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Visual Worlds
: Temporal Analysis, Animation and Authoring
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Members
Our team in 2019
Permanent Researchers
Marie-Paule Cani
Creative AI
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Vicky Kalogeiton
Deep learning for Video Understanding
Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Damien Rohmer
(Vista team leader)
Computer Animation & 3D Modeling
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
External collaborator
Renaud Chabrier
Motion drawing and perception, digital animation techniques
Scientific illustrator and director,
PhD (Art and Design)
Associated researcher at LIX
Invited Professor
James Gain
University of Cape Town
2023/05 - 2023/07
Administrative assistant
Jessica Gameiro
PostDocs
Xi Wang
Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton
Funding from ANR WhyBehindScenes
2023/02 - 2025/01
Jiong Chen
Real-time atmospheric simulation effects
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
Funding from Uber chair in Integrated Urban Mobility
2022/09 - 2023/09
Engineer
Pascal Guehl
Research Engineer on the Matisse Software
2023/04 - 2024/03
PhD
Eduardo Alvarado
Groups of humans and animals in natural environments: a multi-scale approach
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
PhD funded from H2020 ITN CLIPE Project
2020/10 - 2023/10
Yasser Benigmim
Domain Adaption of Deep Neural Networks for structured prediction tasks
Supervisors: Stéphane Lathuilière (Telecom Paris), Slim Essid (Telecom Paris), Vicky Kalogeiton
Collaboration with Telecom Paris
2021/10 - 2024/10
Tara Butler
Creative AI: Towards a smart 3D authoring system for the visual exploration of scientific models.
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Renaud Chabrier
PhD funded from Hi Paris! Creative AI project
2022/10 - 2025/10
Théo Cheynel
Video-Based Synthesis and Editing of 3D Animated Humanoid Characters Preserving Physically-Based Constraints
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
CIFRE PhD with Kinetix
2022/10 - 2025/10
Robin Courant
The Why of a Filmmaker
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton, Marc Christie (Inria Rennes)
2022/10 - 2025/10
Thanos Delatolas
Scaling up video annotation towards deeper video understanding
Supervisors: Dim P. Papadopoulos (DTU), Vicky Kalogeiton
Collaboration Denmark Technical University
2022/10 - 2025/10
Nicolas Dufour
Image and video editing using generative models
Supervisors: David Picard (Ecole des Ponts), Vincent Lepetit (Ecole des Ponts), Vicky Kalogeiton
Collaboration with Ecole des Ponts
2021/10 - 2024/10
David-Henri Garnier
Interactive 3D Modeling of Evolutionary and Emergent Bio-Inspired Shapes
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer
CIFRE PhD with Dassault Systèmes
2020/10 - 2023/10
Arnaud Gueze
Complex interior scene reconstruction from sparse multimodal data
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
CIFRE PhD with Homiwoo
2023/04 - 2026/03
Ariel Kwiatkowski
Scenario and interaction-ready agents
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Vicky Kalogeiton, Julien Pettré (Inria Rennes)
PhD funded from H2020 ITN CLIPE Project
2020/10 - 2023/10
Maud Lastic
Visual simulation and authoring of consistent volcanic phenomena
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
Polytechnicien grant funding
2019/10 - 2022/12
Leo Milecki
Data-driven methods for renal transplantation
Supervisors: Maria Vakalopoulou (CentraleSupelec), Marc-Olivier Timsit (Necker Hospital), Vicky Kalogeiton
Collaboration with CentraleSupelec
2020/03 - 2023/02
Jiayi Wei
Novel representations for surface Modeling and Analysis
Supervisors: Pooran Memari (GeomeriX), Damien Rohmer
PhD partially funded from IP Paris AI Program
2020/10 - 2023/10
Interns and Visitors
Paul Boursin
Master 2 MPRI : Deep-RL for physically simulated Homo Heidelbergensis
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
2023/04 - 2023/09
Gorazd Dimitrov
Master 1 MPRI : Real-time high quality meshing of skeleton-based implicit surfaces
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
2023/04 - 2023/06
Former team members
Former Visitors
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James Gain
Invited Professor
University of Cape Town
2022/04 - 2022/07
Pierre Poulin
Invited Professor
Université de Montréal
2022/03 - 2022/05
Nefeli Andreou
PhD (Visitor)
University of Cyprus
Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/09 - 2023/12
Former PhDs
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Pauline Olivier
Dynamic sketches : Hierarchical modeling of complex and time-evolving scenes
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2019/10 - 2022/03
Current position: PostDoc, Université de Strasbourg
Thomas Buffet
Field-based approaches for the collision-free animation of layered and dynamic clothing
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
2017/10 - 2021/01
Current position: Engineer 2K
Pierre Ecormier-Nocca
Authoring consistent, animated ecosystems : Efficient learning from partial data
PhD + PostDoc
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2017/10 - 2020/12
Current position: PostDoc TU Wien
Former PostDocs
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Christophe Lino
Virtual cinematography of flying vehicles
PostDoc
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
2020/01 - 2022/01
Former Interns
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Tim Scheller
Master 2 : Data-guided animated virtual model of growing plants and mushrooms
University of Applied Science in Cologne
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
2022/09 - 2023/03
Ekaterina Borisova
Bachelor 3A : Interactive Design with Physarum Model
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, David-Henri Garnier
2023/01 - 2023/03
Vilius Tubinas
Bachelor 3A : Reinforcement learning-based locomotion on uneven terrain
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Ariel Kwiatkowski
2023/01 - 2023/03
Laurianne Bertrand
Master 2 : Sketching Animations of Organic Shapes
IP Paris
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
2022/03 - 2022/09
Vincent Bonczak
Master 2 : Multi-resolution sketches: Zooming into scientific illustrations with unlimited levels of details
ENS Paris-Saclay
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Renaud Charbier
2022/03 - 2022/09
Maika Edberg
Bachelor 3A : Audio-visual understanding of human interaction in videos
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Lucien Walewski
Bachelor 3A : Video summarization with multimodal understanding of human interactions
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Lazar Milikic
Bachelor 3A : Spatial-Temporal Action Recognition with Transformers
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Elouan Gros
Bachelor 3A : Correlation between animal displacement and terrain steepness
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2022/01 - 2022/03
Ewen Collin
Licence 2 : Interactive online demonstrator of Velocity Skinning
Institut Villebon Georges Charpak
Supervisor: Damien Rohmer
2021/03 - 2021/05
Adrien Cances
Master 1 : Self-supervised learning of spatio-temporal video embeddings for automatic human interactions detection
Ecole des Ponts
Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton
2021/03 - 2021/07