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 ISMAR 2010 Best Paper Runner-Up Award
IEEE/RSJ IROS'07 Conference Best Application Paper Award.
RFIA'96 Best Paper Award.

Starting june 2010, I am an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Robotics (T-RO)

I have served in the program committee of several conferences : 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, ISMAR 2010, CVPR 2011, ORASIS 2011, RFIA 2012, ICRA 2012, RSS 2012.

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

PhD students

• Bertrand Delabarre
  
• Antoine Petit
  
• Pierre Martin
  
• Amaury Dame
  PhD in 2010
  Research Assistant, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
• Céline Teulière
  PhD in 2010 ,
  Postdoc INRIA.
• Fabien Servant
  PhD in 2009 ,
  Engineer Robocortex.
• Claire Dune
  PhD in 2009 ,
  Associate Professor, University of Toulon.
• 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. Mutual information-based visual servoing. IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 27(5):958-969, October 2011.
• C. Collewet, E. Marchand. Photometric visual servoing. IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 27(4):828-834, August 2011.
• G. Caron, E. Marchand, E. Mouaddib. Omnidirectional Photometric Visual Servoing. In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'10, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010.
• C. Collewet, E. Marchand, F. Chaumette. Visual servoing set free from image processing. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'08, Pages 81-86, 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

• A. Dame, E. Marchand. Accurate real-time tracking using mutual information. In IEEE Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR'10, Seoul, Korea, Octobre 2010. (ISMAR2010 Best paper runner-up award)
• 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)
• 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, N. Lefort-Piat, E. Marchand. A Direct Visual Servoing Scheme for Automatic Nanopositioning. IEEE Trans. on Mechatronics, à paraître, 2011.
• B. Tamadazte, E. Marchand, S. Dembélé, N. Le Fort-Piat. CAD model based tracking and 3D visual-based control for MEMS microassembly. The Int. Journal of Robotics Research, 29(11):1416-1434, Septembre 2010.

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)