Christophe Charrier

Full Professor in Forensics and IA
UNICAEN - GREYC

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Christophe Charrier obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne) in 1998. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Assistant with the Laboratory of Radio Communications and Signal Processing, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada. In 2001, he joined the Cherbourg Institute of Technology at Saint-Lo as associate professor. In 2024, he was promoted to Full Professor. In 2008, he joined the GREYC lab and the SAFE (Security, Architecture, Forensics and biomEtrics) research unit. In 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering, University of Texas, Austin. From 2009 to 2011, he was an Invited Professor with the Computer Department, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. His current research interests include digital image and video forensics (deepfake video detection), image and video coding, processing, quality assessment, computational vision and biometrics (evaluation of biometric systems, fingerprint quality assessment...) Since 2016, he is the head of SAFE research group.

Older Position

2009-2010 : Delegation CNRS at the XLIM lab, ICONE team

2009-2010 : Invited Professor, Computer Sicence dept, Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

June-August, 2008 : Invited Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

1998-2001 : Postdoctoral researcher at the LTRS, Université Laval, Quebec city, QC, Canada

Education

HdR, 2011 University of Caen Normandy

PhD in Image Processing, 1998 Univ. of Saint-Etienne (Alps)

Master in Computer Science, 1993 Univ. of Nantes

Bachelor in Mathmetics, 1989 Univ. of Nantes

Events

The 11th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP-2026)

will take place from December 9–12, 2026, at the National Institute of Technology Calicut
The 11th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP-2026) represents the flagship event of the CVIP conference series, focusing on advances in computer vision, image processing, and allied artificial intelligence technologies. The conference will take place from December 9–12, 2026, at the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT Calicut), Kerala, India and jointly organised with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. CVIP-2026 provides an inclusive forum for students, researchers, academicians, industry professionals, innovators, and technologists engaged in advanced research and development in computer vision, image processing, and related imaging systems.
Please refer to CVIP 2026 for more information and to register.

Research interests

Deepfake detection

how to evaluate if a video is forged or not.

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Image Quality assessment

how to evaluate the quality of an image/video.

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Human Vision

how to modelize human vision characteristics

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Biometrics

Data quality, template update, presentation attack detection

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