Ikhlef BECHAR

INRIA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Project Team: PULSAR

INRIA - Sophia Antipolis

2004 route des Lucioles B.P. 93

FRANCE - 06902

Electronic-mail address : Ikhlef.Bechar at sophia.inria.fr

Phone: (+33) (0)4 97 15 53 12

About me:

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within "PULSAR" team on "BIOSERRE" project which aims at developing novel computer vision techniques and software to be used in pesticide-free cultures grown inside greenhouses motivated by the growing interest for ecologocial solutions in agriculture and related fields (eg. biology, environment, etc...).
I obtained in 2003 an Engineering diploma in Operations Research from Universite Bejaia (Kabylie Province, Algeria). Then, I graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (Paris) in 2004 in Mathematics Vision Learning (Master MVA), and I defended my Ph.D dissertation in Applied Mathematics (Specialty Biological Image Processing) in December 2007 which I did in collaboration between Universite Rene Descartes (Paris 5), INRA Jouy en Josas, Institut Curie Paris, and INRIA/IRISA Rennes. I have had my first one-year postdoctoral experience in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at OCMR/FMRIB - Oxford University (U.K.).

My research interests include Image Processing and Computer Vision, Real-Time Video Surveillance, Learning theory, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Inverse Problems, and their applications for solving practical problems.