Members

Sharing a coffee with members of Geomerix in 2023.

Faculty Members and 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

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 Students

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

Paul Boursin

3D Simulation of paleontholitic mobility

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Sophie Grégoire (MNHN)

PhD funded by CNRS

2023/10 - 2026/09

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

Ridouane Ghermi

Movie questioning

Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton

PhD funded from ANR JCJC WhyBehindScenes

2023/06 - 2026/09

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

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

Tim Scheller

Digital twins of plant growth

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Maks Ovsjanikov

PhD partially funded by Hi! Paris.

2023/10 - 2026/09

Samuel Solé

Digital Portraits: Resurgence and Reconfiguration of the Face in Digital Art

Supervisors: Emmanuel Mahé (EnsadLab), Marie-Paule Cani

PhD in Art History and Theory

2023/09 - 2026/09

Rodrigo Stevenson

Modeling and Animating complex surfaces with Multi-Valued Field Functions

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

PhD funded from ANR MultiForm

2023/10 - 2026/09

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

Invited Member

Julia Melgare

Perception Aware Facial Character Animation

PhD student at PUCRS with Soraia Raupp.

2023/09 - 2024/02

Interns and Visitors

Zoé Herson

Master 1 : Real-Time physical model in Unity for paleontholitic scenes

ENS ULM

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2023/09 - 2023/12

Administrative assistant

Jessica Gameiro

Former team members

Former Visitors [+]

James Gain

Invited Professor

University of Cape Town

2022/04 - 2022/07; 2023/05 - 2023/07

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 [+]

Maud Lastic

Visual simulation and authoring of consistent volcanic phenomena

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer

Polytechnicien grant funding

2019/10 - 2023/07

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 [+]

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

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