Biography
Computer Skills
Python ★★★★★
C/C++ ★★★★☆
Java ★★★☆☆
Matlab ★★★★☆
HTML/Javascript ★★☆☆☆
LaTeX/Lyx ★★★★☆
Pytorch ★★★★★
Keras ★★★★☆
Tensorflow ★★★☆☆
Adobe premiere ★★★★★
Photoshop ★★★★★
Languages
French: Native
English: Advanced (C1)
Italian: Basic understanding
Technical skills
Signal processing
Deep neural networks
Semantic segmentation
Real-time processing
Motion detection
Video analysis
Knowledge distillation
Optical flow
Object tracking
Network interpretability
Other interests
Transformers
GAN
Video summarization
Reccurent networks
CAREER AND EDUCATION
2021 - Currently
Postdoc in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Liège (ULiège),centered on global video understanding
Teaching assistant for the computer vision and information and coding theory courses.
December 2020
Successfully defended my Ph.D. on real-time semantics in video sequences.
2019
Scientific Research Stay at Aalborg University in Denmark for three months under the supervision of Prof. Thomas B. Moeslund. Resulted in two published papers at the CVPR2020 conference
2017-2020
Ph.D. Student in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium. Research centered on semantic segmentation and global video understanding in the case of sports videos. Financed by a four-year FRIA research grant (F.R.S.-FNRS)
2016-2017
Ph.D. Student in Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium. Research centered on semantic segmentation and global video understanding in the case of sports videos. Financed by a four-year FRIA research grant (F.R.S.-FNRS)
2015-2018
Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
Computer Vision: in charge of the lecture on deep learning for computer vision and the student projects on a Jetson TX2.
Analog Electronics: In charge of the student laboratories
Analysis and Design of Electrical Measuring Systems: In charge of the student laboratories
Statistics: In charge of writing and correcting the student projects
Probability: In charge of writing and correcting the student projects
2015-2017
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering specialized in Telecommunications and Signal Processing at ULiège. Major of the 2017 Civil Engineer’s Promotion, Summa Cum Laude and congratulations of the jury.
Awards and Honors
2022
Best Paper Award at the 8th CVsports workshop at CVPR 2022 for the work entitled: SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videos, sponsored by EVS Broadcast Equipment.
2021
Best Paper Award at the 7th CVsports workshop at CVPR 2021 for the work entitled: SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos, sponsored by SportLogiQ.
2020
Best Paper Award at the 6th CVsports workshop at CVPR 2020 for the work entitled: Multimodal and multiview distillation for real-time player detection on a football field, sponsored by WSC Sports.
2019
Best Paper Award at the 5th CVsports workshop at CVPR 2019 for the work entitled: ARTHuS: Adaptive Real-Time Human Segmentation in Sports through Online Distillation, sponsored by TrackMan.
2018
Best Paper Award at the 4th CVsports workshop at CVPR 2018 for the work entitled: A bottom-up approach based on semantics for the interpretation of the main camera stream in soccer games, sponsored by Second Spectrum.
2017
Best Master Thesis Award by the Association of Montefiore Engineers (AIM).
Best Masters Thesis Award by the Association of Engineers from the University of Liège (AILg).
Collaborators
Adrien Deliège
Lead ML Engineer at Layer 7(Germany)
Marc Van Droogenbroeck
Professor at ULiège(Belgium)
Silvio Giancola
Research Scientist at KAUST(Saudi Arabia)
Bernard Ghanem
Associate Professor at KAUST(Saudi Arabia)
Marc Braham
Engineering Consultant at Manakeen(Belgium)
Sebastien Piérard
PhD fellow at ULiège(Belgium)
Noor Ul Huda
PhD Candidate Aalborg University(Denmark)
Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi
PhD fellow at IT University of Copenhagen(Denmark)
Jacob V. Dueholm
PhD Candidate Aalborg University(Denmark)
Kamal Nasrollahi
Milestone Systems(Denmark)
Rikke Gade
Associate Professor at Aalborg University(Denmark)
Thomas B. Moeslund
Professor at Aalborg University(Denmark)
Maxime Istasse
PhD fellow at UCLouvain(Belgium)
Vladimir Somers
PhD fellow at UCLouvain, EPFL and ML Engineer at SportRadar(Belgium, Switzerland)
Christophe de Vleeschouwer
Professor at UCLouvain(Belgium)
Floriane Magera
Innovation engineer at EVS Broadcast Equipment(Belgium)
Olivier Barnich
Head of Innovation at EVS Broadcast Equipment(Belgium)
Raphael La Rocca
PhD fellow at ULiège(Belgium)
Johanna Breyne
PhD fellow at Genbloux Agro-Bio Tech(Belgium)
Zhiyu Cheng
Senior Researcher at Baidu Research(USA)
Le Kang
Senior Researcher at Baidu Research(USA)
Xin Zhou
Senior Researcher at Baidu Research(USA)
Renaud Vandeghen
PhD fellow at ULiège(Belgium)