People: Research Fellows

Roberto Mariani

Roberto is a Senior Research Fellow at IDMI, where he brings his entrepreneur experience for the Technology Management and does research on automatic video annotation, indexing and summarization. He earned a PhD in Industrial Physics with Summa Cum Laude (Highest French Distinction) Institut Geographique National and a MSc in Computer Science from CRIN/CNRS/INRIA 1993, France.

 

He was the CEO/CTO and founder of XID Technologies Pte Ltd, the co-founder of Tagit Pte Ltd, the founder and former CEO of Mediosa Pte Ltd and the Advisor to Artyii, and from 1997 to 2003, a former member of the research staff at I²R, A*STAR, where he invented and patented the Face Synthesis for Face Recognition, for which he received 15 international awards including 2 nominations and finals at the World Technology Award 2004 and 2006. He is a prime member of Who's Who Continental of the World Technology Network and the Global Technology Advisor, a Mentor for A*STAR investment and spin-off center and Startup@Singapore business plan competition, and a Judge at the National Infocomm Awards in Singapore.

 

Contact: Roberto Mariani (idmrm@nus.edu.sg)

Christel-Loic Tisse

Chris is a Senior Research Fellow at the Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI) at National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his PhD in Microelectronics from the Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM) at the University of Montpellier in 2003 while working as a research scientist in embedded imaging and multimodal biometric systems at STMicroelectronics. The topic of his PhD thesis was “Person identity verification using iris recognition algorithms”. He then joined the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney where he led the ‘Small Flyer’ project until 2007. His work was focused on visually guided Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and more particularly on the design and development of innovative computational camera systems and algorithms for wide-angle imaging and depth perception. In September 2007, Chris accepted a business opportunity with DxO Labs, a fast-growing start-up developing Extended Depth-of-Field (EDoF) technologies for camera phone applications, where he was appointed Deputy Chief Scientist and Research Director of the B2B division. Since October 2008, Chris lives in Singapore and provides consulting in the areas of pupil function engineering and co-design of hybrid optical-digital imaging systems. He also spent one year working as a Senior Research Fellow at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), conducting research on solid-state refocusing (i.e. digital refocusing from a single photo).

 

His current research interests at NUS include the exploration of semiotic models for (3D) visual inference.

 

Contact: Chris Tisse(idmclt@nus.edu.sg)

Stefano Fasciani

Stefano Fasciani is a Research Fellow in the Multimodal Analysis Lab. He graduated from the Universita' degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy) with an MSc in Electronic Engineering in 2006. He has more than 3 years of experience as DSP Engineer in the field of embedded systems and audio digital signal processing with Atmel. Music, sound and audio are his main research topics as well as his main passion in life. He has been involved in producing electronic music for more than ten years and he has extensive knowledge and experience in modern digital audio theories and techniques.

 

Contact: Stefano Fasciani (idmstefa@nus.edu.sg)

Bertrand Grandgeorge

Bertrand Grandgeorge is a Research Fellow in the Multimodal Analysis Lab. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) with an MSc in Communication Systems. His first contact in Singapore was in 2006 through his master's thesis on ad-hoc (wireless) routing protocols at I2R institute. After one year and a half back in Switzerland as a consulting developer, Bertrand worked for XID Technologies as an internet managing developer, until taking part in the founding team of Mediosa Pte Ltd. His research interests include data management, image and video processing and web technologies.

 

Contact: Bertrand Grandgeroge (idmgbpr@nus.edu.sg)

Arun Nagarajan

Arun obtained his Masters degree in Technological Design from the Design Technology Institute (NUS/TuE) in 2006. He has more than 6 years of industry experience in software development and project management in multinational corporates such as Toshiba and Siemens. His primary responsibility  besides others in the Multimodal Lab is to handle the life cycle of software applications developed in-house. Arun has a Bachelors degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Madras which he passed with distinction. His research interests include Real Time Systems and Software Engineering. He has great passion for travel and photography.

 

Contact: Arun Nagarajan (idmarun@nus.edu.sg)

Alexey Podlasov

Alexey Podlasov graduated with MSc in Applied Mathematics from Saint- Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2002; MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland in 2004 and 2008 respectively.  His research interests are in image processing and compression, machine vision and multimodal analysis.

 

Contact: Alexey Podlasov (idmpa@nus.edu.sg)

 

Qin Xiaoling

Qin XiaoLing is Research Fellow at the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory at the National University of Singapore. Her responsibility in the lab is to design and implement the software used for multimodal analysis. She is involved in the "Events in the World” project. XiaoLing got her Master degree in image communication engineering and Bacholor degree in Electronics from Shanghai Normal University. She has more than 5 years working experience in SONY and Micronas as a software engineer in R&D team. Her main research interests are image processing, embedded system and software design.

 

Contact:Qin Xiaoling (idmqx@nus.edu.sg)

Richard Roussel

Richard Roussel is a Research Fellow in the Multimodal Analysis Lab. After completing his Masters degree on pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer graphics at the Universite Paris VI in France, he worked on a PhD project on 3D face modelisation from uncalibrated cameras, animation and tracking in video sequences from uncalibrated cameras at INRIA in Paris.  Since arriving in Singapore in 2005, Richard has been deputy CTO of XID Technologies and founder/CTO of Mediosa Pte Ltd. Richard finished short listed finalist at the World Technology Award 2006 in San Francisco for his technology on face tracking and replacement in a video, and he is now a Member of the World Technology Network. His research interests are 3D body and  3D face animation and reconstruction, 3D camera calibration, 3D tracking in videos, and video and image processing.

 

Contact: Richard Roussel (idmrrcg@nus.edu.sg)

Bradley Smith

Bradley Smith is Research Fellow at the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory at the National University of Singapore. He is responsible for the integration of the phonic semiotic resources - such as intonational resources, music and other aural aspects such as sound effects - into the software applications being developed by the lab team.  Bradley completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at Macquarie University (Sydney Australia) where he graduated with 1st Class Honours in 2004.  In 2008, he completed his PhD thesis, entitled 'Intonational Systems and Register: A Multidimensional Exploration' at Macquarie University.

 

Contact: Bradley Smith (idmbas@nus.edu.sg)