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Research Officer, Visual Information Technology
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50,
Room 360
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Phone: 613-991-5035, Fax: 613-952-0215
Email: Eric.Paquet@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Academic Qualifications: Ph.D., Computer Vision and Optical Processing, Université Laval, M.Sc., Optics and Laser, Université Laval, B.Sc., Physics, Université Laval
Spoken Languages: English, French, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Biography
Eric Paquet is a Senior Research Officer at the Visual Information Technology Group of the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa.
Eric has a B. Sc. in Physics and an M. Sc. in Nonlinear Quantum Optics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Optical Information Processing from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada) in 1994. After finishing his Ph.D., he worked on 3D Optical Information Processing at the University of Valencia (Spain), on Laser Super-Resolution Microscopy at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa) and on 3D hand held scanners (London, England).
His current research interests are:
- Content-based indexing and retrieval of multimedia databases; in particular 2D images and 3D models
- Multimedia data mining
- Automatic reconstruction of broken frescoes and paintings
- Mobile stereo visualization
- Applications to cultural heritage and anthropometric database: visualization and indexing
- Long-term preservation of digital data
He is the author of more than 100 publications (many of them invited), has two patents (many pending) and is a member of: WEAR, CODATA, MPEG, SCC, ISPRS and MEDICI. He reads six languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan) and speaks four (English, French, Italian and Spanish).
His collaborations include:
- CAESAR - Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource
- C2RMF - Centre of research and restoration of museums of France, Louvre Museum, France
- IBM Canada
- INDACO – School of Industrial Design, Milan, Italy
- IRST – ITC, Trento, Italy
- SIBA, University of Lecce, Italy
- SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy
- University of Pretoria, South Africa
- WEAR - World Engineering Anthropometry Resource
He has won many awards including: the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2005 from NRC (Ottawa, Canada) and the Innovative Application Award in 2006 from PKDD (Berlin Germany).
Expertise
After finishing his Ph.D., Eric worked on optical information processing in Spain, on laser microscopy at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and on 3D hand held scanners in England. He is currently pursuing research on content-based indexing and retrieval of 2D images and 3D objects as well as on visualisation at the National Research Council of Canada. His current research interests include content-based description of multimedia and multi-dimensional objects, anthrometric databases, structural bioinformatics and cultural heritage applications.
Publications and Professional Activities
Publications and Patents
NRC-authored publication citations are available in the NRC Publications Archive (NPArC); once in NPArC, click on "Browse by Author" .
Awards and Distinctions:
- NRC-IIT Inventors and Innovators Award, National Research Council (2007)
- PKDD Innovative Application Award for “Measuring to Fit: Virtual Tailoring through Cluster Analysis and Classification”, ECML – PKDD - 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases , Berlin, Germany (2006)
- Outstanding Achievement Award, National Research Council - NRC (2005)
- Recognition Award, Digital Human Modeling Committee, SAE - The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space (2001)
- Recognition Award, Digital Human Modeling Committee, SAE - The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space (2000)
- Outstanding Performance Recognition, National Research Council - NRC (2000)
Editorships:
- Programme Committee, International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modelling – 3-DIM 2007, Montreal, Canada
- Programme Committee, 12e journée d’étude et d’échange – Compression et Représentation des Signaux Audiovisuels – CORESA 2007, 8-9 novembre 2007, Montpellier, France.
- Program Committee, Business Information Systems – BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
- Organizer, Workshop on 3D and 2D Content Representation, Analysis and Retrieval, Interoperability Week, National Institute of Standards and Technology – NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA (2007).
- Programme Committee, 1st International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing – BPSC 2007, Leipzig, Germany.
- Comité des applications, the 8th Congress RIAO 2007 – Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), Pittsburgh, USA
- Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Business Information Systems – BIS 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria.
- Program Committee, International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modelling – 3-DIM 2005, Ottawa, Canada
- Scientific Committee, 2nd Italy – Canada Workshop on: Application of 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling, 2005, Padova, Italy
- Program Committee, 2005 Information Resources Management Association International Conference – 16th Annual IRMA International, San Diego, USA
Professional Memberships:
- Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science
- CODATA Task Group on Anthropometric Data and Engineering
- MEDICI – Multimedia for Education and Employment through Integrated Cultural Initiative
- WEAR - World Engineering Anthropometry Resource
- ISPRS –International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, WG V/3
- ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee, MPEG, membre
- CCN – Conseil canadien des normes
Keywords
- anthropometry
- cultural heritage
- bioinformatics
- 3D
- Three-dimensional
- visualization
- content-based
