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FRENCH , 3 0 Y E A R S O L D ( 2 8 / 06 / 1984 )

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE ON IMAGE PROCESSING AND 3D RECONSTRUCTION :

Scientific and technical domains:

- Probability and Statistics

- Pattern recognition and Machine learning

- Image processing and Computer vision

- Computer graphics

- Proficiency in C/C++ programming

- Optimization methods in vision and learning

- Multi-Core/GPU programming for vision

Image and geometry techniques:

- Local feature extraction and matching (SIFT, SURF, etc.)

- Image-based tracking (Kalman, Particle filter, etc.)

- Object detection and recognition

- Face and Gesture recognition

- 3D reconstruction

- Mesh simplification and labeling

- 3D point-set processing

SKILLS

Computer Science: C, C++, Python, ASM, UML and Java, Java for mobile ( J2ME on Nokia, Android SDK and NDK) CUDA, OpenCV, PCL, Boost, Matlab, CGAL, OpenGL, OpenAL, Qt, Knowledge and skills on web languages and SQL database OS: Linux (Debian-based), Windows, Mac OSX.

Languages: French (mother tongue), English (fluent – 10years+), Japanese (JLPT N5)

RECENTLY:

Postdoc in Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland 2014 – now I am working on augmented reality projects for the CERN (inside the particle generator ATLAS).

EDUCATION

PhD in Computer Science, INRIA, France October 2013 Thesis topic: « Urban scene modeling from airborne data »

Keywords: Image processing, Geometry processing, Urban scene reconstruction, Scene understanding, 3D

modeling, Marked Point Processes, LiDAR data, Multi-View Stereo data, Energy minimization, Markov Random

Field

Advisors: J.Zerubia and F.Lafarge - PhD supported by CORDI grant,

Jury : L. Van Goul (ETHZ), N. J. Mitra (UCL), F. Lafarge (INRIA), P. Alliez (INRIA), J. Zerubia (INRIA),

M. Ortner (ASTRIUM), J-P. Pons (ACUTE3D)

Visitor PhD student (5 months), National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Topic: 3D data enhancement for point cloud registration.

Advisor: A. Sugimoto - Collaboration supported by the NII grant.

MS in Computer Science (option Thesis), Virginia Tech, USA May 2010

Thesis topic: « Surface Gesture & Object Tracking on Tabletop Devices »

Major: signal processing Cumulative GPA 4.0 / 4.0

Engineer School (Master level), Telecom SudParis, France June 2008 Major: Master in Network & Telecommunication.

Yannick Verdie Engineer (PhD ) in Image Processing and Geometry Processing My research interests are in image processing for computer vision and 3D reconstruction processes.

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

PostDoc, EPFL CvLab, Switzerland 2014 – now

• European EDUSAFE project: Work in collaboration with CERN on augmented reality project for technical

assistance inside the ATLAS detector.

• European MAGELLAN project: Work with other technical partners on Augmented reality games from panorama.

Developer CGAL, Geometry Factory, France 2012 – 2013

• CGAL is a library in computational geometry available to users in industry and academia. More than 200

customers worldwide have already chosen to invest in this library.

• Conception and implementation of a shape extraction package based on efficient RANSAC algorithm for

extracting primitives from unorganized point clouds.

Developer OpenCV 2.1.1, Google, USA Summer 2010

• OpenCV is an image processing library used in research (more than 500 algorithms, downloaded more than 2

millions of times, 40 thousand active people on the project).

• Conception of a new GUI compatible with Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

• Implementation of new image processing functionalities (from Matlab)

Graduate Research Assistant, HCI Laboratory, Virginia Tech 2008 – 2010

• Tangram: Develop an interface to interact with virtual and real tangrams mostly using Image processing

algorithms.

• MirrorTrack (Thesis subject): Create and implement algorithms detecting and tracking hands in 3D with basic

cameras thanks to hand's reflection.

• DrummerGame: In charge of the signal processing part of a massive strategy video game: process the sound input

as a command to control the characters.

REGISTERED SOFTWARES (AGENCY FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROGRAMS)

• MeshMantics Version 1.0 (Febuary 2013): Software for 3D mesh labeling and semantics.

(Acquired by a French company ~15000€)

• Kazoe Version 1.0 (September 2012): Software to count objects from large pictures.

• Midori Version 1.0 (September 2012): Software to detect Trees from large 3D point clouds.

• Nagare Version 1.0 (September 2012): Software to extract lineic structures from larges pictures.

IMPORTANT SCIENTIF IC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

- Verdie Y, Lafarge F, Alliez P. - LOD Generation for Urban Scenes

ACM Trans. on Graphics, (TOG 2015, will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2015)

- Verdie Y, Moo Yi K, Fua P, Lepetit V. - TILDE: A Temporally Invariant Learned DEtector

Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), Boston, USA

- Verdie Y, Lafarge F. - Detecting parametric objects in large scenes by Monte Carlo sampling

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2013)

- Verdie Y, Lafarge F. - Efficient Monte Carlo sampler for detecting parametric objects in large scenes

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), Firenze, Italy

- Verdie Y, Lafarge F, Zerubia J. Generating compact meshes under planar constraints: an automatic

approach for modeling buildings from aerial LiDAR, (ICIP 2011), Brussels, Belgium

- Verdie Y, Fang B, Quek F, MirrorTrack - Tracking with Reflection - Comparison with Top-Down Approach,

(ICMI-MLMI 2009), Boston, USA

Referees: Professional: - Dr. P. Alliez, Senior researcher and member of the CGAL Editorial Board at Geometry Factory, France pierre.alliez@inria.fr, (33) 4 92 38 76 77 - Vadim Pisarevsky, Research scientist and software developer.at Willow Garage, USA vadim.pisarevsky@gmail.com Academic: - Dr. F. Lafarge, Junior researcher and PhD advisor, member of the team TITANE, INRIA, France florent.lafarge@inria.fr, (33) 4 92 38 77 31 - Dr. A. Sugimoto, Senior researcher and head of the team Sugimoto lab, NII, Japan sugimoto@nii.ac.jp, (81) 3 (4212) 2566 - Dr. J. Zerubia, Senior researcher and PhD advisor, head of the team AYIN, INRIA, France joziane.zerubia@inria.fr, (33) 4 92 38 76 43