Pierre Yves Laffont
Pierre-Yves LAFFONT
PhD candidate in Computer Science

Address:
REVES / INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
2004 route des lucioles, BP93
06902 Sophia-Antipolis
FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0)4 92 38 50 40
Email:

General information

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Since October 2009, I am a PhD student in the REVES team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), where I research Computer Graphics under the supervision of George Drettakis and Adrien Bousseau.

I expect to graduate by the end of 2012 and am looking for a post-doctoral position.

My current research focuses on intrinsic images, image editing, image-based rendering and relighting, with geometric cues from multi-view reconstruction. I am also interested in related fields such as Computer Vision and Computational Photography.

During my PhD, I have worked in Boston with Frédo Durand (MIT) and Sylvain Paris (Adobe), and visited Maneesh Agrawala at UC Berkeley.

Before joining INRIA, I received M.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from INSA Lyon in France. I was supervised by Sung-Eui Yoon, Christian Wolf and Khalid Idrissi during my Master internship on content-aware image retargeting, and worked on catadioptric vision with Jean-Charles Bazin. I have also studied in KAIST (South Korea) and traveled around Asia, and am always looking for new international experiences!

News

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2012.03.28: Paper in TVCG journal

Our paper "Rich Intrinsic Image Decomposition of Outdoor Scenes from Multiple Views" will appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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2012.02.23: Invited talk at KAIST

I visited Korea once again, and presented my work on rich intrinsic images to Sung-Eui Yoon's group at KAIST.
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2011.10.12-14: Best paper award at AFIG days

Our work on "Images intrinsèques de scènes en extérieur à partir de multiples vues" (in French) has received the best paper award at the AFIG days, held this year in Bidart. It will be published in the French Electronics Computer Graphics Revue (REFIG).
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2011.07.07: Summer at MIT

I am visiting the Computer Graphics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I work with Frédo Durand and Sylvain Paris (Adobe). I will stay in Boston until early September.
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2011.06.27-29: EGSR 2011

Our paper "Perception of Visual Artifacts in Image-Based Rendering of Façades" has been accepted to the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering. I will attend EGSR 2011 in Prague, and the paper will be presented on June 28.
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2011.04: "Image-Guided Weathering" at SIGGRAPH 2011

Our paper "Image-Guided Weathering: A New Approach Applied to Flow Phenomena" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2011 on August 9.
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2010.12.15-18: SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

I will be a Student Volunteer at SIGGRAPH Asia this year. It is the first time the conference is held in the amazing city of Seoul!
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2010.07.09: Summer at UC Berkeley

Over the next few weeks, I will visit Maneesh Agrawala's Visualization Lab. at UC Berkeley.
I will stay in California until early September.
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2010.03.12: "Interactive Content-Aware Zooming" at GI 2010

Our paper has been accepted at Graphics Interface 2010! I will present it in Ottawa, Canada, on May 31st according to the preliminary schedule.
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2009.10.01: Now PhD student at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis

I have completed my studies at INSA de Lyon, and moved to Côte d'Azur near Antibes and Nice. I am now a PhD student at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and a member of the REVES team.
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2009.08.03-07: Attending SIGGRAPH 2009

I attended SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans with the members of SGLab. Some talks there were impressive, and it was a great experience overall!
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2009.05.25: Heading to South Korea!

Over the next few months, I will work with Sung-Eui Yoon at SGLab in Daejeon, South Korea.
I performed the first part of my Master internship on "Real-Time Low-Distortion Retargeting of Large Images" under the supervision of Christian Wolf and Khalid Idrissi at LIRIS in Lyon, France.

Publications

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Rich Intrinsic Image Decomposition of Outdoor Scenes From Multiple Views

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Adrien Bousseau, George Drettakis
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2012
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Images intrinsèques de scènes en extérieur à partir de multiples vues (in French)

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Adrien Bousseau, George Drettakis
French Electronics Computer Graphics Revue (REFIG), 2011
Presented at AFIG days 2011, Bidart (best paper award)
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Perception of Visual Artifacts in Image-Based Rendering of Façades

Peter Vangorp, Gaurav Chaurasia, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Roland Fleming, George Drettakis
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 2011
Presented at EGSR 2011, Prague
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Image-Guided Weathering: A New Approach Applied to Flow Phenomena

Carles Bosch, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Holly Rushmeier, Julie Dorsey, George Drettakis
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2011
Presented at SIGGRAPH 2011, Vancouver
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Interactive Content-Aware Zooming

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Jong Yun Jun, Christian Wolf, Yu-Wing Tai, Khalid Idrissi, George Drettakis, Sung-eui Yoon
Presented at Graphics Interface 2010, Ottawa
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An Original Approach For Automatic Plane Extraction By Omnidirectional Vision

Jean-Charles Bazin, Pierre-Yves Laffont, In So Kweon, Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur
Presented at IROS 2010, Taipei

Teaching

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I teach Object-Oriented Programming labs (in Java and Python) to 3rd year Engineering students in the Computer Science department at Polytech'Nice.