École doctorale MATISSE : Mathématiques, Télécommunications, Informatique, Signal, Systèmes, ÉlectroniqueTV streams are structured : they consist of consecutive television programs (news , movies, magazines, etc.) and of inter-programs (commercial, trailer, sponsoring, etc.). As soon as they are broadcasted on the air, the TV streams lose unfortunately all information on their structure. The main problem of this thesis is to automatically recover, from the received linear audio/visual signals and using the possible available metadata provided by TV channels, the original structure of the TV streams, with the exact start and the exact end of each broadcasted program. This thesis presents a full system for automatic TV stream structuring that...