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)