Patrick Horain



Associate Professor

Institut TELECOMTELECOM & Management SudParis

Address

:

TELECOM SudParis
Département EPH
9 rue Charles Fourier
91011 Evry Cedex - France

E-mail

:

Patrick.Horain@Telecom-SudParis.eu

Phone

:

+33 1 60 76 47 48

Fax

:

+33 1 60 76 42 84

Room

:

C 304-00


Activities and Curriculum Vitæ


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.


Current projects


  • CompanionAble: Integrated Cognitive Assistive & Domotic Companion Robotic Systems for Ability & Security (FP7 European project).
  • MyBlog3D: To foster mutual perception between internet users who communicate and share objects within a 3D virtual space (national project).
  • GpuCV: Open-source GPU-accelerated image processing and Computer Vision library.


Publications



This page (http://www-public.IT-SudParis.eu/~horain) was last updated on 21 December 2009 by P. Horain (Patrick.Horain@Telecom-SudParis.eu).