Hughes Perreault
AI Researcher at Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (Research institute of Hydro-Québec)
Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolHughes Perreault is an AI researcher and computer vision specialist with a decade of experience focused on object recognition and scene understanding for urban transportation safety. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal and has produced strong results on benchmarks like Cityscapes, KITTI, India Driving, UA-DETRAC, and UAVDT. At Thales and now the Institut de recherche d'Hydro‑Québec he has applied deep learning and classic vision techniques to optimization, multimodal image registration and fusion, detection, and tracking in real-world systems. Hughes blends research rigor with production-minded engineering—prototyping in TensorFlow and PyTorch while delivering robust, deployable models. He also has teaching experience in multimedia technologies and C++, reflecting an ability to communicate complex ideas to students and engineers alike. Based in Terrebonne, Quebec, he brings domain-focused expertise in transportation vision that bridges academic benchmarks and operational deployments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université du Québec à ChicoutimiBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Université de MontréalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (7)
self-attention10
code-documentation10
object-detection7
instance-segmentation4
roguelike2
react1
unity3d1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hu64/RN-VID
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
hu64/FFAVOD
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Repository for the paper FFAVOD: Feature Fusion Architecture for Video Object Detection
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 10 comments in 7 months
object-detection
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