Annabelle Gouze was born in France in 1975. She received the M.S. degree in 1998 in computer vision and the Ph.D. degree in 2002 from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. From September 1998 until december 2002, she was research and teaching assistant in the I3S Laboratory at Sophia Antipolis. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the quincunx lifting scheme for still image compression. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher on the TRICTRAc project, founded by the Wallonne's district at the Communications ans Remote Sensing laboratory (UCL). Her research is focus on the active contour video segmentation.