Jean-François Lalonde
Full professor in ECE @ Université Laval
Associate scientific director @ Institute Intelligence and Data (IID)
Welcome! I am a Full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Université Laval, specializing in computer vision. Since 2022, I am also the associate scientific director of the IID (Institute Intelligence and Data). I grew up in Québec City, Canada, lived almost 10 years in the States and have been back in this beautiful city since 2013.
I obtained my Ph.D. in 2011 from the Robotics Institute, in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Alyosha Efros and Srinivas Narasimhan. I then spent a year as a Computer Vision Scientist at Tandent, Inc., followed by another year as a Post-Doc at Disney Research, Pittsburgh.
I do research in computer vision, machine learning, AR and VR. In particular, I am interested in exploring how physics-based models and data-driven machine learning techniques can be combined to better understand, model, interpret, and recreate the richness of our visual world. See here for a more “official” bio.
I’ve been fortunate to count this amazing group of people as my students. My group has captured some of the largest datasets of HDR illumination, both indoors and outdoors, freely available to academic researchers. Get them here.
Want to know more? Do one (or many, or all) of the following:
- En français : consultez l’article publié par ULaval Nouvelles sur nos travaux.
- have a look at my publications;
- read this short paper (best paper award at WIO 2018);
- watch the keynote presentation I gave at the OmniCV workshop @ CVPR 2020
- visionnez cette présentation (séminaire REPARTI) en français :
news
Jul 3, 2024 | Julie successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis today, congratulations, Dr. Buquet! |
Jun 25, 2024 | Just back from CVPR 2024 where Justine presented her work on IQA metrics for lighting estimation. Meanwhile, Yohan is going to be at EGSR 2024 next week to present his work on multi-view relighting using ControlNet + 3DGS! |
May 8, 2024 | Welcoming two interns to our lab for the summer: Dominique Tanguay-Gaudreau and Louis-Étienne Messier. We’re happy to have you! |
Apr 16, 2024 | Follow the ever amazing Justine Giroux in her quest to make virtual lighting more realistic for humans (French), ou comment rendre l’éclairage virtuel plus réaliste pour l’humain. |
Apr 3, 2024 | Presenting the Everlight line of work (by the famous Momo) at the ACM SIGGRAPH Montreal Chapter event. So fun to meet the Montreal graphics community! |
Mar 26, 2024 | So proud that, out of 12 finalists at the Concours de la recherche en sciences et données 2024, two of my students placed in the top 3. Congratulations Akshaya and Justine for your first and third place respectively! Your talks were absolutely amazing. |