Lucas Mercier

PhD student · LIO, École de technologie supérieure

Montreal, Canada

I am a PhD student at the LIO laboratory (Laboratoire d'innovation ouverte en technologies de la santé) at ÉTS Montréal, working at the intersection of computer vision and biomechanics. My research focuses on human pose estimation and its application to markerless motion analysis. I also developed some tools, like a pose estimation framework to address the reproducibility problem deep-learning tasks.

Research interests

Computer visionHuman pose estimationBiomechanicsMarkerless motion analysisDeep learning

Publications

Effect of markers in training dataset for markerless applications in biomechanics

Mercier, L., Cresson, T., Gervais, S., Mezghani, N., & Vázquez, C.

Preprint · 2025 Preprint SSRN →DOI →

Published abstracts

Framework for the application of markerless motion capture to biomechanics

Mercier, L., Cresson, T., Mezghani, N., & Vázquez, C.

Multidisciplinary Biomechanics Journal · 2025 DOI →

Marker-less motion capture accuracy in children with cerebral palsy and typically developing children

Naaïm, A., Rozaire, J., Mercier, L., Begon, M., & Cherni, Y.

Multidisciplinary Biomechanics Journal · 2025 DOI →

Conference presentations

Using knee kinesiography to train markerless pose estimation models for first-line kinematic assessment in knee osteoarthritis

Mercier, L., Marois, B., Fuentes, A., Cagnin, A., Cresson, T., & Vazquez, C.

OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis · April 2026

AcceptedPoster

Evaluation of 3D marker-less motion capture precision in upper limb children movement

Naaim, A., Rozaire, J., Mercier, L., Duprey, S., & Begon, M.

International Society of Biomechanics · Stockholm, Sweden · 2025

Oral

Étude de l'impact de la présence des marqueurs pour l'estimation de la pose humaine

Mercier, L., Cresson, T., Mezghani, N., & Vázquez, C.

92e Congrès de l'Acfas · Montréal, Canada · 2025

Oral

Awards & grants

2025

Bourse de collaboration de recherche — Société de Biomécanique

Visiting PhD student · IBHGC

2024

Excellence grant for scientific communication activities

ÉTS Library

Teaching

GT411 — Digital Imaging Lab instructor · designed labs & evaluations
Fall 2024 · Winter 2025 · Fall 2025 · ÉTS Montréal
Mini Lightroom — contrast, curves, color spaceRoad sign detection — classical CV, no deep learningReal-time background removal — non-DL segmentation

News

Winter 2026 Visiting PhD Student at Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak
Sep 2024 Lab instructor for GT411 — Digital Imaging, ÉTS Montréal.
May 2024 Recipient of the excellence grant for scientific communication activities — ÉTS Library.

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