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M. D. Grand-brochier-manuel-grand-brochier-received-the-ph, Degree in Electronic and System , IT and Vision for Robotics from the Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2011 These research topics were focused on image analysis, spatial and spatio-temporal description of points of interest, for image registration and medical imaging. He also did a Post-Doc at LIRIS from Lumiere Lyon 2 University of Lyon, France, on a thematic of comparative analysis of segmentation tools dedicated to the tree leaves extraction on natural background, he joined the CaVITI research team based at ISIT laboratory from the Auvergne University of Clermont- Ferrand, France as an Assistant Professor, 2013.