Céline Loscos
Researcher in Computer Graphics
Research Interests
Computer Graphics |
- Virtual Reality - Rendering and Illumination - Augmented Reality |
Professional experience
2001-now |
Lecturer at UCL, in the
computer science department. Research carried in the group Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments. |
2000-2001 |
Postdoc at UCL, in the Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments group. |
Education
1996-2000 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, "Interactive Modelling for Common Illumination in Augmented Reality", at iMAGIS/GRAVIR lab, Grenoble University, France. |
1995-1996 |
Graduate Degree: D.E.A. in Computer Graphics, Vision, Robotics (equivalent to M.Sc.), at National Engineering School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in Grenoble (ENSIMAG). |
1995 |
End of Undergraduate Degree at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada). Project on Intelligent Agents, supervised by Dr. Krishnan. |
1990-1995 |
Undergraduate Degree at Grenoble University: Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science major. |
Publications
International Conferences |
Céline Loscos, Franco Tecchia, Yiorgos Chrysanthou - Real Time Shadows for Animated Crowds in Virtual Cities - ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology 2001 (VRST01), Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2001. Franco Tecchia, Celine Loscos, Ruth Conroy, Yiorgos Chrysanthou -Agent Behaviour Simulation (ABS): A Platform for Urban Behaviour Development - GTEC'2001, Hong Kong, January 2001. Céline Loscos, George Drettakis – Low-cost Photometric Calibration for Interactive Relighting – the First French-British International Workshop on Virtual Reality, Brest, France, July 11-12, 2000. Céline Loscos, Marie-Claude Frasson, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter, Xavier Granier, Pierre Poulin – Interactive Virtual Relighting and Remodelling of Real Scenes – 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, Spain, June1999. Céline Loscos, George Drettakis – Interactive High-Quality Soft Shadows in Scenes with Moving Objects – Eurographics '97, Budapest, Hungary, September 1997. |
Journals |
Franco Tecchia, Céline Loscos, Yiorgos Chrysanthou - Image Based Crowd Rendering> - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, March/April 2002 (Vol. 22, No. 2). Céline Loscos, George Drettakis, Luc Robert – Interactive Virtual Relighting of Real Scenes – IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, volume 6, number 3, July-September 2000. |
Technical Report |
Céline Loscos, George Drettakis, Luc Robert – Interactive Virtual Relighting of Real Scenes – Technical report RT-0225, INRIA Rhônes-Alpes, November 1998. |
National Conference |
Céline Loscos, George Drettakis – Algorithme incrémental de mise à jour du maillage de discontinuité pour les environnements dynamiques – In Quatrièmes journées de l'Association Française d'Informatique Graphique, November 1996. |
Teaching Activities
2000 |
Lectures at UCL, London, UK |
1996-1999 |
Assistantship at Grenoble University, France, undergraduate courses |
1997-1998 |
Assistantship at "Lycée Champollion" in Grenoble, France, undergraduate courses for engineering. Full responsibility for projects in Pascal programming. |
Collaborations
2002-now | Collaborations through European projects: CREATE and PureForm |
1998-1999 |
Collaboration with the Computer Graphics Group (head: Pierre Poulin), Université de Montréal, Canada. |
1997-1998 |
Collaboration with the ROBOTVIS project (head: Olivier Faugeras), Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France. |
Research-Related Activities, Seminars
2000 |
Invited speaker at the Surrey University Seminar (Guildford, UK). |
1999 |
Invited speaker at the IRIT Seminar (Toulouse, France). |
1997-1998 |
Organiser of the iMAGIS Seminar (scientific talks on Computer Graphics related topics from renowned international invited speakers). |
1997-1998 |
Volunteer Student at SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles (1997), Orlando (1998), USA). |
1996 |
Volunteer Student at Eurographics (Poitiers, France). |
Programming Experience
Languages |
C/C++, ADA, VHDL, Prolog, Pascal, Lisp, SQL, 68000, SPARC |
Graphics Libraries |
Open Inventor, Open GL |
Non-Research Activities
1990-1996 |
Coach in Figure Skating, competition level, (national diploma). |
1994 (July) |
Developer of "mail management for secretary software", at CEGID, Lyon, France. |
Languages
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French, English |