I am pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation at 5 p.m. (Central European Time) on Friday, 17th February, 2023, in Paris.

The jury members were (alphabetical): Justin Carpentier (École Normale Supérieure, Inria), Andrea Cherubini (LIRMM, Université de Montpellier), Vincent Lepetit (École des Ponts ParisTech), Patrick Pérez (Valeo.ai) and Gül Varol (École des Ponts ParisTech).

My work “Estimating 3D Motion and Forces of Person-Object Interactions From Monocular Video” was shortlisted among the best paper finalists at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019 (CVPR 2019) that took place in Long Beach (CA, USA) in summer.

The paper introduces a new approach for automatic reconstruction of 3D motion and actuation forces of a person interacting with an object from a single RGB video. The objective is to enable robots to learn how to manipulate tools by watching instructional videos that are available at, for example, Youtube. The approach was developed in collaboration with researchers from LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse.

The project Webpage is available online.