Bonjour!
I am a PhD student in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, working under the supervision of Prof. Alexei (Alyosha) Efros. I am interested in computer vision and computer graphics, and especially at the intersection of both. With my advisor, I am exploring data-driven techniques that exploit the large amount of available image data to "learn, understand, and resynthesize our visual world".
Photo Clip Art in the news...
- The Independent: Instant makeup: Perfect your holiday snaps
- The Tartan: Like Photoshop, but easier
- CMU website: Image editing made easier
- BBC News: Photo tool could fix bad images
- CNET News.com: Researchers try Google approach to understanding photos
- News.fr (french): Le photomontage pour les nuls
- USAToday: Researchers try Google photo tactic
- C't magazine (german): Fotomontage im Handumdrehen
- Press release
Here's what would happen if we were to merge both James' and my paper together into one system (courtesy of The Daily Mail).
I spent last summer working in a cool startup company in Pittsburgh named Penthera Technologies. It was a great opportunity for me to discover how things work in the "real world". I got to play around with PDAs, cell phones and high-bitrate streaming video.
I come from the beautiful city of Québec, Canada, and graduated in May 2004 from Laval University in computer engineering. This is where I discovered computer vision, and since then I have been totally captivated by it.
Email: jlalonde at cs dot cmu dot edu
