Staff

Caroline Grenier

[Development Engineer]

Caroline Grenier is a development engineer at CS' Virtual Reality Division. She participated to the Starmate project in charge of developing an augmented reality documentation system for mobile computers. She contributed to the V-PLanet state of the art report, to the V-Planet specifications and is one of the core developer of the Virtual Planet. She received her engineering diploma in computer science and applied mathematics from the ENSEEIHT high school in Toulouse. [contact]

Véronique Lefrère

[Development Engineer]

Véronique Lefrère is a senior developer for CS' Virtual Reality Division. She was responsible for the GUI development in the both the CAVALCADE Esprit project and the VISIONS software. She has expertise in man-machine interface ergonomy and graphical interfaces such as Qt and X/Motif. She has previously participated in projects in the Earth observation and satellite software fields. [contact]

Ulrich Roissard

[Development Engineer]

Ulrich Roissard is a developer in CS' Virtual Reality Division. Expert in 3D rendering and OpenGL, he has contributed to the V-Planet state of the art report and is now working on Vertigo3 that is the core library for real-time rendering used by V-Planet. He received his post-graduate qualification in computer science applied to image synthesis from the IRIT research institute in Toulouse. [contact]

Guillaume Terrissol

[Development Engineer]

Guillaume Terrissol is a developer in CS'Virtual Reality Division. Expert in 3D rendering and OpenGL, he has contributed to the V-Planet Beta release development and is also working on Vertigo3 that is the core library for real-time rendering used by V-Planet. He received hid post-graduate qualification in digital image engineering from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. [contact]

Sylvain Airault

[End User]

Sylvain Airault is a senior engineer working since1990 in the R&D department. His main areas of expertise include image processing, shape recognition, aerial photogrammetry and GIS. From 1992 to 1997, he was in charge of a research project in the MATIS laboratory concerning the automatic road extraction from aerial images. During this period, he has been the author of more than 15 papers published in conference proceedings. Since 1998, he works on a development project concerning the automatic production of digital orthophotos, especially on the problem of automatic mosaicking of large sets of images.
He is also redactor in chief of the scientific publication of the French Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (S.F.P.T.).[contact]

Christophe Valorge

[End User]

Dr Christophe Valorge is a senior engineer and head of the "High Resolution" Department of the "Image Quality and Processing" Division. His main areas of expertise include photogrammetry, remote sensing, signal and image processing, instrument and satellite modelisation and image simulation.
Prior to his current position, he was in charge of the image quality for the Helios II project for 4 years, after 4 years on the TOPEX-POSEIDON project (responsible for precise orbit determination). He graduated from Sup'Aéro and Ecole Polytechnique.
He is also professor in Remote Sensing at the Versailles-Saint Quentin University and Sup'Aero Toulouse and expert representing France at the OEEPE (the European Organisation for Experimental Photogrammetric Research) science and steering committees. He has co-organised international conferences on Geometric Quality and Assessment of remotely sensed images and was at the origin of the creation of a dedicated Working Group within ISPRS, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. [contact]

Mihai Datcu

[End User]

Dr Mihai Datcu received the Ph.D. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the University "Politechnica" of Bucharest-UPB, Romania, in 1986 and the title "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, in 1999. He holds a professorship in electronics and telecommunications with UPB since 1981. Since 1993 he is scientist with the German Aerospace Center-DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen. He is developing algorithms for scene understanding from synthetic aperture radar-SAR and interferometric SAR data, model-based methods for information retrieval, and conducts research in information theoretical aspects and semantic representations in advanced communication systems.
He held visiting professor appointments from 1991 to 1992 at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oviedo, Spain, from 1992 to 1993, 1996 to 1998, and 2000 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and in 1994 was guest scientist with the Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing-CSCS Manno, Switzerland. He was teaching stochastic image analysis, fractal analysis, image processing in medical sciences and designing and developing new concepts and systems for image information mining, realistic visualisation, query by image content from very large image archives, new algorithms for parameter estimation.
Currently he is Image Analysis group leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute-IMF, of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen. His interest is in Bayesian inference, information theory, stochastic processes, model-based scene understanding, image information mining, with applications in information retrieval and understanding of high resolution SAR and optical observations.[contact]

Roberto Scopigno

[Senior Researcher]

Dr. Roberto Scopigno is a Senior Research Scientist with the Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione of the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy (temporarily assigned to Istituto CNUCE, CNR, Pisa). He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1984. Since 1990 he had joint appointments at the Department of Computer Engineering and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, where he taught computer graphics courses.
He has been engaged in research projects concerned with scientific visualisation, volume rendering, 3D web graphics multi-resolution data modelling and rendering, 3D range scanning, Cultural Heritage applications (e.g. EU HCM "Network of Excellence in Computer Graphics" 1994-'96, EU Telematics "Aquarelle - Sharing Cultural Heritage through Multimedia Telematics", IE-2005, 1996-'98, and many other national projects).
He published more than fifty papers in international refereed journals/conferences and has given invited lectures and tutorials on visualisation and computer graphics at many international conferences. He has been involved in the organisation of national and international conferences: he was the International Program Committee Co-Chair of the Eurographics '99 Conference, and member of the Program Committee of: ACM/IEEE 1998 Symposium on Volume Visualisation, Eurographics 2000 Conference, Eurographics Visualisation Symp. '99 and '00. He has served as reviewer in many national and international conferences and journals. He is member of Eurographics and IEEE Computer Society.[contact]

Enrico Gobbetti

[Senior Researcher]

Dr Enrico Gobbetti, senior researcher and head of the Visualisation and Virtual Reality (VVR) group at CRS4, obtained his Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His current research interests include 3D interaction, programming paradigms for computer graphics and computer animation, visualisation, time-critical graphics, and virtual reality. Application domains include medical imaging, surgical simulation, scientific visualisation, and virtual prototyping.
Prior to holding his current position, Enrico has conducted research on 3D interaction and animation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and on time-critical graphics, interactive physics-based simulation, and virtual reality at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and at the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. He has taught graduate and post-graduate courses in computer science at EPFL and UMBC, organised tutorials on virtual reality at international conferences, participated to international program committees, and published more about 50 papers in books, international journals and conference proceedings in his fields of research. [contact]