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 [+]

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 [+]

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 [+]

Christophe Lino

Virtual cinematography of flying vehicles

PostDoc

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2020/01 - 2022/01

Former Interns [+]

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