Background and Position

I am currently "Chargé de recherche premiere classe (CR1)" (tenure researcher) with the "Centre National de Recherch Scientifique" (CNRS). I am also associate director of the "Signal, Images, Systems" departement of the I3S Laboratory at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

From 2007 to 2009 I worked with the ROSACE team at LASMEA at the University of Blaise Pascal.

Up until the end of 2007 I carried out a post-doc position in the AROBAS project at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. This post-doc project was focused on autonomous visual navigation of a mobile vehicle and is funded by the French national project MOBIVIP.

In 2005 I completed a PhD on robust real-time 3D tracking of rigid and articulated objects in the Lagadic project at IRISA/INRIA in Rennes.

In 2001 I worked as a Research Assistant for Ray Jarvis in the Intelligent Robotics Research Center(IRRC).

In 2000 I graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) majoring in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering with Honours from Monash University Australia.

In 1997 I graduated with Bachelor of Science (BSc) majoring in Computer Science also from Monash University, Australia.

Research Areas

I am researching robotic vision systems and more particularly vision based localisation and mapping. Topics of interest include visual odometry, visual slam, robust statistics, dense visual modeling, real-time direct tracking, 3D localisation, multi-view perception, visual servoing, parallel robots, intelligent vehicules, non-linear estimation and control, real-time robot vision.

Teaching

I teach the following courses:

• Visual SLAM: European Masters in Computer Vision (MCV - Le Creusot, Université de Bourgogne, FRANCE), 2012.
• Visual Slam: French Mexican Summer School on robot vision, 2008
• Artificial Intelligence: SUPINFO 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Computer Vision (invited lecture): LASMEA, 2008