Selim BEN HIMANE

INRIA
Projet ICARE
2004, route des Lucioles, B.P. 93,
06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
http://www-sop.inria.fr/icare/personnel/malis/software/ESM.html
Tel: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 55
Fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 50 28

Selim.Benhimane@sophia.inria.fr

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2002 - 2005	Ph. D. at the ICARE team INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Supervised by Dr. Ezio MALIS Intrinsics-free visual servoing, image matching, camera self-calibration and real-time image-based tracking.
2001 - 2002	Postgraduate advanced diploma (DEA): "Photonics, Imaging et Cybernetics'' in the Automation and Vision specialization, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France. Passed with distinction.
1999 - 2002	Preparation of the three-year engineer's degree at the E.N.S.P.S. National School of Higher Education in Physics of Strasbourg, France. 3rd year specialization: Engineering systems, Automation and Vision.
1997 - 1999	Classes préparatoires scientifiques: two-year post-'A'-level preparatory courses for entrance exams to the E.N.S.P.S.
1997	Baccalaureat in Mathematics (Equivalent to A-levels). Passed with distinction.

Work Experience / Training Periods

March, September 2002	Training period at the ICARE team INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. Supervised by Dr. Ezio MALIS. Visual servoing independent to camera intrinsic parameters
August, September 2001	Training period at ABB Corporate Research, Billingstad, Norway. Supervised by Dr. Charlotte SKOURUP. Augmented reality for task of visualization, a feasibility study
July 2000	Training period at the CERT, Tunis, Tunisia. Supervised by M. Moez CHAKCHOUK. Object reconstruction using a stereoscopic approach

Publications

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International Journals

E. Malis and S. Benhimane
A unified approach to visual tracking and servoing
Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 52, issue 1, pp. 39-52, July 2005.
[abstract | pdf to appear]

International Conferences

S. Benhimane and E. Malis
Vision-based Control for Car Platooning using Homography Decomposition
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2173-2178, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.
[abstract | pdf to appear]

S. Benhimane and E. Malis
Real-time image-based tracking of planes using Efficient Second-order Minimization
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 1, pp. 943-948, Sendai, Japan, October 2004.
ESM visual tracking algorigthm webpage

Download the ESM visual tracking library for Linux and Windows
[abstract & digest | pdf 0.6 Mb]

S. Benhimane and E. Malis
Self-calibration of the distortion of a zooming camera by matching points at different resolutions
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 2307-2312, Sendai, Japan, October 2004.
[abstract & digest | pdf 0.9 Mb]

S. Benhimane and E. Malis
Vision-based control with respect to planar and non-planar objects using a zooming camera
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics, vol. 2, pp. 991-996, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2003.
[abstract | pdf 0.6 Mb]

National Conferences

S. Benhimane and E. Malis
Mise en correspondance d'images à différentes résolutions à l'aide d'invariants aux paramètres intrinsèques
14ème Congrès Francophone AFRIF-AFIA de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Toulouse, France, January 2004.
[abstract & digest| pdf 1.1 Mb]

Workshops

E. Malis and S. Benhimane
A unified framework for real-time visual tracking and servoing
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, October 2004.
Workshop WWF4 Advances in Robot Vision - From Domestic Environments to Medical Applications.
[abstract & digest | pdf 2.6 Mb]