Curriculum Vitae of Damien Douxchamps

Damien Douxchamps was born in Bruxelles (Belgium) in 1975. He received his PhD Degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in 2004. He has worked on several projects at the lab, including MODEST, art.live and I-WAKE. He has also worked as photography and machine vision consultant for Alterface. He moved to Japan in 2004 where he worked as invited researcher and assistant professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Image Processing Laboratory. He was also invited researcher at National Taiwan University (Hydrotech Research Insitute) in 2005-2006, at ATR in 2006-2007 and for Tsukuba University's COE Cybernics program in 2008-2009. He is active in the Linux community as main programmer of libvisca and the IIDC projects libdc1394 and coriander.

He is now senior researcher at Cyberdyne, a startup of Tsukuba University specialised in robotic exoskeletons. His main interests include machine vision, robotics and ocean engineering. He is member of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society.

When not on official duty, he can be found scuba diving, shooting pictures in remote places or hacking weird electronic devices and chunks of software.

Education

Dates	Degree Earned	Comments
2000-2004	Ph.D	Thesis title: ''Multidimensional Photogrammetry of Short-Lived Events''
1993-1998	Electrical Engineer	BA Studies aimed at image processing and electronics. Master thesis: ''Stereometric Reconstruction of the Free Surface Associated to a Flow over Three-Dimensional Antidunes''.
1987-1993	''Diplome d'humanites Superieures''	High School
1981-1987		Elementary School

Employment

Dates	Function	Company	Description
2008-	Senior researcher	Cyberdyne (サイバーダイン)	machine vision, computer vision, multitouch surfaces, mobile robotics, electronics
2008-2009	Invited Researcher	Tsukuba University (筑波大学), COE Cybernics Program	Detection and tracking of faces and facial features
2007-2008	Assistant Professor	NAIST (奈良先端科学技術大学院大学), Image Processing Laboratory	Laser ranging, face detection/tracking, camera calibration.
2006-2007	Postdoctoral investigator	NAIST (奈良先端科学技術大学院大学), Image Processing Laboratory	Laser ranging, face detection/tracking, camera calibration.
2006-2007	Postdoctoral investigator	ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute), Department of Acoustics and Speech Research	Real-time face detection/tracking
2005-2006	Postdoctoral investigator	NTU, Hydrotech Research Institute	Laser ranging, camera calibration, machine vision, optics, photography, 1394/linux
2004-2005	Postdoctoral investigator	NAIST, Image Processing Lab	Laser ranging, face detection/tracking, camera calibration.
2002-2004	Research Assistant	UCL, Telecom Lab	Wake vortex signal processing within the IWAKE project.
2002-2004	Consulting	Alterface	Camera, IEEE1394, 3D and photography consulting
August 2001	Sonar Technician	CERES, Deep Sea Exploration PLC	Wreck searching in the English Channel within an expedition led by Robert Stenuit
2000-2002	Research Assistant	UCL, Telecom Lab	Study of a mixed reality system within the ALIVE project.
1998-2000	Research Assistant	UCL, Telecom Lab	Design of a structure-from-motion system for road monitoring applications within the MODEST project. Responsible for camera calibration, 3D reconstruction (matching,...) and daily project management.
1998-1999	Designer	College Saint Pierre, Uccle	Design of a low-cost, high accuracy pH-meter for college use. Modular system, all in SMD technology. 30 devices built, several sold to other schools.
1997-1998	Chief Designer	JIC ASBL	Design of a control system for an multi-batch automated pharmaceutical pill balance. Some pictures are available here
1994	Designer	College Saint Pierre, Uccle	Design of a push-first-to-win system for a local quiz-show. The system displays order of pushes and is based on high-speed asychronous pulses.
1994	Software Developer	HP-Club Belgium	Design of a numeric solver (MeNu) and a statistical solver ($martStat), both related to BA courses. Head of the Club in 1995.

Technical and Scientific Interests and Abilities

Ocean Engineering: AUV, ROV, submersibles, underwater vision, exploration
Machine vision: stereovision, dense and sparse depth estimation, laser ranging, photogrammetry, camera calibration, Simultaneous Location And Mapping (SLAM), extreme and exotic systems.
Interdisciplinary research: use of machine vision in earth/ocean sciences, fundamental research and extreme environments
Machine vision hardware and drivers: maintainer of several open-source projects and machine vision resources (Coriander, list of IEEE1394 cameras, libvisca, libdc1394). Several contributions to the IIDC Specifications from the 1394 Trade Association.
Programming abilities: C, C++, Matlab, basic assembly techniques for intel MMX/SSE optimization, GTK, PHP, Javascript, HTML, MySQL, basic Linux admin and kernel debugging.
Basic machining
Analog/digital electronic design, including PCB design

Publications

See my publications page.

Spoken Languages

French (native speaker), English (fluent), Dutch (will come back quickly with some practice) and Japanese (learning)

Hobbies

Electronics: like a real geek, I started to study electronics by myself when I was 15. A few personal projects are available on the web: my Aladin interface page (a computer interface for a dive computer), a tiny pH-meter, a quiz-show circuit and an audio parametric equalizer.
Scuba diving
Photography (see my portfolio).
Hiking
My open-source projects: Coriander, libdc1394, libvisca.