Research Interests
My research interest is focused around smart tools (mainly using Artificial Intelligence techniques) to assist the creation of complex 3D contents.
I am currently working on automated and assistive camera control techniques for interactive environments.
More precisely:
- real-time visibility computation for multiple targets in dynamic environments
- real-time path planning for camera control
- formalisation of cinematographic conventions (encoding characteristic viewpoints, continuity in edits, composition)
- languages for cinematographic specifications
- interactive tools for cinematographic content creation
- tracked virtual cameras
I am also working on constraint-based generation of sustainable virtual cities using table-touch surfaces.
More precisely:
- modeling of urban rules and conventions in the CSP framework (using CHOCO solver)
- solving techniques for urban planning
- user interaction in the solving process
News
| May. 2011 | MERVI Regional project accepted (CLARTE, Airbus, STX, CEA, LINA, Ecole Centrale de Nantes) on configuration issues in Virtual Reality centers |
April. 2011 | William Bares (Millsaps College) visiting us for a month. William is th father of Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to Virtual Camera Control |
March. 2011 | Bruno Belin (Master Student) joins us to work on interactive modelling of sustainable cities using constraint programming (on the FUI SUSTAINS project). |
| March. 2011 | Mathieu Chollet (Master Student) joins us to work on learning virtual cinematography from examples (joint work with Remi Ronfard , INRIA Grenoble). |
| Feb. 2011 | Charles Perin (Master Student) joins us to work on new interaction metaphores with multi-touch surfaces for evolved cinematographic editing (joint work with Frederic Vernier , CNRS-LIMSI) |
Jan. 2011 | Launching a blog/website around virtual camera control cameracontrol.org with an international group of researchers interested in the topic. |
| Oct. 2010 | New internship positions offered (see here ). |
| Oct. 2010 | Christophe Lino (former research assistant) starts his PhD on dynamic spatial partitions for virtual camera control (joint PhD with Newcastle University) |
| Sep. 2010 | Official starting of the SUSTAINS project (national FUI framework). |
| Jul. 2010 | Our SUSTAINS project (national FUI framework, funded by the DGCIS) around design of urban environments has been accepted! |
| Jun. 2010 | Intership student Yun-Tai Chang (from NCCU Taiwan) works with us for 3 months on multi-touch surfaces for design of narratives following Propp's model |
| Jun. 2010 | Our paper with C. Lino "A Real-time Cinematography System for Virtual 3D Environments" has been accepted at ACM SCA 2010 ( see here ). |
| May. 2010 | Our paper with R. Ranon on a Camera Evaluation Language has been accepted at Smargraphics 2010. |
| May. 2010 | Our paper with P. Olivier on Automated Lighting has been accepted at Smargraphics 2010. |
Projects and Collaborations
IRIS NoE FP7 | Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling Network of Excellence (2009-2011). See here for more details |
CNRS-NSC | International Collaboration with Pr. Tsai-Yen Li (National Chengchi University) in Taiwan on Smart Motion Planning |
FUI Sustains | Constraint-based Prototyping of Urban Environments (2010-2013) (see details ) |
