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Patrick
Horain received an Engineer Degree in Physics and Energetics and a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique
de Grenoble (INPG),
France, respectively in 1982 and 1984. He prepared his Ph.D.
dissertation at Laboratoire d'Electronique de Technologies et
d'Instrumentation (Léti).
In 1986, he joined TELECOM
ParisTech (former ENST) as an Assistant and then as an Associate
Professor. In 1995, he joined TELECOM SudParis
(former Telecom INT). He is now with the Electronics and
Physics department (EPH)
in the Multimedia interactions group (Intermedia).
He has research
interests in 3D computer vision for multimedia applications
(including motion capture
for interacting in virtual world
and sign language recognition), educational
software for
picture processing (multimedia
courseware) and software architecture. He was in charge of the
thematic operation Vision for virtual reality (OT 5.4) within the CNRS research network
on Information, Signal, Images & viSion (ISIS) and the French
Virtual Reality Group (GT-RV). In 2004, he
organized the workshop "Acquisition
du geste
humain par vision artificielle et
applications". In 2008, he was a visiting scientist at INRIA / MIRAGES.
His teaching
activities include the creation and coordination of courses units
at TELECOM SudParis.
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