Enhancing capabilities of in-operation new space EO satellites using embedded AI for object detection

François de Vieilleville received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Université de Bordeaux, Talence, France, in 2007. After 4 years of academic post-doctoral studies he decided to focus on earth observation related problems. Through the combined use of inverse problems, GP-GPU computing and deep learning he pushes for more innovation in image processing. He is the CTO of Agenium Space, Toulouse, France, a French company working on the development of edge-artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for satellite imaging and embedding AI to on-board satellites.