Éric Marchand

Short bio

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.

I have served in the program committee of several conferences : ACM/IEEE ISMAR'05, ORASIS'05, ECCV'06, AMDO-e 2006, Deform'06, JNRR'07, ORASIS'07, RSS'07, ACIVS'07, Coresa 2007, RFIA 2008, NORDIA,CVPR 2008, CORESA 2009, JNRR'09, CVPR 2009, ICCV 2009, ACCV 2009, ISMAR'09, Coresa 2010, CVPR 2010,ECCV'10.

I was a member of the scientific board of the Université de Rennes 1 (2004-2008)

PhD students

• Amaury Dame
  
• Céline Teulière
  
• Fabien Servant
  PhD in 2009 ,
  Engineer INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
• Claire Dune
  PhD in 2009 ,
  Research Associate, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.
• Muriel Pressigout,
  PhD in 2006 ,
  Associate Professor, INSA de Rennes.
  
• Andrew I. Comport,
  PhD in 2005, co-supervised with François Chaumette
  CNRS Researcher, I3S.
  
• Nicolas Courty,
  PhD in 2002, co-supervised with Bruno Arnaldi ,
  Associate Professor, Université de Bretagne Sud.

Softwares

Visp : Visual servoing plateform
Marker : Marker-based augmented reality kernel
Markerless : Markerless-based augmented reality kernel
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Some publications

Complete List (and postcript files if available)

Direct visual Servoing

• 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)