After a PhD in computer science done in the Temis project at IRISA and defended in 1996 at the Université de
Rennes 1, I spent one year as a Postdoctoral Associates in the AI lab of the Dpt of Computer Science at Yale University. I am an INRIA research scientist (Chargé de recherche)
at IRISA-INRIA Rennes. At IRISA, I have been
a member of the Temis group (from 1993 to 1996), then of the Vista group (from 1997 to 2003), and I am
now in the Lagadic group. I have
defended an Habilitation in Computer science in november 2004.
Since november 2009, I am a professor of Computer Science at Université de Rennes 1.
My research interests include robotics, perception
strategies and
especially the cooperation between perception and action within the visual
servoing approach. I am also interested in computer vision and image
processing for visual servoing application (object tracking) and in
high-level languages for reactive and real-time robot programming. More
recently I study new application fields such as underwater robotics (with Ifremer), computer animation,
tracking and augmented
reality.
IEEE/RSJ IROS'07 Conference Best Application Paper Award.
RFIA'96 Best Paper Award.
A. Dame, E. Marchand. Entropy-based visual servoing. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'09, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.
C. Collewet, E. Marchand. Modeling complex luminance variations for target tracking. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'08, Anchorage, Alaska, Juin 2008.
C. Collewet, E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Visual servoing set free from image processing. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'08, Pasadena, CA, May 2008.
E. Marchand. Control Camera and Light Source Positions using Image Gradient Information. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07, Pages 417-422, Rome, Italie, Avril 2007.
Image-based Tracking
C. Teulière, E. Marchand, L. Eck. Using multiple hypothesis in model-based tracking. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'10, Anchorage, Alaska, Mai 2010.
F. Dionnet, E. Marchand. Robust stereo tracking for space robotic applications. In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'07, Pages 3373-3378, San Diego, CA, October 2007. (IROS'07 Best application paper award)
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Fitting 3D Models on Central Catadioptric Images. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07, Pages 52-58, Rome, Italie, Avril 2007.
M. Pressigout, E. Marchand. Real-Time Hybrid Tracking using Edge and Texture Information. Int. Journal of Robotics Research, IJRR, 26(7):689-713, july 2007.
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Feature tracking for visual servoing purposes. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 52(1):53-70, june 2005.
A.I. Comport, E. Marchand, M. Pressigout, F. Chaumette. Real-time markerless tracking for augmented reality: the virtual visual servoing framework. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(6):615-628, July/August 2006.
E. Marchand, P. Bouthemy, F. Chaumette. A 2D-3D model-based approach to real-time visual tracking. Image and Vision Computing, 19(13):941-955, November 2001. (shorter version in IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV'99, Volume 1, Pages 262-268, Corfou, Greece, September 1999. )
Visual Servoing
A.I. Comport, E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Statistically robust 2D visual servoing. IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 22(2):415-421, april 2006.
E. Marchand, F. Spindler, F. Chaumette. ViSP for visual servoing: a generic software platform with a wide class of robot control skills. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 12(4):40-52, December 2005.
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette, F. Spindler, M. Perrier. Controlling an uninstrumented manipulator by visual servoing. Int. Journal of Robotics Research, IJRR, 21(7):635-648, July 2002.
F. Chaumette, E. Marchand. A Redundancy-based Iterative Approach for Avoiding Joint Limits: Application to Visual Servoing. IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, 17(5):719-730, October 2001.
E. Marchand, G.D. Hager. Dynamic Sensor Planning in Visual Servoing. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'98, Volume 3, Pages 1988-1993, Leuven, Belgium, May 1998.
Augmented reality
M. Pressigout, E. Marchand. Hybrid tracking algorithms for planar and non-planar structures subject to illumination changes. In ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR'06, Santa Barbara, CA, Octobre 2006.
A.I. Comport, E. Marchand, M. Pressigout, F. Chaumette. Real-time markerless tracking for augmented reality: the virtual visual servoing framework. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(6):615-628, July/August 2006.
A. Comport, E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. A real-time tracker for markerless augmented reality. In ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR'03, Pages 36-45, Tokyo, Japan, October 2003.
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Virtual Visual Servoing: a framework for real-time augmented reality. In EUROGRAPHICS 2002 Conference Proceeding, G. Drettakis, H.-P. Seidel (eds.), Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 21(3), Pages 289-298, Sarrebruck, Germany, September 2002.
Micro-robotics
B. Tamadazte, T. Arnould, S. Dembélé, N. Lefort-Piat, E. Marchand. Real-time vision-based microassembly of 3D MEMS. In IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009, Singapore, July 2009.
Virtual reality and animation
N. Courty, E. Marchand, B. Arnaldi. Through-the-eyes control of a virtual humanoïd. In IEEE Computer Animation 2001, H.-S. Ko (ed.), Pages 74-83, Seoul, South Korea, November 2001.
E. Marchand, N. Courty. Controlling a camera in a virtual environment. The Visual Computer Journal, 18(1):1-19, February 2002.
Old works (computer vision, robotics, and synchronous programming)
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. An Autonomous Active Vision System for Complete and Accurate 3D Scene Reconstruction. Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 32(3):171-194, August 1999.
E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Active vision for complete scene reconstruction and exploration. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(1):65-72, January 1999.
E. Marchand, E. Rutten, H. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Specifying and verifying active vision-based robotic systems with the Signal environment. Int. Journal of Robotics Research, 17(4):418-432, April 1998.
E. Rutten, E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. An experiment with reactive data-flow tasking in active robot vision. Software: Practice & Experience, 27(5):599-621, May 1997.
Teaching
I teach various courses at the Université de Rennes 1
Computer Vision : geometric viewpoint (Master of Computer Science)
Computer Vision (DIIC3 INC)
Software engineering for image processing (DIIC2 INC)