Pierre KORNPROBST
Directeur de recherche / Senior research scientist
Biovision project-team, Inria
About me⤓ – Highlights⤓ – Supervision⤓ – Short CV – Publications (before 2019) – Publications (after 2019) – Contact⤓
About me
Short Bio: A journey in vision science
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Nice-Sophia Antipolis University, France, in 1998. I am a senior research scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at Inria, specialized in vision science. My current research is focused on unveiling fundamental mechanisms of visual perception of people with visual impairments to predict their needs, and better address them through the development of innovative solutions (using, e.g., virtual and augmented reality). I have co-authored more than 60 research papers and a textbook in image processing that received more than 2,000 citations (source: Google Scholar).
Highlights
Below is a selection of contributions that illustrate my research trajectory.
Constraints First: A New MDD-based Model to Generate Sentences Under Constraints. In this publication we show how our approach can be used to generate MNREAD-like sentencesSupervision
I have been the advisor of 8 PhDs and +20 M.S. students, and I have contributed to mentoring other French and foreign students. I have supervised the work of 8 postdoctoral fellows, mainly in the scope of European projects I was involved in. Most of my past Postdocs and PhDs are now successfully working on computer vision or neuroscience in the academy or industry. I have also supervised engineers’ work in valorization projects.
Current Ph.D. student
- Sebastian Gallardo (Ph.D., 2023-2026, CIFRE contract with the company Demain un Autre Jour): Making newspaper layouts dynamic: Study of new combinatorial/ geometric packing problems, co-supervised with Dorian Mazauric.
- Johanna Delachambre (Ph.D., 2022-2025): Social interactions in low vision: A collaborative approach based on immersive technologies, co-supervised with Hui-Yin Wu.
- Alexandre Bonlarron (Ph.D., 2021-2024): Pushing the limits of reading performance screening with Artificial Intelligence: Towards large-scale evaluation protocols for the Visually Impaired, co-supervised with Jean-Charles Régin and Aurélie Calabrèse.
Past Ph.D. students
- N. V. Kartheek Medathati (Ph.D., 2013-2016): Motion perception and attention: from visual neuroscience to artificial vision systems, co-supervised with Guillaume Masson (INT). Now: Researcher at Oculus, Seattle, USA.
- Khaled Masmoudi (Ph.D., 2008-2012): Conception of Novel Bio-Inspired Coding Systems, co-supervised with Marc Antonini (CNRS, I3S). Now: C++/C# developer at AVM-Informatique, Paris, France.
- Emilien Tlapale (Ph.D., 2009-2011): Modelling the dynamics of contextual motion integration in the primate, co-supervised with Guillaume Masson (INT). Now: Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Amazon, Cambridge, UK.
- Maria-Jose Escobar (Ph.D., 2006-2009): Bio-Inspired Models for Motion Estimation and Analysis: Human action recognition and motion integration, co-supervised with Guillaume Masson (INT). Now: Researcher at UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile.
- Adrien Wohrer (Ph.D., 2004-2008): Model and large-scale simulator of a biological retina, with contrast gain control, Now: Assistant professor at Université d’Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Past postdoctoral fellows and engineers
- Sebastian Vizcay (Postdoc, 2023), Design and application of adaptive procedures in PTVR.
- Jérémy Termoz-Masson (Engineer, 2021-2023), VR Software developments: Core HMIs and psychophysical experiments’ design.
- Hui-Yin Wu (Postdoc, 2019-2020), Designing accessible VR reading platforms for low vision patients. Now: Inria researcher in Biovision.
- Josselin Gautier (Engineer, 2017-2018), Augmented reality for visually impaired people, Partnership with Bosch Visiontec. Now: Postdoc at INSERM National Ophthalmology Hospital, France.
- Marco Benzi (Engineer, 2017-2019): VREAD prematuration project.
- Iliann Caugant Gomez (Business developer, 2018-2019): VREAD prematuration project. Now: Sales Business Development at BeNomad, France.
- Daniela Pamplona (Postdoc, 2014-2016): Retina modeling & new approaches for receptive field estimation. Now: Postdoctoral researcher at ENSTA-ParisTech, Paris, France
- Audric Drogoul (Postdoc, 2014-2016): Variational approaches for receptive field estimation. Now: Research Engineer at Thales Alenia Space, Cannes, France.
- Geoffrey Portelli (Postdoc, 2012-2015): Understanding the wave of the first spike (from MEA recordings) & the role of micromovements (from simulations).
Now: Looking for a position. - James Rankin (Postdoc, 2010-2013): Perceptual switching in motion integration. Now: Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at University of Exeter, UK.
- Vivien Robinet (Postdoc, 2010-2011): Neural network functional connectivity from spike train analysis. Now: Assistant professor, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG), France.
- Neil Bruce (Postdoc, 2008-2010): Models of saliency for video-surveillance systems. Now: Assistant professor, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Fundings
I contributed to five European projects in neuroscience and computational neuroscience: FACETS (“Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States“, FP6-FET, 2005–2010), SEARISE (“Smart Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events“, FP7-ICT, 2008–2011, WP leader), BRAINSCALES (“Brain-inspired multiscale computation in neuromorphic hybrid systems“, FP7-FET, 2011–2015), MATHEMACS (“Mathematics of Multilevel Anticipatory Complex Systems“, FP7-ICT, 2012–2014), RENVISION (“Retina-inspired ENcoding for advanced VISION tasks”, FP7-FET, 2013–2016, WP leader). I am currently involved in the ANR DEVISE (2021-2024, WP leader).
Contact
Postal address:
Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée |
Email: pierre.kornprobst (AT) inria.fr
Phone: +33(0)4-92-38-79-79 |