Romain Pacanowski
Research Scientist at Inria
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolRomain Pacanowski is a research scientist with 13 years of experience specializing in physically-based rendering and appearance modeling for both real-time and offline applications. His work spans global illumination, irradiance caching, (SV-)BRDF and BTF acquisition, and practical real-time techniques like deferred shading and PRT, with a particular interest in integrating synthetic objects into film and photography. Having held research roles at Inria, CNRS, Disney Research and CEA, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in computer graphics with hands-on measurement and device design for appearance capture. He is now exploring volumetric scattering and translucency to extend his expertise beyond surface reflectance into participating media. Less obvious: he couples advanced basis-function approaches (spherical harmonics, wavelets, sRBF) with low-cost measurement strategies, aiming to make high-fidelity appearance practical for production pipelines. Based in Bordeaux, France, he brings a rare combination of theoretical depth and applied measurement experience to problems at the intersection of optics and graphics.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Graphics, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Graphics, Computer Science at Université de MontréalPhD, Computer Graphics, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Graphics, Computer Science at Université Bordeaux I
English, French
Github Skills (5)
calibration2
photography1
intrinsics1
image-processing1
camera1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
belcour/alta
Jan 2013 - Mar 2021
ALTA: A BRDF Analysis Library
Contributions:266 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 years 3 months
brdf
drpaca/drpaca.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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