Alumni

Compression and visual quality evaluation

Guillaume Lavoué

Guillaume's research interests lie in geometry processing and 3D data transmission and streaming (including compression and watermarking), with a great attention to the human factor and quality/perception issues.

Rendering, Global illumination

Cyril Soler

Cyril's research focuses on various branches of rendering including global illumination, Fourier analysis of light transport, Real-time rendering and computational photography.

Alumni Postdocs

Material Acquisition, Interactive Rendering

Mahdi Mohammad Bagher

Mahdi worked on data-driven microfacet material models for isotropic reflection, and signal-processing applications in interactive rendering.

Mechanism Design and Robotics

Guochao Bai

Guochao's research interests include synthesis of reconfigurable and adaptive mechanisms and robotics and their industrial, biomedical and renewable energy applications.

Physically based rendering

Laurent Belcour

Laurent's research focus on efficient models and simulation algorithms for physically based rendering.

Jean Hergel

Vector Representation and Rendering

Guofu Xie

Guofu worked on diffusion curves and automatic image vectorization.

Alumni PhD Students

Vincent Aymong

Physically-based Character Animation

Philippe Beaudoin

Ph.D. thesis title: Compression de données d'animation acquises par capture de mouvements.
M.Sc. thesis title: Propagation et rendu de feu.

Visualization Techniques for Software Engineering

Omar Benomar

Omar studies the application of visualization techniques for accomplishing software maintenance tasks. His research focuses on the analysis of object-oriented programs using program visualization for improved comprehension.

Geometric Modeling

Malika Zidani Boumedien

Ph.D. thesis title: Validité d'un modèle QuasiNURBS interpolant des données géométriques incertaines.

Hierarchical Representations for Realistic Image Synthesis

Normand Brière

Ph.D. thesis title: Représentation hiérarchique de flux lumineux.

Fluid Simulation

Mathias Brousset

Mathias' research focus on the user control of complex phenomena (breaking waves) and level of detail in fluid simulation.

Global Illumination

Chakravarty Chaitanya

Chaitanya works on Markov chain Monte Carlo rendering methods

Real-time Rendering and Filtering

Jonathan Dupuy

Jonathan models complex reflection effects at multiple scales, investigating the interplay between micro-surface geometry details and BRDF reflection.

Geometry and Texturing

François Duranleau

Ph.D. thesis title: Génération et édition de textures géométriques représentées par des ensembles de points.
M.Sc. thesis title: Modélisation interactive par points d'objets complexes à partir d'images.

Graphical Modeling

Richard Egli

Ph.D. thesis title: Cadre de travail pour la spécification de systèmes avec des chaînes sur un complexe cellulaire.

Procedural Modeling

Arnaud Emilien

Arnaud looks at how to procedurally generate virtual worlds using rules based on the way real environments are constructed.

Realistic Rendering

Luis Gamboa

Luis' research focuses on efficient and realistic methods to render surfaces with high frequency normals.

Procedural Modeling and Visibility Representations

Dorian Gomez

Dorian is a jointly supervised Ph.D. (Cotutelle) working on Procedural Modeling at the Université de Montréal and at the Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse in France. He is interested in making tools for artists to facilitate visibility computations in complex 3D environments.

Real-Time Rendering

Jean-Philippe Guertin

Jean-Philippe investigates way of using the parallel processing power of modern day GPUs to render convincing images as fast a possible.

Geometric Modeling

Di Jiang

Ph.D. thesis title: Reliable Computation for Geometric Models.
M.Sc. thesis title: Visualization and Prediction of Spatial Deformation using Thin-plate Splines in the Context of Scoliosis.

Visualization for Software Engineering

Guillaume Langelier

Ph.D. thesis title: Intégration de la visualisation à multiples vues pour le développement du logiciel.

Procedural Modeling

Luc Leblanc

Ph.D. thesis title: Modélisation procédurale par composants.
M.Sc. thesis title: Construction et utilisation de bloqueurs pour l'accélération des requêtes de visibilité.
Luc spent his Ph.D. working on procedural modeling. He devised new ways to generate geometry and a generic procedural system that was applied to create complete buildings with interiors. His research interests extend beyond procedural modeling to rendering, illumination, animation, and various other real-time technology.

Fluid Simulation

Olivier Mercier

Olivier's research focuses on the application of multi-scale techniques to the simulation and control of fluid simulations

Realistic Rendering

Romain Pacanowski

Ph.D. thesis title: Modes de représentation pour l'éclairage en synthèse d'images.

Geometry and Animation

Gilles-Philippe Paillé

Gilles-Philippe's work focuses on new methods for volumetric parameterization as well as exploring their applications to computer animation and volumetric meshing.

Realistic Rendering

Eric Paquette

Ph.D. thesis title: Simulation des effets de détérioration de surfaces rigides pour un rendu réaliste.
M.Sc. thesis title: Représentation hiérarchique et efficace des sources lumineuses dans le cadre du rendu d'images.

Global Illumination

Yangyang Zhao

Yangyang's research focuses on accelerating the global illumination computations in physical-based rendering contexts.

Alumni MSc Students

Realistic Rendering and Interactive Techniques

Mustafa Cihan Özer

Cihan's work focuses on exploring joint models for realistic light transport, animation, and appearance models for real-world materials.

Geometric and Solid Modelling

Sonia Abdoli

Sonia works on robust applications of Boolean operations in Solid Modelling

Non-photorealistic Rendering

Benoît Alain

M.Sc. thesis title: Rendu d'images en demi-tons par diffusion d'erreur sensible à la structure.

Fluid Simulation

Cynthia Beauchemin

Cynthia's research focuses on efficient high-resolution fluid simulations using multi-scale methods.

Relighting and Rendering

Nicolas Bergeron

M.Sc. thesis title: Rééclairage par génération de cartes de normales en composition vidéo numérique.

Relighting and Rendering

Martin Blais

M.Sc. thesis title: Excursions en rendu par champ de lumière: champ de visibilité et ré-illumination.

Real-Time Rendering

Eric Blanchard

M.Sc. thesis title: Rendu de matériaux semi-transparents hétérogènes en temps réel

Non-photorealistic Rendering

Simon Bouvier-Zappa

M.Sc. thesis title: Illustration non-photoréaliste de séquences de captures de mouvements.

Non-photorealistic Rendering

Martin Côté

M.Sc. thesis title: Rendu non-photoréaliste de chevelures.

Non-photorealistic Rendering

Jianghao Chang

M.Sc. thesis title: Le rendu en demi-ton avec sensibilité à la structure.

Fluid Simulation and Animation

Simon Clavet

M.Sc. thesis title: Animation de fluides viscoélastiques à base de particules.

Procedural level of detail

Melino Conte

Melino's research focuses on generating accurate level of details and illumination for procedural cities

Perception and Graphics

Marie-Elise Cordeau

M.Sc. thesis title: Amélioration de la perception spatiale et émotive d'un environnement virtuel interactif par la gestion cinématographique des prises de vue.

BRDF Creation and Sub-surface Modeling

Marc-Antoine Desjardins

Marc-Antoine works on material editing tools to help 3D artists be more efficient when shading photo-realistic objects.

Visualization for Software Engineering

Karim Dhambri

M.Sc. thesis title: Détection visuelle d'anomalies de conception dans les programmes orientés objet.

Sampling

Charles Donohue

M.Sc. thesis title: Echantillonnage basé sur les tuiles de Penrose et applications en infographie.

Realistic Rendering and Monte Carlo Techniques

Adrien Dubouchet

M.Sc. thesis title: Une approche fréquentielle pratique pour l'échantillonnage adaptatif en espace image.

Real-time Rendering

Jean-François Dufort

M.Sc. thesis title: Rendu interactif de détails de surface par textures 3D semi-transparentes.

Light Transport

Emric Epstein

M.Sc. thesis title: Utilisation de miroirs dans un système de reconstruction interactif.

Physical Simulation and Animation

Sammy Fatnassi

M.Sc. thesis title: Visualization for Software Engineering.

Fluid Simulation

Patrick Fournier

M.Sc. thesis title: Simulation de l'écoulement et de la forme de gouttes sur des surfaces.

Computer Vision and Scene Reconstruction

Marie-Claude Frasson

M.Sc. thesis title: Reconstruction interactive de scènes tridimensionnelles à partir d'images.

Geometry, Texturing and Rendering

Mathieu Gauthier

M.Sc. thesis title: Images géométriques de genre arbitraire dans le domaine sphérique.

Interactive Rendering

Aude Giraud

Aude develops new techniques for interactive rendering of large, complex scenes with global illumination effects.

Hierarchical Modeling

Martin Granger-Piché

M.Sc. thesis title: Reconstruction interactive de modèles hiérarchiques par sculpture d'espace.

Visualization for Software Engineering

Hassen Grati

M.Sc. thesis title: Rétro-ingénierie des diagrammes de séquence par visualisation interactive.

Real-Time Rendering

Jean-Philippe Guertin

Jean-Philippe investigates way of using the parallel processing power of modern day GPUs to render convincing images as fast a possible.

Texturing for Software Engineering

Salima Hassaine

M.Sc. thesis title: Utilisation des textures pour la visualisation de logiciels de grande taille .

Geometry and Animation

Jocelyn Houle

M.Sc. thesis title: Simplification et morphisme en temps réel de modèles articulés.

Shadow Mapping

Yi-Jen Huang

M.Sc. thesis title: An Extended Shadow Map for Shading with Linear Light Sources.

Snow Simulation

Alexandre Jubert

Alexandre's main research interest revolves all around snow, from its falling paths, accumulation on surfaces, transfer in environments, and various appearances under all kinds of conditions. While high-quality rendering is intended, he is also considering all kinds of compromises for real-time rendering.

Facial Animation

Cyriaque Kouadio

M.Sc. thesis title: Composition automatique d'expressions faciales synthétiques à partir de capture de postures faciales.

Computational Geometry

Étienne Léger

Étienne's focus is on methods for automatic detection of intersections on parametric surfaces.

Color Correction

Christiane Landry

M.Sc. thesis title: Correction interactive de couleur par association.

Visualization for Software Engineering

Guillaume Langelier

M.Sc. thesis title: Visualisation de la qualité des logiciels de grandes tailles.

Physical Simulation and Animation

Michelle Laprade

M.Sc. thesis title: Traitement interactif de plis dans la simulation de tissus.

Texture Synthesis

Laurent Lefebvre

M.Sc. thesis title: Analyse et synthèse de textures structurelles.

Real-time realistic rendering

David Quiroz Marin

David's research focuses on developing convincing physically-based reflections for specular materials to be rendered at interactive frame rates.

Subsurface Scattering

David Milaenen

David's work focuses on new practical algorithms to accelerate standard rendering methods for Subsurface Scattering, exploiting spatial coherence and frequency analysis.

Texture Extraction

Mathieu Ouimet

M.Sc. thesis title: Extraction et unification de textures en provenance d'images.

Interactive Animation

Eric Plante

M.Sc. thesis title: Mouvements et interactions de la chevelure par mèches déformables.

Real-Time Rendering

Joël Polard-Perron

Joël's efforts focus on the efficient automation of environment map probe placement in arbitrary scenes for simulating global illumination effects on dynamic actors in real-time.

Volumetric Textures

Karim Ratib

M.Sc. thesis title: Texture volumique multi-échelle pour l'affichage de scènes complexes.

Monte Carlo Integration and Rendering

Fabrice Rouselle

M.Sc. thesis title: Echantillonnage de produits de fonctions.

Texturing and Geometry

Yann Rousseau

M.Sc. thesis title: Analyse des espaces de lignes pour la capture de cartes d'environnement.

Lighting and Rendering

Frédérik Rozon

M.Sc. thesis title: Peinture de lumière incidente dans des scènes 3D.

Solid Modeling

Peihui Shao

Peihui is interested in robustness problems in modeling and solid modeling. He is also interested in applications of modeling in computer graphics and real-time rendering.

Physical Simulation and Animation

Yannick Simard

M.Sc. thesis title: Animation interactive de mouvements secondaires par simulation de surfaces élastiques.

Shadows and Rendering

Jean-François St-Amour

M.Sc. thesis title: Génération d'ombres floues provenant de sources de lumière surfaciques à l'aide de tampons d'ombre étendus.

Physically Based Rendering

Nicolas Vibert

Nicolas's research focuses on light transport in participating media.

Subdivision Surfaces

Zhe Wu

M.Sc. thesis title: Extension of Wu-Peters Bounds to Catmull-Clark and 4-8 Subdivision.

Rendering and Simulation

Mohamed Yessine Yengui

Mohamed's research interests lie in Bidirectional Texture Function simulation, with the goal of producing realistic material appearance procedurally. His work targets the intuition and skills of technical artists and leverages the parallel computing power of today's commodity graphics hardware.

Global Illumination

Yangyang Zhao

M.Sc. thesis title: Hessian-based Occlusion-Aware Radiance Caching.

Alumni Visitors

Texture filtering

Vincent Aymong

Vincent's research focuses texture filtering, and its possible application for motion blur and lighting from textured area light.

Real-Time Fluid Simulation

Antonin Bernardin

Antonin's research deals with fluid simulation. The goal is to explore new ways to move fluids, especially with aggregation methods.

Geometric Modeling

Malika Zidani Boumedien

Malika's research focuses on the representation of curves and surfaces and on the robustness of interpolation and smoothing algorithms

Real-time Rendering and Filtering

Eric Heitz

Eric examines the problem of filtering complex material and masking appearance, efficiently modeling complex behavior at multiple scales.

3D Printed Ceramics and Additive Manufacturing

Kevin Hinz

Kevin is an architect, bringing the knowledge of design, craft and construction to digital fabrication processes. His background in 3D printed ceramics supports the lab's research of digital fabrication and physics based animation.

Data-mining for Rendering

Sina Honari

Sina finds way to take everyday data, like photographs, and use them to create more realistic computer graphics renderings.

Realistic Image Synthesis

Simon Premoze

Simon is interested in developing computational models and algorithms for realistic image synthesis and visualization.

Animation and User Interfaces

Nicolas Rous

Nicolas's research is focused on improving user experience during artistic 3D character animation.

Rendering

Arnaud Schoentgen

Arnaud's research focuses on two scales semi-transparent structures rendering in real time applications.

Takuto Takahashi

Gigavoxels

Antoine Webanck

Antoine's deals with real time rendering of animated scenes with the Gigavoxels representation

Current Members

Alumni