Research

My research aims at understanding the world through the capture and analysis of heterogeneous data (MRI, CT, Point clouds, images, ...) in order to create applied digital instruments, that allow, for example, to generate novel views from a scene, to infer the human shape from a clothed scan, or to predict the amount of adipose tissue of a person from surface observations. To address this challenge, I adopt the approaches of Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Computer Graphics and Statistical Models. My research is often multi-disciplinary, as I need to combine knowledge from these different domains.

Ph.D. students

Current Ph.D. students:

• Felix Küper (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes since Oct 2025)
  Topic: Towards an automatic and interpretable assessment of general movement for early infant diagnosis.
  Co-supervised with Nikolas Hesse
  Funding project: French Ministry grant

• Gabriel Ravelomanana (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes since Nov 2024)
  Topic: Automated medical image segmentation for the foot of patients with rheumatoid arthritis
  Co-supervised with Julien Pansiot
  Funding project: ANR INORA grant
   
• Quentin Zoppis (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes since Oct 2024)
  Topic: Tracking unequipped hands for pointing in human-computer interaction
  Co-supervised with François Berard and Laurence Nigay
  Funding project: Persyval
   
• Vicente Estopier-Castillo (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes since Oct 2023)
  Topic: Motion Ventilation Patterns for patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  Co-supervised with Jean-Sébastien Franco and Sam Bayat.
  Funding project: INSERM - INRIA grant
   

Former Ph.D. students:

• Marilyn Keller (Ph.D. student at Tübingen University Sep. 2019- Nov. 2024)
  Topic: Statistical modeling of the 3D motion of the thoracic cage.
  Co-supervised with Michael Black
  Funding project: CAMed FFG (Austrian funding agency)
  Defended: 28 Nov 2024

• Nicolas Comte (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes April 2020 - Dec 2023)
  Topic: Multi-modality scoliosis assessment
  Co-supervised with Edmond Boyer, François Faure and Aurélien Courvoisier.
  Funding project: CIFRE funding with Anatoscope
  Defended: 29 Nov 2023

• Di Meng (Ph.D. student at Université Grenoble Alpes Oct. 2018 - Nov 2022)
  Topic: Vertebra segmentation and identification
  Co-supervised with Edmond Boyer
  Funding project: FUI French project: Spine PDCA
  Defended: 15 Nov 2022