Olivier Faugeras
Olivier Dominique Faugeras[1] is a French computer scientist and Director of Research at Inria Sophia Antipolis. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, and recipient of the 2014 Okawa Prize for his pioneering contributions to computer vision and computational neuroscience.[2][3]
Olivier Faugeras | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 December 1949 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique University of Utah University of Paris VI |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer vision Computational neuroscience |
| Institutions | Inria Rocquencourt University of Southern California University of Paris XI École Polytechnique MIT Inria Sophia Antipolis |
| Thesis | Digital color image processing and psychophysics within the framework of a human visual model (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Stockham |
| Doctoral students | Nicholas Ayache QT Luong Zhengyou Zhang Pascal Vitali Fua |
Biography
Faugeras was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He graduated in mathematics and physics from the École Polytechnique in 1971 and attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications for his masters in electrical engineering in 1973. He then attended the University of Utah for his PhD in computer science and graduated in 1976. He then became a junior scientist at Inria Rocquencourt until 1979. He spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and then returned to France to serve as an associate professor at University of Paris-Sud and for his ScD in mathematics from the University of Paris VI, which he received in 1981.[3] He then returned to Inria Rocquencourt as a senior scientist and in 1989, he moved to Inria Sophia Antipolis. From 1996 to 2001, he was an adjunct professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[3]
In 1989 he received the Institut de France Fondation Fiat award from the French Academy of Sciences for his contributions in computer vision. In 1998, he received the France Telecom Prize from the French Academy of Sciences, in addition to being elected a member.[4] In 2000 he was one of the founding members of the French Academy of Technologies. In 2008, together with QT Luong and Steve Maybank, he received at ECCV the initial Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision.[5] In 2015 he received at ICCV the PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award.[6]
References
- Olivier Faugeras at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-04. Retrieved 2017-08-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Dr. Olivier Faugeras" (PDF). 2014 Okawa Prize. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- "Olivier Faugeras - Biography". Sophia Antipolis Mediterranee. INRIA. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ECCV'08 Awards
- "Olivier Faugeras received the Okawa Prize and the Azriel Rosenfeld Award". Inria. 22 December 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
