"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)
Short bio
Current position
2024- : Associate Professor, Nantes University, CS Department.
Past positions
2023-2024 : Assistant Prof. (ATER), Nantes University, CS Department.
2020-2022 : Starting Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique / IP Paris
2017-2020 : R&I Engineer, Télécom Paris / IP Paris
2015-2016 : Assistant Prof. (ATER), University of Rennes
2013-2015, 2016-2017 : Postdoctoral Researcher, Inria Rennes & Grenoble
Education
2023 : "Préparation aux agrégations", CS track (ENS Rennes)
2013 : PhD in Computer Science (Inria / University of Rennes)
2009 : MS in Visual Computing & Interaction (University of Rennes)
2007 : BS in Mathematics & Computer Science (South-Britany University)
Highlights
Jan. 2024
I am happy to share that I have been hired as an associate professor in the CS department (PRAG) of Nantes Université, starting from 2024.
Jun. 2023
I obtained the grade of associate professor in CS (professeur agrégé) in the french education system, and will join Nantes Université as an Assistant Professor (ATER) in 2023-2024 to fullfil my tenure.
Sep. 2020
Our paper "Real-Time Cinematic Tracking of Targets in Dynamic Environments" has been accepted at Graphics Interface 2021.
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.
Sep. 2018
Our inverse-lighting paper "Directing the Photography" has been presented at Pacific Graphics. (see publications tab)
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 (C++) is available, with examples of use. ToricCam enables solving viewpoint computation problem i s a very powerful and elegant manner, especially for shooting a single of a pair of targets. 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 Patents
Generating Enriched Light Sources Utilizing Surface-Centric Representations.
C. Lino, T. Boubekeur, A. Salvi, S. Deguy. [link]
Modifying Light Sources within Three-dimensional Environments by Utilizing Control Models Based on Three-dimensional Interaction Primitives. T. Boubekeur, C. Lino, S. Deguy, A. Salvi. [link]
US Patent Application n° 20220148257.
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. [link]
US Patent n° 20130135315.Selected Academic Projects
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.