Frédéric RAYAR Age: 26, Single 1 rue Charles Garnier Appt 37 – 6th floor 37200 – Tours FRANCE +33 (0)6 82 75 78 98 [email protected] http://frederic.rayar.free.fr

Professional Experience

2013 - Current

PhD Candidate in the Computer Science Laboratory of Tours Tours, France Topic: “Interactive, incremental and multi-level clustering of large dataset” Machine learning, Visualization, Interaction

2011-2013 2 years & 4month

R&D Engineer in Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition team Computer Science Laboratory of Tours, Tours, France Development within the PaRADIIT project (Google Awards) Involvement in research activities that lead to scientific publications

2011-2013 2 years

Part-time Lecturer Polytech'Tours, Tours, France Administration and Development of Website (Master level) Artificial Intelligence and Prolog language (Master level) Algorithmics and data structure Supervision of several students’ projects

2009-2010 10 months

Software Developer Junior Synapse Développement, Toulouse, France Development of Spelling and Grammar Checker, and linguistics API Involvement in Quaero European Project

2009 7 months

Intern in TCI team (Image Processing and Understanding) IRIT (Toulouse Informatics Research Institute), Toulouse, France Development of a Gaze Tracker for French Sign Language applications in the Dicta-Sign European project

2008 3 months

Intern in Pr. Uchida's Human Interface Laboratory Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan Performance evaluation of SIFT-based matching algorithm

2007 2 months

Intern in Management of Information Technology Infrastructure Team EDF Gaz de France Distribution, Toulouse, France Development of enterprise automated dashboard

Selected Publications

Journal Jean-Yves Ramel, Nicolas Sidère, Frédéric Rayar. "Interactive layout analysis, content extraction and transcription of historical printed books using Pattern Redundancy Analysis". Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2013. Conferences Octavio Razafindramanana, Frédéric Rayar, Gilles Venturini. Alpha*-Approximated Delaunay Triangulation Based Descriptors for Handwritten Character Recognition. In International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013 Frédéric Rayar, Partha Pratim Roy and Jean-Yves Ramel. Approche multi-niveaux pour la recherche de texte par l'exemple dans les images de documents historiques. au Colloque International Francophone sur l’Ecrit et le Document (CIFED), 2012. Partha Pratim Roy, Frederic Rayar, Jean-Yves Ramel. An efficient coarse-to-fine indexing technique for fast text retrieval in historical documents. In Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2012.

Education

2008 - 2009

Master of Research in Multimedia (Audio, Video and Image) Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

2006 - 2009

Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Engineer (Master Degree) ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France National Polytechnic Engineering Institute of Electrotechnology, Electronics, Computer science, Hydraulics and Telecommunication

Computer Skills

OS IDE

Unix , Windows, Android Visual Studio, Eclipse

Programming Internet

C/C++, C#, WPF, Java, Matlab, Python HTML5/CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, XML, J2EE, IIS, Web Service

Knowledge and Interest in Image processing and Understanding, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Video analysis and indexing (AForge.NET, OpenCV, Matlab Image Toolbox, …)

Languages

French English Japanese Spanish

Native language Advanced level - TOEIC score: 930 For 2 years - 3 months stay in Japan For 5 years

Extracurricular activities

Juggling

Treasurer of ENSEEIHT Juggling association (2007/2008) (Management of subvention) Founder member of the FFCJJT, a Juggling association (Large-scaled events organization) Co-organizer of juggling workshop in elementary school (2007/2009) Volunteer in “Boudu la Jongle” (2007/2009) (A 4 days large-scaled event, about 1000 visitors)

Sports

Juggling, Badminton, Soccer

Others

Treasurer of Mah Jong Touraine association (2011/2012) (Management of subvention) Chairman of ENSEEIHT Japanese Culture association (2006/2008) (Management of subvention, small-scaled event)

References available upon request