PhD Students

On-going PhD Candidates

• Andrew CAUNES, "Segmentation sémantique multi-capteur par apprentissage profond, application à l'analyse des infrastructures de transport",  CIFRE funding with Logiroad, co-supervised with Thierry Chateau.

• Hugo BOUVIER-LAMBERT, "Trajectory planning in a dynamic environment for battery performance optimization of an autonomous vehicle", funded by  Ecole Centrale de Nantes and ESTACA, co-supervised with Fouad Khenfri, Nassim Rizoug and Elwan Héry. 

• Selma Nourhane OUBOUABDELLAH, "Collaborative Data Fusion for Augmented Perception", funded by ANR ANNAPOLIS project, co-supervised with Elwan Héry and Julien Moreau. 

• Charlotte BEAUNE, " Collaborative navigation of autonomous mobile robots in dynamic and connected environments", funded by NExT Senior Talent Chair, co-supervised with Elwan Héry.

• Muhammad Farhan AHMED, "Collaborative Active SLAM and Distributed Navigation Strategies for High Precision Relative Localization in Heterogenous Fleets of Ground and Aerial Vehicles", funded by Ecole Centrale de Nantes,  co-supervised with Isabelle Fantoni.

• Giovanni JUIN-GAUTHIER, "Real-time Energy Production Optimization of an Energy-Ship", CIFRE funding with Farwind Energy, co-supervised with Olivier Kermorgant. 

Former Ph.D Thesis Supervision

1. Minh-Quan DAO, "Learning Deep Representations and Driving Models for Connected Autonomous Vehicles", funded by AIby4 project related to 2020 ANR call for "contrats doctoraux en IA", co-supervised with Elwan Héry. Now post-doc at INRIA ACENTAURI, Sophia Antipolis.

2. Songming CHEN, "Multi­sensor Fusion and Integration for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles", China Scholarship Council Funding. Full supervision. Now Research Engineer at Guangzhou Automobile Group Research and Development Center, Guangzhou, China.

3. Haixin SUN, "Moving Objects Detection and Tracking using Hybrid Event-based and Frame-based Vision for Autonomous Driving", China Scholarship Council Funding. Full supervision. Now Research Engineer at Terranet, Stuttgart, Germany. 

4. Ruddy THEODOSE, "Fusion Caméra-LiDAR à l'aide de réseaux de neurones artificiels pour la détection d'obstacles à bord de véhicules autonomes", CIFRE thesis funded by Sherpa Engineering, co-supervised with Paul Checchin. Now post-doc at L3i, La Rochelle Université.

5. Khayyam MASOOD, "Automatic Handling of Palletized Freight Units by an Autonomous Vehicle with Forks using Single Plane Lidar and Camera Data", Co-tutelle with Universita Degli Studi di Genova (Italy). Co-supervised with Matteo Zoppi and Rezia Molfino. Now post-doc at LS2N on the DIONISO project.

6. Rodolphe DUBOIS, “Méthodes de partage d'informations visuelles et inertielles pour la localisation et la cartographie simultanées décentralisées multi-robot”, funded by ONERA/DGA, co-supervised with Alexandre Eudes. Now engineer at MBDA.

7. Nicolas CAMBIER (2019), “Bio-inspired Collective Exploration and Cultural Organisation”. Funded by MS2T Labex, co-supervised with Eliseo Ferrante. Now Research Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds.

8. Ariane SPAENLEHAUER (2019), “Decentralized Monocular-Inertial Multi-UAV SLAM System”. Funded by MS2T Labex, co-supervision with Isabelle Fantoni and Ahmet Sekercioglu. Now engineer at EasyMile.

9. Nesrine MAHDOUI (2018), “Cooperative Multi-UAV system for collective SLAM-based Exploration”. Funded by MS2T Labex, co-supervised with Enrico Natalizio. Now Product Expert at ANSYS.

10. Mateus HABERMAN (2018), “Band Selection in Hyperspectral Images using Artificial Neural Networks”. Funded by Brazilian Air Force, co-supervised with Elcio Hideiti Shiguemori. Now researcher for Brazilian Air Force (Institute of Advanced Studies, São José dos Campos, São Paulo).

11. Wendell DINIZ (2017), “Conception and realization of an FPGA-based framework for embedded systems applied to Optimum-path Forest classifier”. Brazil-France cotuelle. co-supervised with Isabelle Fantoni and Euripedes Nobrega. Now Substitute Teacher at Varginha, Brazil.

12. Minh Tien PHAN (2016), “Estimation of Driver Awareness of Pedestrian for an Augmented Reality Advanced Driving Assistance System”. Ministry Funding, co-supervision with Indira Thouvenin. 

13. Bihao WANG (2015), “Geometrical and contextual scene analysis for object detection and tracking in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems”. China Scholarship Council Funding, co-supervision with Sergio Alberto Rodriguez Florez. Now Post-Doc at University of Cambridge.

14. Manh Tuan BUI (2014), “Vision-based Multi-sensor People Detection System for Heavy Machines”. CETIM contract, co-supervised with Djamal Boukerroui. Now Quality Assurance Engineer - Connected vehicles and mobility services at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi.

15. Dingfu ZHOU (2014), “3D Vision-Based Multimodal Perception and Classification from Imprecise and Uncertain Data for Dynamic Scene Analysis”. China Scholarship Council Funding, co-supervision with Benjamin Quost. Now Senior Researcher at Baidu, Inc.

16. Damien EYNARD (2011), “Etude d'un capteur stéréoscopique mixte omnidirectionnel - perspectif”. Région Picardie Funding, co-supervision with Pascal Vasseur and Cédric Demonceaux. Now Senior Engineer in Computer Vision at Sony.

17. Sergio Alberto RODRIGUEZ FLOREZ (2010), “Contributions by Vision Systems to Multi-sensor Object Localization and Tracking for Intelligent Vehicles”. Ministry Funding, co-supervision with Philippe Bonnifait. PDF . Now Associate Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and researcher at SATIE - Research laboratory.

18. Capucine LEGRAND (2009), “exploitation conjointe de l'information spatiale et temporelle d'une séquence d'images stéréo synchronisées : application à la segmentation et au suivi des objets dans une scène routière”. CIFRE thesis Funded by PSA.