EXPERIENCE
StumbleUpon
Engineering Manager
since 2012
www.stumbleupon.com
StumbleUpon is a fast-growing discovery and recommendation technology company.
CVPapers
Owner & webmaster
since 2007
www.cvpapers.com
@cvpapers
Computer Vision Paper Collection
I really thought I would come across a simple repository of computer vision papers on the web. But in the end I couldn't find any. So I built it for me and made it available to anyone. This is CVPapers.
  • Follows major computer vision conferences: ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ...
  • About 30K visits/month, 690 twitter followers.
  • Active community.
  • PHP, MySQL
Quividi
COO & Co-founder
2005-2011
www.quividi.com
Automated audience measurement using image processing
Quividi has developed an audience measurement solution to measure the impact of out-of-home communication. Using a simple video sensor, Quividi uses image processing technology to count actual viewers and overall opportunities to see (OTS) while measuring attention times and estimating the gender and age distributions of audience.
Customers: GFK, JCDecaux, DDB Shop, SFR, Mediametrie, Intel, Mitsubishi, Neo Advertsing, PilotTV, Mediametrie, Française Des Jeux, La Poste, Castorama, Equidia,...
  • Operational management of 150 customers in about 30 countries.
  • VidiReports (data gathering software) product management.
  • National award of the 2006 contest organized by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
  • Fundraising
  • In charge of grant applications: JEI, CIR, OSEO (french government tax cut for innovation and grant).
  • Project management: Agile
  • Dev: C++, MMX, django/python, MySQL
  • OS: Windows, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), MacOSX
  • In charge of brand & website design
Kinomai
CTO
2002-2005
Real-time image and sound processing platforms for the video industry.
Customers: Gaumont, INA, Rai, TSR, Mediametrie, French Department of Defense, EDF,...
  • CTO since 2003 (hired as Project Manager)
  • Management of a 5-7 engineers.
  • Management of 3 products: K-Detect, K-Track, K-Navigator.
  • In charge of K-Navigator development: professional tool for video browsing, editing & transcoding.
  • Project management: Merise/UML
  • Dev: C++, CORBA, postgreSQL
Tincell
Project manager & Co-founder
2000-2002
Innovative solutions powered by voice recognition.
Innovative solutions powered by voice recognition, for content providers and telco carriers.
Customers: LuckySurf, Phone.com, Ericsson, OnStar,...
  • TinServer: content delivery server.
  • R&D for phonem recognition (large vocabulary, no learning).
  • Dev: JAVA, C++, Apache Tomcat, XML/XSL
MetaCreations
R&D Software Engineer
1999-2000
Computer graphic softwares
MetaCreations, a US company, creates computer graphic softwares: Carrara, RayDream, Bryce3D, Poser, Painter, Canoma,...
  • Carrara interactive 3D renderer.
  • Carrara embedded 3D database design & optimization.
  • Dev: C++, COM
RAYFlect
R&D Software Engineer
1998-1999
Plugins for 3Dstudio Max, RayDream and Photoshop.
RAYflect, "start-up" created in 1997, developed plugins for 3Dstudio Max, RayDream and Photoshop. Acquired by MetaCreations in 1999.
  • Designed and implemented a "non-photorealistic" renderer for 3Dstudio Max and RayDream.
EAABC
Military service
in a scientific unit
1997-1998
Application School of Armoured and Cavalery.
  • Development of the interactive renderer of the french army tank battle simulator.
RAYFlect
Trainee
july-sept 1997
Development of a RAYDream plugin named "Blubble", a 3D "Metaball" modeler.
RAYflect, "start-up" created in 1997, developed plugins for 3Dstudio Max, RayDream and Photoshop. Acquired by MetaCreations in 1999.
  • Development of a RAYDream plugin named "Blubble", a 3D "Metaball" modeler.
INRIA
Trainee
apr-june 1997
R&D of a new segmentation method by active contours based on implicit functions.
Air project
R&D of a new segmentation method by active contours based on implicit functions.
Publications:
Fast and Robust Level-Set Segmentation of Deformables Structures (ICASSP'98)
Yahia H., Berroir J.-P, and Mazars G
Model-Based Segmentation of Cloud Structures in Satellite Image Sequences (ICCV'98 Workshop)
Yahia H., Berroir J.-P, and Mazars G
Deriving High Level Information in Meteorological Image Sequences with Implicit Functions Controlled by Particles Systems (ICCV'98 Workshop)
Yahia H., Berroir J.-P, and Mazars G
A Particle System Formulation For Tracking Deformable Structures (Oceans'98)
Yahia H., Berroir J.-P, and Mazars G
Objets implicites visco-élastiques et modèles de contour en traitement d'image (ORASIS'97)
Yahia H., Mazars G, and Berroir J.-P
EDUCATION
Computer Science Engineer
graduated from ESME-Sudria (Paris, France)
1997
Computer Science Program: computer graphics, artificial intelligence, neural networks, image & signal processing. Graduation project: I.O.D.A. (Intuitive Object DeformAtions) a 3D modeler based on Free-form deformations (FFD & EFFD).
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