Faugeras was born in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and attended the
Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He graduated in mathematics and physics from the
École Polytechnique in 1971 and attended the
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications for his masters in electrical engineering in 1973. He then attended the
University of Utah for his PhD in computer science and graduated in 1976. He then became a junior scientist at
Inria Rocquencourt until 1979. He spent a year as an assistant professor at the
University of Southern California and then returned to France to serve as an associate professor at
University of Paris-Sud and for his
ScD in mathematics from the
University of Paris VI, which he received in 1981. In 2000 he was one of the founding members of the
French Academy of Technologies. In 2008, together with
QT Luong and
Steve Maybank, he received at
European Conference on Computer Vision the initial
Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision. In 2015 he received at
ICCV the
PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award. ==References==