VISTA Events and News

We participated to the discussion of the teaching & AI organized at Polytechnique. Vicky Kalogeiton, in collaboration with Michalis Vazirgiannis animated the discussion and presented a demonstration of the use of generative AI such as Chat-GPT in teaching context.

We are glad to start a collaboration with Homiwoo with the co-supervision of the PhD of Arnaud Gueze on the topic of "Reconstructing complex interior scenes from sparse multimodal data".

We wish the best to Vilius Tubinas and Ekaterina Borisova, third year bachelor students who finished their internship in our team. We congratulate Ekaterina Borisova for the presentation of her work to the GTMG workshop.

We are involved in helping the organization of the Hackathon about Sustainable and Ethical Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique. This hackathon is co-organized by our former Master student Tim Scheller.

We are welcoming Julia K. Melgare, first year PhD at PUCRS in Porto Alegre, who is visiting our team for three weeks to collaborate on human character animation.

We are glad to welcome Xi Wang who is starting his PostDoc with Vicky Kalogeiton on the ANR "WhyBehindScenes" after the obtention of his PhD at Inria Rennes.

Were are participating to the French Workshop on AI & Video Games in presenting the ongoing work from David-Henri Garnier about bio-inspired modeling, and the participation of Marie-Paule Cani to the round table on the link between research and game companies.

We received the good news that the ANR proposal MultiForm will be funded. In collaboration with collegues from IRIT Toulouse (Loic Barthe) and Loria (Cedric Zanni), we will develop novel field-based representation for complex 3D model animation.

Robin Courant received the Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention at ACCV 2022 for his work on FunnyNet: Audiovisual Learning of Funny moments in Videos done with Zhisong Liu (former PostDoc) and Vicky Kalogeiton. [tweet]

Jiayi Wei (VISTA and Geomerix) received the best paper award at the jFIG 2022 for her work on Robust-statistics Based Approach for Pointset Denoising. [tweet]

Theo Cheynel is joinging VISTA to start his PhD on "Video-based Generation and Edition of 3D Animated Humanoid Character Preserving Physical Constraints". His PhD is an industrial collaboration with Kinetix.

We will receive Nefeli Andreou in our team for three months from September the 21th to work on learning based character animation. Nefeli is a PhD student from the University of Cyprus, and a Early Stage Researcher part of the European ITN project CLIPE.

Our article on Generate Real-Time Characters Making their way through Dynamic Environments got a honorable best paper award at the Symposium on Computer Animation. This work is part of the European ITN project CLIPE.

Our work to Generate Real-Time Characters Making their way through Dynamic Environments co-authored by Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, and Marie-Paule Cani will be presented at the Symposium on Computer Animation on September 15th.

Our interdisciplinary research project on "3D simulation of paleolithic mobility" join with paleonthologists from Tautavel received a grant from CNRS Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives (MITI).

Vicky Kalogeiton will be part of a collaborative funded project APATE on automatic recognition of DeepFakes.

Vicky Kalogeiton receive a funding for her ANR Jeune Chercheur (ANR JCJC) project "WhyBehindScenes".

Marie-Paule Cani received the Tosiyasu Kunii Award by the Shape Modeling International committee.

The paper "Acceleration Skinning: Kinematics-Driven Cartoon Effects for Articulated Characters" co-authored by Niranjan Kalyanasudaram (Clemson), Damien Rohmer, and Victor Zordan (Clemson, Roblox) got the Michael Sweeney Award (Best Paper authored by a student) at Graphics Interface 2022.

We are welcoming James Gain (Cape Town University) as Invited Researcher in our team for three months.

Congratulation to Marie-Paule Cani who received the Distinguished Career Award from the Eurographics Association.

We are happy to welcome Pierre Poulin (Université de Montreal) as Invited Researcher in our team for three months.

David-Henri Garnier and Damien Rohmer received the Best Paper award at JFIG (Journées Francaises d'Informatique Graphique) for his work on "Growing Optimized Anistoropic Microstructure with Reaction/Diffusion".

Robin Courant, Christophe Lino, Marc Christie (University of Rennes), and Vicky Kalogeiton received the Best Paper Award at CVEU (ICCV workshop) for their work on "High-Level Features for Movie Style Understanding". Congratulations to them!