ALICE : Geometry and Lighting (project-team)

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Project-Team Presentation

LORIA joint project-team with CNRS, University Henri Poincaré, University Nancy 2 and INPL.

ALICE is a research project-team in Computer Graphics. The fundamental aspects of this domain concerns the interaction of light with the geometry of the objects. The lighting problem consists in designing accurate and efficient numerical simulation methods for the light transport equation. The geometrical problem consists in developing new solutions to transform and optimize geometric representations. Our original approach to both issues is to restate the problems in terms of numerical optimization. We try to develop solutions that are provably correct, scalable and numerically stable, by studying the properties of the objective function and designing efficient minimization algorithms.

We develop applications of our methods to scientific visualization with researchers and with the industry. The applications comprise oil and gas exploration, plasma physics, bio-chemistry and computer aided design. Our main results are available in original publically available software platforms.

Research themes

• Geometry Processing
• Light Simulation
• Scientific Visualization

International and industrial relations

• Aim@Shape réseau d'excellence Européen / European Network of Excellence
• ACI Masses de données / Data masses
• ARC Georep
• CALVI and LPMIA (Plasma Physics)
• EDAM (biochemistry)

• Earth Decision Sciences and Gocad Consortium
• Microsoft Research
• Eden Games (Atari/Infogrammes)
• AMD, NVidia, 3D Labs

Software

Graphite, DViz

Scientific leader

Bruno LEVY     [homepage]
+33 3 83 59 30 70
Bruno.Levy@inria.fr