Pierre-Yves LAFFONT
Doctor in Computer SciencePostal address:
Brown University, Computer Science department
115 Waterman Street, 4th floor
Providence, RI 02912 (USA)
Office: 351, CIT building
Email: 115 Waterman Street, 4th floor
Providence, RI 02912 (USA)
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, working with James Hays since November 2012.
I did my Ph.D. in the REVES team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), under the supervision of George Drettakis and Adrien Bousseau. I defended my thesis entitled "Intrinsic Image Decomposition from Multiple Photographs" on October 12, 2012. You can download it here, along with accompanying materials.
During my PhD, I visited Boston to work with Frédo Durand (MIT) and Sylvain Paris (Adobe), and Berkeley to work with Maneesh Agrawala. 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!
2012.12.26-27: Talks in South Korea
I will return to Korea and present my work on "Intrinsic Images from Multiple Photographs". I will give a talk at Seoul National University in Jehee Lee's group on December 26, and at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Kuk-Jin Yoon's group on December 27.
2012.12.03: Thesis online
My thesis entitled "Intrinsic Images from Multiple Photographs" is now available online! Check out the final version, along with accompanying materials.
2012.11.01: Postdoc at Brown
I just joined Brown University as a postdoc in the Computer Science department, where I will work with James Hays.
2012.10.12: PhD defense
I have successfully defended my PhD thesis on "Intrinsic Images from Multiple Photographs" at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. The thesis committee was composed of: George Drettakis and Adrien Bousseau (advisors), Brian Curless and Hendrik Lensch (reviewers), Diego Gutierrez (examiner), and Frédéric Precioso (president).
2012.08.06: Technical paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Our work on "Coherent Intrinsic Images from Photo Collections" will be presented as a technical paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore.The session "Color and Photos" will take place in Room Peridot 206 on Saturday, 1 December at 4:15 PM.
2012.06.22: Talk and Poster at SIGGRAPH 2012
Our work "Rich Intrinsic Image Decomposition of Outdoor Scenes from Multiple Views" will be presented as a Poster and Talk at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles.The Talk session "Image Playground" will take place in Room 408A on Thursday, 9 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Intrinsic image decomposition from multiple photographs
Pierre-Yves LaffontPh.D. thesis, INRIA / University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, October 2012
Coherent Intrinsic Images from Photo Collections
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Adrien Bousseau, Sylvain Paris, Frédo Durand, George DrettakisACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2012
Presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, Singapore
Rich Intrinsic Image Decomposition of Outdoor Scenes From Multiple Views
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Adrien Bousseau, George DrettakisIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, February 2013
Presented at SIGGRAPH 2012, Los Angeles (Poster and Talk sessions)
Images intrinsèques de scènes en extérieur à partir de multiples vues (in French)
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Adrien Bousseau, George DrettakisFrench Electronics Computer Graphics Revue (REFIG), 2011
Presented at AFIG days 2011, Bidart (best paper award)
Perception of Visual Artifacts in Image-Based Rendering of Façades
Peter Vangorp, Gaurav Chaurasia, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Roland Fleming, George DrettakisComputer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 2011
Presented at EGSR 2011, Prague
Image-Guided Weathering: A New Approach Applied to Flow Phenomena
Carles Bosch, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Holly Rushmeier, Julie Dorsey, George DrettakisACM Transactions on Graphics, 2011
Presented at SIGGRAPH 2011, Vancouver
Interactive Content-Aware Zooming
Pierre-Yves Laffont, Jong Yun Jun, Christian Wolf, Yu-Wing Tai, Khalid Idrissi, George Drettakis, Sung-eui YoonPresented at Graphics Interface 2010, Ottawa
An Original Approach For Automatic Plane Extraction By Omnidirectional Vision
Jean-Charles Bazin, Pierre-Yves Laffont, In So Kweon, Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal VasseurPresented at IROS 2010, Taipei
In 2011-2012, I taught Object-Oriented Programming labs (in Java and Python) to 3rd year Engineering students in the Computer Science department at Polytech'Nice.