Yvan Petillot

PhD  -  Ingénieur ENSTBr

 

Date of Birth:                   March 15, 1969                                                            Nationality:       French  

E-mail:                               Y.R.Petillot@hw.ac.uk                                    Gender:              M

Family status:                   Single, one child

 

Work address:                                                                                             Personal address:

School of EPS,                                                                                              Flat 4F2,

Heriot-Watt University,                                                                                      46 Lochrin Buildings,

Ricarton,

EH14 4AS, Edinburgh- UK                                                                EH3 9ND Edinburgh- UK

Tel: (0)131 451 8277                                                                                 Tel: (0)131 622 32 99

 

PROFILE

 

A creative, dynamic, adaptable and autonomous person, specialised in signal and image processing, used to working in multicultural environments, I am keen to apply and develop my research and teaching skills on challenging projects within a dynamic organisation.

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

1992 -1996          PhD in Computing and electrical engineering. Study and realisation of an optical joint transform correlator based on FLC technology for real-time pattern recognition. Applications to road sign and fingerprint recognition.

 

1994 - 1995         Masters of Science (French DEA) in Electrical Engineering. (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), National Superior School of Telecommunication of Britany -ENSTBr).

1992 - 1995         Engineering Diploma of the National Superior School of Telecommunications. 3rd year specialisation: Image processing.           

1990 - 1992         Intensive math and physics course to prepare the competitive French national entrance exam to engineering schools (Mathématiques Supérieures et Spéciales).

1990                     Baccalauréat  (A Levels) overall grade A.  

 

LANGUAGES:

 

French: Mother tongue    English: fluent     Spanish: very good command.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

 

Nov 2000-now  Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Research and Teaching in image processing including texture & shape analysis, segmentation & classification of sonar and video images, simultaneous mapping & localisation and navigation. I also have a particular interest in mine dectection and classification using image based statistical techniques. I am principal investigator of CONSENSUS (EPSRC First Grant Scheme GR/16980/01),a MM Wave Imaging project (EPSRC GR/S68088/01) and co-investigator of the Framework V AUTOTRACKER project (osbtacle avoidance and acoustic pipe tracking using an AUV) and of the Framework V Amason project (Data fusion of sonar data products for seabed classification and habitat mapping).

I am also currently director of SeeByte, a spin-out company of the Oceans Systems laboratory.

 

1997-2000  Research Associate, Ocean Systems Lab, Heriot-Watt University. Sonar image analysis and vehicle control (Path planning) for unmanned underwater vehicles, within the EU funded ARAMIS project.

1996-1997           Software Engineer. Alcatel Telecom (BREST)
Software development on PABX for export country specific adaptations. This was part of a huge project (200 people) and the software was developed in C and C++.

1996-1997           Research Associate / PhD Student, ENST de Bretagne (BREST), Optics department.Realisation of a nonlinear joint transform correlator for roadsign and fingerprint recognition (European project ESPRIT III HICOPOS and HICOPIA). I was also in charge of the system administration of the department.

1991-1992                Teaching Assistant at Ecole Navale. Military service as a teaching assistant in signal and

image processing at the Ecole Navale (Navy officers training school).

1991                     Final year project at British Telecom, Ipswitch (GB). 4 month training period in the speech

processing department. Evaluation of a neural network for speech recognition on large databases.

1990                     Summer placement at Thomson CSF, Malakoff (FR). 2 month training period at THOMSON CSF (Paris,FR). Study of adaptive neural antennas for improved discrimination of radar signals.

 

ACADEMIC RECORD

 

Teaching

 

2003-2004  B39SD2    Image Processing. MSc Course. Half module, 55 students. 

B34UC2  Statistics. Meng course. Half module, 20 students.

                              B39SE1    Signal processing. MSc Course. Half module, 55 students.

                              B39HV2  Software Engineering II. MSc Course. Full module, 55 students.

                              B39HR1  Software Engineering I. MSc Course. Half module, 88 students.

 

2002-2003  B39SD2    Image Processing. MSc Course. Half module, 30 students. 

B34UC2  Statistics. Meng course. Half module, 20 students.

                              B39SE1    Signal processing. MSc Course. Half module, 30 students.

                              B34LA1    Computer Networks. 4th year. Half module, 20 students.

                              B39HV2  Software Engineering II. MSc Course. Half module, 30 students.

                             

2000-2002               I have been involved in 2nd year tutorials (1 hour a week) both years. I have also lectured the

following modules:

22.5SD2                 Image processing. MSc course. 20 lectures and tutorials.

22.4UC2               Statistics. Meng course. 20 lectures and tutorials

22.3MB1               Electomagnetics. 20 lectures and tutorials

3rd year digital project. 20 lectures and practicals.

 

1997-2000               Informal supervision of Msc Students and PhDs at Heriot-Watt University. 

1992-1996               Lectures in optical image processing. 18 hours a year. Tutorials for MSc Students at ENSTBr

1991-1992               Signal Processing tutorials for MSc Students at Ecole Navale. 3 hours / week for a year.

 

Administration

 

2001-2003               Member of the Research committee. Responsible for the Research seminars of the Department.

                              Safety officer for the 3rd floor of the EM Building

 

Reviewing

 

2002-2003               Acted as a reviewer for the IEEE, the IEE and Applied Optics.

 

Supervision

2003-2004           I am  supervising three PhD Students various 4th year and MSc students. I have also supervised numerous exchange students from France at MSc level. I am also supervising 4 RAs on various Research Projects.

2000-2003           I am  supervising one PhD Student and have supervised various Msc Students. I have also supervised numerous exchange students from France at MSc level. I am also supervising 2 RAs on various Research Projects.

1997-2000               Informal supervision of Msc Students and PhDs at Heriot-Watt University. 

1992-1996              Supervision of final year students and 2 MSc students.

 

Research projects

 

2003-2004              First Grant Scheme EPSRC Project CONSENSUS, £129K. Sole Investigator. 1 RA and 1 PhD student.

EPSRC Project on Automated Detection of Concealed Weapons using mm-wave imagery, £222K. Principal Investigator. 1 RA and 1 PhD student.

Co-investigator on EU AMASON project (£300K).

Co-investigator of the EU AUTOTRACKER project (£300K)

2000-2002           EU projects AUTOTRACKER (Principal Investigator) and AMASON (Co-Investigator). Each project is in the region of £300K.

 

Consultancy      

 

2000                     Applications of Sonar technologies to survey and real-time monitoring of mining operations. Report for Bernd Korndörfer Electronic Engineer Consultant

2001                            Digital Beam-forming system design and algorithm development for Tritech International in Aberdeen

2002-now             Director of SeeByte, Spin out company of the Ocean Systems Labs (Dpt of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:[1]

 

Research publications:

 

Journal Papers

 

I.Tena Ruiz, S. De Raucourt, Y.Petillot and D.M.Lane, Concurrent Mapping and Localisation using Side-scan Sonar, accepted for publication in IEEE journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2004.

 

S.Reed , Y.Petillot, J.Bell, A model based approach to the detection and classification of mines in sidescan sonar, Applied Optics, Volume 43, Issue 2, 237-246 January 2004.

 

S.Reed, Y.Petillot, J.Bell, An automated approach to the detection and extraction of mine features in sidescan sonar, IEEE Journal Oceanic Eng., 28(1):90-105, Jan 2003.

 

S.Reed, Y.Petillot, J.Bell, An automated approach to the classification of mine-like objects in sidescan sonar using highlight and shadow information, accepted for publication Sept 2003 – IEE Radar, Sonar and Navigation.

 

K. Lebart, Y. Petillot, C. Smith, et al. Video sensors play major role in subsea scientific missions - Intelligent systems for the exploitation of underwater survey video data, SEA TECHNOLOGY 43 (2): 10-+ FEB 2002

 

Y. Petillot, I. Tena Ruiz, D. M. Lane. Underwater Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance and Path Planning Using a Multi-beam Forward Looking Sonar. IEEE Journal of OceanicEngineering, Vol. 26, No. 2, 240-251, April 2001.

 

E. Trucco, Y. Petillot, I. Tena Ruiz, C. Plakas, D. M. Lane. Feature Tracking in Video and Sonar Subsea Sequences with Applications. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 79, 92-122, 2000.

J.L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, E. Quemener and Y. Petillot, Composite versus multichannel binary phase-only filtering, Applied Optics, Sept 97,vol. 36, pp 6646.

L. Guibert, Y. Petillot et J.-L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, On-board experiments with a joint transform correlator for real-time road-sign classification,  Optical Engineering 1997.

Y. Petillot, L. Guibert et J.-L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. Partially rotation invariant composite filter for fingerprint pattern recognition, Optics Communications vol. 126, pp 213-219, 1996.

T. D. Wilkinson, Y. Petillot, R. J. Mears et J. L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. Scale-invariant optical correlators using ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial light modulators. Applied Optics, vol. 34, pp. 1885-1890, 1995.

D. Snyers et Y. Petillot.  Image processing optimization by genetic algorithm with a new coding scheme, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 16, pp. 843-848, 1995.

 

Conference papers

 

 

S.Reed, Y.Petillot, J.Bell, A model based approach to the detection and classification of mines in sidescan sonar, Conf. on Maritime Reconnaissance for NATO’s Recognised Environmental Picture (MREP), Lerici, Italy, 2003.

 

S.Reed, Y.Petillot, J.Bell, A model based approach to the detection and classification of mines in sidescan sonar,MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, San Diego, USA, 22nd-26th September 2003.

 

I.Tena Ruiz, S.Reed, Y.Petillot, J.Bell, D.M.Lane, Concurrent Mapping and Localisation using Side-scan sonar for autonomous navigation, 13th Int. Symposium on unmanned, untethered submersible technology (UUST03), New Hampshire, USA, August 2003.

 

J.Evans, Y.Petillot, P. Redmond, D.M.Lane, Pipeline and cable  tracking using and autonomous underwater vehicle , 13th Int. Symposium on unmanned, untethered submersible technology (UUST03), New Hampshire, USA, August 2003.

 

E. Coiras, Y.Petillot, D.M.Lane, , MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, San Diego, USA, 22nd-26th September 2003.

 

J.Evans, Y.Petillot, P. Redmond, D.M.Lane, Real-time Architecture for Pipeline and Cable Tracking on AUVs

 

, MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, San Diego, USA, 22nd-26th September 2003.

 

J.Bell, E.Dura, S.Reed, Y.Petillot, D.Lane, Extraction and classification of objects from sidescan sonar, IEE Workshop on non-linear and non-gaussian signal processing, 8th-9th July, 2002.

 

J. Evans, D. Lane, Y. Petillot and S. Reed. Docking and Tracking technologies for AUVs. UUVS conference, Shouthampton, September 2002.

 

Y.Petillot, S.Reed, J.Bell, Real time AUV pipe detection and tracking using side scan sonar and multi-beam echo sounder, MTS/IEEE Oceans Conf., Mississippi USA, 29th-31st Oct, 2002.

 

S. Reed, Y. Petillot and J. Bell, Unsupervised segmentation of object shadow and highlight using Statistical Snakes, GOATS 2000 Conference, SACLANT-CEN, August 2001

 

S. Reed, Y. Petillot and J. Bell, Unsupervised mine detection in side-scan sonar: a comparison of Markov Random Fields and Statistical Snakes, CAD/CAC20001 Conference, HALIFAX, Canada.

 

Y. Petillot, K. Lebart, A. Cormack and D. Lane, SeeTrack: a system for post-mission analysis of AUV data products, GOATS 2000 Conference, SACLANT-CEN, August 2001.

 

Ioseba Tena Ruiz, Y. Petillot, D. M. Lane, C. Salson, Feature Extraction and Data Association for AUV Concurrent Mapping and Localisation. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Conferendce on Robotics and Automation. Seoul, Korea. May 2001

 

Ioseba Tena Ruiz, Y. Petillot, D. M. Lane, AUV Navigation Using a Forward Looking Sonar. Proceedings from UUV Symposium 2000. Newport, Rhode Island, USA. April 2000.

Y. Petillot, I. Tena Ruiz, D. M. Lane, AUV Navigation Using a Forward Looking Sonar. Proceedings from Oceanology International 2000. Brighton, England. March 2000.

 

I. Tena Ruiz, Y. Petillot, D. M. Lane, J. M. Bell. Tracking Objects in Underwater Multibeam Sonar Images. IEE Colloquium on Motion Analysis and Tracking. London, England. May 1999.

Y. Petillot, I. Tena Ruiz, D. M. Lane, Y. Wang, E. Trucco, N. Pican. Underwater vehicle path planning using a multi-beam forward looking sonar. Proceedings from Oceans'98. Nice, France. September 1998. 

 

N. Pican, E. Trucco, M. Ross, D. M. Lane, Y. Petillot and I Tena Ruiz. Texture analysis for seabed classification: Co-Occurence matrices versus Unsupervised learning, IEEE international Conference OCEANS 98, Nice, France, September 98.

Y. Petillot, G. Keryer et J.-L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. An optimal reference filter study for an optical joint transform correlator, Proc. French-Israeli Workshop on Optical Computing}, Tel-Aviv(ISR), pp. 37-38, 1992.

G. Keryer, Y. Petillot and J.L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye.
Application de modulateurs spatiaux de lumiére à cristal liquide ferroélectrique à la reconnaissance de panneaux de signalisation routière, Workshop on Optical Pattern Recognition, Paris, 22 June 1992.

Y. Petillot and G. Keryer.  Filtres à apprentissage déterminés par voie optique (JTC). Intégration des contraintes,  Club Opto-informatique, 18 juin 1993.

 

Y. Petillot, G. Keryer et J.-L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye.  Real-time distortion invariant JTC using FLC SLM's, Invited Conference to SPIE Euro-American conference on Optical Pattern Recognition, La Rochelle (FR)", June 1994.

Consultancy:

Y. Petillot, I. Tena Ruiz. Applications of Sonar technologies to survey and real-time monitoring of mining operations. Report for Bernd Korndörfer Electronic Engineer Consultant. 24 pages. May 2000.