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George Drettakis
Photo © 2010 Fredo Durand	Group Leader REVES/Inria Sophia-Antipolis 2004 route des lucioles, BP 93 FR-06902 Sophia Antipolis, France Tel: +33 4 92 38 50 32 Fax: + 33 4 92 38 50 30 Email (preferred): George.Drettakis@sophia.inria.fr
I am currently a senior researcher at INRIA and the group leader of the REVES research group at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. My research interests are in rendering for computer graphics. My recent work is on perceptual rendering, and in particular audio-visual cross-modal rendering, interactive illumination, shadows, relighting, reconstruction from images and interactive rendering in general. My responsibilities include managing the group, supervising graduate students and coordinating/managing research projects. From 2005 to 2007 I was a member of the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council (COST) of INRIA in charge of the International Relations working group. I was the recipient of the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions award in 2007 (EG link), and also was nominated as a Eurographics Fellow.
Publications
My complete list of publications can found here (sorted by type) and here (sorted by year), and a list of the research projects of the group here. Recent publications include "Procedural Noise using Sparse Gabor Convolution " to appear at SIGGRAPH 09 and "Fast Modal Sounds with Scalable Frequency-Domain Synthesis " at SIGGRAPH 08.
Students / Postdocs
I currently supervise two Ph.D. students, Nicolas Bonneel, who is working on audio-visual crossmodal rendering and Marcio Cabral who is working on interactive mesh editing and image relighting. I am also the official supervisor of Cécile Picard currently co-supervised by F. Faure in Grenoble.
Past Ph.D. Students (Co-) Supervised
Frédo Durand Céline Loscos Xavier Granier Eric Paquette Alex Reche-Martinez Marie-Claude Frasson Florent Duguet	Assoc. Professor at MIT, Cambridge, USA Researcher, U Girona, Spain/Lecturer at UCL, UK INRIA Researcher, IPARLA project, Bordeaux, France Professor at ETS, Montréal, Quebec, Canada KEENEO KEENEO Consultant
Past Postdocs Hosted
Bruce Walter Marc Stamminger Carsten Dachsbacher	Cornelll University (1999, at iMAGIS Grenoble) University of Erlangen (2000-2001, Marie-Curie Fellow) University of Stuttgart (2006-2007, Marie-Curie Fellow)
Other Close (non-REVES) Collaborators (past and present)
François Sillion, Pierre Poulin, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Ignacio Martin, Maria Roussou, David Bourguignon
Teaching
Since 2006 I teach advanced computer graphics at the Ecole Centrale de Paris, and since 2007 in the ENS/Sophia-Antipolis M1 program. I taught computer graphics (with N. Tsingos & S. Lefebvre) in the Masters programme IGMMV, and I was the organiser and a lecturer of the Image Sythesis course (2001-2007) at the Institut Supérieure en Informatique et Automatique (ISIA) of the Ecole de Mines de Paris at Sophia-Antipolis.
Selected Past Funded Projects
CROSSMOD was an EU Open FET IST project on audio-visual crossmodal rendering which I coordinated from Dec. 2005-Dec. 2008. The partners were Univ. Bristol, UK, CNRS, IRCAM France, TUW, Austria, CNR, Pisa, Italy and FAU, Erlangen Germany. The goal was to better understand cross-modal effects by specific initial experiments and then to develop new algorithmic approaches exploiting cross-modal effects for better audiovisual display. See the web site (http://www.crossmod.org) for all the results of the project, which was successfully evaluated in Dec. 2008. CREATE was an EU IST 5th framework R&D project, on constructivist mixed reality for education and design. I managed the REVES/INRIA contribution, which has concentrated on the development of the rendering/display tools, and various aspects of capture. We were also in charge of the coordination with the Mission Tramway in Nice, which was our urban design application for the project. ARCHEOS was an INRIA financed 2 year research project (Action de Recherche Concertée) on non-photorealistic rendering for archeology. I was in charge of the overall coordination of the project. I was project coordinator of the first phase of the SIMULGEN ESPRIT Open LTR project, with partners from the Max Plank Institut, the University of Girona and Lightwork Ltd. I participated actively in the ARCADE ESPRIT Reactive LTR project under the responsibility of F. Sillion. The partners of this project were IGD in Darmstadt and LightWork in Sheffield.
Other Activities
I will be papers chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2010. I co-chaired the papers program for the Eurographics Conference 2008, in Crete, with Roberto Scopigno. I also co-chaired the papers program of the Eurographics Conference 2002 with Hans-Peter Seidel, and the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1998 with Nelson Max. I have served on the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering programme committee (now the Symposium) since 1995, and I have served on several times on other program committees, including Eurographics, SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia PC's.
Short CV
I received my Ptychion (B.Sc. equivalent) in 1988 from the Dept. of Computer Science in Crete, Greece. As an undergrad I worked at the ICS/FORTH on European Community research programs. I then completed my M.Sc. (in 1990) and my Ph.D., (Jan 1994) at the Dept. of C.S. at the University of Toronto, Canada, under the supervision of Eugene Fiume . I also worked as a summer intern in 1990 at the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer in Cupertino Ca. in the US. My M.Sc. and Ph.D. were in Computer Graphics, and I worked in the Dynamic Graphics Project in Toronto. I was an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow in '94-'95. The first part of my ERCIM postdoc (1/94-11/94) was at iMAGIS in Grenoble, France. The second part was in Barcelona, Spain at the UPC/LiSigraphics group (12/94 to 3/95). The last part of my ERCIM tour of Europe. at VMSD-GMD in Germany (3/95-7/95). I was a permanent researcher (chargé de recherche INRIA) at iMAGIS-GRAVIR/IMAG- INRIA in Grenoble from Oct. 95 to Jul. 2000. While at iMAGIS, I obtained the degree of "Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches" at the University of Grenoble, in 1999. In July 2000 I moved to INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, where I set up "iMAGIS-Sud" until May 2001. REVES was created as an tentative group ("Action") at that date and I became group leader. REVES became an official INRIA project in the summer of 2002. A (probably out of date) complete CV can be found here. I became an INRIA Senior Researcher ("Directeur de Recherche") in October 2003; I became a DR1 (full professor equivalent) in Jan. 2008. Last Update: May 2009