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Olivier D'Hondt - PhD in Image Processing

Current position

Since November 2007, I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Fundacio Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

Educational background

2002 – 2006

Ph.D. from the University of Rennes 1 (France) in signal processing and communications.
Dissertation : “Spatial analysis of nonstationary texture from SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images.” Manuscript (FR)
Supervisor : Prof. Eric POTTIER

2001 – 2002

DEA (Masters degree in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rennes 1.
Speciality : Image Processing.
Dissertation : “Unsupervised classification of polarimetric SAR data.”
Supervisor : Prof. Eric POTTIER.

2000 – 2001

Maîtrise EEA (first year of Masters in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rennes 1, France.

1999 – 2000

Licence EEA (BS in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rennes 1, France

1995 – 1998

DEUG Sciences de la Matière (two-year university degree in Physics) from the University of Rennes 1, France


Scientific and professional experience

From Nov. 2007 to Dec. 2010  

Postdoctoral fellow at the Fundacio Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
• Contribution to the research activities of the Image Processing Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain on analysis of image and video.
• Research activities on video processing for post-production techniques in the ambit of the i3media project (CENIT-2007-1012).

From Mar. 2006 to Sept. 2007

Postdoctoral fellow at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
• Contribution the research activities of the Active Remote Sensing Lab on statistical and spatial modeling of Synthetic Aperture Radar images.
• Collaboration with Geoscience Rennes and IFREMER on statistical modelling of sidescan SONAR images.

From Oct. 2002 to Feb. 2006

Research assistant as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Rennes (University of Rennes 1, France - UMR CNRS 6164.)
• Contribution to the research activities of the SAPHIR (SAR Polarimetry, Holography, Interferometry and Radargrammetry) team on statistical modelling of nonstationary anisotropic SAR texture and adaptive speckle noise filtering.

From Mar. to Sept. 2002

Research assistant as a M.Sc. degree student at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Rennes.
• Unsupervised classification method for PolSAR (Polarimetric SAR) data, based on the multivariate Wishart density, Markov Random Fields (MRF) and Simulated Annealing (SA).

From Jul. to Sept. 2001

Research assistant at the Geophysical Imagery team of the Geosciences Rennes Lab (University of Rennes 1, France - UMR CNRS 6118.)
• Experiments on acoustic signal control by simulated annealing and neural networks.
• Creation of an internet website for the team.

From Jan. to Jun. 2001

Research assistant at the Signal and Image Processing Lab (LTSI, University of Rennes 1, France - UMR INSERM 642.)
• Spectral analysis of biophysical signals (Auditory Evoked Potentials).

From Jul. to Sept. 2000

Research assistant at the Geophysical Imagery team of the Geosciences Rennes Lab.
• Contribution to the realization of an experimental tomography site.

Prize

• Student paper award from the international conference EUSAR 2004 (Ulm, Germany.)

• Torres Quevedo fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (2008-2010).

Contributions to the scientific community

• Reviewer for the international journal IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
• Reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
• Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering .
• Reviewer for European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).

• Oral presentations in international conferences (IGARSS, EUSAR, etc.)

Computer skills

• Programming : C, C++, Matlab, LaTeX, Bash scripting.
• Operating systems : Linux, UNIX, MS Windows.

Languages

• French (native)
• English (fluent)
• Spanish (fluent)

Hobbies & interests

Drums, music composition, home studio, photography.


 

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