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.

November 2022 - November 2023

Scientific Research Stay at KAUST in Saudi Arabia for a year under the supervision of Prof. Bernard Ghanem.

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).