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N. Ayache-was-born-in-paris and F. , He graduated from the Ecole Nationale supdrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne in 1980, received the M.S. degree from the University of California, 1981. and the Docteur-lngenieur degree in computer science from the University of Paris XI, 1958.

D. Olivier and . Faugeras, 76) is the Scientific Director of the Computer Vision and Robotics group at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) Le Chesnay, France, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris Xl and Ecole Polytechnique. His interests are in computer vision, graphics, robotics, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence

. Mr, Faugeras is a member of the