"The fact is that my brain goes out to play. That’s what creativity is — intelligence having fun. Imagination is more important than Knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." (A. Einstein)
Current affiliations
Ecole Polytechnique / IP Paris, 2020-
Uber Chair "Integrated Urban Mobility", 2020-
Past affiliations
Télécom Paris / IP Paris, 2017-2020
Allegorithmic Research (Paris), 2017-2020
University Rennes 1, 2015-2016
Inria Grenoble, 2013-2014
Inria Rennes, 2010-2013
Newcastle University (UK), 2010
Highlights
Feb. 2021
(new position available) Master Thesis "Example-based suggestion system for virtual film prototyping"
Feb. 2020
Our paper "Real-time Anticipation of Occlusions for Automated Camera Control in Toric Space" has been accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum, proceedings of Eurographics 2020. (see publications tab)
Feb. 2020
Since Feb. 1st, 2020, I am on a new position at LIX / Ecole Polytechnique. I am involved in the Uber - X chair on "Integrated Uban Mobility", held by Prof. Claudia D'Ambrosio. In this context, I joined Prof. Marie-Paule Cani, member of Académie des Sciences, and the Geometry & Visual Computing group led by Prof. Damien Rohmer.
Sep. 2018
Our inverse-lighting paper "Directing the Photography" has been presented at Pacific Graphics. (see publications tab)
Oct. 2017
I joined the Computer Graphics Group of Prof. Tamy Boubekeur (Telecom Paris) and the Allegorithmic Research & Innovation lab.
May 2016
The materials of our Eurographics Tutorial on Algorithms and Techniques for Virtual Camera Control are available (see tutorial materials).
Sep 2015
The first release of the ToricCam library is available, with examples of use. ToricCam enables solving viewpoint computation, in it is very good for one-shots and two-shots. It relies on our 2D Manifold surface [Lino & Christie, 2012], as well as it provides the core source code required to use our Toric Space viewpoint representation [Lino & Christie, 2015]
(editing: H.-Y. Wu; voice over: H.-Y. Wu)
Showcase of our SolidFrame tool coupled with SolidAnim's "Mr Melies" marker-less tracking device
Inria @ Siggraph 2015
Distinctions
ANR pioneering project, for the 10th anniversary of ANR. CineCitta JCJC project (2012-2016), lead by Dr M. Christie
"Best innovation of the year", SolidAnim/Inria, Genie Awards of Paris Image Digital Summit 2017
Selected Industrial Partnerships
Selected Academic Projects
Selected Patents
Methods, System and Software Program for Shooting and Editing a Film
Comprising at least One Image of a 3D Computer-generated Animation
W. Bares, C. Lino, M. Christie, R. Ranon, US Patent n° 20130135315, May 30th 2013.
Most Prominent Contributions
Intuitive and Efficient Camera Control with the Toric Space [hal] [acm]
C. Lino, M. Christie
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, Vol. 34 (4), pp. 82:1-82:12, 2015, ACM New York, NY, USA.
The Director’s Lens: An Intelligent Assistant for Virtual Cinematography [hal] [acm] [patent] [technology transfer]
C. Lino, M. Christie, R. Ranon, W. Bares
In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
A Real-time Cinematography System for Interactive 3D Environments [hal] [acm]
C. Lino, M. Christie, F. Lamarche, G. Schofield, P. Olivier.
In ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2010, Madrid, Spain.