Merwan Birem

Position:PhD student
Period:2011-2015
Address:Merwan Birem (office 3116)
 Institut Pascal (UMR 6602 UBP/CNRS)
 24, Avenue des Landais
 63177 Aubière Cedex France
Email:merwan.birem@gmail.com
Phone:+33 (0)4 73 40 77 66
Supervisors:François Berry, Youcef Mezouar, Jean-Charles Quinton

Research topics

Image processing, Vision (feature extraction, bio-inspired), Implementation (hardware, parallel processing, FPGA, VHDL, real-time system)


Research description

My research focuses on the Developments of neuro-inspired modules that will control autonomous mobile robots, and the implementation of this modules on embedded system based on FPGA.

Smart camera overview Saliency maps

Publications

  • Birem, M. , Lopez, L. , Quinton, J-C. , Berry, F. and Mezouar, Y. (2014) Salient feature based localization using recursive Bayesian estimation.. (more)
  
  • Colomb, M. , Bernardin, F. , Duthon, P. , Quinton, J-C. , Birem, M. , Izaute, M. and Quétard, B. (2015) Perception et Vision artificielle en conditions complexes ou dégradées.. (more)
  
  • Birem, M. , Berry, F. , Quinton, J-C. and Mezouar, Y. (2014) Saillance visuelle pour la localisation et navigation autonome.. (more)
  
  • Birem, M. , Quinton, J-C. , Berry, F. and Mezouar, Y. (2014) SAIL-MAP: Loop-closure detection using saliency-based features. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014, Chicago, USA)., pages 4543-4548, . IEEE. (more)
  
  • Birem, M. (2015) Localisation et détection de fermeture de boucle basées saillance visuelle : algorithmes et architectures matérielles. PhD thesis, Institut Pascal, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. (more)
  
  • Quétard, B. , Gana, R. , Birem, M. , Quinton, J-C. , Colomb, M. , Bernardin, F. , Mermillod, M. , Izaute, M. and Pezzulo, G. (2014) Saliency in the fog: application to real and 2.5D pictures. In Transport Research Arena (Paris, France).. (more)