Outstanding facts

Under the conduct of Jean-Michel Dischler, the IGG group has hosted the international conference EUROGRAPHICS'2014 in Strasbourg. In 2015, Jean-Michel Dischler was appointed Fellow of the Eurographics Association. After Coquillart Sabine (1999), Marie-Paule Cani (2005), Francois Sillion (2005) and George Drettakis (2007), it is the 5th active researcher in computer graphics in France named as Fellow of the Association to reward contributions as the association to research in geometry and computer graphics, rendering and visualization.

Indeed, the expertise in texture generation has been recognized by the acceptance of a new paper at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 conference along with a publication in the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal. It is a joint work of the University of Strasbourg (Basile Sauvage, Kenneth Vanhoey and Jean-Michel Dischler) and the University of Limoges (Guillaume Gilet and Djamchid Ghazanfarpour).

The IGG groups scientific quality was already recognized by the acceptance of a paper at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 conference along with a publication in the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal, the second best ranked computer science journal according to its impact factor in 2012. The paper proposes a multi-scale texture generation method that achieves a feasible balance between computation time and memory cost. It is a joint work of Kenneth Vanhoey, Basile Sauvage, Frédéric Larue and Jean-Michel Dischler.

The IGG groups scientific quality is recognized by the acceptance of a paper at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 conference along with a publication in the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal, the second best ranked computer science journal according to its impact factor in 2012. The paper proposes a multi-scale texture generation method that achieves a feasible balance between computation time and memory cost. It is a joint work of Kenneth Vanhoey, Basile Sauvage, Frédéric Larue and Jean-Michel Dischler.

Around the medical simulation theme, the IGG group is engaged (through eight of its members: 2PR, 1 CNRS Researcher, 1 engineer and 4AP) since March 2011 in the IHU MIX-Surg for guided mini-invasive surgery in Strasbourg.

Awards :

• Kenneth Vanhoey received a PhD award 2015 (prix de thèse 2015) from Université de Strasbourg, for its thesis on "Joint Treatment of Geometry and Radiance for 3D Model Digitisation". These prices are annually given to 20 outstanding PhD thesises that were presented in the previous year.
• Caroline Essert co-authored in 2014 a paper in collaboration with MediCIS group of LTSI Rennes, and CENIR in Paris, that won the ISCAS Olympus best paper award 2014, at conférence CARS, on the topic of pre-operative planning for deep brain stimulation (best paper among 95 oral presentation).
• The IGG group, in collaboration with the technology transfer center Holo3, has won the 3DUI Contest 2014, organized jointly to IEEE VR, the most important international conference in virtual reality, on the topic "Selection and hierarchical annotation of 3D point clouds".
• The ANR ACouStiC project (in which Caroline Essert is involved) received the 2013 grand prix du pôle de compétitivité Images et Réseaux of the Bretagne region. This award emphasizes the relevance of the project and the quality of produced work.
• Thomas Jund, under the supervision of David Cazier and Jean-François Dufourd, obtained a « SIAM Student Travel Award » for his participation at the SIAM-ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, October 5-8, 2009, San Francisco, California.