Scientific Director & Principal Researcher CRIM (Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal) langisDOTgagnonATcrimDOTca
I received a Ph.D. in Mathematical-Physics from Université de Montréal in 1988.
My research gradually moved from PDE's solution based on group theory, to nonlinear optics, signal/image processing and then computer vision.
I have R&D, managing and scientific development experience, acquired in university, research center and industrial settings.
Current Positions
Scientific Director, R&D Department, CRIM (since June 2013)
T. Landry, L. Gagnon, D. Laurendeau, A GIS-Centric Optical Tracking System and Lap Simulator for Short Track Speed Skating, 10th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Regina, 2013
A. Branzan Albu, D. Laurendeau, S. Comtois, D. Ouellet, P. Hébert, A. Zaccarin, M. Parizeau, R. Bergevin, X. Maldague, R. Drouin, S. Drouin, N. Martel-Brisson, F. Jean, H. Torresan, L. Gagnon, F. Laliberté, MONNET: Monitoring Pedestrians with a Network of Loosely-Coupled Cameras, ICPR, 2006
V. Gupta, P. Darvish Zadeh Varcheie, L. Gagnon, G. Boulianne, Content-Based Video Copy Detection Using Nearest-Neighbor Mapping, Int. Conf. on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications 2012
M. Lalonde, L. Gagnon, Key-text spotting in documentary videos using Adaboost, IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Applicatons of Neural Networks and Machine Learning in Image Processing X (SPIE #6064B), San Jose, 2006
L. Gagnon, S. Foucher, V. Gouaillier, C. Brun, J. Brousseau, G. Boulianne, F. Osterrath, C. Chapdelaine, J. Dutrisac, F. St-Onge, B. Champagne, X. Lu, MPEG-7 Audio-Visual Indexing Test-Bed for Video Retrieval, IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: SPIE Internet Imaging V, San Jose, 2004
e-Accessibility
L. Gagnon, C. Chapdelaine, D. Byrns, S. Foucher, M. Héritier, V. Gupta, Computer-Vision-Assisted System for Videodescription Scripting, Computer Vision Application for Visually-Impaired, a satellite workshop of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010
C. Chapdelaine, L. Gagnon, Accessible Videodescription On-Demand, 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'09), 2009
P. D. Z. Varcheie, C. Chapdelaine, L. Gagnon, Infrared-Based Facial Points Tracking and Action Units Detection in Context of Car Driving Simulator, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2012, 2012:15 doi:10.1186/1687-5281-2012-15
M. Lalonde, D. Byrns, L. Gagnon, N. Teasdale, D. Laurendeau, Real-time eye blink detection with GPU-based SIFT tracking, International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, 4th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Montréal, 2007
K. Rousseau, G. B. Bénié, L. Gagnon, Prdiction des performances et dtecteur de contours adaptatif, 25ième Symposium Canadien sur la Télédétection/12ième Congrès de l'Association Québécoise de Télédétection, Montréal, 2003
D. McReynolds, P. Marchand, Y. Sheng, L. Gagnon, L. Sévigny, Stabilization of infrared image sequence with differential invariants and M-estimators, SPIE Aerosense: Acqusition, Tracking and Pointing XII (SPIE #3692), Orlando, 1999
E. Shahbazian, E. Bossé, L. Gagnon, M, Macieszczak, P. Valin, Multi-Agent Data Fusion Workstation (MADFW) Architecture, SPIE Aerosense: Sensor Fusion, Architetures, Algorithms and Applications II (SPIE #3376), Orlando, 1997
E. Shahbazian, E. Boily, L. Gagnon, P. Valin, Data Fusion Application for Surveillance Aircraft, Proceeding of the Conference Solutioneering '96 - A Lockheed Martin Technology Symposium, Valley Forge, 1996
F. Laliberté, L. Gagnon, Studies on Registration and Fusion of Retinal Images, chapter 3 in Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and its Applications, Rick S. Blum and Z. Liu Eds., Taylor & Francis CRC Press, 2006
L. Gagnon, J. M. Lina, Symmetric Daubechies' wavelets and numerical solutions of NLS equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 27, 8207-8230, 1994
L. Gagnon, N. Stiévenart, N-Soliton interaction in optical fibers; the multiple pole case, Opt. Lett. 19, 619-620, 1994
L. Gagnon, Soliton on a CW background and collision between two dark pulses: some analytical results, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 469-474, 1993
R. J. Black, J. Bures, L. Gagnon, Les modes caméléons des fibres et coupleurs optiques: effets de polarisation et de transition, Optique guide et photonique II, 60ime Congrs de l'ACFAS, Univ. de Montréal, p. 109-120, 1992
L. Gagnon, P. A. Bélanger, Amplification homogne d'impulsions lumineuses dans un milieu dispersif non-linaire, Optique guide et photonique II, 60ime congrs de l'ACFAS, Univ. de Montréal, p. 131-135, 1992
C. Paré, L. Gagnon, P. A. Bélanger, Aspherical laser resonators: an analogy with quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. A 46, 4150-4160 (1992)
L. Gagnon, C. Paré, Linear and nonlinear gaussian modes and their connection to conformal symmetry, Workshop on Nonlinear and Chaotic Phenomena, Univ. of Alberta, Edit. W. Rozmus et J. A. Tuszynski, World Scient. Publ., p. 90-93, 1991
L. Gagnon, P. A. Bélanger, Adiabatic amplification of optical solitons, Phys. Rev. A 43, 6187-6193, 1991
L. Gagnon, C. Paré, Nonlinear radiation modes connected to parabolic graded-index profile by the lens transformation, J. Opt. Soc. Am A 8, 601-607, 1991
L. Gagnon, Quelques solutions exactes la thorie d'auto-focalisation optique obtenues par la méthode de réduction par symétries, Annual Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Society on Lie Theory, Differential Equations and Representation Theory, Univ. de Montréal, Edit. V. Hussin, Les Publications CRM, p. 171-179, 1990
L. Gagnon, Some exact solutions for optical wave propagation including transverse effects, J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B 7 (special issue: Transverse effects in nonlinear-optical systems, 1098-1102, 1990
L. Gagnon, Similarity properties and nonlinear effects on optical precursors, Phys. Lett. A 148, 452-456, 1990
L. Gagnon, P. A. Bélanger, Soliton self-frequency shift versus galilean-like symmetry, Opt. Lett. 15, 466-468, 1990
R. J. Black, A. Hénault, L. Gagnon, F. Gonthier, S. Lacroix, Intensity-dependent few-mode lightguide interferometry, Optical Society of America Meeting on Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena: Physics and Applications, Houston, p. 66-69, 1989
C. Paré, L. Gagnon, P. A. Bélanger, Self-trapping in a weakly saturated amplifying/absorbing medium, Opt. Comm. 74, 228-232, 1989
L. Gagnon, Exact traveling wave solutions for optical models based on the nonlinear cubic-quintic Schrdinger equation, J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A 6, 1477-1483, 1989
P. A. Bélanger, L. Gagnon, C. Paré, Solitary pulses in nonlinear amplifying medium, Opt. Lett. 14, 943-945 (1989)
L. Gagnon, R. J. Black, Fibres à coeurs multiples et gaine finie,9ièmes journées nationales d'optique guidée, Lannion, p. 34-35, 1988
Symmetry Groups of Differential Equations
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Symmetry classes of variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 26, p. 7061-7076, 1993
M. Kovalyov, M. Légaré, L. Gagnon, Reductions by isometries of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations in four-dimensional Euclidean space, J. Math. Phys. 34, p. 3245-3268, 1993
M. Kovalyov, M. Légaré, L. Gagnon, Self-dual Yang-Mills equations reduced by subgroups of E(4), 19th Intern. Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Salamanca,, World Scient. Publ., 1992
L. Gagnon, Self-similar solutions for a coupled system of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 25, p. 2649-2667 (1992)
M. Florjanczyk, L. Gagnon, Radiative-like solutions of the Eckhaus equation, Phys. Rev. A 45, p. 6881-6883 (1992)
L. Gagnon, Localized self-similar structures for coupled NLS equations: an approximate analysis, 7th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, Edit. M. Remoissenet et M. Peyrard, Lecture Notes in Physics 393, Springer Verlag, p. 383-390, 1991
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Non-Painlev reductions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Phys. Rev. A 42, p. 5029-5030, 1990
J. Beckers, L. Gagnon, V. Hussin, P. Winternitz, Superposition formulas for nonlinear super-equations, J. Math. Phys. 31, p. 2528-2534, 1990
M. Florjanczyk, L. Gagnon, Exact solutions for a higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Phys. Rev. A 41, p. 4478-4485, 1990
L. Gagnon, Equation of motion and wave functions in spherical coordinates for an integrable hamiltonian system, J. Math. Phys. 30, p. 313-317, 1989
L. Gagnon, Continuous subgroups of the Galilei and Galilei-similitude groups, Can. J. Phys. 67, p. 1-25, 1989
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Exact solutions of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation obtained by symmetry reduction, 17th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Univ. de Montréal, Edit. Y. Saint-Aubin et L. Vinet, World Scient. Publ., p. 480-483, 1989
V. Hussin, J. Beckers, L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Nonlinear equations with superposition principles; the Lie group G2 and its maximal subgroups, 17th Intern. Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Univ. de Montréal, Edit. Y. Saint-Aubin et L. Vinet, World Scient. Publ., p. 492-495, 1989
L. Gagnon, B. Grammaticos, A. Ramani, P. Winternitz, Lie symmetries of a generalised nonlinear Schrödinger equation III - Reductions to third order ordinary differential equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 22, p. 499-509, 1989
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Lie symmetries of a generalised nonlinear Schrödinger equation II - Exact solutions, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 22,4 p. 69-497, 1989
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Exact solutions of the cubic and quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a cylindrical geometry, Phys. Rev. A 39, p. 296-306, 1989
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Exact solutions of the spherical quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Phys. Lett. A 134, p. 276-281, 1989
L. Gagnon, V. Hussin, P. Winternitz, Nonlinear equations with superposition formulas and the exceptional group G2 III - The superposition formulas, J. Math. Phys. 29, p. 2145-2155, 1988
L. Gagnon, P. Winternitz, Lie symmetries of a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation I - The symmetry group and its subgroups, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 21, p. 1493-1511, 1988
L. Gagnon, J. Beckers, V. Hussin, P. Winternitz, Nonlinear differential equations with superposition laws for the ops(1,2) superalgebra, 15th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Drexel Univ. , Philadelphia, Edit. R. Gilmore, World Scient. Publ., p. 435-438, 1987
J. Beckers, L. Gagnon, V. Hussin, P. Winternitz, Nonlinear differential equations and Lie superalgebras, Lett. Math. Phys. 13, p. 113-119, 1987
L. Gagnon, J. Harnad, J. Hurtubise, P. Winternitz, Abelian integrals and the reduction method for an integrable hamiltonian system, J. Math. Phys. 26, p. 1605-1612, 1985
L. Gagnon, J. Harnad, P. Winternitz, Group projection method and the separation of variables for an integrable hamiltonian system, 13th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Maryland Univ., Washington, Edit. W. W. Zachary, World Scient. Publ., p. 123-126, 1984