He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (SUPAERO), Toulouse, France, in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in 2001. In 2002, he was an Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Postdoctoral Fellow with Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. From 2003 to 2007, he held a full-time research position at IFREMER Brest in the field of signal and image processing applied to fisheries science. In 2008, he joined the Signal and Communications Department, Telecom Bretagne, as an Associate Professor, and has been holding a Professor position since 2012. In 2011, he was a Visiting Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/Instituto del MAR del PErú, Peru (Peruvian Sea Research Institute). His main research interests include statistical methods for signal processing and computer vision and applications to ocean remote sensing.