Experience

Siradel

• France
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Deputy Director, Digital Territory Dpt

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Xiaomi Technology

• China
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intitulé de poste Senior Staff Engineer AR/XR/3D

  • Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

  Technology Planning & Strategic Partnerships Team Technology Planning & Strategic Partnerships Team



InterDigital, Inc.

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Leader AR/XR

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2021

  Principal scientist, leading research activities on Augmented / Mixed Reality and Spatial Computing. Continuity of past Technicolor activities described below, entirely transfered to InterDigital. Involvment in new projects related to XR standards, XR and 5G, lighting estimation, AR-based user interactions, 360 HDR image reconstruction and camera pose estimation for VFX. Recent achievements: - AR-Bot: AR-based interface for controlling an autonomous robot. Prototype available, best poster awards at VISAPP'21 - AR-Chat: AR-based instant messaging solution. Prototype available, solution presented at ISMAR 2020. - Light4AR: Shadow-based estimation of multiple light sources in interactive time for photorealistic AR experiences. Prototype available. Solution presented at ISMAR 2021. Project selected among 140 candidates in phase 1 of XR4all call for project. - Tool for 360 HDR image reconstruction used today in VFX production pipelines. - Supervision of a PhD on change detection. Paper published at MDPI Electronics. - Contribution to 6 patent disclosures on light source estimation, AR anchors, AR-based navigation and interaction - Talk at Laval Virtual 2020 - Interviews in TVB Europe, FeedMagazine, StreamingMediaGlobal https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/tvbeurope-november-december-2020-issue-released (page 8) https://online.bright-publishing.com/view/158202/60/ https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/tvbeurope-march-2020-issue-now-available (page 42) https://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/InterDigital-Building-the-Mirror-World-136228.aspx



Technicolor

• France
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Area AR/XR

  • Sep 2014 - May 2019

  Principal Scientist, Leading research activities on Mixed Reality and Spatial Computing. Focus on technologies and workflows for the creation and management of digital worlds for AR/MR experiences.Responsabilities:- Team management;- Definition of research directions, strategic roadmap, valorization paths and technology plan;- Definition of projects scope, goals and requirements;- Relationships with potential partners, customers and business units;- Communication to stakeholders, presentations at majors tradeshows and conferences;- Technical lead of key projects;- Technical and scientific watch; - Valorization through patents, publications, public demonstrations, talks, interviews.I managed teams from 10 to 30 people and I led several projects on collaborative MR in the home, MR-Extended TV, XR for IoT data visualization, Photorealistic MR, Relighting, Texture mapping, Diminished Reality, etc.Research interests:- AR/MR/XR- Spatial Computing- Real world modeling & understanding (geometry, lighting, semantics)- Change detection- Diminished Reality / Object removal- Real / virtual alignment for AR and VFX- Context-aware visualization and rendering- Interactions with mixed scenes

• Research Project Leader and Principal Scientist

  • Oct 2011 - Sep 2014

  Leading research project on Facial motion capture and retargeting for VFX (team of 6 researchers) Research interests: face analysis, image processing, 3D data analysis, animation, depth-based video editing



Siradel

• France
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of R&D team

  • 2003 - 2011

  Head of the R&D team (5-6 researchers), 3D Map Data department. - Definition of research programs, scientific supervision, management of internal and collaborative projects. - Responses to tender for key accounts and design of dedicated production pipelines.- Project manager of the collaborative project PlatSIM (2008-2011): Platform for connected driving simulators interacting in a true environment. - Coordinator and project manager of the project Movin’City (2008-2011): Mobile mapping system for the automatic texturation of 3D city models. - Coordinator and project manager of the collaborative project EnVIE (2011): Enhancement of 3D city models with indicators of sustainability. - Co-chair of the ISPRS working group “Complex scene analysis and 3D reconstruction” - Member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (French CSV) of the « Images et Réseaux » Innovation cluster Research interests: 3D modeling, scene labeling, mobile mapping systems, point clouds, driving simulation, virtual city models, smart cities

• Senior Researcher

  • 2000 - 2003

  Scientific expert of the Map Data department.Leading project for the implementation of innovative solutions for photogrammetry, 3D modeling and mobile mapping. In charge of responses to tender for environment modeling.Member of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Secretary of the working group « Surface reconstruction from images as information source » (2000-2004) Research interests: stereovision, 3D city models, scene analysis, topology, geoinformatics, 3D data bases



IRISA

• Postdoctoral Research Assistant

  • 1999 - 2000

  VISTA Project. Analysis of ultrasound and MRI 3D medical images for the detection of brain structures.Research interests: 3D data analysis, medical imagery, segmentation, deformable models. VISTA Project. Analysis of ultrasound and MRI 3D medical images for the detection of brain structures.Research interests: 3D data analysis, medical imagery, segmentation, deformable models.



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Assistant

  • 1997 - 1999

  Visual Geometry Group. 3D building modeling from multiple high-resolution aerial images.Local representative of the European project IMPACT (Image processing for automatic cartographic tools).Research interests: multi-view stereo, 3D modeling, projective geometry, computer vision. Visual Geometry Group. 3D building modeling from multiple high-resolution aerial images.Local representative of the European project IMPACT (Image processing for automatic cartographic tools).Research interests: multi-view stereo, 3D modeling, projective geometry, computer vision.



French National Geographical Institute

• PhD student

  • 1994 - 1997

  3D reconstruction of complex urban scenes from stereoscopic aerial images. 3D reconstruction of complex urban scenes from stereoscopic aerial images.