Guillaume Caron

Guillaume Caron is an Associate Professor at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France) and holds a delegation at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL) in Tsukuba, Japan. He leads the Perception team at JRL since April 2021 and co-directs the laboratory since 2022. His academic roles include being an enseignant-chercheur (lecturer-researcher) in robotic vision and habilitated to supervise research. He has collaborated with institutions like AIST, INRIA, and companies such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Thales Optronique SA.

Research Interests: His work focuses on robotic vision systems, adaptive cameras, visual servoing, and applications in cultural heritage preservation and medical robotics. He develops advanced imaging techniques (e.g., hyperspectral, omnidirectional) and integrates them into robotic systems for tasks like autonomous navigation, object manipulation, and assistive technologies. Recent projects include spherical vision-based wheelchair assistance and teleoperated humanoid robots in nursing contexts.

Publications: His most recent work addresses multimodal navigation leveraging large language models, spherical image representations for robotics, and illumination compensation in hyperspectral imaging. He also explores cybernetic avatars for telepresence and modular assistive smart wheelchairs.

Responsibilities: He co-organizes workshops on e-Heritage and chairs the IAPR Technical Committee on Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage. He serves on the CNRS-AIST JRL steering committee and the AFRIF administration board. His educational roles include leading the RVI professional license program at UPJV until 2019.

Labs/Teams: Active in the MIS laboratory (Amiens) and the CNRS-AIST JRL, working on projects like the Coalas neuro-rehabilitation system and the MuSeM multispectral dataset for mobile robotics.