Jul 2025: Team released Franca, a fully open-sourced vision foundation model matching or outperforming DINOv2, SigLIPv2, and CLIP (ViT-G) on multiple benchmarks
Jun 2025: Two papers (DIP and FLOSS) accepted to ICCV 2025
Apr 2025: Serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025
Mar 2025: Organizing two workshops at CVPR 2025: 'Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision' and 'Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems'
Feb 2025: Released VaViM (1.2B-parameter video generative model) and VaVAM, achieving SOTA on NeuroNCAP driving benchmark
Jan 2025: Paper 'MOCA' (published in TMLR) shortlisted for oral presentation at ICLR 2025
Sep 2024: Paper 'No Train, all Gain' accepted to NeurIPS 2024
Sep 2024: Serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2025
Oct 2024: Published technical report 'The BRAVO Semantic Segmentation Challenge Results in UNCV2024'
Jul 2024: Paper 'CLIP-DINOiser' accepted (conference name truncated)
Research Experience
Current Research Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director at valeo.ai
Research Associate at Inria Astra project team
Former Research Scientist at Safran Tech
Postdoctoral researcher at Inria Paris within the Willow project team, collaborating with Josef Sivic and Ivan Laptev on video crowd analysis
Postdoc with Hervé Jégou at Inria Bretagne in 2014, working on kernelized visual descriptors for image retrieval and fine-grained classification in the FIRE-ID project