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M. Rouhani, Having experienced two years of lecturing in Computer Science, he joined the Computer Vision Center in Barcelona, Spain, where he received the Ph After holding a research position in ICVL Lab at Imperial College London, U.K., he joined Morpheo team at INRIA Grenoble. His current research interests include 3D Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, including shape modeling, surface reconstruction, deformation modeling, object registrations well as machine learning techniques for 3D pose estimation, 2006.

D. Angel and . Sappa, after holding research positions in France, the UK, and Greece, he joined the Computer Vision Center, where he is currently a senior researcher. He is a member of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Group. His research interests span a broad spectrum within the 2D and 3D image processing. His current research focuses on stereoimage processing and analysis, 3D modeling, and dense optical flow estimation, 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 1999.