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Members

VISTA - Visual Worlds: Temporal Analysis, Animation and Authoring

Members

team 2019
Our team in 2019

Permanent Researchers

Marie-Paule Cani
Creative AI
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Marie-Paule Cani
Vicky Kalogeiton
Deep learning for Video Understanding
Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Vicky Kalogeiton
Damien Rohmer (Vista team leader)
Computer Animation & 3D Modeling
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Damien Rohmer

External collaborator

Renaud Chabrier
Motion drawing and perception, digital animation techniques
Scientific illustrator and director, PhD (Art and Design)
Associated researcher at LIX
Renaud Chabrier

Invited Professor

James Gain
University of Cape Town
2023/05 - 2023/07
James Gain

Administrative assistant

Jessica Gameiro

PostDocs

Xi Wang
Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton
Funding from ANR WhyBehindScenes
2023/02 - 2025/01
Xi Wang
Jiong Chen
Real-time atmospheric simulation effects
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
Funding from Uber chair in Integrated Urban Mobility
2022/09 - 2023/09
Jiong Chen

Engineer

Pascal Guehl
Research Engineer on the Matisse Software
2023/04 - 2024/03
Pascal Guehl

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
Eduardo Alvarado
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
Yasser Benigmim
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
Tara Butler
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
Théo Cheynel
Robin Courant
The Why of a Filmmaker
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton, Marc Christie (Inria Rennes)
2022/10 - 2025/10
Robin Courant
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
Thanos Delatolas
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
Nicolas Dufour
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
David-Henri Garnier
Arnaud Gueze
Complex interior scene reconstruction from sparse multimodal data
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
CIFRE PhD with Homiwoo
2023/04 - 2026/03
Arnaud Gueze
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
Ariel Kwiatkowski
Maud Lastic
Visual simulation and authoring of consistent volcanic phenomena
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
Polytechnicien grant funding
2019/10 - 2022/12
Maud Lastic
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
Leo Milecki
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
Jiayi Wei

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
Paul Boursin
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
Gorazd Dimitrov

Former team members

Former Visitors

Invited Professor
University of Cape Town
2022/04 - 2022/07
James Gain
Invited Professor
Université de Montréal
2022/03 - 2022/05
Pierre Poulin
Nefeli Andreou
PhD (Visitor)
University of Cyprus
Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/09 - 2023/12
Nefeli Andreou

Former PhDs

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2019/10 - 2022/03
Current position: PostDoc, Université de Strasbourg
Pauline Olivier
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
2017/10 - 2021/01
Current position: Engineer 2K
Thomas Buffet
PhD + PostDoc
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2017/10 - 2020/12
Current position: PostDoc TU Wien
Pierre Ecormier-Nocca

Former PostDocs

Virtual cinematography of flying vehicles
PostDoc
Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani
2020/01 - 2022/01
Christophe Lino

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
Tim Scheller
Ekaterina Borisova
Bachelor 3A : Interactive Design with Physarum Model
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, David-Henri Garnier
2023/01 - 2023/03
Ekaterina Borisova
Vilius Tubinas
Bachelor 3A : Reinforcement learning-based locomotion on uneven terrain
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Ariel Kwiatkowski
2023/01 - 2023/03
Vilius Tubinas
Laurianne Bertrand
Master 2 : Sketching Animations of Organic Shapes
IP Paris
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer
2022/03 - 2022/09
Laurianne Bertrand
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
Vincent Bonczak
Maika Edberg
Bachelor 3A : Audio-visual understanding of human interaction in videos
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Maika Edberg
Lucien Walewski
Bachelor 3A : Video summarization with multimodal understanding of human interactions
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Lucien Walewski
Lazar Milikic
Bachelor 3A : Spatial-Temporal Action Recognition with Transformers
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton
2022/01 - 2022/03
Lazar Milikic
Elouan Gros
Bachelor 3A : Correlation between animal displacement and terrain steepness
Ecole Polytechnique
Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari
2022/01 - 2022/03
Elouan Gros
Ewen Collin
Licence 2 : Interactive online demonstrator of Velocity Skinning
Institut Villebon Georges Charpak
Supervisor: Damien Rohmer
2021/03 - 2021/05
Ewen Collin
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
Adrien Cances