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Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau
B.Sc.A., M.Sc.A., Ph.D. (Laval)
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Full Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Phone: (514) 340-4711 Ext. 5064 Fax: (514) 340-5139 Room: M-3420
Areas of expertise
Computer vision Intelligent systems applications Pattern analysis and machine intelligence Image and video processing Artificial intelligence

Research interests and affiliations

Research interests

The general objective of my research is to design methods and algorithms to interpret the action occurring in a scene. The informations of interest are the interactions between humans and the interactions between humans and the objects in their environment. The use of visible cameras allows identifying some interactions in some circumstances, but in the case of similar colors between the scene and human in it, the analysis becomes quite difficult. I am proposing to use infrared cameras to introduce thermal information in the analysis of the scene.

My research projects thus aim to integrate information from visible and infrared cameras to improve the detection of humans and objects, along with their interactions.

A second topic of interest of professor Bilodeau is tracking with (pan-tilt-zoom) PTZ cameras. The interest in using such a camera is a larger coverage of a scene with a single camera. Controlling the camera to perform accurate tracking is the challenge that we are undertaking.

Finally, professor Bilodeau is also interested in the contribution of infrared cameras to medical experiments. Infrared, more specifically thermography, allows obtaining temperature measurements in real-time of the body of a subject. Our project aims to improve the measurements.

Affiliation(s)
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 2603 Computer vision
  • 2604 Intelligent systems applications
  • 2605 Pattern analysis and machine intelligence
  • 2708 Image and video processing

Publications

Recent publications
Conference paper
Lamghari, S., Bilodeau, G.-A. & Saunier, N. (2022). ActAr : Actor-driven pose embeddings for video action recognition. Paper presented at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2022), New Orleans, Louisiana (pp. 398-407). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00055
Conference paper
Nahon, R., Bilodeau, G.-A. & Pesant, G. (2022). Improving tracking with a tracklet associator. Paper presented at the 19th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV 2022), Toronto, ON, Canada (pp. 175-182). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1109/CRV55824.2022.00030
Conference paper
Lamghari, S., Bilodeau, G.-A. & Saunier, N. (2021). A Grid-based Representation for Human Action Recognition. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020), Milan, Italy (pp. 10500-10507). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9413136
Conference paper
Miah, M., Pepin, J., Saunier, N. & Bilodeau, G.-A. (2021). An Empirical Analysis of Visual Features for Multiple Object Tracking in Urban Scenes. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020) (pp. 5595-5602). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412206
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Biography

Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau received the B.Sc.A. degree in computer engineering, his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Université Laval in Canada, in 1997, 1999 and 2004, respectively. In 2004, he was appointed Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal, and Associate Professor in 2011. Since 2014, he is a Full Professor at the same institution. In 2002, he received an Honorable mention for the Twenty-ninth annual Pattern Recognition Society award for his paper entitled "Part segmentation of objets in real images" in the journal Pattern Recognition. Since 2006, he is a member of the steering commitee and of the thematic committee of the REPARTI center. In 2008, he received the best vision paper award at the Canadian Conference on Robot Vision (CRV).  In 2011, he was the general chair of IEEE Symposium on Robotic and Sensor Environments. From june to november 2012, Dr. Bilodeau was Visiting Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Ottawa. In 2014, he was local arrangements chair for AI/GI/CRV.

His research interests encompass image and video processing, video surveillance, object recognition, content-based image retrieval, and medical applications of computer vision.

Dr. Bilodeau is a member of the Province of Quebec's Association of Professional Engineers (OIQ) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Teaching

INF8770 Technologies multimédias

INF6804 Vision par ordinateur

Supervision at Polytechnique

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  • Ph.D. Thesis (9)

    • Ooi, H.L. (2021). Multiple Object Tracking in Urban Traffic Scenes (Ph.D. Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5592/
    • Perreault, H. (2021). Détection et segmentation des usagers de la route dans des images et vidéos (Ph.D. Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/9471/
    • St-Charles, P.-L. (2018). Segmentation mutuelle d'objets d'intérêt dans des séquences d'images stéréo multispectrales (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/3070/
    • Chakravorty, T. (2017). Robust face tracking in video sequences (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2768/
    • Riahi, D. (2016). Suivi multi-objets par la détection : application à la vidéo surveillance (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2326/
    • Bouachir, W. (2014). Suivi d'objets par caractéristiques locales encodant la structure (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/1583
    • Farah, R. (2013). Computer Vision Tools for Rodent Monitoring (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/1198
    • Torabi, A. (2012). Video Registration for Multimodal Surveillance Systems (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/817
    • Darvish Zadeh Varcheie, P. (2010). Low and Variable Frame Rate Face Tracking Using an IP PTZ Camera (Ph.D. Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/318

  • Master's Thesis (18)

    • Kang, Z. (2021). Multiple Object Tracking in Videos (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/6260/
    • Messoussi, O. (2021). Real-Time Vehicle Detection and Tracking From Surveillance Cameras in Urban Scenes (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/6657/
    • Nahon, R. (2021). Développement d’un module d’association de tracklets pour améliorer des traqueurs dans le suivi de piétons dans un milieu urbain (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/9999/
    • Beaupré, D.-A. (2020). Apprentissage profond pour vision stéréoscopique multispectrale (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5364/
    • Khraimeche, Y. (2020). Adaptation de domaine non supervisée pour la ré-identification de personnes dans des vidéos (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5324/
    • Simon, J. (2020). Échantillonnage sémantique et classification des couleurs pour la recherche de personnes dans les vidéos (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5423/
    • Li, Z. (2019). Visual Object Tracking Using Deep Similarity Networks (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/3819/
    • Pineault, A. (2019). Suivi multiobjet en situation urbaine à l'aide de la programmation par contraintes (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/4165/
    • El Maâchi, I. (2018). Algorithmes de détection des maladies neurodégénératives à partir de la démarche d'un individu (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/3738/
    • Derue, F.-X. (2016). Suivi de cible basé sur un modèle de superpixels et points clés (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2119/
    • Blouin, F. (2014). Conception d'un système de vision par ordinateur pour la détection automatique d'inventaire médical (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/1506
    • Jodoin, J.-P. (2013). Suivi multiobjet de trafic mixte urbain (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/1267
    • Morin, F. (2009). Recalage automatique de séquences vidéo infrarouge et visible basé sur les trajectoires des objets en mouvement (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/143
    • Ammouri, S. (2008). Détection et suivi du visage et des mains appliqués à la surveillance de prise de médicaments (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal).
    • St-Onge, P.-L. (2007). Appariement de points caractéristiques trouvés à même les régions d'avant-plan de vidéos à spectres visible et infrarouge (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal).
    • Torabi, A. (2007). An algorithm for multiple object tracking (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal).
    • Bourezak, R.M.E.-K. (2006). Détection et suivi d'objets en mouvement dans une scène filmée par une carméra fixe (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal).
    • Shu, Y.Y. (2005). Segmentation and tracking of cavity area in thoracoscopic video sequences (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal).