Dr Yasser ALMEHIO

Associate Professor
Dr. Yasser ALMEHIO

Biography

Yasser Almehio is a tenured professor at aivancity and Head of Systems Design at Valeo within the Research and Innovation department, where he leads an AI team in the VLS division. Previously, he worked as a computer vision engineer at Parrot. He obtained his PhD from Paris-Sud XI, where he also completed his postdoctoral research, working on image registration, video stabilisation and face recognition. During his studies, he was able to explore his diverse interests in: computer vision, machine learning/deep learning, image processing, compression and NLP.

Education & Qualifications

YearUniversityQualification/Position
2012 University of Paris-Sud PhD in Information Science and Technology and Telecommunications Systems
2008Paris-Sud University Research Master’s in Cognitive Sciences

Work experience

YearRole
2022 – present Permanent Lecturer at aivancity
2017 – present System Design Leader at Valeo-Automobile
2015–2017 R&D Engineer in Computer Vision at Parrot
2013–2015 Computer Vision Researcher at Rizze
2013–2016Head of the Research Department at the European Observatory for the Arabic Language (volunteer), Paris
2011–2013Research Assistant – Faculty of Science, Orsay
2011–2012Supervisor of final-year projects – Faculty of Science, Orsay

Publications

  • Patent: METHOD FOR ADAPTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR A DIGITAL LIGHTING UNIT IN A MOTOR VEHICLE. Application number: FR3101694A1, Published: 9 April 2021, France
  • Patent: Image data management method and automotive lighting device. Application number: FR3102629A1, Published: 30 April 2021, France
  • Patent: Method for correcting a light pattern, automotive lighting device and lighting assembly. Application number: WO2020EP54799 24 February 2020, Priority date: 1 March 2019, France
  • Patent: Method for calibrating an automotive lighting device. Application number: WO2019EP82986 28 November 2019, Priority date: 19 December 2018, France
  • Patent: Method for Providing a Light Pattern, Automotive Lighting Device. Application number: EP20190171042 25 April 2019, Priority Date: 25 April 2019, France
  • AI-Based Headlamp Energy Management Solution for Optimised Lighting and CO₂. (ISAL 2021), Darmstadt, Germany (forthcoming)
  • Matching images using invariant level-line primitives under projective transformation. (CRV2010), IEEE Computer Society, Ottawa, Canada
  • Robust Projective Transformation Estimation Using Invariant Level-line Primitives. (SSIAI 2010), Austin, USA
  • A voting decision strategy for image registration under affine transformation. Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems VIII, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, San Jose, California, USA
  • Level-line grouping for image registration under affine transformation. International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IPCV) 2009, Las Vegas, USA
  • Level-line Primitives for Image Registration with Figures of Merit, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal (ICAE), 2012