Antonin Descampe

Professeur

SSH/ESPO Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication (ESPO)

SSH/ESPO/COMU Ecole de Communication (COMU)

SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)

SSH/ILC/PCOM Pôle de recherche en communication (PCOM)

As a researcher, I'm interested in studying the risks and opportunities of digital technologies for visual communication and the media in general, with a focus on how automated data processing modifies the relationship between the media and their audiences.
As a teacher, I'm giving courses to journalism and communication students on the key aspects of digital technologies, and how they will shape their future job.

Adresse postale

COMU - Collège Léon Dupriez
L2.03.02
Ruelle de la Lanterne magique 14
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

COMU

SH01 - Collège Léon Dupriez
Étage 01 Bureau E 121
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Téléphone : 010472787

Secretary Phone : 010472797

2026

Article de journal

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2026). A “Fine Amalgam” of a Style: How French-speaking Canadian and Belgian Journalists Perceive Objective Newswriting. Journalism Practice, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2026.2700656 (Original work published 2026)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/278910

Rotili, L., Antonin Descampe, & Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel. (2026). Enseigner l’innovation journalistique. Sur le journalisme, About Journalism, Sobre Jornalismo, 15(1), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.25200/SLJ.v15.n1.2026.640 (Original work published 2026)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/279150

Bogaert, J., Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Fairon, C., de Marneffe, M.-C., & Standaert, F.-X. (2026). Explanation Variability in Text Classification: Humans vs. LLMs. Computational Linguistics, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli.a.624 (Original work published 2026)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/276263

Cougnon, L.-A., Ramelot, J., Mentalechta, L., Lits, G., & Descampe, A. (2026). Pratiques numériques du secteur culturel et médiatique : de l’auto-évaluation à la mise en perspective en Belgique francophone. Terminal, 142. (Original work published 2026)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/273594

Soetewey, A., Heuchenne, C., Claes, A., & Descampe, A. (2026). AssociationExplorer: A user-friendly Shiny application for exploring associations and visual patterns. SoftwareX, 33, 102483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2025.102483 (Original work published 2026)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264564

Papier de conférence

Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., Fairon, C., & Standaert, F.-X. (2026, May 13). Explaining Explanations: Interpretability Methods for Discourse Analysis of Transformer Attention Maps. LREC 2026, Palma (Spain). https://doi.org/10.63317/3mygtrz7g6vj

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/276264

2025

Papier de conférence

Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., & Standaert, F.-X. (2025). Consolidating Explanation Stability Metrics. Consolidating Explanation Stability Metrics, p. 310-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08327-2_15

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/271591

Claes, A., Soetewey, A., Descampe, A., & Heuchenne, C. (2025). Automatiser le journalisme d’investigation local - Quels enjeux médiatiques? ACFAS2025 - “À la recherche des médias automatisés”, Montréal.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/264559

Claes, A., & Descampe, A. (2025). Bridging Local Journalism Practice and Innovation: Co-designing Automated Tools to Support News Investigations. Algosoc, Amsterdam.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/263849

Claes, A., & Descampe, A. (2025). Assister le journalisme local - Quelles pistes pour une exploitation soutenable de modèles de langage ? ACFAS2025 - “Plateformes, IA générative et régulation algorithmique : perspectives critiques et interdisciplinaires”, Montréal.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/263857

Rotili, L., Van Breusegem, C., & Descampe, A. (2025). Accountability and Generative AI in Small Media Markets: A Case Study of Legacy Media in French-Speaking Belgium. Regulation and Accountability in a Hybrid Media System: Content Creators, Algorithmic Plurality and Online Platforms, Prague - Charles University.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/246444

Article de journal

Claes, A., Jacques, J., Descampe, A., & Wiard, V. (2025). Automated Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Media Literacy Education. Journal of Media Literacy Education. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/259457

2024

Article de journal

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2024). Unveiling subjectivity in press discourse: a statistical and qualitative study of manually annotated articles. Discours, 34(1). (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269346

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2024). Automated text classification of opinion vs. news French press articles. A comparison of transformer and feature-based approaches. Language & Communication, 99(1), 129-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.004 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269177

Papier de conférence

Rotili, L., Van Breusegem, C., & Descampe, A. (2024). New Technologies, Same Values? : A Case Study of AI-Driven Ethical Dilemmas in French-speaking Belgian Print Media. Assises du Journalisme de Bruxelles, Bruxelles.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/246445

Jacquemin, A., Escouflaire, L., & Descampe, A. (2024). L’identité entrepreneuriale façonnée par la presse écrite francophone belge : Une décennie de construction fluide aux multiples facettes. 17e congrès CIFEPME, Québec, Canada.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/234177

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2024). The many faces of subjectivity in journalism: Multidisciplinary discourse analysis using linguistics and machine learning. ECREA 2024 - European Communication Research and Education Association Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269181

Escouflaire, L., Venant, A., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2024). La subjectivité dans le journalisme québécois et belge : Transfert de connaissances inter-médias et inter-cultures. JADT 2024 Proceedings: 17th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data. 2022. Volume 1., 329-338.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269261

2023

Papier de conférence

Bogaert, J., Escouflaire, L., de Marneffe, M.-C., Descampe, A., Standaert, F.-X., & Fairon, C. (2023). TIPECS : A corpus cleaning method using machine learning and qualitative analysis. Actes des 11èmes Journées Internationales de la Linguistique de Corpus, P. 160-164.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269398

Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2023). The RTBF Corpus: a dataset of 750,000 Belgian French news articles published between 2008 and 2021. Actes des 11èmes Journées Internationales de la Linguistique de Corpus, 155-159.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269192

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2023). Mapping Subjectivity in Press Discourse: Human vs. Transformer Comprehension of Belgian French Press Articles. New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data 2023, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269232

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Lits, G., & Fairon, C. (2023). Analyzing the semantic evolution of bias in French news articles using word embeddings. Digital Humanities Benelux 2023, Brussels, Belgium.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/268370

Rotili, L., Descampe, A., & Pignard-Cheynel, N. (2023). Enseigner l’innovation journalistique par la pratique : études de cas belge et suisse. L’avenir de la médiation technologique dans le journalisme et les médias, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/219601

Article de journal

Bogaert, J., de Marneffe, M.-C., Descampe, A., Escouflaire, L., Fairon, C., & Standaert, F.-X. (2023). Sensibilité des explications à l’aléa des grands modèles de langage : le cas de la classification de textes journalistiques. Traitement Automatique des Langues., 64(3), 19-44. (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269089

2022

Papier de conférence

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2022). Detecting opinion in news. An automated analysis of linguistic subjectivity in French-language press articles. 4th Biennial Conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) - A true and fair view, Brussels, Belgium.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/269117

Jacques, J., Descampe, A., Claes, A., & Wiard, V. (2022). Automated media: key challenges and concepts for reception studies. ECREA 2022 - 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Danemark.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/229110

Bogaert, J., de Marneffe, M.-C., Descampe, A., & Standaert, F.-X. (2022). Automatic and Manual Detection of Generated News: Case Study, Limitations and Challenges. In Bogdan Ionescu, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Adrian Popescu, Luca Cuccovillo (ed.), MAD ’22: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (Association for Computing Machinery, p. p. 18-26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3512732.3533589

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/232493

Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2022). L’évolution de la subjectivité linguistique dans le journalisme web du XXIe siècle : analyse d’un corpus belge francophone d’articles de 2010 à 2021. Proceedings of the 16th JADT Conference, 377-384.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/228674

Descampe, A. (2022). Algorithmes et data: quels enjeux pour le service public audiovisuel ? Audition dans le cadre du renouvellement du contrat de gestion RTBF, Parlement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/233056

Descampe, A. (2022). Machine learning methods to detect subjectivity in the news press: towards a multimodal approach based on text and images. International Symposium - Augmented Images: New Challenges in the Era of Big Data Algorithms and Digital Environments, Liège, Belgium.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/229278

2021

Papier de conférence

Descampe, A. (2021). Automatisation dans les médias: perspectives de recherche au MiiL. Médias automatisés : quels enjeux pour l’éducation aux médias de demain ? , Université Saint-Louis.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/233057

Bogaert, J., Carbonnelle, Q., Descampe, A., & Standaert, F.-X. (2021). Can Fake News Detection be Accountable? The Adversarial Examples Challenge. Proceedings of the 2021 Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux, 25-32.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/232489

Article de journal

Descampe, A., & Standaert, F.-X. (2021). Transparents mais corruptibles : les algorithmes au défi des comportements « adversariaux » dans le domaine journalistique. Les Cahiers du journalisme - Recherches, 2(7), R39-R66. https://doi.org/10.31188/CaJsm.2(7).2021.R039 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/102310

Descampe, A., Massart, C., Poelman, S., Standaert, F.-X., & Standaert, O. (2021). Automated News Recommendation in front of Adversarial Examples & the Technical Limits of Transparency in Algorithmic Accountability. A I & Society : the journal of human-centered systems and machine intelligence. Published. (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/168283

Descampe, A., Richter, T., Ebrahimi, T., Foessel, S., Keinert, J., Bruylants, T., Pellegrin, P., Buysschaert, C., & Rouvroy, G. (2021). JPEG XS - A New Standard for Visually Lossless Low-Latency Lightweight Image Coding. Proceedings of the IEEE, 109(9), 1559-1577. https://doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2021.3080916 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/110127

Richter, T., Fößel, S., Descampe, A., & Rouvroy, G. (2021). Bayer CFA pattern compression with JPEG XS. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 30(1), 6557-6569. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2021.3095421 (Original work published 2021)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/108501

Monographie

Bruylants, T., Descampe, A., Damman, C., & Richter, T. (2021). RFC 9134 RTP Payload Format for ISO/IEC 21122 (JPEG XS). https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9134

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/251874

2020

Brevet

Willeme, A., Descampe, A., Rouvroy, G., Pellegrin, P., & Macq, B. (2020). Motion compensation reference frame compression.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/254310

2018

Papier de conférence

Richter, T., Keinert, J., Descampe, A., & Rouvroy, G. (2018). Entropy Coding and Entropy Coding Improvements of JPEG XS. 2018 Data Compression Conference. Published. 2018 Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, UT. https://doi.org/10.1109/dcc.2018.00017

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/227795

Willème, A., Macq, B., Descampe, A., & Gaël Rouvroy. (2018). Power-Aware HEVC Compression Through Asymmetric JPEG XS Frame Buffer Compression. 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/233312

Mahmoudpour, S., Viola, I., Fliegel, K., Pospisil, J., Ebrahimi, T., Descampe, A., Schelkens, P., Macq, B., & Willème, A. (2018). Overview of the JPEG XS core coding system subjective evaluations. In Schelkens, P. ; Alpaslan, Z. Y. ;Ebrahimi, T. ; Oh, K., Pereira, F. ; Pinheiro, A. ; Tabus, I. ; Chen, Z. (ed.), Applications of Digital Image Processing XLI. SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2323435

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/224636

Richter, T., Descampe, A., Keinert, J., & Rouvroy, G. (2018). Entropy coding, profiles, and levels of JPEG XS. Applications of Digital Image Processing XLI. Published. Applications of Digital Image Processing XLI, San Diego, United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2322525

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/224474

Article de journal

Richter, T., Keinert, J., Foessel, S., Descampe, A., Rouvroy, G., & Lorent, J.-B. (2018). JPEG-XS—A High-Quality Mezzanine Image Codec for Video Over IP. SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, 127(9), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.5594/jmi.2018.2862098 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/117681

2017

Papier de conférence

Richter, T., Keinert, J., Descampe, A., Rouvroy, G., & Willème, A. (2017). Multi-generation-robust Coding with JPEG XS. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2017. Published. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2017, Taichung, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2017.12

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/219097

Descampe, A., Keinert, J., Richter, T., Fößel, S., & Rouvroy, G. (2017). JPEG XS, a new standard for visually lossless low-latency lightweight image compression. Applications of Digital Image Processing XL. Published. Applications of Digital Image Processing XL, San Diego, United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273625

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/224751

Willème, A., Descampe, A., Rouvroy, G., Pellegrin, P., & Macq, B. (2017). JPEG XS-based frame buffer compression inside HEVC for power-aware video compression. Proceedings Volume 10396, Applications of Digital Image Processing XL. Published. Applications of Digital Image Processing XL SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, California, USA. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273170

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/254501

2016

Article de journal

Willème, A., Descampe, A., Lugan, S., & Macq, B. (2016). Quality and Error Robustness Assessment of Low-Latency Lightweight Intra-Frame Codecs for Screen Content Compression. I E E E Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 6(4), 471-483. https://doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2016.2601166 (Original work published 2016)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/254377

Papier de conférence

Richter, T., Fößel, S., Keinert, J., & Descampe, A. (2016). High speed, low-complexity image coding for IP-transport with JPEG XS. Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX. Published. SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, California, United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237358

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/224431

2015

Article de journal

Goossens, S., Descampe, A., Orban de Xivry, J., Lee, J., Delor, A., Janssens, G., & Geets, X. (2015). Impact of motion induced artifacts on automatic registration of lung tumors in Tomotherapy. Physica Medica : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology, 31(8), 963-968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2015.07.140 (Original work published 2015)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/184707

2014

Papier de conférence

Gallego Ortiz, N., Orban de Xivry, J., Descampe, A., Goossens, S., Geets, X., Janssens, G., & Macq, B. (2014). Respiratory motion variations from skin surface on lung cancer patients from 4D CT data. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, 9034, 90342Y. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043477 (Original work published 2014)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/254266

2013

Papier de conférence

Savinaud, M., Malaterre, M., Malik, J., Grizonnet, M., Michel, J., & Descampe, A. (2013). Open JPEG A Free And Open-Source Solution To Access To The New JPEG2000 Geospatial Products. ESA Special Publication, 722(1), 302. (Original work published 2013)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/117601

2011

Article de journal

Descampe, A., De Vleeschouwer, C., Vandergheynst, P., & Macq, B. (2011). Scalable Feature Extraction for Coarse-to-Fine JPEG2000 Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(9), 2636-2649. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2011.2126584 (Original work published 2011)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/253635

2009

Chapitre de livre

Descampe, A., De Vleeschouwer, C., Jacques, L., & Marques, F. (2009). “How does digital cinema compress images?”. In T. Dutoit and F. Marques (ed.), “Applied Signal Processing - A MATLAB-based approach” (p. p. 361-410). Springer, MA.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/253558

2008

Thèse

Descampe, A. (2008). Seamless remote browsing and coarse-to-fine compressed retrieval using a scalable image representation.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/152887

2007

Article de journal

Descampe, A., De Vleeschouwer, C., Iregui, M., Macq, B., & Marques, F. (2007). Prefetching and caching strategies for remote and interactive browsing of JPEG2000 images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 16(5), 1339-1354. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2007.894258 (Original work published 2007)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/253552

2006

Papier de conférence

Descampe, A., Vandergheynst, P., De Vleeschouwer, C., & Macq, B. (2006). Coarse-to-fine textures retrieval in the JPEG 2000 compressed domain for fast browsing of large image databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4105, 282-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/11848035_38 (Original work published 2006)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/247717

Descampe, A., De Vleeschouwer, C., Iregui, M., Macq, B., & Marques, F. (2006). Pre-fetching strategies for remote and interactive browsing of JPEG2000 images. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, GA, USA. Published. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, USA.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/228901

Article de journal

Descampe, A., Devaux, F.-O., Rouvroy, G., Legat, J.-D., Quisquater, J.-J., & Macq, B. (2006). A flexible hardware JPEG 2000 decoder for digital cinema. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 16(11), 1397-1410. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2006.884573 (Original work published 2006)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/252857

2005

Papier de conférence

Descampe, A., Macq, B., Chevalier, P., & Ou, J. (2005). Data prefetching for smooth navigation of large scale jpeg 2000 images. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2005. Published. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME′05), Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/219907

2004

Papier de conférence

Descampe, A., & Devaux, F. O. (2004). A Flexible, Line-based, JPEG 2000 Decoder for Digital Cinema. Proceedings of the MELECON 2004 Conference. Published. 12th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON-2004), Dubrovnik, Croatia.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/219079

Descampe, A., Devaux, F. O., Rouvroy, G., Macq, B., & Legat, J.-D. (2004). An efficient FPGA Implementation of a flexible JPEG2000 Decoder for Digital Cinema. Proceedings of the EUSIPCO 2004 Conference. Published. EUSIPCO 2004 - Eurasip 2004 European Signal Processing Conference, Vienna, Austria.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/253240

Unités d'enseignement pour 2026

Libellé	Code
Enjeux des technologies du numérique	LCOMU1240
Journalisme et littératie informationnelle	LCOMU2123
Compétences numériques du journalisme	LCOMU2124
Introduction au data journalisme	LCOMU2403
Genres journalistiques subjectifs	LCOMU2406
Prototypage de nouveaux formats d'information	LCOMU2424

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