarefas coordenadas pelo orquestrador da apresentação é a sincronização entre os diversos objetos componentes, que pode ser obtida através do ajuste elástico do tempo de exibição dos objetos. Esta técnica pode ser aplicada em tempo de compilação, de forma a manter os relacionamentos de sincronização especificados pelo autor, ou em tempo de apresentação, para prevenir qualquer descasamento temporal causado pelos ambientes de transmissão e de execução. Este trabalho descreve um conjunto de mecanismos para executar o ajuste elástico em fluxos MPEG-2 de Vídeo e de Sistemas, propondo algoritmos para a realização da compressão e expansão do tempo de exibição, do controle da ocupação do buffer do decodificador, da sincronização intermídia e da reconstrução do relógio de referência. Visando seu emprego em tempo de execução, todo o processo de ajuste é realizado diretamente no fluxo MPEG, sem qualquer transcodificação. / [en] In hypermedia presentations, one of the main tasks provided by the orchestrator is the synchronization of all presentation objects, which may be achieved by elastic time adjustment of period of exhibition of the objects, or simply timescale adaptation. This technique can be applied at compilation time, in order to keep track of synchronism relationships specified by authors, or at presentation time, to prevent any temporal mismatch caused by transmission or execution environments. This work presents a set of mechanisms to carry out timescale adaptation in MPEG-2 Systems and Video streams, proposing algorithms to perform compression and expansion of exhibition period, also called playback dilation, rate control, inter-media synchronization and clock reconstruction. In order to be performed at execution time, timescale operations are realized directly in compressed MPEG-2 streams, requiring no transcodification.