Franck Luthon


Franck Luthon                       E-mail:    Franck.Luthon@univ-pau.fr    
IUT Bayonne Dpt G.I.M               Position:  Professor
2, Allée du Parc Montaury
64600 Anglet, France

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Research Topics


Main Publications


PhD students

  • Alice Caplier (1995): Motion detection  based on Markov Random Field approach
  • Christophe Dumontier (1996): Real-time DSP implementation for motion detection
  • Marc Liévin(2000): Entropico-logarithmic analysis of color video sequences. Application to MRF segmentation and face tracking
  • Brice Beaumesnil (2006): Color video processing for low bitrate multimedia telecommunications
  • Sophie Laplace (2006): QoS management in internet multimedia applications
  • Théodore Totazafiny (2007): Color image compression for road surveillance through wireless video transmission
  • Manu Bouix (2007): COTS for internet multimedia applications
  • Elsie Gabarra (2008): Image segmentation for schematics
  • Francis Faux (2009): Active vision for intelligent multimedia applications
  • Fawzi Khattar (2018): Enriching remote labs with computer vision and drones
  • Nawal Eldrogi (2016-2019): Computer vision for automatic tracking and behavior characterization of fishes
  • Dorian D'Amico (2017-2020): Bigdata applied to supervisory control of coastal environment


  • From 1990 to 2000 : Assistant Professor at ENSERG

    Responsible for labwork platform TP2A (Practical Labworks in Electronics for Engineering Students in Year4)
    Research activities at LIS Grenoble : Signal and Image Laboratory in INPG

    Since 2000 : Full Professor at IUT de Bayonne

    Since Sept. 2021 : Head of the Institute IUT de Bayonne
    Head of the technical Department G.I.M (Industrial Engineering and Maintenance) from 2007 to 2013
    2011-2021 : Head of the B.Eng diploma in Industrial Ecology
    Research leader in "Image Processing - Signal Processing" at  LIUPPA laboratory
    Image Processing  (Manual in French for M.Sc. in Computer Science at UPPA)