SB
Sanae Boutarfass
About

From vision research
to product in prod.

10 years of coding at the intersection of research, industry and product.

I started in 2015 with applied computer vision and deep learning at a research lab in La Rochelle. My first IEEE papers were on B&W image colorization and face recognition in the visible+infrared domain.

After 4 years, I gradually moved to web development — first out of curiosity, then because I particularly enjoy the product rhythm: watching a design become a commit, become a feature used by real people in a matter of weeks.

Today I work at Okeenea on Evelity, an urban accessibility app for visually impaired / deaf / mobility-restricted users, as well as on Evelity Vision, a visual SLAM indoor localization system that I designed and shipped in 8 months.

Technically, I'm as comfortable with industrial Java/Spring as with data-heavy Python or low-level C++. On the front side it's React, TypeScript, Vite. I value tested code, constructive reviews, demanding CI pipelines — not as dogma, but because they save time over the long run.

Outside work, I do a lot of side-projects (see /en/projects), often as an excuse to learn a new technology or automate something tedious.

Education

Academic path

Master's in Computer Science — Images and Systems
Aix-Marseille University · specialty Digital Imaging
2013–2015
Vocational Bachelor's in Computer and Software Systems
IUT Arles · specialty Digital Imaging
2012–2013
Two-Year Technical Degree in Computer Science
École Supérieure de Technologie · specialty Database Administration
2010–2012
Publications

Academic research

4 computer-vision papers published in IEEE and EUVIP conferences between 2018 and 2020, co-authored with Bernard Besserer.

IEEE IPAS 2020

Improving CNN-based colorization of B&W photographs

IEEE MCNA 2020

Colour palette as support for CNN colorization

EUVIP 2019

Convolutional autoencoder for discriminating handwriting styles

EUVIP 2018

Using Visible+NIR information for CNN face recognition