Patrick HORAIN

Prof. Patrick HORAIN is a Professor and Director of ARMEDIA studies at Telecom SudParis. His research focuses on computer vision, 3D motion capture, GPU-accelerated image processing, and Fourier ptychography microscopy. He has contributed to advancements in real-time 3D gesture capture, malaria diagnosis using CNNs, and virtual telepresence systems.

Key areas of expertise include real-time monocular vision systems, medical imaging applications, and hardware acceleration frameworks like GpuCV. He has edited conference proceedings for IHCI (Intelligent Human Computer Interaction) and authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications since 1984.

His work spans 30+ years, with notable contributions in gesture recognition, virtual reality interaction, and multimodal human-computer interfaces. Current research emphasizes biomedical imaging techniques and neural network applications in microscopy.