Franck Davoine

PhD students

  • Aurelien Cecille, 2023-2026: "Spatio-temporal symbolic learning for robotic scene description", INSA Lyon, France. Co-supervision with Stefan Duffner.
  • Mathieu Cocheteux, 2022-2025: “Machine learning for self-calibration of sensors and semantic analysis of driving scenes”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Julien Moreau. [June - Nov. 2022: Research internship at Motional, Singapore].

Former PhD students

  • Vincent Brebion, 2021-2023: “Multimodal estimation of movement and depth based on events for scene analysis”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Julien Moreau. Since Sept. 2024, Postdoc in the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Computational Science for Health and Environment, Lund University, Sweden.
  • Federico Camarda, 2019-2022: “Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Lane Boundaries Detection applied to Autonomous Vehicles”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Véronique Cherfaoui. Since December 2021, AD/ADAS Software Engineer, Ampere Software Technology.
  • Maxime Chaveroche, 2018-2021: “Collaborative perception for autonomous vehicles”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Véronique Cherfaoui. Since March 2024, R&D AI engineer, Safran Data Systems Inc.
  • Édouard Capellier, 2017-2019: “Evidential deep learning for Lidar object classification in the context of autonomous driving”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Véronique Cherfaoui. Since March 2021, Research scientist in Singapore, Motional (Hyundai Motor Group & Aptiv self-driving joint venture).
  • Xuhong Li, 2017-2019: “Regularization Schemes for Transfer Learning with Convolutional Networks”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Co-supervision with Yves Grandvalet. Since Dec. 2019, researcher at Big Data Lab, Baidu Research, Beijing.
  • Philippe Xu, 2012-2014: “Information fusion for scene understanding”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Best Ph.D. award from UTC. Co-supervision with Prof. Thierry Denoeux. Ph. Xu worked on his PhD thesis during 20 months with me in Peking University before coming back to Compiègne in France. Since Sept. 2023, Professor at ENSTA Paris.
  • José Alonso Ybanez Zepeda, 2006-2008: “Linear estimation of the 3D pose of a face”, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France. Co-supervision with Maurice Charbit. Since Feb. 2023, VP of Engineering, Check & Visit, Rennes, and Co-Founder of Buho.tech, Paris.
  • Soumya Hamlaoui, 2004-2006: “2D face and facial action tracking”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France.
  • Hussein Joumaa, 2003-2005: “Informed video watermarking”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France.
  • Bouchra Abboud, 2002-2004: “Appearance models to classify facial expressions”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Since Jan. 2021, Innovation R&D, Maréchalle Pesage Métrologie, Chauny, France.
  • Séverine Dubuisson, 2000-2002: “Facial image analysis and expression recognition”, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France. Since Sept. 2017, Associate Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
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Postdoc research fellows

  • Na Li (one year, 2021), Chinese.
  • Jean-Baptiste Bordes (two years, 2012-2014), French. Since Sept. 2022, Attaché for science and technology French Embassy in Japan.
  • Chen Yisong (one year, 2005-2006), Chinese. Since 2007, Associate Professor at Peking university, Beijing, China.
  • Fadi Dornaika (one year, 2003-2004), Libanese. Today Research Professor at Ikerbasque, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
  • Jin Zhong (10 months, 2001-2002), Chinese. Today Professor at China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Karamay city campus in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.
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Supervised interns

  • Simon Gruyer, Event camera data processing with state-space models. Master 2, INSA Strasbourg, March - August 2024.
  • Mathieu Cocheteux, Camera calibration. Master 2, UTC Compiègne, April - October 2021.
  • Yunfei Zhao, Embedded deep learning algorithms for road scenes analysis. Master 2, UTC Compiègne, February - August 2021.
  • Vincent Brebion, Event-based optical flow estimation. Master 2, UTC Compiègne, February - July 2020.
  • Nicolò Bogliolo, Deep learning-based multispectral pedestrian detection, use of color-thermal pairs. Master 2, UTC Compiègne, February - July 2020.
  • Antonio Bou Rjeily, Deep reinforcement learning for collaborative perception of driving scenes. Master, Lebanese University, February - July 2020.
  • Cansu Demirkiran, Fast event-based corner detection. Erasmus+ traineeship, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June - September 2018.
  • Federico Camarda, Fusion of occupancy grids in a network of vehicles. Master 2, UTC Compiègne, February - July 2017.
  • Sergio Pertierre Do Monte, Event-based camera for outdoor scene analysis. Master 2, Ensta Bretagne, April - September 2017.
  • Xuhong Li, Lane marking detection for localisation and navigation. Master 2, Ecole Centrale de Pékin, June - November 2015.
  • Rudy Bunel, Detection of Pedestrians at Far Distance. Master 2, Ecole Centrale de Paris (MVA), Apr. – Oct. 2015. Then, PhD student at Oxford University, UK.
  • Jiaqian Yu, Optimisation of evidential grammar-based parse graph. Master 2, Ecole Centrale de Pékin, May – Dec. 2013. Then, PhD student at Ecole Centrale de Paris.
  • Gautier Marti, Modelling of uncertainty and its application to motion detection. Master 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, May – Aug. 2013. Then, PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique and Hellebore Capital Management, Paris, France.
  • Martin Boissier, GPU implementation of vision and machine learning algorithms. Master 2, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Feb. – Aug. 2013. Then, PhD at City University of Hong Kong.
  • Meiqi Wang, Transforming pedestrian detection SVM scores into likelihood measures. Master 1, Ecole Polytechnique, Feb. – Aug. 2012. Then, PhD at Ecole Centrale de Paris, France.
  • Philippe Xu, Multi-sensor based object detection in driving scenes, Master 2, Recherche en Informatique, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Feb. - July 2011.
  • Philippe Xu, Multi-sensor based pedestrian detection, Master 1, Recherche en Informatique, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, July - Aug. 2010.
  • Brice Dudout, Localisation et suivi d'objets dans des séquences vidéo. Master 2, Sytèmes de Traitement de l'Information Multimedia, INSA rouen, March - Aug. 2010.
  • Julien Baley, Human detection using flow and appearance, Université de technologie de Compiègne, Project TN10, Sept. 2009 - Feb. 2010.
  • Ruoyao Ma, Region Covariance descriptor for visual object detection, classification and tracking. Bachelor project (awarded with the 'Excellence Design' price of BUTP), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Feb. - June 2009. Currently at Treyarch, USA, working on artificial intelligence in video games.
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