Biography

I am a researcher in computer science, specialized in 3D computer graphics. I am currently a Senior Director and Senior Principal Research Scientist at Adobe Research, leading Adobe Research France. I was previously the founder and head of the Computer Graphics Group at Telecom Paris and Chief Scientist at Allegorithmic. I am also professor at Ecole Polytechnique. I am currently on leave from my professorship at Telecom Paris.

Affiliations:

• Adobe Research,
• Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• CG Group, IDS Department, LTCI, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Professional experience:

• Since 2023: Senior Director, Adobe Research France
• Since 2021: Director of Adobe Research Paris
• Since 2017: Professor (part-time) in Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
• Since 2013: Full Professor (on leave since 2019) in Computer Science, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France.
• 2019-2021: Director of 3DI Research at Adobe
• 2016/2019: Chief Scientist at Allegorithmic.
• 2014/2016: Consultant at Allegorithmic.
• 2008/2013: Associate Professor in Computer Science, Telecom Paris, Paris, France.
• 2007/2008: Associate Researcher in Computer Science, CG Lab, TU Berlin, Germany.
• 2004/2007: Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, INRIA, University of Bordeaux, France.
• 2004/2008: Regular invited researcher, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Education:

• HDR, Computer Science, University Paris XI, 2012
• PhD, Computer Science, University of Bordeaux, 2007
• MSc, Computer Science, University of Bordeaux, 2004

Awards:

• Best Poster Award (ACM I3D 2020)
• Best Paper Award (Shape Modeling International 2017)
• Best Paper Award (Shape Modeling International 2016)
• Second Place Winner of the Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS High Performance Graphics 2015)
• Best Paper Award (IEEE 3DUI 2015)
• Top 10% Paper Award (IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2014)
• Best Poster Award (Symposium on Geometry Processing 2012)
• Dirk Bartz Prize Honorable Mention for Visual Computing in Medicine (Eurographics 2011)
• Gunter Enderle Award (Best Paper) at Eurographics 2006)
• Best Student Paper Award (Eurographics 2006)
  
• Best Paper Award AFIG (French Computer Graphics Conference 2004)
  

Research

My research areas focus on 3D Computer Graphics, with a special interest in Modeling and Rendering efficiently 3D data, including:

• shape analysis, from spatial to statistical methods, with application to recognition, interactive modeling and rendering. I have a particular interest in 3D shape approximation
• geometry capture, processing, editing (see also my older work on interactive shape and appearance editing of large 3D models)
• real-time image and synthesis (see for instance my work on real time tessellation)
• global illumination (see for instance my work on point-based global illumination)
• GPU programming and graphics data structures

For more information, see my publications, my Google Scholar profile and my YouTube channel. See also a recent siminar (in French) I gave at College de France.

Graduated PhD Students:

• Malik Boughida (now at Dassault Systèmes)
• Bert Buchholz (now at TU Delft)
• Stephane Calderon (now at Coventor)
• Noura Faraj (now professor at Université de Montpellier)
• Alban Gauthier (now at INRIA)
• Thierry Guillemot (now at University Paris Descartes)
• Emilie Guy (now at Dynamixyz)
• Matthias Holländer (now at NVIDIA)
• Jing Huang
• Adrien Kaiser (now at Adobe Research)
• Hélène Legrand (now at Apple)
• Thibault Lescoat (now at now at Dassault Systèmes)
• Gilles Laurent (now at Dassault Systemes)
• Elie Michel (now at Adobe Research)
• Sylvain Rousseau (now at Dassault Systemes)
• Leila Schemali (now at Technicolor)
• Jérémie Schertzer (now at Adobe Research)
• Jean-Marc Thiery (now professor at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
• Guillaume Vialaneix (now at Autodesk)
• Tong Zhao (now at now at Dassault Systèmes)

Chair:

• HPG 2022, Program Co-chair
• EGSR 2019 Papers Co-Chair
• SGP 2018 Conference Co-Chair
• EGSR 2012 Co-Conference Chair
• HPG 2012 Conference Co-Chair
• SIGGRAPH 2012 Student Research Competition (SRC)
• Web3D 2011 Program Chair

Program Committee Member:

• SIGGRAPH (2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024)
• SIGGRAPH Asia (2012, 2017, 2018)
• EUROGRAPHICS (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021)
• EGSR (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024)
• SGP (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Shape Modeling International (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018)
• Graphics Interface 2016
• High Performance Graphics (2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024)
• Geometric Modeling and Processing (2010, 2011, 2012)
• I3D (2018, 2019)
• VMV 2011
• VAST 2011
• Web3D (2011, 2012)
• 3DPVT (2010, 2011, 2012)
• PVC 2010
• SMVC 2010

Acquired grants:

• AllegoRI (ANR Joint Laboratory)
• Papaya (BPI/DGE, Ubisoft, CNRS, CEA, UPEM)
• Harvest4D (European Project)
• REVERIE (European Project)
• 3DLife (European Project)
• iSpace&Time (ANR)
• MediaGPU (ANR)
• KidPocket (ANR)
• FETUS (ANR)
• CeCiL (ANR)
• Chaire Imaginaire (Dassault Systeme, Ubisoft, Orange Labs, Peugeot-Citroen)
• Parallel Geometry Processing (EDF)
• Light-weight scene analysis (Ayotle)
• ACTE (ANSES)

Publications

Filters:
All Recent Selected
Modeling Rendering Vision Interaction Bioengineering
3D Shape Approximation Subdivision & Tessellation Cages & Coordinates Surface Reconstruction
Real-Time Rendering Ray & Path Tracing Point-Based Global Illumination

Software & Resources

Research apps and source codes:

• Broxy: reference implementation of our Bounding Proxies. Download on the project page
• UniQuant: reference implementation of our quantization scheme for unit vector sets. Download on the project page.
• BCD: reference implementation of our Bayesian Collaborative Denoiser for Monte Carlo Rendering. Download on the project page.
• DHS: reference implementation of our Double Hierarchies for Monte Carlo Importance Sampling. Download on the project page.
• SQEM: a standalone implementation of our Spherical Quadric Error Metric (a.k.a. SQEM). Download on the project page.
• SimSelect: an interactive system for intelligent selection on surface meshes. Download on the project page.
• Phong Tessellation: a real-time visually smooth mesh tessellation operator running on GPU. Download on the project page.
• GPU Subdivision: a real-time mesh subdivision kernel running on GPU. Download on the project page.
• GeoBrush: an interactive app for geometry cloning and transfer. Download on the project page.
• SAO: a very fast method for screen-space ambient occlusion. Download on the project page.

Small tools:

• qMini: a minimal QT-based OpenGL app. Beta (OpenGL2.0/QT4). An old version for OpenGL1.2 is also available here
• gMini: a minimal code to display a mesh in OpenGL. Last version on google code - Beta (OpenGL 1.2) - Beta SL (OpenGL 2.0)
• web-gMini: a simple WebGL version of gMini and qMini, allowing to load a 3D file and vvisualize it right in the browser. Uses Three.js. Run it here.
• pMini: a minimal binary point set (point+normal) viewer in OpenGL. Beta (OpenGL 1.2)
• grid2mesh: a minimal volumetric grid (in/out label) mesher. Beta

Old stuff:

• CoTeX: a plugin for PointShop 3D which implements the constructive texturing technique.Download on the project page

Data:

• 3D Point Sets: a few point sets acquired during our research project on 3D capture. Link to the download page
• 3DLife 3D Scenes: two 3D environments designed for the 3DLife project. Download.
• Reverie 3D Scenes: anvironments designed for the Reverie project. Download.
• Medical 3D Models: fetal and mother numerical models from our FEMONUM project. Database.
• SBIR Benchmark: our benchmark data set for sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR). Download.

Activites

• Founder and Director of Adobe Research France
• Founder and leader of the computer graphics group at Telecom ParisTech.
• Founder and Director of the Allegorithmic Research.
• Associate Editor for CGF (Journal of the Eurographics Association, 2010-2013). Guest Editor for CG&A (2011)
• Co-founder and co-head of the FabLab of Telecom ParisTech

Teaching

• Rendering: Theory and Practice (INF584), Winter, Master degree, Ecole Polytechnique
• Point Clouds and 3D Modeling (SI954), Winter, Master MVA, ENS Paris-Saclay.