Brief Bio
Youcef Mezouar graduated (Electrical Engineering) from the Polytech' Clermont- Ferrand, France,
in 1997. He received the MS. and Ph.D. degrees in automation and computer science from the Blaise Pascal
University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1998 and from the University of Rennes 1, France in 2001 resp.
He obtained the Habilitation Degree (HDR - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from Université Blaise
Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in November 2009. He spent one year as Postdoctoral Associate in the
Robotic Lab of the Computer Science Department of Columbia University, New York. He is assistant
professor since 2002 in the Physics Department of Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
He is performing research at the ROSACE (RObotic and Autonomous ComplEx System) team of the Robotics
and Vision Research Group (GRAVIR : http://gravir.univ-bpclermont.fr) of LASMEA-CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand,
France, since 2002.
He currently co-leads the GRAVIR reseach group (over 80 persons) and the ROSACE
(RObotic and Autonomous ComplEx System) team (around 20 persons).
His research interests include computer vision, omnidirectional vision,
active perception, visual servoing, multi-sensor based control,
force-vision coupling, visual navigation of wheeled and aerial vehicules.
He co-authored more than 80 papers on the topics of robotics and computer vision.
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