Company
Manctl was founded with the ambition of helping to transfer the latest computer vision technologies from academic labs to end-users.
Computer vision has seen tremendous developments in the last decade, and very impressive results are being shown in scientific conferences. However, these technologies only reach very slowly the consumer market, and many companies do not have the academic background to integrate these technologies in their products.
We also believe that the recent wide availability of low-priced 3D cameras such as Microsoft Kinect is the beginning of a new era that will see a drastic increase of computer vision applications in the mainstream.
Being both academic and software engineering experts, we want to be part of this revolution and have fun doing it!
Founders
Nicolas Burrus
With almost 10 years of experience in image processing, Nicolas got his PhD in computer vision in 2008 and since then has been a researcher at Carlos III University (Madrid).
Since the Kinect was released, he has been one of the first ones to publish source code and demo applications showing the potential of the Kinect for computer vision applications. His opensource software RGBDemo has become very popular among the Kinect community and is being used in various computer vision labs and companies around the world.
Nicolas Tisserand
Previously lead developer, software architect, tools maintainer and systems administrator at a French DJ Software Shop, Nicolas was, for more than 4 years, in charge of the design and implementation of several DJ applications, and gained priceless skills and experience in the cross-platform, real-time, end-user application development process, from the initial idea to the final boxed product.
History
Before equally co-founding the company, Nicolas Burrus & Nicolas Tisserand collaborated on numerous projects. First, throughout the entire course of their Computer Engineering School, then in its research lab and finally during their stay at Siemens Corporate Research. Their respective professional roads then split up when one went on to pursue its PhD thesis, while the other chose to leave the academia for the software editing business.
They now rejoined on the same professional project and are taking advantage of their complementary experiences to achieve the concretization of their shared vision.