Edmond BOYER  Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann - Equipe Perception, INRIA Rhône-Alpes 655, avenue de l'Europe, 38334 Saint Ismier - FRANCE Tel: +33 476 61 53 54  Fax: +33 476 61 54 54

I am associate professor of computer science at Grenoble Universites (France) and I am doing research on computer vision with the PERCEPTION team at the INRIA Rhône-Alpes. My research interests include 3D modeling from images and videos, motion capture and motion recognition, among other topics (see the research link for details). Before Grenoble, I was in Cambridge (UK), in 1998, working with the SVR group in the Engineering Department. From 1994 to 1998, I was in Nancy (France) where I obtained a PhD in 1996 with the ISA team at the INRIA Lorraine.

Projects

Current and past projects:

• 4D Repository : repository of spatio-temporal, or 4D, models captured using a multi-camera set up. These graphical models are composed of geometry and texture information.
  
  
• Lucy 4D Viewer: a software to display 4D models.
  
  
• Vgate : Vgate is a new immersive environment that allows full-body immersion and interaction with virtual worlds. It is a join initiative of computer scientists from computer vision, parallel computing and computer graphics from the INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Lab and the 4D View Solutions company.
  
  
• iGlance (European project MEDEA 2008-2011): iGlance aims at developing new free viewpoint capabilities for the next TV generation. 10 partners are involved in this project including: ST microelectronics (France), Philips research (Holland), the university of Eindhoven(Holland), 4D View solutions (France), INRIA (France), Silicon Hive (Holland), Logica (France), Task 24 (Holland), Verum (Holland), Tima (France).
  
  
• 4D Views : The 4D Views company is launched. 4D Views provides solutions to record and display 3D videos either in real time or off-line.
  
  
• ECCV 2008 : Jean Ponce, Peter Sturm and I were organizing the ECCV conference in 2008 in Marseille.
  
  
• Grimage Platform (INRIA Rhône-Alpes): this experimental platform allows to acquire and visualize, in real time on a display wall, 3D models of a scene. It combines computer vision modeling methods with distributed resource allocation methods. Frame rates up to 30fps are achieved using 8 firewire cameras, 16 projectors and a cluster of 11 PCs (see also Siggraph Emerging Technologies 2007).
  
  
• Holonics (European project FP6-IST strep): the HOLONICS project (2004-2007) aimed at combining holographic technology and computer vision based human action capture, with the objective to achieve most realistic representations of 3D contents for multiple simultaneous users, and unconstrained user interaction with the system and / or other users. Four partners: the MOVI team, EPTRON, coordinator (Spain), Holografika (Hungary), and Total-Immersion (France) were collaborating on this project.
  
  
• Visitor (European project FP6-Marie-Curie EST): this was a 4 year European project (2004-2008) under the Marie-Curie actions for young researcher mobility - Early Stage Training or EST. Within these actions, the GRAVIR laboratory was selected to host foreign PhD students granted by the European commission. I was coordinating this project.