Robert Laganière received the PhD degree from INRS-Telecommunications in Montreal in 1996. He is a full professor and a faculty member of the VIVA research lab at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are in computer vision and image processing with applications to visual surveillance, image-based modeling, content-based video interpretation. He is also co-author of a book on Object-Oriented Software Development published by McGraw Hill.