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Denis Poussart is a pioneer in the intersection of analog VLSI, computer vision, and robotics, with a career dedicated to building hardware that sees and thinks in real time. His foundational work in the late 1980s on 3-D sensing for industrial computer vision (32 citations) established early frameworks for automated inspection. Poussart’s most distinctive contributions lie in custom CMOS imager architectures that embed motion and edge computation directly on the focal plane. His 2002 design of an asynchronous, self-signaling pixel sensor (13 citations) innovated a way to correlate moving edges in time, dramatically reducing the data bottleneck for real-time vision. He further advanced this with a hexagonal sensor array (7 citations) that performed multiscale analog edge extraction on-chip, enabling high-resolution pattern recognition for robot guidance. Beyond the laboratory, Poussart applied these technologies to the forestry industry through the ATREF project (5 citations), bringing robotic automation to Canadian timber equipment. His mixed-signal VLSI architecture for real-time vision (8 citations) remains a landmark in the quest to offload complex perception from conventional processors to dedicated, energy-efficient hardware.