PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Roger Mohr

Also known as R. Mohr

Roger Mohr was a French computer scientist whose work helped establish computer vision research in Grenoble. After earning a degree at ENS Cachan and teaching in Nancy, he joined ENSIMAG in 1988 and created a computer vision research team; his interests included 3D perception and image indexing. He led Xerox Research Europe's French laboratory, directed ENSIMAG, and shared the 2006 Longuet-Higgins Prize with Cordelia Schmid for their work on local grayvalue invariants. Before he died in 2017, he was an emeritus professor at ENSIMAG and a member of Inria's LEAR team.

Born
1947
Died
2017
Works
235
Citations
5,967
h-index
26
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1969–1973

    Training and teaching in Nancy

    He is a French computer scientist who earns a degree at ENS Cachan in 1969 and begins as an assistant in mathematics at Nancy's IUT for computer science. He completes an informatics thesis under Claude Pair in 1972 and stays at the IUT through 1973.

  2. 1988

    A computer vision team

    At ENSIMAG in Grenoble, he creates a research team in computer vision in 1988. His research covers geometry for 3D computer vision, 3D perception, and image indexing.

  3. 1996

    Local grayvalue invariants

    With Cordelia Schmid, he publishes “Combining greyvalue invariants with local constraints for object recognition” at CVPR in 1996. The paper combines local grayvalue invariants and constraints to recognize objects.

  4. 2000–2002

    Leading Xerox Research Europe

    He directs Xerox Research Europe's French research laboratory in Grenoble from 2000 to 2002.

  5. 2003–2008

    Director of ENSIMAG

    He directs Grenoble's École nationale supérieure d’informatique et de mathématiques appliquées, ENSIMAG, from 2003 to 2008.

  6. 2006

    A Longuet-Higgins Prize

    He and Cordelia Schmid receive the 2006 Longuet-Higgins Prize for their 1996 CVPR paper.

  7. 2011

    Emeritus professor at ENSIMAG

    In 2011, he is a faculty member of Inria's LEAR team and an emeritus professor at ENSIMAG.

  8. 2017

    Death in La Tronche

    He dies in 2017 in La Tronche.

Career

  1. 2000–2002Xerox Research EuropeDirector
  2. 1995–2002CNRS
  3. 1993–2005InriaFaculty member
  4. 1988–2008National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleDirector, Emeritus professor
  5. 1969–1973University Institute of Technology in NancyAssistant in mathematics

Education

  1. 1969École Normale Supérieure Paris-SaclayDegree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Evaluation of Interest Point Detectors2000 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1,484 citationsWith Cordelia Schmid
  2. Local grayvalue invariants for image retrieval1997 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1,432 citationsWith Cordelia Schmid
  3. Arc and path consistency revisited1986 · Artificial Intelligence · 632 citations
  4. Comparing and evaluating interest points2002 · International Conference on Computer Vision · 265 citationsWith Cordelia Schmid
  5. Optimal camera placement for accurate reconstruction2002 · Pattern Recognition · 178 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

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Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. La biographie de Roger MOHR, Ancien directeur de l’ENSIMAG - L'Etudiant - Educpros letudiant.fr. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Roger Mohr — Wikipédia fr.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Roger Mohr's Personal Home Page. lear.inrialpes.fr. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation thecvf.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. LEAR - 2011 - Rapport annuel d'activité radar.inria.fr. Checked 20 October 2026.