Olivier Faugeras
Faugeras earned a 1976 Utah PhD in computer science and electrical engineering and a 1981 Doctorate of Science from Paris VI. His research applies mathematics to visual perception and shape recognition. Faugeras published Artificial 3-D Vision in 1993 and The Geometry of Multiple Images in 2001. The latter was written with Quang-Tuan Luong and Tho Papadopoulo, documenting shared work on image geometry. Faugeras received the 2015 PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Now at
- Université Côte d'Azur
- Works
- 761
- Citations
- 30,796
- h-index
- 82
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Timeline
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1976–1981
Mathematical and computing training
Faugeras earned a 1976 Utah PhD in computer science and electrical engineering and a 1981 Doctorate of Science from Paris VI. His research applies mathematics to visual perception and shape recognition.
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1993–2001
Explaining three-dimensional vision
Faugeras published Artificial 3-D Vision in 1993 and The Geometry of Multiple Images in 2001. The latter was written with Quang-Tuan Luong and Tho Papadopoulo, documenting shared work on image geometry.
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2015
Lifetime recognition
Faugeras received the 2015 PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award from the Computer Vision Foundation.
Sources and credits
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