Samuel Foucher
Assistant Professor at Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSamuel Foucher is an Assistant Professor and seasoned researcher with 15+ years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, remote sensing and machine learning. After a long tenure at CRIM where he led the Vision & Imaging team and advanced applied research, he now teaches and conducts research at Université de Sherbrooke’s Department of Applied Geomatics. He holds a PhD in Remote Sensing and a strong engineering background in image processing and radar from top French institutions, giving him deep domain expertise from physics to algorithm development. Samuel is skilled at translating satellite and sensor data into operational products—an ability rooted in earlier work developing meteorological products in industry. Colleagues value his blend of academic rigor and hands-on project leadership that consistently moves prototypes toward real-world applications.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Université de NantesDEA, Signal, Telecommunications, Image and RADAR, DEA, Signal, Telecommunications, Image and RADAR at Université de Rennes IEngineer's degree - Telecom Bretagne Diploma, Image Processing, Engineer's degree - Telecom Bretagne Diploma, Image Processing at IMT AtlantiquePhD, Remote Sensing, PhD, Remote Sensing at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
Github Skills (32)
anomaly-detection10
unsupervised-learning10
openvino9
algorithms8
data-augmentation7
object-detection7
lidar6
stac6
deep-learning6
inference6
clustering5
point-cloud5
segmentation5
large-scale5
partition5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crim-ca/CCCOT03
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Repo for the CCCOT03 project
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 1 PR in 6 months
crim-ca/geoimagenet
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 review, 122 commits, 119 pushes in 2 months
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