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Alasdair Newson
Postdoc in image proc./computer vision
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 27/04/1987
Email : [email protected] http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~newson/
Alasdair Newson
52 Rue De Thiverval
78650 Beynes
Tel: +00 33 (0)6 43 96 34 00
[Education]
May 2015 -
Postdoc, Duke University
Techniques for background/foreground estimation in videos
Jan. 2011 - March. 2014
PhD in image processing, with Technicolor and Télécom
ParisTech, France
PhD in image processing, “On Video Completion: Line Scratch Detection
and Video Inpainting in Complex Scenes”.
Sept. 2005 – July 2010
Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Engineering diploma in Computer Science. Specialisation in real-time
and embedded systems.
[ Academic exchanges ]
Feb. 2009 - July 2009
Technische Universität Berlin
Six months exchange, in the department of electronics and computer
science
Feb. 2007 - July 2007
Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Allemagne
Six months exchange.
[ Internships ]
Feb. 2010 – August 2010
Technicolor R&I, Cesson-Sévigné, France
Development of a logo removal algorithm, and its parallel
implementation on a NVIDIA GPU.
Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2009
Alstom transport, Meudon, France.
Research and development of energy optimisation algorithms
for the automatic driving of trains.
[ Professional skills ]
Languages
Bilingual English-French, German (fluent), Spanish (beginner),
Japanese (beginner).
Computer
science skills
Specialisation domains : Image and video processing. Image/video
inpainting, statistical methods, variational methods.
Computer skills : C, C++, Matlab, Scilab, Ada, Python, VHDL,
assembler, SQL, UML, Pascal, Latex, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Intercultural experience
Having lived in Great-Britain, Canada, France and Germany, I
enjoy discovering and adapting to new cultures and situations.
[ Publications ]
Journals
Robust automatic line scratch detection in films
Alasdair Newson, Andrés Almansa, Yann Gousseau, Patrick
Pérez, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2014
Video inpainting in complex scenes
Alasdair Newson, Andrés Almansa, Matthieu Fradet, Yann
Gousseau, Patrick Pérez, SIAM Journal of Imaging Science,
2014
Conferences
Towards fast, generic, video inpainting
Alasdair Newson, Andrés Almansa, Matthieu Fradet, Yann
Gousseau, Patrick Pérez, CVMP 2013. BEST STUDENT
PAPER AWARD
Temporal filtering of line scratch detections in degraded
films
Alasdair Newson, Andrés Almansa, Yann Gousseau, Patrick
Pérez, ICIP 2013
Adaptive line scratch detection in degraded films
Alasdair Newson, Patrick Pérez, Andrés Almansa, Yann
Gousseau, CVMP 2012