• Biographical notes: "Renaud Keriven is professor of Computer Science at Ecole des ParisTech where he heads the IMAGINE group and associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique. He received the M.S. degree from Ecole Polytechnique in 1988, obtained his Ph.D. from the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in 1997 on Level Sets Method in Stereo and Computer Vision, and his HDR ("Habilitation a Diriger les Recherches") from Paris-Est University in 2006 on Shape Optimisation in Computer Vision. From 2002 to 2007, he was assistant director of the INRIA Odyssée team (leader Pr. O. Faugeras) at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. He has published more than eighty papers in the most prestigious journals and conferences of image processing, computer vision and medical image analysis. Professor Keriven serves as a regular reviewer to the most important journals and conferences of his domain. His work on stereo-vision received the "best paper award" at the European Conference in Computer Vision (1998) and he received a honorable mention from the European Union (Cor Bayen award) in 1999. His research interests include 3D photography, Multiview Stereovision, Shapes and Shape priors in Computer Vision, Discrete and continuous optimization in Computer Vision and Generic Programming on Graphics Processing Units."
• Complete resume and downloadable publications (PDF file).

Besides administrative and research activities, I teach and program as much as I can. Yet, I have two other main occupations:

• I'm a "jazz freak" (unconditional fan of Pat Metheny and actively supporting the Moutin Reunion Quartet)
• Above all: I've got four children! This IS an occupation.