| Pascal Fua | |
| Native Name Lang: | fr |
| Citizenship: | French and Swiss |
| Occupation: | Computer science professor |
| Awards: | IEEE Fellow |
| Website: | https://people.epfl.ch/pascal.fua/ |
| Education: | PhD in Computer Vision |
| Thesis Year: | 1989 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Olivier Faugeras |
| Workplaces: | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), INRIA, SRI International |
| Doctoral Students: | Raquel Urtasun |
| Main Interests: | 3D Computer Vision, Biomedical imaging, Machine Learning. |
Pascal Fua is a computer science professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland). He received an engineering degree from École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1984 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Orsay in 1989. He joined EPFL in 1996. Before that, he worked at SRI International and at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis as a computer scientist.
His expertise is in computer vision and machine learning, including motion recovery from images, analysis of microscopy images, and surface shape modeling. He is best known for developing innovative methods for 3D reconstruction of deformable surfaces from monocular image sequences, for detecting and matching image keypoints, and for video-based people tracking.
He has cofounded three spinoff companies: Pix4D,[1] [2] PlayfulVision (acquired by SecondSpectrum),[3] and NeuralConcept.[4] He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE journal Transactions for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence[5] from 2004 to 2008 and often serves as program committee member, area chair, and program chair of major vision conferences.