Fabien Spindler

Contact Email : Fabien.Spindler@irisa.fr Address : IRISA / INRIA Rennes Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes cedex - France Tel : +33 2 99 84 75 10 Fax : +33 2 99 84 71 71 Assistant : +33 2 99 84 25 22 (Angélique Jarnoux)

Background and Position

I graduated from the Engineer National School (ENI, Brest), speciality in electronic in 1992, and received the Specialised Mastère's in Electronics and Aerospace Telecom from Sup'Aéro in Toulouse (an engineering school in space and aeronautics) in 1993. Since november 1994 I have been working for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) as a research engineer, first in the Temis team (1994-1996), then in the Vista team (1996-2003) and since 2004 in the Lagadic team.

Activities

I am in charge of the material and software management of several robotic vision cells: two industrial robots manufactured by the Afma-Robots company, a mobile robot nammed Cycab manufactured by the Robosoft company, a robot intended to control the 3D echography acquisition in a medicalized environment manufactured by the Sinters company and three pan, tilt heads respectively manufactured by Directed Perception, Vic System and Metrica TRACLabs companies. I also deal with the development and industrialization of image based softwares for robotic or video indexing applications and I am in charge of the transfer of some of these softwares to industrial or academic partners.

Member of the Comité de Centre Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique (since 2009).

Member of the Engineers Evaluation Commission (CEI methods, techniques and tools) of the French Institute for Agronomy Research -Inra- (2001-2008)).

Some publications

Complete list (with postscript or pdf files if available)

Visual Servoing

1. N. Melchior, E. Marchand, F. Spindler. ViSP 2.4.4: Visual Servoing Platform - Getting started for Unix platforms. January 2010.
2. N. Melchior, E. Marchand, F. Spindler. ViSP 2.4.4: Visual Servoing Platform - Getting started for Windows. January 2010.
3. P. Corke, F. Spindler, F. Chaumette. Combining Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates in IBVS. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'09, St Louis, USA, October 2009.
4. A. Diosi, F. Spindler, A. Remazeilles, S. Segvic, F. Chaumette. Visual path following using only monocular vision. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (video session), IROS'07, pp. 2563-2564, San Diego, Californie, October 2007. (video access)
5. F. Spindler, A. Saunier. ViSP 2.4.0: Getting started. February 2007.
6. E. Marchand, F. Spindler, F. Chaumette. ViSP: a generic software platform for visual servoing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 12(4), December 2005.
7. F. Spindler, C. Blonz. Visual Servoing Research Activities in Lagadic. JNNR'05 Video session, October 2005. (video access)

Tools for software development

1. F. Spindler. Basic code optimization. Lagadic seminar, Irisa, June 2009.
2. F. Spindler. Le processus de développement. Journey about good practices for software development, Irisa, October 2008.
3. F. Spindler. CMake; un outil d'aide au processus de développement pour plates-formes hétérogènes. Journey about good practices for software development, Irisa, October 2008.
4. F. Spindler. SCM: Source Code Management; CVS - Subversion. Lagadic seminar, Irisa, June 2008.
5. F. Spindler. Les outils de test; utilisation de CMake et de Dart. Journey about good practices for software development, Irisa, October 2007.
6. F. Spindler. Builds et tests, utilisation de CMake et Dart. Internal seminar, Irisa, November 2006.

Software

• ViSP: a multi-platform object-oriented library dedicated to visual servoing applications
• Motion2D: a multi-platform object-oriented library to estimate 2D parametric motion models in an image sequence
• Md-Shots: a software for temporal video segmentation into elementary shots
• D-Change: a multi-platform object-oriented library to detect mobile objects in an image sequence acquired by a static camera
• D-Motion: a multi-platform object-oriented library to detect mobile objects in an image sequence acquired by a mobile camera

Teaching

I gave tutorials in computer vision at INSA engineering school (2004-2008) and in software engineering for image processing at the Ifsic engineering school, University of Rennes 1, DIIC2 INC (2002-2009).