Dr. Marc Chaumont

Marc Chaumont was born in November 1976, in France. He received his engineer diploma in computer sciences at the INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Rennes, France in 1999 and his Ph.D. in computer sciences at the INRIA of Rennes in 2003. His Ph.D. thesis was about video objects representations, with dynamic coding and scalability functionality, in the video compression area. He has carry on for one year its research activity at the INRIA and for one another year at the University Technological Institute of Bayonne, France as a Visiting Assistant Professor. During this last year, his research has focus on face tracking using a deformable 3D face model. Since September 2005, he is in the LIRMM (Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotic and Microelectronic) of Montpellier as an Assistant Professor. His current interests areas are video compression and watermarking and and to a lesser extent segmentation & tracking in videos.