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R. Giraud-received-the and M. Sc, in telecommunications at ENSEIRB-MATMECA School of Engineers, and the M.Sc. in signal and image processing from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2014. Since, he is pursuing his Ph.D. at the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique in the field of image processing. His research areas mainly include computer vision and image processing applications with patch-based and superpixel methods

. Vinh-thong, M. Ta-received-the, and . Sc, and Doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France, he was an Assistant Professor in computer science with the School of Engineers of Caen, France. Since 2010, he is an Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department, 2009.