Frederic F. LEYMARIE

Address: 182-4 Hope St., Box D, Brown U., Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A., Tel.: (401) 863.2760
Fax: (401) 863.9039 , mailto:leymarie@lems.brown.edu , http://www.lems.brown.edu/~leymarie

Brown University / Division of Engineering / Providence, RI, USA

• Ph.D. thesis on "Three-Dimensional Shape Representation via Shock Flows," May 2003.
• Advisor: Prof. Ben Kimia; Readers: Prof. David Mumford and Prof. Franco Preparata.
• Awards: IBM PhD Fellowship (1999-2000); Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (2002).

McGill University / Electrical Engineering / Montreal, Canada / 1990

• Master's of Engineering: thesis in biomedical imagery: "Tracking and Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models."
• Advisor: Prof. Marting D. Levine; co-advisor: Prof. Peter B. Noble (Faculty of Dentistry).
• Award: Postgraduate Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Polytechnic School of Montreal / Electrical Engineering / Canada / 1986

• Bachelor of Engineering: GPA: 3.83/4; honors in aeronautics; internship at Canadair, Inc.
• Awards: from Bechtel Inc. (1984), Montreal University (1985), NSERC Summer fellowship (1986).

Manager : The SHAPE Lab. / Brown University / 2003-present

• Co-author of a second successful proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), in support to the second phase of the SHAPE Lab. (funding of more than 2 million USD over 4 years).

R&D Project Leader and Researcher : The SHAPE Lab. / Brown University / 1998-present

• Initiated a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has lead to the establishment of the SHAPE lab. in late 1999 (funding of 1.5 million USD over 3 years; (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/extra/SHAPE/ ).
• Developed a research plan in pattern analysis (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/researchAreas/Shocks3D/ ).
  Invented and implemented new algorithms based on differential calculus, computational geometry, optimization techniques, multi-scale data analysis, and pattern recognition, with applications to object modeling and virtual reality systems (patent pending).
• Initiated international collaborations with the Institute of Computer Graphics (ICG) of the Technical University of Graz (Austria), the Computer Vision Center (CVC) of Barcelona (Spain), the Italian National Research Council (CNR, Rome), the Sorbonne (Paris, France).

Project manager : Syseca (now Thales) / Thomson-CSF / Paris, France / 1994-97

• Managed French and European projects (2 to 10 people) in the fields of Geography, Multimodal interfaces, Technology transfer, Environmental Emergency Management Systems.
• Performed client reporting and negotiations, budget bookkeeping, proposal and report writing and presentations, software design, as well as business development activities.
• Managed the REALISE project - 4 R&D teams in 3 countries (France, Germany, Netherlands) - funded by the European Commission; offshoot of this project: www.realviz.com.
• Built a European consortium of R&D labs to prepare a proposal on the digital cities of the future (CyberCity).

Researcher & Software Engineer : Centre for Intelligent Machines / McGill / Canada / 1992-93

• Investigated shape analysis from imagery with applications to topography and path planning.

Software Engineer : School of Mines of Paris / Fontainebleau, France / 1991

• System for object tracking in image sequences - at the Mathematical Morphology Centre (CMM).

Written and Oral skills :

• Authored and presented (20+) papers at professional conferences in North America and Europe.
• Invited speaker at IBM ('03), NYU ('03), Rutgers ('03), MIT ('01), Zurich ('01), Barcelona ('00), Graz ('98), Berlin & Ispra (European Commission, '97).
• First author of technical peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.
• Reviewer (in the past 3 years) for IEEE transactions on PAMI, ACM's Solid Modeling and Applications and SIGGRAPH conferences, ACM's Journal of Computing And Information Science In Engineering, SPIE's Journal of Electronic Imaging, Kluwer's Acta Applicandae Mathematicae.

Business and Leadership Experience :

• Founding member of the Brown University Biotech Interest Group, 2002-3.
• Participated in the Brown Entrepreneurship Program in 1999. Co-wrote two business plans on "electronic content publishing," and "investment clubs on the internet."

Programming/Computing :

• Advanced computational programming (cellular automata, geometry, image processing, numerical analysis, optimization, statistics), mainly in the C language.
• Also experienced in Lisp (object oriented design and implementation of expert systems), C++ (graphical environment), Fortran, Matlab/Maple/Mathematica.

Languages :

• Bilingual French - English.
• Elementary German & Spanish.

1. F. F. Leymarie and B. B. Kimia, "Computation of the Shock Scaffold for Unorganized Point Clouds in 3D," IEEE Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'03), vol.1, pp.821-827, June 2003.
2. Frederic Fol Leymarie, "Three-Dimensional Shape Representation via Shock Flows," PhD thesis, Brown University, May 2003.
3. F. F. Leymarie and B. B. Kimia, US patent pending: "Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional shape representation via shock flows."
4. D. B. Cooper et al., "Bayesian Virtual Pot-Assembly from Fragments as Problems in Perceptual-Grouping and Geometric-Learning." International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), August 11-15, 2002 - Québec City, Canada. IEEE Computer Society publ., Proc. of ICPR, vol. III, pp.297-302.
5. B. Kimia and F. Leymarie, "Symmetry-based Representation of Volumetric Imaging", invited paper at the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP01), October 2001 (Greece). Proceedings of IEEE ICIP'01, vol. 2, pp. 581 -584.
6. D. B. Cooper et al., "Assembling Virtual Pots from 3D Measurements of their Fragments." VAST'01, North Athens, Greece, November 28-30, 2001. ACM Siggraph publ., Proc. of VAST 2001: Virtual Reality, Archeology, and Cultural Heritage, pp. 241-253.
7. F. Leymarie and B. Kimia, "The Shock Scaffold for Representing 3D Shape," Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 2059), Springer-Verlag, pp.216-228, 2001.
8. F. Leymarie et al., "The SHAPE Lab. - New Technology and Software for Archaeologists," BAR International Series 931, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK., pp. 79-89, 2001.
9. F. Leymarie and B. Kimia, "Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points," International Symp. on Math. Morpho. (ISMM), June 2000, Palo Alto. Kluwer Academic, Comp. Imaging & Vision Series, vol.18, pp.351-360.
10. H.Tek, F.Leymarie and B.Kimia, "Interpenetrating Waves and Multiple Generation Shocks via the CEDT." In "Advances in Visual Form Analysis," World Scientific, pp. 582-593, 1997.
11. F.Leymarie, "Exploitation of 3D Georeferenced Datasets in a GIS," Proc. International Workshop on "HPCN Exploitation of Multimedia Databases," Ispra, Italy, March 1997, European Commission - JRC, n° EUR 17349 EN, pp.10-29. Keynote speaker.
12. F.Leymarie et al., "REALISE: Reconstruction of Reality from Image Sequences," IEEE Proc. of ICIP, Vol.3, pp.651-654, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 1996.
13. F.Leymarie et al., "Towards the Automation of Road Extraction Processes," vol. SPIE-2960, pp.84-95, Sicily, Sept. 1996.
14. F.Leymarie and D.van Rooy, "EEMS: Environmental Emergency Management Systems in a European context," Proc. of HAZARDS-96, pp.21-23, Toronto, Canada, July. 1996.
15. F.Leymarie and M.D.Levine, "Tracking Deformable Objects in the Plane Using an Active Contour Model," IEEE-PAMI, Vol.15(6), pp. 617-634, June 1993.
16. F.Leymarie and M.D.Levine, "Simulating the Grassfire Transform Using an Active Contour Model," IEEE-PAMI, Vol.14(1), pp. 56-75, Jan. 1992.
17. F.Leymarie and M.D.Levine, "Fast Raster Scan Distance Propagation on the Discrete Rectangular Lattice," CVGIP-IU, Vol.55(1), pp. 84-94, Jan. 1992. Academic Press.

Extended list of publications here.

• "Computing the shock scaffold of unorganized point clouds:"
  • IBM Watson Research Center, May 2003.
  • Rutgers University, May 2003.
  • New York University, May 2003.
• "The Shock Scaffold":
  • BISCA'02 @ MittleEuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy, Sept. 2002.
  • Design Lab @ MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dec. 11, 2001.
  • Computer Vision Group @ ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, May 17, 2001.
    Also presented "Virtual Reality and Archaeology" on May 18.
  • Graphics & Geometry Group @ Princeton, NJ, USA, April 30, 2001.
• "Shape," presented in Barcelona, Spain, at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), on Dec. 15, 2000, for the 2nd Catalan Day on Images and Computations; keynote speaker.
• "Vision Research at Brown," Kolloquium Digitale Visuelle Information, ICG, Technical University of Graz, Austria, Sept. 22, 1998.
• "Applications of Virtual Reality: CyberMonument and CyberCity" (with M. Gruber), 3rd European Digital Cities Conference, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 1997.

Consulting/Expertise :

• Reviewer at the European Commission for the ESPRIT "HPCN" and "IAI" Calls for proposals" of Fall and Spring 1997.
• Conducted research on Environmental Emergency Management Systems in Europe (for the European Commission, DGXIII, 1995).

Professional societies : Member of IEEE , ACM , and Sigma Xi. Board member of the Int. Society of Math & Comp Aesthetics.