Human Action Recognition (Video)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Paris – Rocquencourt (France)

Dr. Laptev is a research scientist at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2004 and his Master of Science degree from the same institute in 1997. He was a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) during 1997-1999. He joined VISTA project-team at INRIA Rennes, France in 2004. Since 2009 he is with INRIA/WILLOW project-team in the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France. His main research interests are in computer vision and machine learning with particular focus on video interpretation, visual motion analysis, human activity recognition and object detection. One of his main contributions concerns local video representations for video analysis widely adopted in the field of action recognition. His contributions also include weakly-supervised methods for human activity recognition in realistic video data. He has published over thirty papers in international journals and conferences, he is a regular member of program committees of major computer vision conferences, he serves as associate editor of Image and Vision Computing Journal and as an area chair for CVPR 2010. He received Blanceflor scholarship award in 2004, outstanding review awards at ECCV 2008 and CVPR 2009 as well as a honourable mention at PASCAL VOC Challenge in 2007.

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