Associate Professor
OF COMPUTER SCIENCE


Research Interests

Contact Information

Dr. Steven S. Beauchemin
   
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Ontario
Western Science Centre 119
London, ON, Canada
N6A 5B7

E. beau@csd.uwo.ca
P. (519) 661-2073
F. (519) 661-3515
  • RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND SERVICE AWARD 2007, awarded by the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS).
  • YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2000 , awarded by the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS).
  • POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP 1998-99 , Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), in recognition of high quality research.
  • CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL'S 1997-1998 ACADEMIC GOLD MEDAL , in recognition of exceptional scholastic achievement.
  • EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD 1994-95 , awarded by the University of Western Ontario Student Council.
  • Nominee for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) DOCTORAL PRIZE 1997 , in recognition of high quality research.
  • Kotb Y.T., Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "Robotic Cooperation Using Petri Nets", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Sep. 2009.
  • Hamshari H.O. and Beauchemin S.S., "A Real-Time Framework for Eye Detection and Tracking", accepted with revisions in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Springer), May 2008.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Hamshari H.O., and Bauer M.A., "Passive Atmospheric Diffusion with Gaussian Fragmentation", International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 31, No.2, 2009, pp. 97-108.
  • Beaudoin N. and Beauchemin S.S., "A New Numerical Fourier Transform in d-Dimensions", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Vol. 51, No. 5, 2003, pp. 1422-1430.
  • Yu W., Sommer G., Beauchemin S.S. and Daniilidis K., "Oriented Structure of the Occlusion Distortion: Is it Reliable?", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , Vol. 24, No. 9, 2002, pp. 1286-1290.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "On the Fourier Properties of Discontinuous Visual Motion", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision , Vol. 13, No 3, 2000, pp. 155-172.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "The Frequency Structure of 1D Occluding Image Signals", IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , Vol. 22, No. 2, 2000, pp. 200-206.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "On Discontinuous Optical Flow", invited, Computers and Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 19, No. 3, 2000, pp. 255-283.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "The Computation of Optical Flow" , ACM Computing Surveys , Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 433-467, 1995.
  • Barron J.L., Fleet D.J. and Beauchemin S.S., "Performance of Optical Flow Techniques" , International Journal of Computer Vision , Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 43-77, 1994.
  • Kotb Y.T., Barron J.L., and Beauchemin S.S., "A Theoretical Cooperative Work-Flow Net-Based Framework for Odometric and Probabilistic SLAM", to be submitted.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Varcheie, P.D., Gagnon L., Laurendeau D., Lavalliere M., Moszkowicz T., Prel F., and Teasdale N., "COBVIS-D A Computer Vision System for Describing the Cephalo-Ocular Behavior of Drivers in Driving Simulators", International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 09), Halifax, Canada, pp. 604-615, Jul. 6-8 2009.
  • Hamshari H.O., Beauchemin S.S., "A Corrective Framework for Eye Detection and Tracking" (poster), Auto21 Scientific Conference, London, Canada, June 2-4 2008.
  • Hamshari H.O., Beauchemin S.S., Laurendeau D., and Teasdale N., "A Corrective Framework for Facial Feature Detection and Tracking", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 08), Funchal, Madeira-Portugal, Vol. II, pp. 130-138, Jan. 22-25 2008.
  • Kotb Y.T., Beauchemin S.S., and Barron J.L., "Petri Net-Based Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems", Computer and Robot Vision 2007 (CRV 07), Montreal, Canada, pp. 123-130, May 28-30 2007 (best paper award).
  • Beauchemin S.S., Laurendeau D., Gagnon L., Scialfa C., Simoneau M., and Teasdale N., "Cephalo-Occular Behavior and Visual Search Patterns of Drivers", Auto21 Scientific Conference (poster), Hamilton, Canada, May 10-11 2007.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Brandon Q., Kotb M.T., Hamshari H.O., and Bauer M.A., "Parallel Simulation of Atmospheric Gas Dispersion" , International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 06) , Las Vegas, USA, pp. 313-319, June 26-29 2006.
  • Kotb M.T. and Beauchemin S.S., "Generalizing Inverse Perspective", Computer and Robot Vision 2005 (CRV 05) , Victoria, Canada, pp. 521-527, May 9-11 2005.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Kotb M.T. and H.O. Hamshari, "Navigation and Gravitation", Dagstuhl Castle Seminars, Warden, Germany, June 13-18 2004, to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, K. Daniilidis, R. Klette, and A. Leonardis Eds, 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Beaudoin N. and Beauchemin S.S., "Accurate Numerical Fourier Transform for Image Processing", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 02) , Quebec City Convention Center, Canada, pp. 935-939, Aug. 11-15 2002.
  • Beaudoin N. and Beauchemin S.S., "An Accurate Fourier Transform in d-Dimensions" , Conference on Symbolic and Numeric Computation 2001 (SNSC 01) Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria, Sept. 12-14 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 2630, pp. 266-278, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003.
  • Beauchemin, S.S., "Calibration of Non-Linear Camera Lenses" , Dagstuhl Castle Seminars, Warden, Germany, March 11-17 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No 2032, R. Klette, T. Huang and G. Gimel'farb Eds, 2001 , pp. 1-22, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
  • Beauchemin, S.S. and Bajcsy R., "Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms: The Role of Theory" , Dagstuhl Castle Seminars, Wadern, Germany, March 16-20 1998, Performance Characterization in Computer Vision , R. Klette, H.S. Stiehl, M. Viergever and K.L. Vinken Eds, 2000, pp. 53-67. Kluwer Publishers.
  • Yu W., Daniilidis K., Beauchemin S.S. and Sommer G., "Detection and Characterization of Points of Multiple Motions" , Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 99) , pp. 1171-1177, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, June 23-25 1999.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Bajcsy R. and Givaty G., "A Unified Procedure for Calibrating Intrinsic Parameters of Fish-Eye Lenses" , Vision Interface (VI 99) , pp. 272-279, Trois-Rivieres, Canada, May 18-21, 1999.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Daniilidis K. and Bajcsy R., "Computing Multiple Image Motions" , Vision Interface (VI 99) , pp. 544-551, Trois-Rivieres, Canada, May 18-21 1999.
  • Chalifour A., Beauchemin S.S., Bose P.K., Nouboud, F. and Vought L.B.-M., "Analyse Morphologique des Filets de Tricoptères: Un Problème d'Ecotoxicologie et de Géométrie Discrète" , Visual Interface (VI 98) , Vancouver, Canada, pp. 479-486, June 18-20 1998.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "A Theory of Occlusion in the Context of Optical Flow" , Advances in Computer Vision, Springer Wien New-York , F. Solina, W. Kropatsch, R. Klette and R. Bajcsy Eds., pp. 191-200, Nov. 1997. Also as Refereed Abstract 18.3-22.3.96 in Dagstuhl Seminar Reports.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "On Discontinuous Optical Flow", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control of Robots (AIICSR 97) , I. Plander Ed., World Scientific, pp. 377-386, The Russian and Slovak Academia of Sciences, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, Sept. 10-15 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., Chalifour A. and Barron J.L., "Discontinuous Optical Flow: Recent Theoretical Results" , Visual Interface (VI 97) , pp. 57-64, Kelowna, Canada, May 19-23 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "The Structure of Occlusion in Fourier Space" , Visual Interface (VI 95) , pp. 112-119, Quebec city, Canada, May 16-19 1995.
  • Barron J.L. Beauchemin S.S. and Fleet D.J., "On Optical Flow" , Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots (AIICSR 94) , I. Plander Ed., World Scientific, pp. 3-14, The Russian and Slovak Academia of Sciences, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, Sept. 12-16 1994.
  • Barron J.L., Fleet D.J., Beauchemin S.S. and Burkitt T.A., "Performance of Optical Flow Techniques", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 92) , pp. 236-242, Champaign, Illinois, June 15-18 1992.
  • Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Vision Interface, S.S. Beauchemin, F. Nouboud and G. Roth Editors, June 7-9, Ottawa, Canada. ISSN 0843-803-X, 284 p. © Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society.
  • Beaudoin N. and Beauchemin S.S., "An Accurate Discrete Fourier Transform for Image Processing", Technical Report No. 580, Dept of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, ISBN 0-7714-2364-0, April 2002 .
  • Beaudoin N. and Beauchemin S.S., "Accurate Numerical Fourier Transform in d-Dimensions", Technical Report No. 561, Dept of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, ISBN 0-7714-2302-0, April 2001 .
  • Chalifour A., Beauchemin S.S., Bose P.K., Nouboud F. and Vought L.B.-M., "Analyse Morphologique des Filets de Tricopteres: Un Probleme d'Ecotoxicologie et de Geometrie Discrete", Imagery Series Technical Report No. 7, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres Campus , Apr. 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Optical Flow, Linear Velocity and the Aperture Problem", Imagery Series Technical Report No. 6., Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres Campus , Apr. 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "A Theory of Discontinuous Optical Flow", Imagery Series Technical Report No. 2., Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres Campus , Jan. 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "The Computation of Optical Flow", Technical Report No. 450., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario , Mar. 1995.
  • Beauchemin S.S. and Barron J.L., "A Theory of Occlusion", Technical Report No. 449., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario , Mar. 1995.
  • Barron J.L., Fleet D.J. and Beauchemin S.S., "Performance of Optical Flow Techniques", Technical Report No. 229., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario , Jul. 1992.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A review of "Efficient Fourier-based Approach for Detecting Orientations and Occlusions in Epipolar Plane Images for 3D Scene Modeling, IJCV, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2005, pp. 233-258. In ACM Computing Reviews, Review No. CR131796 (0604-0423), 2005.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of "Extracting View-Dependent Depth Maps from a Collection of Images", IJCV , Vol. 58, No. 2, 2004, pp. 139-163. In ACM Computing Reviews , Review No. CR130656 (0508-0953), 2005.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of Motion Segmentation and Pose Recognition with Motion History Gradients, Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp. 174-184. In ACM Computing Reviews, Review No. CR128125 (0401-0101), 2003.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of "Wigner Filtering with Smooth Roll-Off Boundary for Differentiation of Noisy Non-Stationary Signals", Signal Processing , No. 82, 2002, pp. 1141-1415. In ACM Computing Reviews , Review No. CR127668 (0309-0964), 2003.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of "Selection of Reference Images for Image-Based Scene Representation", Computing , No. 68, 2002, pp. 163-180, Springer-Verlag. In ACM Computing Reviews , Review No. CR126866 (0304-0395), 2003.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of "Hair Image Generation Using Connected Texels", J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. , Vol. 4, No. 16, 2001, pp. 341-350. In ACM Computing Reviews , Review No. CR126067 (0207-0390), 2002.
  • Beauchemin S.S., A Review of "Sign of Gaussian Curvature from Curve Orientation in Photometric Space", IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 20, 1998, pp. 1056-1066. In ACM Computing Reviews , Review No. CR122248 (9905-0391), 1999.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "The RoadLab Initiative", Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Aug. 28 2009.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Failures in Project Management", The Project Management Institute, South Western Ontario (PMI-SWOC), June 4 2009.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Auto21: Driving Real-Time Computer Vision", TRICS Seminar Series, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, March 25 2009.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "The Institute's Project Management Certificate", The Institute for Government Information Professionals, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Gatineau, QC, Canada, April 3 2004.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Graduation Ceremony. IT Project Management Certificate", The Institute for Government Information Professionals, October 24, 2001, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "The Project Management Life Cycle", Project Management 2000 Symposium, Ottawa Congess Centre, October 23 2000.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Practical IT Project Management", Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI), Ottawa Congress Centre, May 10 2000.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Research in Vision at CMVL" Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, May 8 2000.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Research Activites at the Carleton Machine Vision Laboratory" ITO (Imaging Technology Information) Meeting, Carleton University, January 24 2000.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Perspectives in IT Project Management for Developing Countries", Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), October 12 1999.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Active Vision" Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, Oct. 28th 1998. Also at GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, May 15 1998.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Visual Motion and Autonomous Navigation", School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Sept. 15 1998.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "On Multiple Visual Motions", Center for Neural Science, New York University, October 15 1997. Also at GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, October 16 1997.
  • Chalifour A., Bose P.K. and Beauchemin S.S., "Morphological Analysis of Trichoptera Nets: An Ecotoxicology and Discrete Geometry Problem", 48th Colloquium of The Mathematical Association of Quebec, University of Quebec, October 16 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "On Discontinuous Optical Flow", University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, Jun. 20 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "On Motion Detection in Fourier Space and Related Research Areas", 2nd Colloquium on Mathematical Imaging, University of Quebec, Jun. 13 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "A Theoretical Framework for Discontinuous Optical Flow", Laval University, Quebec, Canada, June 13 1997.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Latest Advances in Optical Flow Computation", University of Quebec, October 3 1996.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "A Theoretical Framework for Discontinuous Optical Flow", University of Ottawa, June 10 1996.
  • Beauchemin S.S., "Topics in Discontinuous Optical Flow", University of Quebec, January 22 1996.