About

Short bio

Since 2024, I am an associate professor (professeur agrégé) in Computer Science at Nantes University and member of the IPI research team (Image, Perception, Interaction) of LS2N. I was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique (in the former GeoVic  group, now VISTA), at Télécom Paris (in Prof. Tamy Boubekeur's Computer Graphics group) and at Inria (in Marc Christie's Virtual Cinematography group and the former M.P. Cani's Imagine group). I completed a PhD in Computer Science in 2013 at Inria Rennes, under the supervision of Prof. Kadi Bouatouch and Dr. Marc Christie. I have also been a R&D engineer in 2010 (8 months) on the FP7 European Network of Excellence IRIS (Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling), between Newcastle University (UK) and Inria Rennes (France). 

Teaching interests:

• Data structures, algorithms,  programming

• Fundamental CS:  logics,  combinatorial circuits

• Computer Graphics : rendering, 3D animation

• HCI : mobile applications with Android

• Education : preparation for teaching recruitment competitions

For more details on my current and past classes, please visit the Teaching section.

Former research activities

My research agenda is at the crossroads of Arts, Computer Graphics, AI, and User Interaction. I focus on problems related to assisting users in their tasks within the 3D pipeline (controlling cameras, lighting conditions, the film editing process, and rendering images) for virtual worlds or for the real world (e.g. aerial cinematography with UAVs). This drives me making connections with Operational Research, Machine Learning, or Multimedia problems (e.g. film annotation, viewpoint database exploration or video summarization).

Research interests:

• Virtual Camera(s) Control 

• Virtual Film Prototyping, Editing, and Summarization

• Aerial Cinematography (unmanned aerial vehicles)

• Virtual Light(s) Control / Inverse-rendering

• Virtual Light Source Models

• Knowledge Formalisation (cinematographic & photographic conventions)

  • Intermediate Representations / Search Spaces

  • Dimensionality Reduction

• Learning-based Cinematography

For a deeper insight into my research work, please visit the Research section. 

Former PhD Students

• Ludovic Burg (2019-2022) "Real-time Camera Control in Toric Space". In co-supervision with Dr Marc Christie  and Pr. Franck Multon (INRIA / Univ. Rennes).

Former Bachelor / Master Students

• Robin Courant (March-Oct. 2021) "Understanding the movie style or what else can we learn from a movie?". MS thesis, in co-supervision with Vicky Kalogeiton (Ecole Polytechnique) and Marc Christie (Univ. Rennes).

• Clément sterlin (Oct-Dec 2020). B.S Project (Ecole Polytechnique)

• Sunho Hwang (Oct-Dec 2020). B.S Project (Ecole Polytechnique)

• Vaynee Sungeelee (Feb-Jun 2020) "Expressive overview of a fleet of VTOL vehicles flying a 3D Scene". MS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes (research).

• Engineering project "MatCap Decomposition (Appearance Editing)"  (May-Jun 2019): 2 M.S. students, Telecom Paris (engineering) 

• Engineering project "Inverse-lighting"  (May-Jun 2018): 4 M.S. students, Telecom Paris (engineering)

• Florian Brillat (Jan-Jun 2017) "Assisted lighting design from photographic rules": M.S., Univ. Limoges (engineering)