Olivier Faugeras

Olivier Faugeras
Born(1949-12-22)22 December 1949
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
University of Utah
University of Paris VI
Scientific career
FieldsComputer vision
Computational neuroscience
InstitutionsInria Rocquencourt
University of Southern California
University of Paris XI
École Polytechnique
MIT
Inria Sophia Antipolis
ThesisDigital color image processing and psychophysics within the framework of a human visual model (1976)
Doctoral advisorThomas Stockham
Doctoral studentsNicholas Ayache
QT Luong
Zhengyou Zhang
Pascal Vitali Fua

Olivier Dominique Faugeras (born 1949) is a French computer scientist and director of research at Inria Sophia Antipolis. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, and recipient of the 2014 Okawa Prize for his pioneering contributions to computer vision and computational neuroscience.