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Francis Colas (1979) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Autonomous Systems Lab. (ETH Zürich) since January 2009. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the INPG, in 2006. Subsequently, he joined the College de France, Paris, France as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action, from 2007 to 2008. In January 2009, he joined the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research interests include Bayesian modelling of perception and action applied from cognitive sciences to robotics.

Other Publications 

International Journals

• F. Colas, J. Diard, P. Bessière, "Common Bayesian models for common cognitive issues", Acta Biotheoretica, In press, 2010. [full paper]
  
• X. Perrin, R. Chavarriaga, F. Colas, R. Siegwart, J. del Millán, "Brain-coupled interaction for semi-autonomous navigation of an assistive robot", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, In press, 2010. [full paper]
  
• F. Colas, F. Flacher, T. Tanner, P. Bessière, B. Girard, "Bayesian models of eye movement selection with retinotopic maps", Biological Cybernetics, Vol. 100, No. 3, 2009, 203-214. [full paper]
  
• F. Colas, J. Droulez, M. Wexler, P. Bessière, "A unified probabilistic model of the perception of three-dimensional structure from optic flow", Biological Cybernetics, Vol. 97, No. 5-6, 2007, 461-477. [full paper]
  

Book Chapters

• F. Colas, P. Bessière, J. Droulez, M. Wexler, "Bayesian modelling of perception of structure from motion", Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems, Springer Tracts in Advance Robotics 46, Springer press, 2008. [full paper]
  

International Conferences

• F. Colas, P. Bessière, B. Girard, "Maximum entropy perception-action space: a Bayesian model of eye movement selection", Proc. of the Conf. on Bayesian Methods and Maximum Entropy in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt), In press, 2010.
  
• P. Bessière, F. Colas, "Bayesian programming: life science modeling and robotics applications", Proc. of The 13th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2007. [full paper]
  
• C. Pradalier, F. Colas, P. Bessière, "Expressing Bayesian fusion as a product of distributions: application to randomized Hough transform", Proc. of the Conf. on Bayesian Methods and Maximum Entropy in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt), 2003. [full paper]
  
• C. Pradalier, F. Colas, P. Bessière, "Expressing Bayesian fusion as a product of distributions: applications in robotics", Proc. of the IEEE-RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2003. [full paper]