Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams

CRISP2

• Title: Creating and Rendering Images based on the Study of Perception

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • University of California Berkeley

• Duration: 2011 - Present

• See also: http://www-sop.inria.fr/reves/crisp/

• The CRISP collaboration aims at developing novel techniques to create and manipulate effective numerical imagery. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on understanding how people create and perceive images, on developing new rendering algorithms based on this understanding, and on building interactive tools that enable users to efficiently produce the images they have in mind. The participants of CRISP share complementary expertise in computer graphics, human computer interaction and human visual perception.

  After a very productive year in 2013, we continued our work on drawing and manipulating materials in vector graphics in 2014. This work was published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal and presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) [17] . We are currently working on two collaborative projects in the context of CRISP. One project is on light transport simulation (with Ravi Ramamoorthi, now at UC San Diego), the other project is on appearance transfer between photographs (with Alyosha Efros, who recently joined UC Berkeley). We also have several project ideas to start with Martin S. Banks (Human Vision Science).

Informal International Partners

France-USA

Participants : Gaurav Chaurasia, Emmanuel Iarussi, Adrien Bousseau, George Drettakis.

Beyond the CRISP associate team, we have an ongoing collaboration with Adobe Research (Sylvain Paris) and MIT (Fredo Durand) on parallel image-proccessing languages and global illumination (Fredo Durand). We also have another collaboration with Adobe Research (Wilmot Li) on jewelry design. Emmanuel Iarussi did a 3-months visit at Adobe in the context of this collaboration.

France-Canada

Participant : Adrien Bousseau.

We collaborate with K. Singh (University of Toronto) and Alla Scheffer (U. British Columbia, Vancouver), on sketching techniques for designers (see Sec.  6.4.4 ).

France-Greece

Participant : George Drettakis.

We are collaborating with the Technical University of Crete on visual attention, in the context of the Ph.D. of George Koulieris, supervised by Prof. Katerina Mania and the Un. of Cottburg (D. Cunningham) (see Sec.  6.3.2 and   6.3.1 ).