Cette thèse propose des méthodes computationnelles nouvelles en géométrie de l'information, avec des applications temps réel au traitement du signal audio. Dans ce contexte, nous traitons en parallèle les problèmes applicatifs de la segmentation audio en temps réel, et de la transcription de musique polyphonique en temps réel. Nous abordons ces applications par le développement respectif de cadres théoriques pour la détection séquentielle de ruptures dans les familles exponentielles, et pour la factorisation en matrices non négatives avec des divergences convexes-concaves. D'une part, la détection séquentielle de ruptures est étudiée par l'intermédiaire de la géométrie de l'information dualement plate liée aux familles exponentielles. Nous développons notamment un cadre statistique générique et unificateur, reposant sur des tests d'hypothèses multiples à l'aide de rapports de vraisemblance généralisés exacts. Nous appliquons ce cadre à la conception d'un système modulaire pour la segmentation audio temps réel avec des types de signaux et de critères d'homogénéité arbitraires. Le système proposé contrôle le flux d'information audio au fur et à mesure qu'il se déroule dans le temps pour détecter des changements. D'autre part, nous étudions la factorisation en matrices non négatives avec des divergences convexes-concaves sur l'espace des mesures discrètes positives. En particulier, nous formulons un cadre d'optimisation générique et unificateur pour la factorisation en matrices non négatives, utilisant des bornes variationnelles par le biais de fonctions auxiliaires. Nous mettons ce cadre à profit en concevant un système temps réel de transcription de musique polyphonique avec un contrôle explicite du compromis fréquentiel pendant l'analyse. Le système développé décompose le signal musical arrivant au cours du temps sur un dictionnaire de modèles spectraux de notes. Ces contributions apportent des pistes de réflexion et des perspectives de recherche intéressantes dans le domaine du traitement du signal audio, et plus généralement de l'apprentissage automatique et du traitement du signal, dans le champ relativement jeune mais néanmoins fécond de la géométrie de l'information computationnelle.

O fenômeno da globalização teve o condão de aproximar os diversos povos, cada um com seus interesses e culturas próprios. A existência de um consenso internacional na definição de princípios a serem seguidos quando das relações externas não consegue impedir, contudo, o surgimento de possíveis conflitos e divergências, tendo em vista a pluralidade cultural das diversas nações mundiais, fato que induziu a sociedade internacional a desenvolver meios que pudessem dirimir pacificamente as controvérsias, porventura, surgidas entre elas. A adoção dos meios para solução pacífica dos conflitos internacionais encontra-se incentivada pela Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil (art. 4., incisos VI e VII) e sua utilização não importa qualquer renúncia ao exercício da soberania, nem tampouco à imunidade de jurisdição. Para que se tenha uma eficácia maior da submissão dos conflitos surgidos no âmbito externo aos meios admitidos para resolvê-los, é importante que os países envolvidos no litígio possuam orientação interna no sentido de privilegiar o Direito Internacional frente à sua legislação infraconstitucional doméstica. A eventual primazia do direito interno pode resultar na inocuidade da adoção dos meios pacíficos de solução de controvérsias internacionais, uma vez que as autoridades dos países litigantes poderão se esquivar do cumprimento do acordo ou decisão alegando uma possível contrariedade com os ditames legais domésticos. Nesse contexto, a seara tributária tem despertado constantes divergências internacionais. As diferentes interpretações conferidas pelas diversas nações, dentre elas o Brasil, quando da aplicação dos tratados por elas firmados e que tenham vertente fiscal, em especial aqueles que visam evitar a dupla imposição fiscal da renda, ou garantir o livre trânsito de bens, pessoas e serviços, acaba trazendo grande insegurança àqueles investidores que possuem operações conectadas a dois ou mais sistemas tributários diferentes. Assim, ganham cada vez mais corpo, os debates em torno da extensão dos mecanismos pacíficos para resolução de divergências, também ao âmbito de aplicação de todo e qualquer tratado que verse sobre a matéria tributária. Tal fato propicia a busca de uma possível uniformização dos métodos hermenêuticos aplicáveis àqueles fatos geradores tributáveis que se encontrem vinculados a dois ou mais entes soberanos. É nesse contexto que se apresenta o presente estudo, o qual aborda a possibilidade de a República Federativa do Brasil submeter ao procedimento arbitral aquelas controvérsias de cunho tributário que eventualmente decorram da interpretação divergente das convenções internacionais das quais seja parte e que tratem de matéria fiscal. / The phenomenon of globalization had the power to bring together different peoples, each with their own interests and cultures. However, in view of the cultural diversity of different peoples around the world, the existence of an international consensus in establishing the principles to be followed when external relations are formed cannot prevent the emergence of external conflicts and disagreements. This led the international society to develop mechanisms that could peacefully settle the controversies that may eventually arise. The adoption of such mechanisms is encouraged by the Brazilian Constitution, whose article 4, sections VI and VII, advocates the pursuit of peace and peaceful settlement of disputes. Its use does not lead to the renunciation of the exercise of sovereignty nor to the immunity of jurisdiction. Meanwhile, in order to achieve greater efficacy in the submission of disputes arising outside of the means allowed to solve them, it is important that countries involved in the disputes have consolidated internal orientation towards favouring international law over their domestic infra-constitutional legislation. The primacy of the domestic law may result in the ineffectiveness of adopting peaceful means for solving international controversies since authorities of the countries engaged in the dispute may avoid compliance with the agreement or decision on the grounds of some contradiction with the domestic law procedures. In this context, the taxation arena has been constantly attracting international disagreement. The different interpretations conferred by various nations, including Brazil, in applying taxation-related treaties signed by themselves, particularly those attempting to avoid double income taxation or to guarantee the free flow of goods, people and services, bring a high level of insecurity to investors possessing operations connected to two or more distinct tax systems. As a result, the debates regarding the extension of the peaceful mechanisms to the solution of divergences take shape, including those related to the application of any treaty which speaks to the subject of taxation. This favors the search for the standardization of the hermeneutical methods applicable to those tax events which are linked to two or more sovereign entities. This is the context surrounding the current study, which addresses the possibility of the Federative Republic of Brazil to refer tax-related disputes, caused by divergent interpretation of the international conventions of which it is a member, to the arbitral proceedings.

O fenômeno da globalização teve o condão de aproximar os diversos povos, cada um com seus interesses e culturas próprios. A existência de um consenso internacional na definição de princípios a serem seguidos quando das relações externas não consegue impedir, contudo, o surgimento de possíveis conflitos e divergências, tendo em vista a pluralidade cultural das diversas nações mundiais, fato que induziu a sociedade internacional a desenvolver meios que pudessem dirimir pacificamente as controvérsias, porventura, surgidas entre elas. A adoção dos meios para solução pacífica dos conflitos internacionais encontra-se incentivada pela Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil (art. 4., incisos VI e VII) e sua utilização não importa qualquer renúncia ao exercício da soberania, nem tampouco à imunidade de jurisdição. Para que se tenha uma eficácia maior da submissão dos conflitos surgidos no âmbito externo aos meios admitidos para resolvê-los, é importante que os países envolvidos no litígio possuam orientação interna no sentido de privilegiar o Direito Internacional frente à sua legislação infraconstitucional doméstica. A eventual primazia do direito interno pode resultar na inocuidade da adoção dos meios pacíficos de solução de controvérsias internacionais, uma vez que as autoridades dos países litigantes poderão se esquivar do cumprimento do acordo ou decisão alegando uma possível contrariedade com os ditames legais domésticos. Nesse contexto, a seara tributária tem despertado constantes divergências internacionais. As diferentes interpretações conferidas pelas diversas nações, dentre elas o Brasil, quando da aplicação dos tratados por elas firmados e que tenham vertente fiscal, em especial aqueles que visam evitar a dupla imposição fiscal da renda, ou garantir o livre trânsito de bens, pessoas e serviços, acaba trazendo grande insegurança àqueles investidores que possuem operações conectadas a dois ou mais sistemas tributários diferentes. Assim, ganham cada vez mais corpo, os debates em torno da extensão dos mecanismos pacíficos para resolução de divergências, também ao âmbito de aplicação de todo e qualquer tratado que verse sobre a matéria tributária. Tal fato propicia a busca de uma possível uniformização dos métodos hermenêuticos aplicáveis àqueles fatos geradores tributáveis que se encontrem vinculados a dois ou mais entes soberanos. É nesse contexto que se apresenta o presente estudo, o qual aborda a possibilidade de a República Federativa do Brasil submeter ao procedimento arbitral aquelas controvérsias de cunho tributário que eventualmente decorram da interpretação divergente das convenções internacionais das quais seja parte e que tratem de matéria fiscal. / The phenomenon of globalization had the power to bring together different peoples, each with their own interests and cultures. However, in view of the cultural diversity of different peoples around the world, the existence of an international consensus in establishing the principles to be followed when external relations are formed cannot prevent the emergence of external conflicts and disagreements. This led the international society to develop mechanisms that could peacefully settle the controversies that may eventually arise. The adoption of such mechanisms is encouraged by the Brazilian Constitution, whose article 4, sections VI and VII, advocates the pursuit of peace and peaceful settlement of disputes. Its use does not lead to the renunciation of the exercise of sovereignty nor to the immunity of jurisdiction. Meanwhile, in order to achieve greater efficacy in the submission of disputes arising outside of the means allowed to solve them, it is important that countries involved in the disputes have consolidated internal orientation towards favouring international law over their domestic infra-constitutional legislation. The primacy of the domestic law may result in the ineffectiveness of adopting peaceful means for solving international controversies since authorities of the countries engaged in the dispute may avoid compliance with the agreement or decision on the grounds of some contradiction with the domestic law procedures. In this context, the taxation arena has been constantly attracting international disagreement. The different interpretations conferred by various nations, including Brazil, in applying taxation-related treaties signed by themselves, particularly those attempting to avoid double income taxation or to guarantee the free flow of goods, people and services, bring a high level of insecurity to investors possessing operations connected to two or more distinct tax systems. As a result, the debates regarding the extension of the peaceful mechanisms to the solution of divergences take shape, including those related to the application of any treaty which speaks to the subject of taxation. This favors the search for the standardization of the hermeneutical methods applicable to those tax events which are linked to two or more sovereign entities. This is the context surrounding the current study, which addresses the possibility of the Federative Republic of Brazil to refer tax-related disputes, caused by divergent interpretation of the international conventions of which it is a member, to the arbitral proceedings.

Les conventions internationales de droit uniforme du commerce international ont pour but d'adopter un ensemble de règles qui soient communes et directement applicables aux rapports juridiques existant entre les différentes parties à un contrat commercial international. L'uniformité de ces conventions peut cependant être rompue en raison d'interprétations divergentes dont certaines de leurs dispositions font l'objet de la part des différents juges nationaux. C'est en particulier le cas des dispositions relatives à la faute qualifiée dans les conventions internationales de droit uniforme relatives au contrat de transport. Pour réduire les divergences d'interprétation en ce domaine, il a été proposé de changer la formulation de cette faute qualifiée qui après avoir été formulée au moyen d'un standard, l'a donc été au moyen d'une définition. Cette thèse s'est dans un premier temps intéressée à l'étude des résultats obtenus en matière d'uniformité d'interprétation de cette faute qualifiée sous l'empire du standard, puis sous celui de la définition. Cela a permis de mettre en évidence le fait qu'au-delà de la rédaction de la faute qualifiée au moyen d'un standard ou d'une définition, les divergences d'interprétation apparaissaient ou pouvaient apparaître à cause notamment de divers éléments perturbateurs qui ont été identifiés et au sujet desquels un premier niveau de propositions de solutions a été fait. Cependant, ces propositions de solutions, qui consistent globalement à adopter une interprétation en tenant compte des divers éléments perturbateurs de l'uniformité de l'interprétation qui ont été identifiés, doivent être mise en œuvre au moyen de mécanismes dont la création est nécessaire. C'est ce que cette thèse a proposé dans un deuxième temps.En effet, ces mécanismes ont pour objet la délivrance de recommandations interprétatives aux sujet des dispositions conventionnelles faisant l'objet, au moins potentiellement, de divergences d'interprétation. Ces recommandations sont à destination des juridictions des Etats parties aux conventions concernées et bénéficient d'un statut sui generis qui justifie qu'elles soient prises en compte par le juge. Si c'est la faute qualifiée dans les conventions internationales de droit uniforme relatives au contrat de transport qui a servi de support et de fil conducteur pour cette étude, les éléments de solution proposés ont toutefois vocation à s'appliquer, selon le même schéma, dans d'autres domaines que celui du droit des transports, régis par des conventions internationales de droit uniforme du commerce international. / The purpose of international conventions of uniform international trade law is to adopt a set of rules that are common and directly applicable to the legal relationship between the parties to an international commercial contract. The uniformity of these conventions can, however, be broken by divergent interpretations of which some of their provisions are the subject of the various national judges. This is particularly the case of the provisions relating to misconduct described in the international conventions of uniform law relating to the contract of carriage. In order to reduce differences of interpretation in this area, it has been proposed to change the wording of this qualified fault which, after having been formulated by means of a standard, has thus been made by means of a definition. This thesis was at first interested in the study of the results obtained in terms of uniformity of interpretation of this qualified fault under the influence of the standard, then under that of the definition. This made it possible to highlight the fact that beyond the drafting of the qualified fault by means of a standard or a definition, the divergences of interpretation appeared or could appear because of various disruptive elements which have been identified and for which a first level of proposals for solutions has been made. However, these proposals for solutions, which generally consist in adopting an interpretation taking into account the various disruptive elements of uniformity of interpretation that have been identified, must be implemented through mechanisms that are necessary to create. This is what this thesis proposed in a second step. The purpose of these mechanisms is to issue interpretative recommendations on conventional provisions that are the subject of at least potentially divergent interpretations. These recommendations are addressed to the courts of the States Parties to the conventions concerned and enjoy a sui generis status which justifies them being taken into account by the judge.If it is the misconduct described in the international agreements of uniform law relating to the contract of carriage which served as support and guideline for this study, the proposed elements of solution are however intended to apply, according to the same scheme, in other fields than transport law, governed by international conventions of uniform international trade law.

This thesis examines the Swedish 19th century family magazine, Svenska Familj-Journalen, and the interaction between bourgeois attitudes, science, and depictions of animals. My main purpose is to demonstrate how image-text divergences can discover ruptures between 19th century bourgeoise ideology and science. The study consists of a selection of illustrations and texts, the majority being popular zoology depictions that were published in the magazine between 1877–1882. By using nature-culture oppositions as well as art historian Sonya Petersson’s concept of the counteractive illustration, I am able to elucidate differences between texts and images. The texts and images are subsequently analyzed by relating them to contemporary scientific discourses, as well as to the early Swedish animal welfare and nature conservation movements.  The results of this study are that image-text divergences reveal 1) that images of animals could depict the animal as such, rather than as a symbol of bourgeois ideals, 2) an insecurity in the magazine’s attitudes toward Darwin’s theory of sexual selection, illustrating circumstances where the magazine chose to adhere to its ideological dispositions rather than accept Darwinian consensus, 3) that the magazine, in publishing texts that were critical of wild life exploitation, diverged from its progress oriented narrative, and that its use of images counteracted these messages.

Ces dernières années, le domaine de l’apprentissage profond a connu des progrès énormes dans des applications allant de la génération d’images, détection d’objets, modélisation du langage à la réponse aux questions visuelles. Les approches classiques telles que l’apprentissage supervisé nécessitent de grandes quantités de données étiquetées et spécifiques à la tâches. Cependant, celles-ci sont parfois coûteuses, peu pratiques, ou trop longues à collecter. La modélisation efficace en données, qui comprend des techniques comme l’apprentissage few-shot (à partir de peu d’exemples) et l’apprentissage self-supervised (auto-supervisé), tentent de remédier au manque de données spécifiques à la tâche en exploitant de grandes quantités de données plus “générales”. Les progrès de l’apprentissage profond, et en particulier de l’apprentissage few-shot, s’appuient sur les benchmarks (suites d’évaluation), les métriques d’évaluation et les jeux de données, car ceux-ci sont utilisés pour tester et départager différentes méthodes sur des tâches précises, et identifier l’état de l’art. Cependant, du fait qu’il s’agit de versions idéalisées de la tâche à résoudre, les benchmarks sont rarement équivalents à la tâche originelle, et peuvent avoir plusieurs limitations qui entravent leur rôle de sélection des directions de recherche les plus prometteuses. De plus, la définition de métriques d’évaluation pertinentes peut être difficile, en particulier dans le cas de sorties structurées et en haute dimension, telles que des images, de l’audio, de la parole ou encore du texte. Cette thèse discute des limites et des perspectives des benchmarks existants, des fonctions de coût (training losses) et des métriques d’évaluation (evaluation metrics), en mettant l’accent sur la modélisation générative - les Réseaux Antagonistes Génératifs (GANs) en particulier - et la modélisation efficace des données, qui comprend l’apprentissage few-shot et self-supervised. La première contribution est une discussion de la tâche de modélisation générative, suivie d’une exploration des propriétés théoriques et empiriques des fonctions de coût des GANs. La deuxième contribution est une discussion sur la limitation des few-shot classification benchmarks, certains ne nécessitant pas de généralisation à de nouvelles sémantiques de classe pour être résolus, et la proposition d’une méthode de base pour les résoudre sans étiquettes en phase de testing. La troisième contribution est une revue sur les méthodes few-shot et self-supervised de détection d’objets , qui souligne les limites et directions de recherche prometteuses. Enfin, la quatrième contribution est une méthode efficace en données pour la description de vidéo qui exploite des jeux de données texte et vidéo non supervisés. / In recent years, the field of deep learning has seen tremendous progress for applications ranging from image generation, object detection, language modeling, to visual question answering. Classic approaches such as supervised learning require large amounts of task-specific and labeled data, which may be too expensive, time-consuming, or impractical to collect. Data-efficient methods, such as few-shot and self-supervised learning, attempt to deal with the limited availability of task-specific data by leveraging large amounts of general data. Progress in deep learning, and in particular, few-shot learning, is largely driven by the relevant benchmarks, evaluation metrics, and datasets. They are used to test and compare different methods on a given task, and determine the state-of-the-art. However, due to being idealized versions of the task to solve, benchmarks are rarely equivalent to the original task, and can have several limitations which hinder their role of identifying the most promising research directions. Moreover, defining meaningful evaluation metrics can be challenging, especially in the case of high-dimensional and structured outputs, such as images, audio, speech, or text. This thesis discusses the limitations and perspectives of existing benchmarks, training losses, and evaluation metrics, with a focus on generative modeling—Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in particular—and data-efficient modeling, which includes few-shot and self-supervised learning. The first contribution is a discussion of the generative modeling task, followed by an exploration of theoretical and empirical properties of the GAN loss. The second contribution is a discussion of a limitation of few-shot classification benchmarks, which is that they may not require class semantic generalization to be solved, and the proposal of a baseline method for solving them without test-time labels. The third contribution is a survey of few-shot and self-supervised object detection, which points out the limitations and promising future research for the field. Finally, the fourth contribution is a data-efficient method for video captioning, which leverages unsupervised text and video datasets, and explores several multimodal pretraining strategies.