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Alasdair Newson
Lecturer,
Sorbonne Université
Professional experience
Professional experience
Sept. 2023 - : Lecturer, Sorbonne Université (ISIR lab)
June 2018 - August 2023 : Assistant Professor, Télécom Paris (LTCI lab)
Jan. 2017 - May 2018 : Postdoc, Télécom Paris, Stochastic models for film grain synthesis
Sept. 2015 - Dec 2016 : Postdoc, Université Paris Descartes, Stochastic models for film grain synthesis
May 2014 - June 2015 : Postdoc, Duke University, Techniques for background/foreground estimation in videos
Feb. 2010 - August 2010 : Internship, Technicolor R&I, Cesson-Sévigné, France, Development of a logo removal algorithm, and its parallel implementation on a NVIDIA GPU.
Education
Education
Jan. 2011 - March. 2014 PhD in image processing, with Technicolor and Télécom ParisTech, France
“On Video Completion: Line Scratch Detection and Video Inpainting in Complex Scenes”.
Sept. 2005 – July 2010 Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Engineering diploma (Master's degree) in Computer Science. Specialisation in real-time and embedded systems.
June 2005 Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
French Baccalauréat (scientific section, mention bien)
Academic exchanges
Academic exchanges
Feb. 2009 – July 2009
[Academic exchanges]Feb. 2007 - July 2007
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Six months exchange, in the department of electronics and computer science.
Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Germany
Six months exchange.
[Professional Skills]
Languages
Computer science skills
Intercultural experience
Bilingual English-French, German (fluent), Spanish (beginner), Japanese (beginner).
Specialisation domains : Image and video processing, computer vision. Image/video inpainting, statistical methods for image processing, variational methods.
Computer skills : C, C++, Matlab, Scilab, Ada, Python, VHDL, assembler, SQL, UML, Pascal, Latex, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Having lived in Great-Britain, Canada, France, Germany and the United States, I enjoy discovering and adapting to new cultures and situations.
[Awards and distinctions]
Awarded a "ANR Jeunes Chercheurs Jeunes Chercheuses" grant, starting October 2021
Google best student paper award, CVMP 2013 ("Towards fast, generic video inpainting", Alasdair Newson, Andrés Almansa, Matthieu Fradet,Yann Gousseau, Patrick Pérez.)
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