Franck Hétroy-Wheeler

Position

Professor in computer science at the University of Strasbourg since september 2017.

This means I am both:

• teaching at the department of mathematics and computer science of the university;

• and a researcher in the Engineering science, computer science and imaging laboratory ICube, in the IGG team.

I am also an associate member of Inria MOSAIC team (Lyon).

Research

Research statement

My work spans computer vision and computer graphics to computational geometry and topology and to remote sensing. With an overall goal of shape analysis and understanding, my research interests include the acquisition, reconstruction and processing of 3D shapes in motion. I have worked on shapes digitised with laser scanners as well as multi-view stereo systems or medical imagery. These shapes range from human bodies and organs to animals, trees, plants or even mechanical parts. Currently I am especially interested in trees and plants, because of their challenging geometric and topological complexities.

Keywords: digital geometry processing, segmentation, reconstruction, geometric and topological feature computation.

Publications

NEW: My book Geometric and Topological Mesh Feature Extraction for 3D Shape Analysis, written with Jean-Luc Mari and Gérard Subsol, is on sale here.

Projects

• Crop3D (CIFRE PhD scholarship from ANRT with Arvalis)
• (H2020 project), as a member of Inria MOSAIC team
• SimPFI (IDEX funding from the University of Strasbourg; collaboration with Forest Research)

Students

NEW: Master proposal (2020): A Branch and Bound approach to align protein cavities

Postdoc

• Joris Ravaglia (started October 2019). Topic: Designing a simulator for planning Terrestrial laser scanner-based forest inventories. Part of the SimPFI project. Other advisor: Eric Casella (Forest Research, UK)

PhD students

• Mélinda Boukhana (started March 2018). Topic: Camera position optimisation for crop 3D acquisition and plant organ characterization. Part of the Crop3D project. Other advisors: Frédéric Baret (INRA Avignon) and Benoît de Solan (Arvalis)
• Katia Mirande (started November 2018). Topic: 3D segmentation and growth tracking of plant point clouds in field conditions. Part of the ROMI project. Other advisor: Christophe Godin (Inria Lyon)

And in Grenoble:

• Romain Rombourg (started October 2015). Topic: Terrestrial laser scanner noise analysis, modelling and detection. Part of the Digitree project. Other advisor: Eric Casella (Forest Research, UK)

Romain will defend his PhD on the 5th of December 2019

Software and data sets

Software:

• 3DtLaplace (related paper)
• CVT Generator (PhD work of Li Wang, related paper 1, related paper 2)
• meshJND (PhD work of Georges Nader, related paper 1, related paper 2)

Data sets:

• Mesh sequences and motion capture data of dressed humans in motion (PhD work of Jinlong Yang, related paper)
• Animation skeletons for various animals (related paper)

See my former page for more details on my research work until 2017.

Teaching

• Head (with Caroline Essert) of the Image track of the Master Curriculum in Engineering (CMI) of the University of Strasbourg

Lectures:

• Digital geometry for 1st year master students in computer science (Spring 2018 and Spring 2019)
• Advanced algorithms for 1st year master students in computer science (Autumn 2018 and 2019)
• Data structures and algorithms for 2nd year bachelor students in computer science (Autumn 2017, 2018 and 2019)
• Knowledge and practice of computers for 1st year bachelor students in maths and computer science (Spring 2019)
• University work methodologies for 1st year bachelor students in maths and computer science (Autumn 2018 and 2019)
• Algorithms and programming for 1st year bachelor students in maths and computer science (Spring 2018)

Contact

Lab. iCube, IGG team

300 bd Sébastien Brant

CS 10413

F-67412 Illkirch Cedex, France

E-mail: hetroywheeler@unistra.fr

Tel.: +33 (0) 368 854 555