Senior Researcher, DR1 Dév. Durable MTECT.
PhD Geographic Information Sciences.
LASTIG, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG.
Ex GEOVIS Team leader/Ex LASTIG Co-Dir.
@SidonieChristophe@piaille.fr @sidochristophe.bsky.social http://twitter.com/SidoChristophe
Short Bio
My research works concern the design of methods of 2D/3D (carto)graphic representation and interactive exploration of nD geospatial data, enabling the interpretation and the understanding of spatio-temporal phenomena on earth, through visual (or non visual)-spatial thinking. This implies an interdisciplinary approach between geographic information sciences, human-computer interaction and computer graphics.
GI Sciences & Systems, Geovisualization, Map design, Visual rendering, Graphic Semiotics, Perception, Spatial Immersion.
Blog Binaire: La Géovisualisation, kesako? (1/3); Les cartes c'est trop stylé! (2/3); Tout est question de point de vue (3/3).
L'Eléphant Hors-Série Carto, N°29 Juillet 2020: "La 3D pour les mal-voyants"
2023
News: Part-time work (Jan 23 - ...)
60% - Chargée de Mission "Numérique & Environnement, Climat & Villes", Secteur Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (SHS - A5)
Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR). Direction Générale de la Recherche & Innovation (DGRI), Service de la Stratégie Recherche et Innovation (SSRI).
Advisor"Environment, Urban Climate and sustainable development" at the Social Sciences and Humanities Sector, Department Strategies of Research and Innovation, French Ministry of Higher Education & research.
40% - Directrice de Recherche, UMR LASTIG, Université Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG.
Interview AFP Factuel (Aug. 23): "Des cartes météo pour "manipuler" l'opinion autour du réchauffement climatique ? - Attention aux conclusions trompeuses d'un montage de cartes météo de journaux télévisés." (article de Marine Delrue, AFP-Factuel) Fil Twitter.
PhD offers right now! "Visualisation de scénarios simulés de submersion marine" BRGM/LASTIG (MétéoFrance), Projet ANR ORACLES.
ANR ECOCIM Project is starting! (March 23) "Eco-design of district & City Information Models / Maquettes CIM pour l'éco-conception des quartiers " ENPC, Mines Paris tech, EIVP, LASTIG: Lien LinkedIn; Lien Twitter
Alexandre Mielniczek' PhD is starting! "Improving neigborhood LCA tools thanks to geospatial data " w/ A. Feraïlle, C. Roux (ENPC, Mines Paris Tech), F. Jacquinod (LASTIG).
2022
GDR CNRS MAGIS, Action "UrbaClim": Visualisation de données climatiques, 1er Avril 2022, ISC-PIF, Paris.
Journée de la Recherche IGN-ENSG: Markie is presenting: Interactive Tactile representation of street intersections (@ACTIVMap project), 31 Mars 2022, Champs sur Marne.
Journées Urba Risk Lab: Participation Table ronde sur l'interdisciplinarité, 28-29 Mars 2022, Champs sur Marne.
Journées du GDR CNRS MAGIS: Chantier "Valorisation & Expertise en IG", 21-23 Mars 2022, Grenoble
ANR ORACLES (BRGM, Météo France, LASTIG, KEYROS) is starting!!
[Journals]:
Christophe, S., Gautier, J., Chapron, P., Riley, L., Masson, V. 3D Geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography
Christophe, S., *Laurent, M., *Mermet, S., Touya, G. Neural Map Style Transfer Exploration with GANs. International Journal of Cartography, Vol.8(1).
2021
Journées inter GDRs MAGIS, MADICS et IG-RV "Observation 3D: outils et verrous" @IGN Saint Mandé / Géoroom [24-25 Nov. 2021]
Zürich Lab visits (AIMCI Travel Grant - @UGustaveEiffel): Institute for Interactive Technologies (FHNW) & Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA), Universität of Zürich (UZH) [Nov. 2021]
Invited Talk: "Revisite de la sémiologie graphique : expressivité de la couleur et de la texture" - Héritage de Bertin en cartographie et data visualisation. @Journée Bertin organisée par ANR DESIGNSHS, Laboratoire Graphique de Bertin, Archives Nationales, Paris. [14 Oct. 2021]
ICC2021 accepted papers:
How do users interact with VGE? Users’ behavior evaluation in participatory urban planning. Chassin, T., Ingensand, J., Touya, G. Christophe, S. (Full paper)
COVID-19 Geoviz for spatio-temporal structures detection. Gautier J., Lobo M.-J., Fau B., Drugeon A., Christophe S., Touya G. (Full paper)
Cluttering Reduction for Interactive Navigation and Visualization of Historical Images. Paiz-Reyes, E., Brédif, M. Christophe, S. (Extended abstract)
Mapping road crossings for visually impaired people. Jiang, Y., Lobo, M.-J., Christophe, S., Jouffrais, C. (abstract)
Invited Talk: VGE for urban micro-climate analysis at larger scales. @Virtual Geographic Environment (VGE), 28th CPGIS Annual Conference 2021 –GISciences for a resilient society, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. [8 Aug. 2021]
ANR ORACLES accepted! "Toward the integration of ensemble marine flooding forecasts for decision-making under uncertainty: a pathway through production, translation and visualization challenges" with BRGM, Meteo France and Keyros. [20/07/2021]
Invited Talk: Urban Climate Geovisualization @AGILE 2021 Pre-conference Workshop CyberCartography "a Beyond State-of-The-art Role of Geovisualization in the Understanding of the world" [June 2021]
Journée VISU 2021: Participation au panel de perspectives! [June 2021]
I become Vice-Head of LASTIG Lab. [May 2021]
Séminaire invité: Géovisualisation @Les retours du Jeudi, UMR DYNAFOR, Jan. 2021.
Associate Researcher AAU!!
[Intern offers] LASTIG/GEOVIS: https://www.umr-lastig.fr/geovis/
GDR CNRS MAGIS: Webinar 3D
2020
Article: La 3D pour les malvoyants, L'éléphant Magazine, revue de culture générale, Hors-série Carto "Les clés carto pour comprendre le monde", Juillet 2020.
Markie Jiang (PhD) coming @GeoVis! 'Cognitive model of interaction without vision for tactile exploration of 3D maps'! ActivMap Project.
Talk IEEEVIS 2020: Gautier J., Brédif M., Christophe S.. Co-visualization of air temperature & urban data for visual exploration.
Paper IVAPP 2020: Geovisualization: multidimensional exploration of the territory
Papers ISPRS 2020:
Lobo M.-J., Christophe S. Opportunities & challenges for Augmented Reality situated geographical visualization.
* Paiz-Reyes E., Brédif M., Christophe S. Geometric distortion of historical images for 3D visualization.
*Gautier J., Christophe S., Brédif M. Visualizing 3D climate data in urban 3D models.
*Perrin O., Christophe S., Jacquinod F., Payrastre O. Visual analysis of inconsistencies in hydraulic simulation data.
2019
Billet dans le Blog Binaire! "La Géovisualisation, kesako?" (1/3) -18/11; "Les cartes c'est trop stylé!" (2/3) - 16/12 ; Tout est question de point de vue (3/3).
Com à JFIGRV 2019: Rendu et représentation graphiques d'informations spatio-temporelles. (w/ M. Brédif). JF.IG.RV.2019 : Journées Françaises de l'Informatique Graphique et de la Réalité Virtuelle , 12-15 Nov. 2019, Marseille.
AMICI I-SITE FUTURE GRANT (2019_2021) leader - "Environmental urban data visualization for urban climate services & urban resilience" - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) - TU Delft- Wageningen University & Research (WUR) (appel incitatif à la mobilité et la coopération internationale 2019)(10/19).
GDR CNRS MAGIS - Webinar 3D co-organized w/ Myriam Servières & Gilles Gesquière: Thursdays at 12:30 (10/19).
ANR ACTIVmap project (2020-2024) accepted! Limos/Univ. Clermont-Ferrand, IRIT, IGN/LaSTIG, FeelObject.
Maria-Jesus Lobo coming @GeoVis! "Vis of spatio-temporal information in urban spaces" (01/12/19).
Jacques Gautier (UrCLIM post-doc) coming @GeoVis! Covisualization of climate/weather-prediction simulation & spatial data, ERA4CS URban CLIMate services (URCLIM project) Advances on Urban Climate Services (15/09/19).
Workshop ABS2019 "Abstraction, Scale & Perception" ICC 2019, Tokyo, Japan, (15/07/2019).
Paper: Exploring multiplexing tools for co-visualization in crisis units, Pierkot, C.,C., Sidonie; G. Jean François, ISCRAM 2019, 19-22 May 2019.
2018
Qhasem Safariallahkheili (PhD) coming! "Style exploration for 3D Geovisualization." (Dec. 2018).
Evelyn Paiz-Reyes (PhD) coming! "Image based rendering of large historical images collection." (Oct. 2018). ANR ALEGORIA.
Ecole Ete GDR CNRS MAGIS Geoviz, Aussois, 15 Octobre 2018: "Géovisualisation(s)".
ISPRS Technical Commission IV – Symposium 2018, Delft: Geovis and R&AR sessions we are organizing with Arzu Cöltekin (UZH)!! Follow us on Twitter #arvr2018 #geodelft #isprs_midterm2018
Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality - WG 9 : "3D urban geovisualization: in situ augmented and mixed reality experiments" . Video
Theme Session on Virtual & Augmented Reality: Technology, Design & Human Factors : "Underground visualization : Web-app, Virtual Reality, Ex Situ and In Situ Augmented Reality". Video
PhD Position at LaSTIG/GeoVIS - Style exploration & interpolation for 3D geovisualization with Mathieu Brédif (June 2018).
Post-doc: Co-visualization of meteo and spatial data for crisis management, ANR MapMuxing project: Christelle Pierkot joined the team!
Video: Geovisualization works from IGN-LASTIG, about 2D & 3D stylization, from MapStyle (IGN, Inria, IRIT) and Plu++ (IGN, EIVP) projects (2012-2016). (Présentation réalisée pour le séminaire interconnaissance I-SITE FUTURE, ENSG, 1-2 Février 2018).
2017
European project ERA4CS URban CLIMate services (UrClim) with Météo France, CNRS, IGN, RMI, FMI, KNMI, Meteo-Ro.
SIGGRAPH 2017: Nicolas Mellado, David Vanderhaeghe, Charlotte Hoarau, Sidonie Christophe, Mathieu Brédif, Loic Barthe. Constrained Palette-Space Exploration. ACM Trans. Graph. 36, 4, Article 0304 (July 2017), 14 pages. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3072959.3073650.
ICC 2017 Conference, Washington D.C., USA, July, 2-7, 2017 : Full Program
Texture generation for expressive rock drawing. Christophe S., Loi H., Brédif M., Lecordix F, Hurtut T.,Vergne R., Thollot J
Expressive map design: OGC SLD/SE++ extension for expressive map styles. Christophe S., Duménieu B., Masse A., Hoarau C., Ory J., Brédif M., Lecordix F., Mellado N., Turbet J., Loi H., Hurtut T., Vergne R. Vanderhaeghe D., Thollot J.
ICC 2017 Pre-conference Workshop Maps & Emotion: July, 1-2, Washington DC: Program (jointly organized by ICA Commissions on Art & Cartography, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization (CogVis), and Topographic Mapping) Debrief & photos: Day 1 and Day
Habilitation (HDR) defense: "Personnalisation des représentations cartographiques en géovisualisation : couleurs et styles" **Slides** et **Mémoire ** 30 Jan. St Mandé.
Décryptagéo 2017: Réinventons la carte! Slides Partie 1 et Slides Partie 2, 25 Janvier 2017, ENSG.
2016
ISPRS WG IV/9: Geovisualization, augmented and virtual reality, co-chair w/ Arzu Cöltekin (Uni. Zürich)
Paper 3DGeoInfo Athens, Greece, 20-21 Oct. 3D Geovisualization & Stylization to Manage Comprehensive and Participative Local Urban Plans, M. Brasebin, S. Christophe, F. Jacquinod, A. Vinesse and H. Mahon Plu++ Prototype
Séminaire Litto3D (SHOM - SeaTech Week) Géovisualisation réaliste des hauteurs de marée... 12 Oct. Brest.
MapStyle project: Closing seminar, Sept. 29 2016, 2-6pm, IGN-France, Saint-Mandé, France.
Futur en Seine 2016 (MapStyle), June, 9-12, Paris.
AGILE 2016 Talks accepted (MapStyle): Agile 2016 Workshop 'Code Loves Maps: Cartographically Oriented Programming Environments', 14 June 2016, Helsinki, Finland.
NPAR 2016 paper accepted (MapStyle): Map Style Formalization: rendering techniques extension for map design , NPAR 2016 , May, 8 2016, Lisboa, Portugal.
Plu++ Project: Training period of A. Vinesse "3D style model for 3D web applications of geovisualization: application to locan urban plans context"
MapStyle Talks & Map Exhibit: Journée de la Recherche 2016, We Love Maps exhibit, March, 24-25, at ENSG.
2015
ICA Cognitive Issues in Geovisualization: new TOF (2015-2019): chair: A.Griffin, co-chair: S. Christophe
Plu++ Project: "Vers un plan local d'urbanisme plus intelligible et plus participatif" w/ M. Brasebin (IGN/COGIT) & F. Jacquinod (EIVP) - start of the project and presentation at FNAU2015
Joint ICA-ISPRS GeoVIS'15 workshop "Rendering & Cognition with Images & Hybrid visualizations" (Oct. 1, 2015) during the ISPRS GeoSpatial Week 2015 (Chairs: Arzu Cöltekin and myself) -> Slides are here & Papers there
MapStyle project: Journée de la Recherche 2015, "Rendus stylisés en cartographie": 2015 March, 20th 2 p.m., ENSG.
ICC'2015 papers accepted:
Ory, J., S. Christophe, S.I. Fabrikant and B. Bucher . How do map readers recognize a topographic mapping style?
Touya, G., Christophe S., Hoarau C. Clutter and Map Legibility in Automated Cartography: a Research Agenda
Brasebin, M., E. Buard, S. Christophe and F. Pelloie. A system to apply cartographic practices on 3D renderings
Christophe, S., C. Hoarau, L. Boulanger, J. Turbet and D. Vanderhaeghe. Automatic rendering of a Cassini style,
Hoarau, C., S. Christophe and S. Mustière . Sliding from imagery realism to topographic abstraction,
2014
New PhD Student: Cécile Remy: Interactions between Access to Volontary Geographic Information & Access to Water Services (LATTS & IGN/COGIT) codir w/Sylvy Jaglin - Nov 2014
MapStyle project: New postdocs on the project: Antoine Masse (geovis of coastal area) & Bertrand Dumenieu (optimization of map quality) - Nov 2014
MapStyle project: looking for a postdoc: geovisualization of coastal area (graphic semiology, integration of heterogeneous data, temporal dynamics) - June 2014
Trainee: "Sémiologie graphique pour pour la représentation des dynamiques urbaines" w/ Cécile Rémy, M2 IG ENSG (co-advisor: Julien Perret) (March - Sept)
Trainee: "Sémiologie graphique et perception de modèles numériques 3D pour l'aménagement et l'urbanisme" w/ Florian Pelloie, M1 Géographie Paris 1 (co-advisor: Elodie Buard, Mickaël Brasebin) (March - June)
Conf:Cartocon 2014 Feb. 24-28, Olomouc, Czech Rep. Current issues about perception and cognition in map design processes (ICA Commission Cognitive Visualization)
MapStyle Project: Towards a Cassini style: methodology to automate Cassini renderings w/ Laurane Boulanger, M2 Carthagéo
Paper: "Current issues about perception and cognition in map design processes" accepted for Cartocon 2014
2013
CartoCognition group: Papers of Seminar at SAGEO 2013 Online!
Com: Couleurs : des peintures, des styles et des cartes! 34è Rencontre Nationale des Agences d'Urbanisme Sept, 12 (#34FNAU)
Paper: Expressive Map Design based on Pop Art: revisit of Semiology of Graphics? Online on Cartographic Perspectives Journal, w/ Charlotte Hoarau
Conf: ICC2013 August 25-30 at Dresden! (#iccDD2013).
MapStyle Project: Looking for a post-doc for the MAPSTYLE project (2013 May, 23)! See there.
CartoCognition group: Start of CartoCognition group, watch this! w/ Marlène Villanova-Oliver
TechConf: FROG 2013 Program online!
MapStyle Project: MAPSTYLE ANR Project begins (2012 Oct, 1st)... Teams of INRIA, IRIT, Descartes University and IGN aim at providing new expressive visual renderings in cartography.