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Xavier Granier Doctor / Engineer
Computer Science
Applied Mathematics
Computer Graphics
Born on : 17th of March, 1975
Nationality : French
Address : Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia
201-2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, Canada
Phone : 1-604-822-5109
Fax : 1-604-822-5485
Email : xgranier@cs.ubc.ca
Web : http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~xgranier
Position
Decembre 2001-now
  • Post-doctoral assistant
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver-Canada
  • PIMS Post-doctoral Fellowship
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    July 2000-November 2001
  • PhD student (George Drettakis - Claude Puech)
    REVES/INRIA, Sophia Antipolis-France
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
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    September 1998-July 2000
  • PhD student (George Drettakis - Claude Puech)
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
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    October 1997-June 1998
  • DEA student (George Drettakis)
    iMAGIS/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
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    Formation

    Ph.D in Computer Science
    University Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble-France)
    Title Automatic Quality Control for Global Illumination
    Place iMAGIS-GRAVIR/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France.
    Years 1998-2001
    Defended on November, 2001

    DEA (French Master) Image Synthesis,Vision and Robotics
    University INPG ( Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble ), France
    Title Radiosity Global Illumination with Limited Memory
    Place iMAGIS-GRAVIR/IMAG-INRIA, Grenoble-France
    Years 1997-1998
    Defended on June, 1998

    Engineer School

    		ENSIMAG
    École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
    (Computer Science and Applied Mathemathics Engineer School of Grenoble)
    University INPG ( Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble ), France
    Specialty Scientific Computation, Image Synthesis, Vision and Robotique
    Years 1995-1998
    Diploma in June, 1998

    Classes Preparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles
    1994-1995 Lycée des Chartreux, Lyon-France.
    1993-1994 Lycée Saint Joseph, Avignon-France

    Teaching
    2001-2002
  • Global illumination overview (for graduate students)
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver-Canada
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    2000-2001
  • Language and Programmation (for student in university third year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
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    1999-2000
  • Unix and Pascal initiation (for student in university first year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
  • Language and Data Base initiation (for student in university second year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
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    1998-1999
  • Language and Data Base initiation (for student in university second year)
    Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble-France
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    Publications
    2002
  • Accurate Light Source Acquisition and Rendering
    Michael Goesele, Xavier Granier, Wolfgang Heidrich, Hans-Peter Seidel
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2003
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    2002
  • A Simple Layered RGB BRDF Model
    Xavier Granier, Wolfgang Heidrich
    Pacific Graphics 2002
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    2001
  • Automatic Quality Control for Global Illumination
    Xavier Granier,PhD UJF
    Directors:George Drettakis, Claude Puech
  • Incremental Updates for Rapid Glossy Global Illumination
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis
    Eurographics 2001
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    2000
  • Simulation rapide de l'éclairage global
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter
    Journées de l'Association Française d'Informatique Graphique, Grenoble-France, November 2000
  • Fast Global Illumination Including Specular Effects
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter
    11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2000
  • Efficient Glossy Global Illumination with Interactive Viewing
    Marc Stamminger, Annette Scheel, Xavier Granier, Frederic Perez-Cazorla, George Drettakis, François Sillion
    Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 19, Number 1, March 2000
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    1999
  • Interactive Virtual Relighting and Remodeling of Real Scenes
    Céline Loscos, Marie-Claude Frasson, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter, Xavier Granier, Pierre Poulin
    10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, June 1999.
  • Interactive Virtual Relighting and Remodeling of Real Scenes
    Céline Loscos, Marie-Claude Frasson, George Drettakis, Bruce Walter, Xavier Granier, Pierre Poulin
    INRIA Technical Report
  • Efficient Glossy Global Illumination with Interactive Viewing
    Marc Stamminger, Annette Scheel, Xavier Granier, Frederic Perez-Cazorla, George Drettakis, François Sillion
    Graphics Interface 99, Kingston, Juin 1999
  • Controlling Memory Consumption of Hierarchical Radiosity with Clustering
    Xavier Granier, George Drettakis
    Graphics Interface 99, Kingston, Juin 1999
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    Technical Knowledge

    In Mathematics
    Apllied Mathematics
  • Numeric analysis and simulations (numeric integration, probabilist integration, multi-resolution inegration, matrix computation, optimization,...)
  • Signal processing (Fourier analysis, wavelets,...)
  • Probability
  • Statistics and Density Estimation
  • C.A.G.D
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    Mathematics for Computer Science
  • Discreet mathematics
  • Language and compilation theory
  • Logic
  • Formal computation
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    In Computer Science
    Programming
  • C/C++, Ada, Pascal,Scheme,...
  • Maple, SQL, ...
  • OpenGL,QT, Motif,...
  • Lex,Yacc,...
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    Image Synthesis
  • Global illumination (hierarchical radiosity, monte-carlo integration, density estimation..)
  • Rendering
  • Modelling
  • Acquisition
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    Operating Systems
  • UNIX (Linux, Sgi-IRIX,Solaris,AIX)
  • MS-Windows 95/98/Me,NT/2000,XP
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    In Languages
    French Native
    English Spoken and written
    German Some notions