Research Topics
My research works mainly focus on virtual humans and several aspects around them. My PhD Thesis was focusing on path planning and posture adaptation in dynamic environments. I have been interested in developping real-time solutions for autonomous entities navigation in complex dynamic environments. For instance, we wanted to handle digital factories or video games worlds using physic simulations. My current research topics are more related to Virtual Environment for Training. In these environments, I am focusing on the collaboration between real users and virtual humans. Collaboration in this kind of environment is a really challenging problem as most of the interactions in our learning procedure are involving several actors, no matter they are users or virtual humans. Thus, the actions of a real user should be the same, no matter his/her teammates are real or virtual. More recently, I've started to work on a new project aiming at proposing new visual effects design tools for movie directors, in order to incorporate in real-time, during the shooting of the movie, visual effects and interactions between actors and digital contents, such as other virtual actors or virtual objects.
About me
I was born in 1985 in Caen, Normandy, France, where I stayed during 18 years. After I got my baccalaureate, I moved to Rennes, Brittany, for my studies. I obtained both my Computer Science Engineer degree and my Master of Research in Computer Science degree from the INSA of Rennes in 2008. During my Master Degree I integrated the Bunraku team of IRISA research institute in Rennes and I also worked with the LIGUM laboratory in Montreal. My Master Research was about realistic rendering and I worked with Pr. Kadi BOUATOUCH (IRISA, Rennes) and Pr. Pierre POULIN (LIGUM, Montreal). Then, I started my Ph.D in the BUNRAKU team under the supervision of the Assistant Professor Fabrice LAMARCHE (IRISA, Rennes). My Ph.D focuses on behavioral animation and more precisely on Path Planning and Posture Adaptation in Real Time in Dynamic Environments.
After my PhD defense, I obtained a research engineer position in INSA of Rennes to work in the CORVETTE project on Collaborative Virtual Environment for Training under the supervision of Valérie GOURANTON and Bruno ARNALDI in the research team Hybrid. I also joined the SIFORAS project which is quite close to CORVETTE and also concerns Virtual Training Applications. I then switch to an ATER position for 1 year in order to teach new courses in my former engineer school. It allowed me to teach as much courses as an assitant professor during this year. I am currently back to my research engineer position to work on the CORVETTE and SIFORAS projects but also to start a new project named Préviz and concerning innovative visual effects (VFX) tools for movie directors.
During my free time, I pratice lots of differents sports such as Squash, Badminton, Volley-ball, Ice Hockey... I am also found of taking and modifying photos. Finally, I also combine my research work with the great passion I have to meet new people and discover new cultures. I already had the opportunity to spend 3 months in Montreal during my Master Training and 2 other months in Taiwan during my Ph.D. I will try to continue on this way and combine as much as I can all of my passions, including research and teaching.
Contact
PhD in Computer Science, Hybrid Team
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes
FRANCE
: (+33)2 99 84 22 88
: tlopez[at]irisa.fr Hybrid's website : https://team.inria.fr/hybrid/
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