Olivier Faugeras

Olivier Dominique Faugeras (born 1949) is a French computer scientist and director of research at Inria Sophia Antipolis. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, and recipient of the 2014 Okawa Prize for his pioneering contributions to computer vision and computational neuroscience.

Biography Faugeras was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He graduated in mathematics and physics from the École Polytechnique in 1971 and attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications for his masters in electrical engineering in 1973. He then attended the University of Utah for his PhD in computer science and graduated in 1976. He then became a junior scientist at Inria Rocquencourt until 1979. He spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and then returned to France to serve as an associate professor at University of Paris-Sud and for his ScD in mathematics from the University of Paris VI, which he received in 1981. In 2000 he was one of the founding members of the French Academy of Technologies. In 2008, together with QT Luong and Steve Maybank, he received at European Conference on Computer Vision the initial Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision. In 2015 he received at ICCV the PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award.