Charles Beumier

As an electrical engineer from Université Libre de Bruxelles with specialisation in electronics,

I joined the Royal Military Academy for research in 1988 and have been working in the fields of:

• Remote Sensing (2004-..)

  • Change detection in building and road layers of vector database from aerial images (2008-..)
  • Building verification by disparity from stereoscopic views (2007-..)
  • Building verification by linear segments and shadows (2007)
  • Stereo correspondence algorithms, disparity estimation (2006-..)
  • Road extraction (EuroSDR Contest) (2006)
  • Publications:
  • C. Simler, C. Beumier, Performance Evaluation of a Road and Building Classifier on VHR Images, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Ghent, Belgium, 30Jun-2Jul 2010
  • C. Beumier, M. Idrissa, Quantitative analysis of 3D reconstruction error in the context of computational stereo in remote sensing, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Ghent, Belgium, 30Jun-2Jul 2010
  • C. Simler, C. Beumier, Building and Road Extraction on Urban VHR Images using SVM combinations and Mean Shift Segmentation, Proceeding of the Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2010), Anger, France, 17-21 May 2010.
  • C. Leignel, O. Debeir, E. Hanson, T. Leloup, C. Simler, C. Beumier, G. Bontempi, N. Warzee, E. Wolff, Detecting man-made structures changes to assist geographic data producers in planning their update strategy, ISPRS joint workshop on 'Core Spatial Database - Updating, Maintenance and Services - from theory to practice', 15-17 Apr 2010, Haifa, Israel.
  • C. Beumier, Fast Dense Disparity Estimation of Stereo Couples from Image Gradient, SITIS 2009, Marrakech, Morocco, 29Nov - 4Dec 2009.
  • E. Wolff, O. Debeir, E. Hanson, C. Leignel, C. Simler, C. Beumier, N. Warzee, Comparaison et évaluation des méthodes de segmentation avec contrainte en vue d'une classification du bâti et des routes, Proceedings de JIGOT, Toulouse, France, 9-10 Nov 2009.
  • C. Simler, C. Beumier, C. Leignel, O. Debeir, E. Wolff, The use of ORFEO Toolbox in the context of map updating, IGARSS'09, Cape Town, South Africa, 12-17 July 2009.
  • C. Beumier, Building Verification from Disparity of Contour Points, Image Processing Theory, Tools & Applications, IPTA’08, Sousse, Tunisia, 23-26 Nov 2008, pp 408-413.
  • C. Beumier, Building detection in Ikonos images from disparity of edges, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP08, Funchal, Portugal, 22-25 Jan 2008.
  • C. Beumier, Industrial area detection during GNEX06, In JRC Scientific and Technical Reports, GMOSS, G. Zeug & M. Pesaresi Eds, pp 361-364.
  • C. Beumier,Building verification from geometrical and photometric cues, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXX, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6696, San Diego, California, 26-30 Aug 2007.
  • C. Beumier, Building verification from geometrical features, 27th EARSeL Symposium "Geoinformation in Europe", Bolzano, Italy, 4-7 June 2007.
  • C. Beumier, Building detection from disparity of edges, 27th EARSeL Symposium "Geoinformation in Europe", Bolzano, Italy, 4-7 June 2007.
  • C. Beumier, Straight-line Detection Using Moment of inertia, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology 2006, ICIT06, Mumbai, India, 15-17 Dec 2006.
  • C. Beumier, V. Lacroix, Road extraction for EuroSDR contest, Proceedings of SPIE (Vol 6365), Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XII,, Stockholm, Sweden, 11-14 sept 2006.

• Face Recognition (1990-..)

  • Biometric Summer School (2006)
  • PHD Thesis in 3D Face Recognition, ENST, Paris, France 2003
  • BIOMET projects (ENST, Paris, France), (2001-2003)
  • M2VTS Project (EU ACTS Programme FP 4) (1995-1998)
  • Automatic Face Identification (1990-..)
  • Publications:
  • C. Beumier, 3D Face Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology 2006, ICIT06, Mumbai, India, 15-17 Dec 2006.
  • C. Beumier, DESIGN OF CODED STRUCTURED LIGHT PATTERN FOR 3D FACIAL SURFACE CAPTURE, EUSIPCO-2004, Vienna, Austria, Sept 6-10, 2004, pp 2291-2294.
  • C. Beumier, 3D Facial Surface Capture, Special session 2A4, PIERS2004, Nanjing, China, Aug 2004.
  • C. Beumier, 3D Face Recognition, IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety (CIHSPS2004), Venice, Italy, 21-22 July 2004.
  • C. Beumier, Calibration of a structured light system for 3D acquisition, 4th IEEE BENELUX Signal Processing Symposium (SPS2004), Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, April 15-16, 2004.
  • C. Beumier, Facial Surface Acquisition with Colour Striping, ICANN/ICONIP 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun 25-29 2003, pp 548-551.
  • S. Garcia-Salicetti, C. Beumier, G. Chollet, B. Dorizzi, J. Leroux-les-jardins, Jan Lunter, Yang Ni, D. Petrovska-Delacrétaz, “BIOMET: A Multimodal Person Authentication Database Including Face, Voice, Fingerprint, Hand and Signature Modalities”, AVBPA 2003, Guildford, UK, June 9-11, 2003.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Face Verification from 3D and grey-level clues, In Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 22, 2001, pp 1321-1329.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic Face Recognition In Proceedings symposium IMAGING, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 18, 2000, pp 77-89.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic Face Verification from 3D and Grey Level Clues In RECPAD2000, 11th Portuguese conference on pattern recognition, Porto, Portugal, May 11-12, 2000, pp 95-101.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic 3D Face Authentication In Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 18, No. 4, Mar 2000, pp 315-321.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, SIC_DB: Multi-Modal Database for Person Authentication In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Venice, Italy, 27-29 Sep, 1999, pp 704-708.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, 3D Facial Surface Acquisition by Structured Light In International Workshop on Synthetic-Natural Hybrid Coding and Three Dimensional Imaging, Santorini, Greece, 15-17 Sep, 1999, pp 103-106.
  • G. Richard, Y. Menguy, I. Guis, N. Suaudeau, J. Boudy, P. Lockwood, C. Fernandez, F. Fernandez, C. Kotropoulos, A. Tefas, Ioannis Pitas, R. Heimgartner, P. Ryser, C. Beumier, P. Verlinde, S. Pigeon, G. Matas, Josef Kittler, J. Bigun, Y. Abdeljaoued, E. Meurville, L. Besacier, M. Ansorge, G. Maitre, J. Luettin, S. Ben-Yacoub, B. Ruiz, K. Aldama, J. Cortes, Multi Modal Verification for Teleservices and Security Applications (M2VTS) In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS 1999, Florence, Italy, 7-11 June, 1999, Proceedings, Volume I. IEEE Computer Society, pp 1061-1064.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic Face Authentication from 3D Surface In British Machine Vision Conference BMVC 98, University of Southampton UK, 14-17 Sep, 1998, pp 449-458.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic 3D Face Authentication In Workshop on Advances in Facial Image Analysis and Recognition Technology, Post ECCV'98. Freiburg, Germany, June 6, 1998.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic Profile Identification In FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDIO AND VIDEO BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION (AVBPA), Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 12-14 1997, pp 145-152.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Automatic Face Recognition by 3-D Analysis In ORBEL 11 (Belgian Operations Research Society), Namur, Belgium, January 16-17, 1997.
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Reconnaissance automatique de visages In BIVA VISION'S TODAYS SOLUTION, S\'eminaire 14/3-15/3, Ch\^ateau Gravenhof, Dworp, Belgium, 1996.
  • M. Acheroy, C. Beumier, J. Bigun, G. Chollet, B. Duc, S. Fischer, D. Genoud, P. Lockwood, G. Maitre, S. Pigeon, I. Pitas, K. Sobatta, L. Vandendorpe, Multi-modal person verification tools using speech and images In Proceedings of the European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques (ECMAST '96), Louvain-La-Neuve, May 28-30 1996, pp 747-761.
  • C. Beumier, M.P. Acheroy, Automatic Face Identification, In Applications of Digital Image Processing XVIII, SPIE, vol. 2564, July 1995, pp 311-323.

• Humanitarian demining (1999-2001)

  • HOPE Project (EU FP 5)
  • Real-time position monitoring of detector using a reference bar
  • Publications:
  • C. Beumier, M. Acheroy, Motion estimation of a hand-held mine detector In Signal Processing Symposium, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, 23-24th March 2000.
  • C. Beumier, P. Druyts, Y. Yvinec, M. Acheroy, Real-Time Optical Position Monitoring using a Reference Bar In Signal Processing and Communications (SPC2000), Marbella, Spain, Sept 19-22, 2000, pp 468-473.

• Other Pattern Recognition Applications

  • Vehicule speed estimation from 2 views (2009)
  • Camera calibration (2001)
  • 3D Acquisition by structured light (1996-2003)
  • Car plate detection and identification (1994)
  • Orientation function of Polypropylene from diffraction (1993)
  • Cadastral map digitization (1990)
  • Publications:
  • D. Villers, C. Fougnies, L. Paternostre, C. Beumier, M. Dosière, The use of an imaging plate as a detecting system in X-ray diffraction of polymers In Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, B97 1995, pp. 265-268.

You can join me at:

Ecole Royale Militaire

Chaire d'électricité

30 av. de la Renaissance

1000 Bruxelles (Belgium)

Phone: +32.2.742.66.67

Fax:+32.2.742.64.72