Who am I?

I’m a color and computer vision scientist. I did obtain my PhD in signal and image processing in 2007. I did my research in Norway at the now called The Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory while being registered in Paris at the now called Telecom ParisTech.

I was based in Norway for my research, 2003 to 2007, in 2008 I moved to Berlin where I lived and worked up to 2017. In the summer of this same year I moved to Montreal to join the startup IRYStec, but originally I’m from Paris where I was born in the holy year 1977.

At IRYStec I experienced the almost down of another startup for finally being acquired a few hours before we ran out of money. We did enter the first COVID wave as part of Faurecia which turned into FORVIA, increasing the size of the company from 20 to more than 100000 employes all over the world. There I started to work on display for mobiles to continue working on display for cars.

I became permanent resident of Canada in 2022, same year I changed work to join DNEG which let me go in May 2024. There I worked on the color pipeline of the studio, in other words color management. While spending my 2024 summer sending applications here and there I got in touch with a team at CAE, I also realised that I knew a few people already working for this company, and this was great input to decide joining that company. Since November 2024 I became visual display designer and currently worl on desiging displays for flight simulators.

And in October 2024 I also became a Canadian Citizen.

Background

My research was about multi-spectral color reproduction or how to make perfect copy of a painting. This being possible if you have in your hands a spectral image of your painting, a printer with several inks/colorants and their spectral properties. The rest is mathematic, geometry, optimization, printing technology, halftoning, color science, human color perception… The pdf of my thesis is available here.

After my thesis I have been working as an applied scientist in one of the Fraunhofer Institutes in Berlin called FOKUS. The topics were a mix of color correction, immersive display, medical imaging, computer vision, feature points tracking, machine learning-ish, human color perception, VR, image stitching, you name it.

In the few startups in Berlin I worked on computer vision, AI, immersive content, image stitching and NLP projects. I can say my experiences in those environments weren’t the best, but while moving back to Montreal (I did one year exchange for my master in 2000-2001) and joining yet another startup the experience was more fruitfull: at IRYStec I worked on perceptual display, color vision deficiency, display technologies and more.

The position I occupy at CAE is sharing aspects of what I was doing in Berlin at Fraunhofer, only here the team is much bigger and we do have several products.

What else?

I like to believe that I’m not only an applied scientist and I try to maintain an art practise in parallel. Some of my visual art works can be seen on my cargo website or my instagram.