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 completed a postdoc in the GraphDeco Team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, supervised by George Drettakis and Adrien Bousseau. I hold a PhD in Computer Graphics from Télécom Paris, where I was supervised by Tamy Boubekeur and Jean-Marc Thiery, (Title: “Morphing and level-of-detail operators for interactive digital material design and rendering”)

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: 6 April 2025)

Publications

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 - Symp. 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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