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.
Advisors: Claude Puech (Professor, University of Grenoble, head of iMAGIS lab) and George Drettakis (Researcher, INRIA).

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).
Research project: "Interactive High-Quality Soft Shadows for Scenes with Moving Objects" (Discontinuity meshing), supervised by George Drettakis.

1995
(January-July)

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
- Lectures on Programming, MScCS and MScIT. The course includes JAVA programming.
- Lectures on Computer Graphics, MScRes.

1996-1999

Assistantship at Grenoble University, France, undergraduate courses
- Full teaching responsibility: "Introduction to Computer Science", the course included Pascal programming.
- "Languages and Programming", the course included ADA programming.
- "Architecture", the course included VHDL programming, and Procesim simulator.

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).
Invited speaker at the Percro Seminar (Pisa, Italy).

1999

Invited speaker at the IRIT Seminar (Toulouse, France).
Invited speaker at the LABRI Seminar (Bordeaux, France).
Invited speaker at the Computer Graphics working group of the LABRI lab (Bordeaux, 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

 

French, English