Xavier Granier Doctor / Engineer
Computer Science
Applied Mathematics

Computer Graphics

Born on : 17th of March, 1975
Nationality : French

Address : Domaine Universitaire
351, cours de la Liberation
33405 Talence Cedex
France
Phone : +33 5 40 00 37 95
Fax : +33 5 40 00 38 95
Email : xavier.granier@inria.fr
Web : http://iparla.labri.fr/~granier

Position

October 2006 - now
  • Research Scientist
    INRIA - IPARLA project (INRIA Futurs / LaBRI - Bordeaux - France)
  • October 2003 - October 2006
  • Junior Research Scientist
    INRIA - IPARLA project (INRIA Futurs / LaBRI - Bordeaux - France)
  • Decembre 2001 - August 2003
  • Post-doctoral assistant
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver-Canada
  • PIMS Post-doctoral Fellowship
  • July 2000-November 2001
  • PhD student (George Drettakis - Claude Puech)
    REVES/INRIA, Sophia Antipolis-France
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
  • September 1998-July 2000
  • PhD student (George Drettakis - Claude Puech)
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
  • October 1997-June 1998
  • DEA student (George Drettakis)
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France

  • Formation

    HDR (authorization to lead research) in Computer Science
    University Bordeaux 1 (France)
    Title New Representations toward more User-Friendly 3D Synthesis
    Place IPARLA (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest - LaBRI), Bordeaux-France.
    Defended on October, 2009

    Ph.D in Computer Science
    University Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble-France)
    Title Automatic Quality Control for Global Illumination
    Place iMAGIS-GRAVIR/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France.
    Years 1998-2001
    Defended on November, 2001

    DEA (French Master) Image Synthesis,Vision and Robotics
    University INPG ( Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble ), France
    Title Radiosity Global Illumination with Limited Memory
    Place iMAGIS-GRAVIR/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
    Years 1997-1998
    Defended on June, 1998

    Engineer School

    ENSIMAG
    École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
    (Computer Science and Applied Mathemathics Engineer School of Grenoble)
    University INPG ( Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble ), France
    Specialty Scientific Computation, Image Synthesis, Vision and Robotique
    Years 1995-1998
    Diploma in June, 1998

    Classes Preparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles
    1994-1995 Lycée des Chartreux, Lyon-France.
    1993-1994 Lycée Saint Joseph, Avignon-France


    Teaching

    2008
  • Advance Image Synthesis (for graduate students)
    Bordeaux 1 University - France
  • 2007-2008
  • Introduction to Modeling (for under-graduate students)
    IUT Bordeaux 1 - France
  • 2004-2008
  • Introduction to Image Synthesis (for under-graduate students)
    IUT Bordeaux 1 - France
  • 2003-2006
  • Global illumination overview (for graduate students)
    Bordeaux 1 University - France
  • 2001-2002
  • Global illumination overview (for graduate students)
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver-Canada
  • 2000-2001
  • Language and Programmation (for student in university third year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
  • 1999-2000
  • Unix and Pascal initiation (for student in university first year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
  • Language and Data Base initiation (for student in university second year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
  • 1998-1999
  • Language and Data Base initiation (for student in university second year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France

  • Publications

    2007
  • Improved Skeleton Extraction and Surface Generation for Sketch-based Modeling
    Florian Levet and Xavier Granier
    Graphics Interface 2007
  • Multi-View Sketch-based FreeForm Modeling
    Florian Levet, Xavier Granier and Christophe Schlick
    International Symposium on Smart Graphics - 2007
  • On-the-fly Appearance Quantization on GPU for 3D Broadcasting
    Julien Hadim, Tamy Boubekeur, Mickaƫl Raynaud, Xavier Granier and Christophe Schlick
    Web3D 2007
  • MarchingParticles: Fast Generation of Particles for the Sampling of Implicit Surfaces
    Florian Levet, Xavier Granier and Christophe Schlick
    Computer Graphics & Geometry 9(1) - 2007
  • 2006
  • 3D Sketching with profile curves
    Florian Levet, Xavier Granier and Christophe Schlick
    International Symposium on Smart Graphics - 2006
  • Fast sampling of implicit surfaces by particle systems
    Florian Levet, Xavier Granier and Christophe Schlick
    Shape Modeling International - 2006
  • Using Expressive Rendering for Remote Visualization of Large City Models
    Jean-Charles Quillet, Gwenola Thomas, Xavier Granier, Pascal Guitton and Jean-Eudes Marvie
    Web3D 2006
  • Volume-Surface Trees
    Tamy Boubekeur, Wolfgang Heidrich, Xavier Granier, and Christophe Schlick
    Computer Graphics Forum 25(3) - 2006
  • 2005
  • Intuitive Shape Modeling by Shading Design
    Bertrand Kerautret, Xavier Granier and Achille Braquelaire
    International Symposium on Smart Graphics - 2005
  • 2004
  • A Final Reconstruction Framework for an Unified Global Illumination Algorithm
    Xavier Granier and George Drettakis
    ACM Transaction on Graphics 23(2), 2004
  • 2003
  • Interactive Visualization of Complex Real-World Light Sources
    Xavier Granier Michael Goesele Wolfgang Heidrich Hans-Peter Seidel
    Pacific Graphics 2003
  • A Simple Layered RGB BRDF Model
    Xavier Granier, Wolfgang Heidrich
    Graphical Models 2003
  • Accurate Light Source Acquisition and Rendering
    Michael Goesele, Xavier Granier, Wolfgang Heidrich, Hans-Peter Seidel
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2003
  • 2002
  • A Simple Layered RGB BRDF Model
    Xavier Granier, Wolfgang Heidrich
    Pacific Graphics 2002
  • 2001
  • Incremental Updates for Rapid Glossy Global Illumination
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis
    Eurographics 2001
  • 2000
  • Fast Global Illumination Including Specular Effects
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter
    11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2000
  • Efficient Glossy Global Illumination with Interactive Viewing
    Marc Stamminger, Annette Scheel, Xavier Granier, Frederic Perez-Cazorla, George Drettakis, François Sillion
    Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 19, Number 1, March 2000
  • 1999
  • Interactive Virtual Relighting and Remodeling of Real Scenes
    Céline Loscos, Marie-Claude Frasson, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter, Xavier Granier, Pierre Poulin
    10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, June 1999.
  • Efficient Glossy Global Illumination with Interactive Viewing
    Marc Stamminger, Annette Scheel, Xavier Granier, Frederic Perez-Cazorla, George Drettakis, François Sillion
    Graphics Interface 99, Kingston, Juin 1999
  • Controlling Memory Consumption of Hierarchical Radiosity with Clustering
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis
    Graphics Interface 99, Kingston, Juin 1999

  • Technical Knowledge


    In Mathematics
    Apllied Mathematics
  • Numeric analysis and simulations (numeric integration, probabilist integration, multi-resolution inegration, matrix computation, optimization,...)
  • Signal processing (Fourier analysis, wavelets,...)
  • Probability
  • Statistics and Density Estimation
  • C.A.G.D
  • Mathematics for Computer Science
  • Discreet mathematics
  • Language and compilation theory
  • Logic
  • Formal computation
  • In Computer Science
    Programming
  • C/C++, Ada, Pascal,Scheme,...
  • Maple, SQL, ...
  • OpenGL,QT, Motif,...
  • Lex,Yacc,...
  • Image Synthesis
  • Global illumination (hierarchical radiosity, monte-carlo integration, density estimation..)
  • Rendering
  • Modelling
  • Acquisition
  • Operating Systems
  • UNIX (Linux, Sgi-IRIX,Solaris,AIX)
  • MS-Windows 95/98/Me,NT/2000,XP
  • In Languages
    French Native
    English Spoken and written
    German Some notions