My publications

Conferences et Workshops

• Jean-Claude Lafon, Michel Buffa, 3D Virtual Warehouse on the Web (PDF Document, 120k), accepted in the IEEE Conference IV'2000, London, July 2000, to appear.
• Laurent Dirat, Michel Buffa, Jean-Marc Fédou, Peter Sander, JOME, un composant logiciel pour le télé-enseignement des mathématiques via le Web, compatible OpenMath et MathML (PDF Document, 150k). Submitted to the International Conference TICE 2000, Troyes, France.
• Michel Buffa, Jean-Yves Tigli, Peter Sander, Smart Interface to Device Architecture for HMI, New Challenges in Human - Computer Interaction for Engineering Communications, IEEE Conference SMC 99, Tokyo, Japan 12-15 October 1999.
• Michel Buffa, Laurent Dirat, Jean-Marc Fédou, Peter Sander, JOME : Java OpenMath Editor, International Conference ICTMT 4, Plymouth, 9-13 August 1999.
• Michel Buffa, Laurent Dirat, Jean-Marc Fédou and Peter Sander, Multimedia Mathematics on the World Wide Web, Open Math Esprit Workshop, St Andrews, September 16-17 1998.
• Michel Buffa, Laurent Dirat, Peter Sander, Multimedia Mathematics and Distance Learning on the World Wide Web, Open Math Esprit Workshop, Eindhoven April 22-24 1998.
• Jean-Claude  Lafon Peter Sander, Michel Buffa, 3D Computer Graphics studies at ESSI. In "Teaching Solid Modeling", Information Geometers (UK) 1997, Proceedings of the teaching solid modelling workshop - Winchester 15-16 april 96
•  Buffa, Peter Sander, Mats Persson and Franck Diard. The Virtual Diver, an Architectural ``Swim-Around'' System Incorporating Real Imagery, proceedings of the "Workshop on Computer Graphics Technology for the Exploration of the Sea", Rostock, Germany 4 and 5 May 1995. Available here as an html version or as a a compressed postscript file.
• Michel Buffa, L.Robert and M.Hebert. Generating Robot Trajectories from Uncalibrated Stereo, submitted to the IEEE conference IROS 1995, Pittsburgh, USA. Available here as a a compressed postscript file.
• L. Robert, M. Buffa and M. hebert, Weakly-Calibrated Stereo Perception for Rover Navigation, Accepted for presentation at IEEE ICCV 1995 conference.
• L. Robert, M. Buffa and M. hebert. Weakly-Calibrated Stereo Perception for Rover Navigation. Presented at the conference IUW 1994. Available here as a .dvi version, a postscript version is also available at the official WWW server of the IUW94 Workshop.
• E. Krotkov, M. Hebert, M. Buffa, F. Cozman. L. Robert. Stereo Driving and Position Estimation for Autonomous Planetary Rovers. Presented at the International Advanced Robotics Programme IARP 1994, Montréal, Canada. Available here as a .dvi version or an html version.
• M. Buffa, Z. Zhang, O. Faugeras. Obstacle Avoidance and Trajectory Planning for an Indoors Mobile Robot using Stereo Vision and Delaunay Triangulation. In Proceedings of Roundtable Discussion on Vision-Based Vehicle Guidance '90, pages 12-1-12-8, IEEE, Science University of Tokyo, July 1990. This paper has been presented at the IROS 1990 conference. It has been selected and published also in the book Vision-Based Vehicle Guidance (See the previous section).
• M. Buffa, O. Faugeras and Z. Zhang. A Complete Navigation System for a Mobile Robot, Using Real-Time Stereovision and the Delaunay Triangulation. Proceedings of MVA92, IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, December 1992, Tokyo.
• T. Viéville, F. Romann, B.Hotz, M.Buffa and Al. Autonomous Navigation of a Mobile Robot Using Inertial and Visual Cues, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 1993, July 93, Tokyo. Available here as an html version.
• T. Viéville, B. Hotz, H. Mathieu, M. Buffa, L. Robert. Using Visual Feedback to Drive a Mobile Robot on its Trajectory, Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Vision for Space Applications. G. Giraudon and M. Plancke Editors. September 1993. Antibes, France. Available here as a postscript version.
• Olivier Faugeras, Michel Buffa, Rachid Deriche et al. Expériences de perception visuelle pour les robots mobiles. In french. Séminaire EC2, Paris la Défense, Mars 1990.
• Participation to the video K7 Active Vision at INRIA, 1993. International diffusion by INRIA documentation center.

Thesis:

• Michel Buffa. Navigation d'un Robot Mobile à l'aide de la Stéréovision et de la Triangulation de Delaunay. Thèse de Doctorat, Université de Nice, Juin 1993. In French.

Journals:

• M.Buffa, Z. Zhang, O. Faugeras. A Navigation System for an Indoor Mobile Robot, that uses the Stereovision and The Delaunay Triangulation. Submitted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation journal. September 1993. Also available as an INRIA technical report 1991.
• M. Buffa, Z. Zhang, O. Faugeras. Building the Map of a Mobile Robot Environment, Submitted for publication in the Image and Vision Computing journal. March 1994.

Book Chapters:

• M. Buffa, Z. Zhang, O. Faugeras. Obstacle Avoidance and Trajectory Planning for an Indoors Mobile Robot using Stereo Vision and Delaunay Triangulation. In the book Vision-Based Vehicle Guidance, edited by I. Masaki, published by Springer-Verlag, New-York, pages 268-283, 1991. This paper has also been presented in the conference IROS 90, but the version presented in this book has been considerably developped.

Research & technical reports, internal publications:

• Michel Buffa, O. Faugeras, Z. Zhang. A Stereovision-Based Navigation System for a Mobile Robot. INRIA research report 1895. Avril 1993.
• Michel Buffa. A navigation system for an indoor mobile robot, that uses the Stereovision and the Delaunay Triangulation. INRIA research report 1991. Presented during the Séminaire ORASIS, St-Malo, France, September 24-27 1991. Submitted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.

Communication to seminaires:

• Michel Buffa. Navigation d'un robot mobile tout-terrain à l'aide de stéréovision faiblement calibrée. Deuxième séminaire du jeune chercheur en Robotique, au LIRM (Laboratoire d'Informatique et de Robotique de Montpellier), 4 Novembre 1994.
• Michel Buffa. Weak Calibrated Stereovision for cross country mobile robot navigation. Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), UGV Seminar, June 1994.
• Michel Buffa. Use of the Constrained Delaunay Triangulation for Stereovision-based Robot Navigation. Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), Computer Vision Seminar, Janvier 1994.
• Michel Buffa, Robot Mobile Navigation using Stereovision, Workshop on Visually Guided Path Planning and Feed Forward Techniques, VOILA Project PCC Meeting. Avril 1990, Gênes, Italy.
• Participation to the Technical Review Meeting P940, Gênes, Italy, Avril 22nd 1991.

michel.buffa@essi.fr