• Generic object detection, description, and recognition
• Gait modelling and analysis
• Tracking of moving persons and animals
• Contour and junction extraction
• Contour segmentation and approximation
• Perceptual organization and shape analysis
• Database indexing and graph matching

• Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, McGill University, 1990
• M. Sc. A.: Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1984
• B. Ing.: Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1982

• Chair Undergraduate Computer Engineering Program (2001-)
• Chair Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program (2005. 2009-)
• Full Professor (2001-)
• Associate Professor (1997-2001)
• Assistant Professor (1992-1997)
• Research Associate (1991-1992)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

• Visiting Scholar. IRIS Lab., Computer Science Dept. (2002-2003)

Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan

• Research Engineer, Production Engineering Research Lab. (1990)

• Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Area Editor)
• Pattern Recognition (Associate Editor)
• IEEE (Computer Society)