Welcome

I am assistant professor of Computer Science at the Ensimag (School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, INP Grenoble University), and a researcher at the INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France, with the Morpheo team since 2011.

I obtained my PhD from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 2005 with the INRIA MOVI team. I started my professional career as a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of North Carolina's Computer Vision Group in 2006, and as assistant professor at the University of Bordeaux, with the IPARLA team, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest. My expertise is in the field of computer vision, with several internationally recognized contributions to dynamic 3D modeling from multiple views and 3D interaction.

My current research interests are in 3D modeling and 4D spatio-temporal modeling from multiple views. Above is an illustration from our latest CVPR 2011 paper, where a 3D template model (left) is fitted to a point cloud by estimating both a rigid motion segmentation and the set of associated rigid transforms, using an EM algorithm (convergence illustrated left to right).

News

Master 2 Internship position available for 2012: Estimation of local surface rigidity parameters of tracked 3D shapes
CVPR 2011 paper accepted: Learning Temporally Consistent Rigidities. Jean-Sébastien Franco, Edmond Boyer.
Siggraph ASIA 2010 Sketch/Poster accepted: Conversion of Performance Mesh Animation into Cage-based Animation. Yann Savoye, Jean-Sébastien Franco.
ACCV 2010 paper accepted : Cage-Based Tracking For Performance Animation. Yann Savoye, Jean-Sébastien Franco.
ACM Multimedia 2010 video paper accepted : A 3D Data Intensive Tele-immersive Grid. Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Joeffrey Legaux, Bruno Raffin, Emmanuel Melin, Jean-Sebastien Franco, Ingo Assenmacher and Edmond Boyer.
AMDO 2010 paper accepted : CageIK: Dual-Laplacian Cage-Based Inverse Kinematics. Yann Savoye, Jean-Sébastien Franco.
IJCV 2010 article accepted : Probabilistic Multi-view Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Occlusion Reasoning from Silhouette Cues. Li Guan, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Marc Pollefeys.
CVPR 2010 paper accepted: Probabilistic 3D Occupancy Flow with Latent Silhouette Cues. Li Guan, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Edmond Boyer, Marc Pollefeys.
RFIA 2010 paper accepted, Flot d’occupation 3D à partir de silhouettes latentes, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Li Guan, Edmond Boyer, Marc Pollefeys.
IJDMB 2010 article accepted, Multi-Camera Real-Time 3D Modeling for Telepresence and Remote Collaboration, Benjamin Petit, Jean-Denis Lesage, Clément Ménier, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer, François Faure

EPVH

EPVH is one of the projects developed during my thesis. I receive a number of requests for providing the code or binary. I can no longer distribute either, as EPVH is now exclusively distributed by 4DViews, and built-in 4DViews software suites. However, if you have datasets on which you would like to perform comparisons with EPVH for research purposes, I can process them and provide the resulting data for static objects or sequences.