EXPERIENCES
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Since July 2021: Director of the Center for Robotics (CAOR) de MinesParis PSL (ENSMP) 

Since 2016: Full Professor at the Center for Robotics (CAOR) of MinesParis PSL(ENSMP, Paris, FRANCE)

2006-2015: Associate Professor at the Center for Robotics (CAOR) of MinesParis PSL (ENSMP, Paris, FRANCE)

Research on various applications of Machine-Learning techniques: Traffic Sign Recognition, Real-time visual obect category (pedestrian, car, ...) detection, gestures and actions recognition, prediction of trajectories or/and intentions of pedestrians and human drivers, deep reinforcement learning for vision-based autopilots and for tasks of robotic manipulation.

Teaching in: Machine-Learning algorithms, Deep Learning, AI challenges for Intelligent Vehicles & Robotics.

1996-2006 : Assistant Professor at the Computation Center of MinesParis (ENSMP, Paris, FRANCE)

Teaching of computer science: algorithms, object-oriented analysis and design with UML, programming in C, C++ and Java langages, web page creation.

Introductory course on Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms.

1991-1996 : Research engineer in the "Information Processing" department of Alcatel corporate Research laboratories (Marcoussis, FRANCE)

What I have been working on there:
- learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks and application to industrial process modelization;
- algorithms for automatic dimensioning of neural networks and application to numerical modulation recognition of signals;
- new techniques for still image compression;
- various software simulator developments related to railways and telecommunications.

My personnal duties:
- bibliographic surveys, mathematical models, software development, numertical experiments;
- writing of study proposals, technical reports, and scientific publications, project management, oral presentations;
- management of a team of up to 4 research engineers, software development project management.
 

Sept.1988 - Sept.1991 : PhD student (Paris-Meudon observatory, FRANCE)

Numerical simulations of non-linear gravitationnal collapse:
- development of simulation software for CRAY-2 supercomputer, and of various other softwares for simulation results analysis, visualization, and modelisation;
- design and execution of numerical experiment plans, statistical analysis of real astronomical data and simulated data, and mathematical modelization of simulation results;
- writing of scientific publications, communications in congresses.
 

TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Neural Networks, classification and pattern recognition, automation control and signal processing, image compression, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, wavelets, time series prediction, numerical simulations.

Computer science and software development:
- Java, C++, C, Fortran, Pascal, MatLab, QNAP2;
- UML.
 

EDUCATION & DIPLOMAS
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août 2013 : Habilitation a diriger des Recherches (HdR) [habilitation to supervise PhD students], spécialité Sciences pour l'Ingénieur [Engineering Sciences] (Paris VI University).
1987/1991 : D.E.A. et Doctorat de Physique [PhD in physics] (Paris VII University).
1985/1987 : Ecole Polytechnique engineer school.
1984/1985 : Military duty (officer in french airforce).
1982/1984 : Maths Sup. and Maths Spé. M' preparatory classes (lycee Hoche, Versailles, FRANCE).
june 1982 : Baccalauréat C.
 

LANGUAGES
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English: fluently read written and spoken.
Russian: scolar level.
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
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-   "Learning from demonstrations with SACR2: Soft Actor-Critic with Reward Relabeling", Jesus Bujalance Martin, Rapha&etrame;l Chekroun and Fabien Moutarde,'Deep Reinforcement Learning' workshop of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2021), Dec.13th 2021.

- "TrouSPI-Net: Spatio-temporal attention on parallel atrous convolutions and U-GRUs for skeletal pedestrian action prediction", Joseph Gesnouin, Steve Pechberti, Bogdan Stanciulescu and Fabien Moutarde, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2021), Dec.15-18 2021.

- "HOME: Heatmap Output for future Motion Estimation", Thomas Gilles, Stefano Sabatini, Dzmitry Tsishkou, Bogdan Stanciulescu, and Fabien Moutarde, 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC'2021), Indianapolis (USA), Sept.19-22 2021.

- "Asymmetrical Bi-RNNs (U-RNNs), 2nd place solution at the Trajnet++ Challenge for pedestrian trajectory forecasting", Raphaël Rozenberg, Joseph Gesnouin, and Fabien Moutarde, Workshop on Long-term Human Motion Prediction, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'2021), May 2021.

- "Predicting Intentions of Pedestrians from 2D Skeletal Pose Sequences with a Representation-Focused Multi-Branch Deep Learning Network Algorithms", Joseph Gesnouin, Steve Pechberti, Guillaume Bresson, Bogdan Stanciulescu, and Fabien Moutarde, Algorithms, MDPI, 13 (12), pp.331, 2020.

- "Generative Model for Skeletal Human Movements Based on Conditional DC-GAN Applied to Pseudo-Images", Wang Xi, Guillaume Devineau, Fabien Moutarde, and Jie Yang, Algorithms, MDPI, 13 (12), pp.319, 2020.

- "Vision and Wi-Fi fusion in probabilistic appearance-based localization", Mathieu Nowakowski, Cyril Joly, Sébastien Dalibard, Nicolas Garcia and Fabien Moutarde, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), April 2020.

- "End-to-End Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Urban Driving using Implicit Affordances", Marin Toromanoff, Emilie Wirbel and Fabien Moutarde, IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2020), Seattle (USA), 14-19 June 2020.

- "Is Deep Reinforcement Learning Really Superhuman on Atari?", Marin Toromanoff, Emilie Wirbel and Fabien Moutarde, Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop of 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips'2019), Vancouver (Canada), December 2019.

- "Gestual control of robot manipulator through Deep-Learning human pose inference", Jesus Bujalance Martin and Fabien Moutarde, Workshop in Movement analytics and gesture recognition for Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 4.0, 12th Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'2019), Thessaloniki (Greece), 23-25 September 2019.

- "Deep Reinforcement Learning for autonomous driving", Marin Toromanoff, Emilie Wirbel and Fabien Moutarde, workshop on "CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge", IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2019), Long Beach (USA), June 2019.

- "Urban Localization with Street Views using a Convolutional Neural Network for End-to-End Camera Pose Regression", Guillaume Bresson, Li Yu, Cyril Joly and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of Intelligent Vehicle symposium (IV'2019), Paris (France), June 2019.

- "Apprentissage Statistique Supervisé", Fabien Moutarde, H5010, Techniques de l'Ingénieur, février 2019.

- "Multi-users online recognition of technical gestures for natural Human-Robot Collaboration in manufacturing", Eva Coupeté, Fabien Moutarde and Sotiris Manitsaris, Autonomous Robots journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9704-y, 2018.

- "Coupled Longitudinal and Lateral Control of a Vehicle Using Deep Learning", Guillaume Devineau, Philip Polack, Florent Altché and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'2018), Maui, Hawaii, USA, November 4-7, 2018.

- "End to End Vehicle Lateral Control Using a Single Fisheye Camera", Marin Toromanoff, Emilie Wirbel, Frédéric Wilhelm, Camilo Vejarano, Xavier Perrotton et Fabien Moutarde, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain, 1-5 oct. 2018.

- "Convolutional Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series Classification using both Inter- and Intra- Channel Parallel Convolutions", Guillaume Devineau, Wang Xi, Fabien Moutarde and Jie Yang, proc. of conference on "Reconnaissance des Formes, Image, Apprentissage et Perception" (RFIAP'2018), Marne-la-Vallée, France, 26-28 june 2018.

- "Deep Learning for Hand Gesture Recognition on Skeletal Data", Guillaume Devineau, Wang Xi, Fabien Moutarde and Jie Yang, proc. 13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2018), Xi'An (China), 15-19 May 2018.

- "Topological Localization Using Wi-Fi and Vision Merged into FABMAP Framework", Mathieu Nowakowski, Cyril Joly, Sebastien Dalibard, Nicolas Garcia and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2017), Vancouver (Canada), September 24-28, 2017.

- "A Distributed MPC Framework for Road-Following Formation Control of Car-like Vehicles", Xiangjun Qian, Florent Altche, Arnaud de La Fortelle and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV'2016), Phuket (Thailand), November 13-15, 2016.

- Improving Robustness of Monocular Urban Localization using Augmented Street View", Li Yu, Cyril Joly, Guillaume Bresson and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 19th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'2016), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), November 1-4 2016.

- "A User-Adaptive Gesture Recognition System Applied to Human-Robot Collaboration in Factories", Eva Coupeté, Fabien Moutarde and Sotiris Manitsaris, proc. 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing (MOCO'2016), Thessaloniki (Greece), 5-6 July 2016.

- "A hierarchical model-predictive control framework for on-road formation control of autonomous vehicles", Xiangjun Qian, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Fabien Moutarde, proc. of Intelligent Vehicle symposium (IV'2016), Göteborg (Sweden), June 2016.

- "Recognition of Technical Gestures for Human-Robot Collaboration in Factories", Eva Coupeté, Fabien Moutarde, Sotiris Manitsaris and Olivier Hugues, proc. 9th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (AHCI'2016), Venice (Italy), 24-28 April 2016.

  -  "Decentralized model predictive control for smooth coordination of automated vehicles at intersection", Xiangjun Qian, Jean Gregoire, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Fabien Moutarde, accepted for presentation at 14th European Control Conference (ECC'2015) to be held in Linz (Austria), 15-17 July 2015.

- "Hand gesture recognition for driver vehicle interaction", Yannick Jacob, Sotiris Manitsaris, Fabien Moutarde, Gautam Lele and Laetitia Pradere, proc. IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Observing and understanding hands in action (Hands 2015) of 28th IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2015), Boston (USA), 12th June 2015.

- "Analysis of Large-scale Traffic dynamics in an Urban Transportation Network using Non-negative Tensor Factorization", Yufei HAN and Fabien Moutarde, accepted for publication inInternational Journal on Intelligent Transport Systems (IJ-ITS), 2014.

- "Capture, modeling and recognition of expert technical gestures in wheel-throwing art", Sotiris Manitsaris, Alina Glushkova, Frédéric Bevilacqua, and Fabien Moutarde, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2014.

- "Priority-based coordination of autonomous and legacy vehicles at intersection",  Xiangjun Qian, Jean Grégoire, Fabien Moutarde and Arnaud de La Fortelle, proc. 17th Int. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'2014), Qingdao (China), 8-11 oct. 2014.

 - "Real-time recognition of human gestures for collaborative robots on assembly-line", Eva Coupeté, Sotiris Manitsaris and Fabien Moutarde, proc. 3rd Int. Digital Human Modeling symposium (DHM'2014), Tokyo (Japan), 20-22 may 2014.

- "Humanoid robot navigation: getting localization information from vision", Emilie Wirbel, Silvère Bonnabel, Arnaud de La Fortelle and Fabien Moutarde, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 23, issue 2, pages 113–132, June 2014.

- "Statistical Traffic State Analysis in Large-scale Transportation Networks Using Locality-Preserving Non-negative Matrix Factorization", Yufei Han and Fabien Moutarde, IET Intelligent Transport Systems journal, Vol. 7, issue 3, pages 283-295, Sept. 2013.

- "Towards a Hand Skeletal Model for Depth Images Applied to Capture Music-like Finger Gestures", Arnaud Dapogny, Raoul de Charette, Sotiris Manitsaris, Fabien Moutarde and Alina Glushkova, proc. 10th Int. Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR'2013), Marseille (France), 15-18 octobre 2013.

- "Recognition of Supplementary Signs for Correct Interpretation of Traffic Signs", Anne-Sophie Puthon, Fabien Moutarde, Fawzi Nashashibi, proc. of 2013 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV'2013), Gold Coast (Australia), 23-26 June 2013.

- "Fast 3D keypoints detector and descriptor for view-based 3D objects recognition", Ayet Shaiek and Fabien Moutarde, proc. International Workshop on Depth Image Analysis (WDIA'2012) of 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2012), Tsukuba (Japan), 11 nov. 2012.

- "Analysis of Large-scale Traffic Dynamics using Non-negative Tensor Factorization", Yufei Han and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSwc'2012), Vienne (Austria), 22-26 oct. 2012.

- "Subsign detection with region-growing from contrasted seeds", Anne-Sophie Puthon, Fabien Moutarde and Fawzi Nashashibi, proc. of 15th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC'2012), Anchorage (USA), 16-19 sept. 2012.

- "3D Keypoints Detection for Objects Recognition", Ayet Shaiek and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 16th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'2012), Las Vegas (USA), 16-19 juillet 2012.

- "Large scale estimation of arterial traffic and structural analysis of traffic patterns using probe vehicles", Aude Hofleitner, Ryan Herring, Alexandre Bayen, Yufei Han, Fabien Moutarde and Arnaud de la Fortelle, proc. of Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting (TRB'2012), Washington DC (USA), 22-26 January 2012.

- "A new traffic-mining approach for unveiling typical global evolutions of large-scale road networks", Fabien Moutarde and Yufei Han, proc. of 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSwc'2011), Orlando (USA), 16-20 oct 2011.

- "Analysis of Network-level Traffic States using Locality Preservative Non-negative Matrix Factorization", Yufei Han and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 14th IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Conference (ITSC'2011), Washington DC (USA), 5-7 oct 2011.

- "Clustering and modeling of Network-level Traffic States based on Locality Preservative Non-negative Matrix Factorization", Yufei Han and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 8th Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) European Congress, Lyon (France), 6-9 juin 2011.

- "Propagation of information on undirected dependency graphs for road traffic inference", Cyril Furtlehner, Yufei Han, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Victorin Martin, and Fabien Moutarde, proc. of 'Chaos, Complexity and Transport' (CCT'11), held in Marseille (France), 23-27 mai 2011.

- "3D keypoint detectors and descriptors for 3D objects recognition with TOF camera", Ayet Shaiek and Fabien Moutarde, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging conference on 3D Image Processing (3DIP) and applications, San Francisco, USA, 26-27 Jan 2011.

- "Joint interpretation of on-board vision and static GPS cartography for determination of correct speed limit", Alexandre Bargeton, Fabien Moutarde, Fawzi Nashashibi and Anne-Sophie Puthon, 17th ITS world congress (ITSwc'2010), Busan, Korea, 25-29 October 2010.

- "Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Traffic States on Large Scale Networks", Cyril Furtlehner, Yufei Han, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Victorin Martin, Fabrice Marchal and Fabien Moutarde, 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'2010), Madeira Island, Portugal, 19-22 September 2010.

- "3D Object Recognition and Facial Identification Using Time-averaged Single-views from Time-of-flight 3D Depth-Camera", Hui Ding, Fabien Moutarde, and Ayet Shaiek, 3rd Eurographics Workshop on "3D Object Retrieval" (3DOR2010), Norrköping, Sweden, May 2010.

- "adaBoost with 'keypoint presence features' for real-time vehicle visual detection", Taoufik Bdiri, Fabien Moutarde, Nicolas Bourdis and Bruno Steux, proc. of 16th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSwc'2009), Stockholm, Sweden, september 2009.

- "Visual object categorization with new keypoint-based adaBoost features", Taoufik Bdiri, Fabien Moutarde, and Bruno Steux, proc. of IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV'2009), held in XiAn, China, June 2009.

- "A robot behavior-learning experiment using Particle Swarm Optimization for training a neural-based Animat", Fabien Moutarde, proceedings of "10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2008), Hanoï, Vietnam, December 17-20, 2008.

- "Detection and Recognition of End-of-speed-limit and Supplementary Signs For Improved European Speed Limit Support", Omar Hamdoun, Alexandre Bargeton, Fabien Moutarde, Benazouz Bradai and Lowik Chanussot, proceedings of 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), New York City, USA, November 16-20, 2008.

- "Interest points harvesting in video sequences for efficient person identification", Omar Hamdoun, Fabien Moutarde, Bogdan Stanciulescu and Bruno Steux, proceedings of '8th international workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2008)' of "10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2008)", Marseille, France, October 17th, 2008.

- "Real-time visual detection of vehicles and pedestrians with new efficient adaBoost features" , F. Moutarde, B. Stanciulescu, and A. Breheret, proceedings of 'Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (PPNIV)' of "2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS'2008)", Nice, France, September 26th, 2008.

- "Person Re-identification in Multi-camera System by Signature based on Interest Point Descriptors Collected on Short Video Sequences" Omar Hamdoun, Fabien Moutarde, Bogdan Stanciulescu and Bruno Steux, proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08), Stanford University, California, USA, September 7-11, 2008.

- "Improving pan-European speed-limit signs recognition with a new 'global number segmentation' before digit recognition", Alexandre Bargeton, Fabien Moutarde, Fawzi Nashashibi and Benazouz Bradai, proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 4-6, 2008.

- "Modular Traffic Sign Recognition applied to on-vehicle real-time visual detection of American and European speed limit signs", Fabien Moutarde, Alexandre Bargeton, Anne Herbin and Lowik Chanussot, proceedings of 14th World congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Beijing, 9-13 octobre 2007.

- "Introducing New AdaBoost Features for Real-Time Vehicle Detection", B. Stanciulescu, A. Breheret and F. Moutarde, proceedings of COGIS'07 conference on COGnitive systems with Interactive Sensors, held in Stanford University California, 26-27 nov. 2007.

- "Robust on-vehicle real-time visual detection of American and European speed limit signs, with a modular Traffic Signs Recognition system", Fabien Moutarde, Alexandre Bargeton, Anne Herbin and Lowik Chanussot, proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Istanbul, 13-15 juin 2007.

- "Combining adaBoost with a Hill-Climbing evolutionary feature search for efficient training of performant visual object detectors", Y. Abramson, F. Moutarde, B. Steux and B. Stanciulescu, proceedings of FLINS2006 on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Gênes, Italie, 29-31 août 2006 (pages 737-744).

- "U*F clustering: a new performant "cluster-mining" method based on segmentation of Self-Organizing Maps", F. Moutarde & A. Ultsch, proceedings of WSOM'05, Paris, 5-8 sept. 2005 (pages 25-32).

- "Fast semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for Self-Organizing Maps", D.Opolon & F.Moutarde, proceedings of ESANN'2004 conference, Bruges, 28-30 avril 2004 (pages 507-512).

- "Intelligent Compression of Still Images", F. Gilbert & F.Moutarde, proceedings of 6th ACM International Multimedia Conference, Bristol, 12-16 septembre 1998.

- "Adaptive compression of still images: automating the choice of algorithm and parameters", F. Gilbert & F. Moutarde, proceedings of "Electronic Image Capture and Publishing" symposium (Europto series), Zurich, 18-22 Mai 1998.

- "Automatic recognition of numerical modulation: comparison of various neural networks and other classifiers", C. Louis, P. Séhier & F. Moutarde, proceedings of ICANN 95, Paris, 5-10 octobre 1995.

- "Un algorithme de dimensionnement pour atteindre un reseau d'architecture minimal", B. Gittler, C. Louis & F. Moutarde, proceedings of "Neural Networks and their applications", Marseille, 15-16 décembre 1994.

- "Réseaux de neurones pour l'identification de procédés industriels", F. Moutarde, P. Delesalle & M. Menahem, proceedings of Neuro-Nimes 92, Nimes, 2-6 novembre 1992.

- "Scale invariance and self-similar evolution of dark matter halos", F. Moutarde, J.-M. Alimi, F. Bouchet, et R. Pellat, The Astrophysical Journal vol. 441, pages 10-17 (1995).

- Thèse de doctorat de l'Université Paris VII : "Dynamique gravitationnelle non-linéaire dans un Univers en expansion et formation des grandes structures : simulations numériques" (1991).

- "Precollapse scale invariance in gravitationnal instability", F. Moutarde, J.-M. Alimi, F.Bouchet, R. Pellat, et A. Ramani, The Astrophysical Journal vol. 382, pages 377-381 (1991).

- "Collisionless formation of filaments in an expanding Universe", J.-M. Alimi, F. Bouchet, R. Pellat, J.-F. Sygnet, et F. Moutarde, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 354, pages 3-12 (1990).