Background and Position

2007 - present  "Chargé de recherche premiere classe (CR1)" (permanent academic researcher apointment) with the "Centre National de Recherch Scientifique" (CNRS).

2011 - present Associate director of the "Signal, Images, Systems" departement of the I3S Laboratory at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

2007 - 2009 Member of the ROSACE team at LASMEA at the University of Blaise Pascal.

2005 - 2007 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.

2001 - 2005 PhD on robust real-time 3D tracking of rigid and articulated objects in the Lagadic project at IRISA/INRIA in Rennes.

2000 - 2001 Research Assistant for Ray Jarvis in the Intelligent Robotics Research Center(IRRC).

1994 - 2000 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) majoring in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering with Honours from Monash University Australia.

1994 - 1997 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 mapping, 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 Servoing: Masters of Engineering Science in Electronic, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2012
• 3D Computer Vision: Parcours Vision, Image et Multimédia (VIM), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2012
• Visual Slam: French Mexican Summer School on robot vision, 2008
• Artificial Intelligence: SUPINFO 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Computer Vision (invited lecture): LASMEA, 2008