Alban Gauthier

Alban Gauthier

Researcher in
Computer Graphics

Biography

I am currently a Research Scientist at Solaya, where I am working on novel-view synthesis and material appearance modeling.

Previously, I was a postdoc at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, supervised by George Drettakis and Adrien Bousseau (GraphDeco).
I hold a PhD in Computer Graphics from Télécom Paris, where I was supervised by Tamy Boubekeur and Jean-Marc Thiery,

During my PhD, I interned twice at Adobe Research Paris (Summer 2021 and Autumn 2022). I hold a Master’s Degree from Télécom Paris and have interned at Dassault Systèmes working with realtime path-tracing on the GPU using a material graph.

My research interests include:

  • material appearance modeling
  • real-time rendering
  • novel-view synthesis
  • deep generative models.

(last update: 11 July 2025)

Publications

Splat and Replace: 3D Reconstruction with Repetitive Elements
Nicolás Violante, Andreas Meuleman, Alban Gauthier, Fredo Durand, Thibault Groueix, George Drettakis
 SIGGRAPH Conference Papers ’25 (SIGGRAPH 2025)
webpage - paper - code (soon) - video

An evaluation of SVBRDF Prediction from Generative Image Models for Appearance Modeling of 3D Scenes
Alban Gauthier, Valentin Deschaintre, Alexandre Lanvin, Fredo Durand, Adrien Bousseau, George Drettakis
 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Symposium Track (EGSR 2025)
webpage - paper - code (soon) - video

A Diffusion Approach to Radiance Field Relighting using Multi-Illumination Synthesis
Yohan Poirier-Ginter, Alban Gauthier, Julien Philip, Jean-Jean-François Lalonde, George Drettakis
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EGSR 2024)
webpage - paper - code - presentation

MatUp: Repurposing Image Upsamplers for SVBRDFs
Alban Gauthier, Bernhard Kerbl, Jérémy Levallois, Robin Faury, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EGSR 2024)
webpage - paper - code - presentation

Physically-based Lighting of 3D Generative Models of Cars
Nicolás Violante, Alban Gauthier, Stavros Diolatzis, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics 2024)
webpage - paper - code

Morphing and level-of-detail operators for interactive digital material design and rendering
Alban Gauthier (PhD Thesis, Aug. 2022)
Télécom Paris, LTCI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
webpage - manuscript

MIPNet: Neural Normal-to-Anisotropic-Roughness MIP Mapping
Alban Gauthier, Robin Faury, Jérémy Levallois, Théo Thonat, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
webpage - paper - code - video

MatMorpher: A Morphing Operator for SVBRDFs
Alban Gauthier, Jean-Marc Thiery and Tamy Boubekeur
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Symposium Track (EGSR 2021)
webpage - paper - code - presentation

Code

  • A Diffusion Approach to Radiance Field Relighting using Multi-Illumination Synthesis, CGF 2024
  • MatUp: Repurposing Image Upsamplers for SVBRDFs, CGF 2024
  • Physically-based Lighting of 3D Generative Models of Cars, CGF 2024
  • MIPNet: Neural Normal-to-Anisotropic-Roughness MIP Mapping, ACM TOG 2022
  • MatMorpher: A Morphing Operator for SVBRDFs, EGSR 2021

Work Experience

Solaya (March. 2025 - present)
Research Scientist

INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (March. 2023 - Feb. 2025)
Postdoc in the GraphDeco Team

Adobe Research Paris (Sept. 2022 - Nov. 2022)
Research Internship

Adobe Research Paris (June 2021 - Aug. 2021)
Research Internship

Dassault Systèmes, Vélizy-Villacoublay (Jan. 2019 - July 2019)
Master Internship

Education

Télécom Paris, Palaiseau (Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2022)
PhD Student in Computer Graphics

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2019)
Erasmus in Computer Graphics, Computational Photography and Deep Learning

Télécom Paris, Paris (Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2019)
Master in Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Machine Learning

CPGE at Lycée Victor Hugo, Besançon (2014 - 2016)
Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

Teaching

Academic service

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