Who I am

I am a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image - Le2i UMR 6306 in University of Burgundy, Dijon (France).

What I do

I am involved in research activities on Hardware design of smart vision systems and implementation of real-time image processing applications. My aim is to develop new smart imaging technology in which sensing and processing are integrated as closely as possible in order to achieve both low cost, low power and high processing capabilities.

Pub·lish·ing

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CMOS image sensors are becoming ubiquitous, due to reduced costs and increasing demands of multimedia applications, such as webcams, digital still cameras, mobile phones or tablets.

CMOS technology offers the flexibility to integrate signal and image processing inside the image sensor. With technology scales, image processing can be realized at chip level, at column level by dedicating processing elements to one or more columns, or even at pixel-level by integrating a specific processing unit in each pixel.

By exploiting the ability to integrate sensing with analog or digital processing, new types of CMOS imaging systems can be designed for machine vision, surveillance, medical imaging, motion capture, pattern recognition among other applications. This extends the basic concept of electronic camera on a chip proposed by E. Fossum to the more sophisticated concept of smart camera on a chip , also called smart vision chip, including image capture and processing.