Basile Sauvage

ICube
Pôle API, 300, Boulevard Sébastien Brant 
CS 10413
F 67412 Illkirch Cedex

Office: C117
Tel: +33 (0)3 68 85 45 67 
e-mail: sauvage AT unistra.fr

Current position

Professor of computer science, Université de Strasbourg
Leader of the CS group at IREM of Strasbourg (Research institute for teaching mathematics)
President of AFIG (french learned society for computer graphics)
Member of the executive board of SIF (french learned society for computer science), assistant vice president for education
Member of the scientific board of GdR IG-RV (CNRS research group for computer graphics, virtual reality, and visualization)
President of the expert committee, CS department, UFR de mathématique et d’informatique
Teaching manager, CS department , UFR de mathématique et d’informatique

December 2023: Unreal Engine has implemented our model for real-time glints.
November 2023: our paper "Real-time Terrain Enhancement with Controlled Procedural Patterns" has been accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum.
November 2023: our paper on texture mixing (R. Fournier and B. Sauvage, soon available) received the best paper award at JFIG 2023.
November 2023: Charline Grenier (audience prize) and Romain Fournier (jury 2nd prize) have been awarded at the 2023 JFIG shadertoy contest.
September 2023: I am promoted to full professor at the university of Strasbourg.
January 2023: our paper "Preserving the autocovariance of texture tilings using importance sampling" has been accepted to Eurographics 2023. Awarded an honorable mention to the Günter Enderle Best Paper Award.
January 2023: Le Vaisseau inaugurated its new exhibition about AI. We collaborated through a scientific mediation project funded by the IdEx Université et Cité. See the news from the faculty and the DNA.
September 2022: our paper "Color-mapped noise vector fields for generating procedural micro-patterns" has been accepted to Pacific Graphics 2022. Awarded "Best Student Presentation". Awarded the Graphics Replicability Stamp.
September 2022: Romain Fournier joins us for a PhD thesis. Welcome!

since 2023 Professor of Computer Science at the university of Strasbourg.
- Researcher at ICube laboratory (formerly LSIIT), Computational Geometry & Computer Graphics team.
- Teacher at the University of Strasbourg (Computer Science department, UFR Mathématique-Informatique).
2018 accreditation to supervise research (pdf, french)
2018 diploma for teaching skills in higher education
2006-2023 Associate Professor of Computer Science at the university of Strasbourg.
2005-2006 Research and teaching assistant at the university Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
2002-2005 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at INP-Grenoble (technological university), laboratoire de Modélisation et Calcul. Advisors: Stefanie Hahmann and Georges-Pierre Bonneau.
2002-2005 Teaching assistant at the INP-Grenoble.
2002 Master of Science degree (Applied Mathematics) from the university Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
2002 Engineering master degree from ENSIMAG, Grenoble (engineering school in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science).

Xavier Chermain (2019-2021, advisor). Subject: synthesis and rendering of complex procedural textures.

Romain Fournier (2022-2025). Subject: Spatial control of procedural textures for on-the-fly synthesis.
Charline Grenier (2020-2023). Subject: procedural texture graphs for ray-tracing rendering.
Nicolas Lutz (2017-2021). Subject: multi-channel procedural models for modelling virtual worlds.
Geoffrey Guingo (2015-2019). Subject: synthesis of dynamic textures on deformable objects.
Kenneth Vanhoey (2010-2014). Subject: joint treatment of geometry and radiance of 3D model digitization.