Jean-François Lalonde
Full Professor @ Université Laval, visual computing and artificial intelligence.

Welcome! I am originally from Québec City, Canada, and after almost 10 years in the States I am 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’m now a Full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Université Laval.
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.
Want to know more? Do one (or many, or all) of the following:
- 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
Jun 13, 2022 | Welcome to Raoul de Charette, my good friend and colleague from INRIA Paris, who is spending the week with us in the lab. |
Jun 1, 2022 | Got promoted to the rank of Full Professor! |
May 2, 2022 | We are hosting 4 undergraduate interns in the lab this summer: Isabelle Eysseric, Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard, Justin Lagüe, and Aryan Garg. Welcome! |
Apr 21, 2022 | Giving a talk at the Zoom sur l’IA multidisciplinaire from IVADO. |
Mar 17, 2022 | Two of our upcoming summer interns, Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard and Justin Lagüe, won a prestigious NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Awards. Congratulations to both of them! |
Mar 14, 2022 | Arman is on a roll: his paper “Matching Feature Sets for Few-Shot Image Classification” was accepted to CVPR 2022, and he recently landed an upcoming post-doc position with Smita Krishnaswamy at Yale! |