October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speakers: Biography

Speaker: Farida Cheriet

 

Farida Cheriet

Professor
Ecole Polytechnique
Génie Informatique
2500 chemin de Polytechnique
Montréal Québec
Canada

Farida Cheriet was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1961. She received her B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University USTHB, Algiers, Algeria in 1984 and her D.E.A. degree in the field of Languages, Algorithms and Programming from the University of Paris VI, France in 1986. She received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Montreal, Canada in 1996. She held a postdoctoral position at the Biomedical Engineering Institute of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, from 1997 to 1999. Since 1999, she has been appointed in the department of Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal where she is currently a full professor. Prof. Cheriet’s research interests include multimedia, 2D image processing and analysis, 3D reconstruction and modeling, system calibration.

Farida will demonstrate A novel collaborative website and artworks database management system for artist-run centers. [Demonstration]