Team leader
Bruno Cessac, Inria Research Director, team leader
Keywords: neuronal and retinal modeling, neural population coding, dynamical systems, statistical physics, software development.
Researchers
Pierre Kornprobst, Inria Research Director
Keywords: visual system modeling, biologically-inspired computer vision, computer vision, image processing, variational approaches, accessibility technologies, virtual and augmented reality
Hui-Yin Wu, Inria Starting Faculty Position
Keywords: interactive storytelling, accessible media for low-vision, virtual cinematography, procedural 3D content generation, computational/assisted creativity, user modeling, multimedia analysis, and synthesis.
Ph.D. students
Sebastian Gallardo Diaz (2023-2026).
Topic: Optimizing newspaper aesthetics preserving style under visual constraints: a computational approach of layouting. Co-supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Dorian Mazauric.
Johanna Delachambre (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025)
Topic: Social interactions in low vision: A collaborative approach based on immersive technologies, co-supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Hui-Yin Wu.
Franz Franco Gallo (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025)
Topic: Modeling 6DoF Navigation and the Impact of Low Vision in Immersive VR Contexts, supervised by Hui-Yin Wu and Lucile Sassatelli
ANR CREATTIVE3D (https://project.inria.fr/creattive3d/)
Alexandre Bonlarron (Oct. 2021-Sept. 2024)
Topic: Automatic generation of text under constraints for the detection and monitoring of visual pathologies: Development of fundamental AI methods in automatic language processing, co-supervised by Pierre Kornprobst, Aurélie Calabrese (LPC), and Jean-Charles Régin (I3S).
Jérôme Emonet (Oct. 2021-Oct. 2024)
Topic: A computational model of the retino-thalamo-cortical pathway, co-supervised by Bruno Cessac and Alain Desthexe (Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay).
Florent Robert (Oct. 2021-Oct. 2024)
Topic: Analyzing and Understanding Embodied Interactions in Extended Reality Systems, co-supervised by Hui-Yin Wu, Marco Winckler (I3S), and Lucile Sassatelli (I3S).
Engineers
Clément Bergman (Nov. 2022 – Apr 2024, Full-time engineer)
Topic: data processing and software development
ANR TRACTIVE (https://www.i3s.unice.fr/TRACTIVE/home)
Interns
Administrative assistant
Marie-Cecile Lafont
Email : Marie-Cecile.Lafont AT inria.fr
Tel : +33 (0)4 92 38 78 30
Former members
- Researchers
- Aurelie Calabrese, (Starting Research Position, 2019-Sept.2021) is now a resarcher at CNRS (LPC, Marseille).
- Postdocs
- Daniela Pamplona (Apr. 2014-Dec. 2016) is now a postdoc at ENSTA-ParisTech (Paris, France).
- Audric Drogoul, (Oct. 2014-Oct. 2016) is now a research engineer at Thales Alenia Space (Cannes, France).
- Ph.D.
- Simone Ebert defended her PhD on Décember 13th. She is now a postdoc in Olivier Marre’s team at the Vision Institute in Paris. She also recently earned a DocWalker funding from the Université Côte d’Azur and spent two months (October-November 2023) in Valparaiso Chile, in Adrian Palacios‘ team.
- Evgenia Kartsaki (Oct. 2017-Dec. 2021) defended her Ph.D. entitled “How Specific Classes of Retinal Cells Contribute to Vision: a Computational Model,” and she is now an innovation and transfer software development engineer at NeuroMod Institute (UCA).
- Selma Souihel, (Oct. 2016-Dec. 2019) defended her Ph.D. entitled “Generic and specific computational principles for visual anticipation of motion trajectories,” and she is now a research engineer at start-up ZEBRYS.
- Dora Karvouniari, (Oct. 2014-Mar. 2018) defended her Ph.D. entitled “Retinal waves: theory, numerics, experiments” and she is now a specialist in scientific communication at Eurecom.
- N. V. Kartheek Medathati, (Oct. 2013-Dec. 2016) defended his Ph.D. entitled “Towards synergistic models of motion information processing in biological and artificial vision,” and he is now a Computer Vision Research Scientist with GE Global Research in Niskayuna (from 28th June 2021).
- Engineers:
- Jérémy Termoz-Masson (June 2021-Oct. 2023) Topic: Development of the Perception Toolbox for Virtual Reality (PTVR, https://ptvr.inria.fr), ANR DEVISE (https://devise.inria.fr)
- Iliann Caugant, Business developer (Sept. 2018-June 2019), is now Sales Business Development at BeNomad
- Marco Benzi, Engineer (Aug. 2017-June 2019), is now React Native Developer at felmo
- Josselin Gautier, Engineer (Aug. 2017-Mar. 2018), is now Postdoc at Institut de la Vision.
- Interns
- Johanna Delachambre, apprenticeship (Nov. 2020-Nov. 2022), is now doing her Ph.D. with us.
- Sebastián Gallardo Díaz, Internship (2020), will start a Ph.D. with us in January 2023.
- Ignacio Patricio Ampuero, Internship (2020).
- Alex Ye, Internship (2020).
- Teva Andreoletti, Internship (2018 and 2019).
- Francois Caddet, Internship (2017).
- Alberto Patino, Internship (2017).
- Marco Benzi, Internship (2016).
