Academic background
2010
Doctor degree in computer science, from the Paris-Est University. Thesis done thanks to a government scholarship (MESR), in the LIGM laboratory, A3SI team, under supervision of Michel Couprie. Thesis title : topological tools for discrete shape analysis.
2006
Master degree in computer science (major : image analysis) from Paris-Est University (ranked 1st/20 after first trimester, and 2nd/20 after second trimester).
2004
Bachelor’s degree in computer science with distinction from Paris-Est University.
2001-2006
Engineer school ESIEE Paris. Obtained an engineer diploma in computer science (5 years of courses) in 2006.
Publications
Accepted
Robust skeletonization using the discrete lambda-medial axis,
by John Chaussard, Michel Couprie and Hugues Talbot. Pattern Recognition Letters, In Press, 2010.
Characterization and detection of toric loops in n-dimensional discrete toric spaces,
by John Chaussard, Michel Couprie and Gilles Bertrand. Journal of Mathematical Image and Vision, 36(2) : 111-124, 2010.
Surface thinning in 3d cubical complexes,
by John Chaussard and Michel Couprie. 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Mexico (Mexico), Springer Verlag, LNCS, 135-148, 2009. Best Student Paper Award.
A discrete lambda-medial axis,
by John Chaussard, Michel Couprie and Hugues Talbot. 15th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), Montréal (Canada), Springer LNCS, 421-433, 2009.
Characterizing and detecting toric loops in n-dimensional discrete toric spaces,
by John Chaussard, Michel Couprie and Gilles Bertrand. 14th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), Lyon (France), Springer LNCS, 129-140, 2008.
In preparation
Parameter-free surfacic and curvilinear skeletonisation in the 2d and 3d cubical complex framework,
by John Chaussard and Michel Couprie.
Generating 3d triangular meshes from 3d microtomography images of metallic foams,
by John Chaussard, Michel Couprie and Dominique Bernard.
Conferences & workshops
Computer science workshop of the LAIC laboratory
Clermont-Ferrand (France), April 2010
One hour talk on discrete topology, 3d skeletonisation applications, and presentation of a new parameter-free skeletonisation method for obtaining 3d surfacic or curvilinear skeletons.
IWCIA conference (International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis)
Playa del Carmen (Mexico), November 2009
Thirty minutes talk on the advantages of using cubical complexes framework when decomposing a skeleton into simple elements, and presentation of a new parallel homotopic thinning algorithm in the cubical complexes framework.
DGCI conference (Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery)
Montréal (Canada), September 2009
Poster and five minutes talk on the discrete version of the lambda-medial axis, and comparison of this axis with other discrete medial axes.
Workshop of GDR IM
Chambéry (France), November 2008
Thirty minutes talk on the cubical complexes and presentation of a skeletonisation method in the cubical complex framework.
DGCI Conference
Lyon (France), April 2008
Thirty minutes talk on how to detect objects wrapping around toric n-dimensional spaces, and how it applies to fluid flow simulation.
JIG workshop
Sophia-Antipolis (France), June 2007
Thirty minutes talk on n-dimensional toric spaces and how they are related to fluid flow simulations.
Teaching
2010-2011
Assistant teacher at Paris-Est University (Marne-la-Vallée, France).
195 hours. Fields taught : Design patterns in Java (4th year students), Java and algorithms (1st year) and Advanced algorithm (1st year).
2009-2010
Assistant teacher at Paris-Est University.
207 hours. Fields taught : Java language (3rd and 4th year students), Design Patterns in Java (4th year), Algorithms and data structures (3rd and 4th year) and C language programming (2nd and 3rd year).
2006-2009
Assistant teacher at the ESIEE engineer school (Marne-la-Vallée, France).
293 hours. Fields taught : Algorithms and graphs (3rd year), Java language programming (1st year), Assembly language programming (1st, 2nd and 4th year) and Network programming (4th year).
Languages
French
Mother tongue.
English
Bilingual : Cambridge Proficiency diploma, scored 945 on TOEIC
Spanish
Good level : Dele Inicial diploma.
C & Java
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