Jean-Charles Bazin


  I am a postdoctoral researcher at Computer Graphics Laboratory of Prof. Markus Gross and at Computer Vision and Geometry Group of Prof. Marc Pollefeys at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. I am a member of the Being There Center and also working in collaboration with Disney Research Zurich.

  My CV



I am offering some research topics for students (undegraduate, master) and interns, interested in computer vision/graphics. Do not hesitate to send me an email to apply for a topic. Your are also welcome to suggest your own topics.

Profile

Education

Sept. 2011 - Present Post-doctoral researcher at CGL/CVG, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Advisors: Prof. Markus Gross and Prof. Marc Pollefeys
Sept. 2010 - May 2011 Post-doctoral fellow in CVL (Ikeuchi Lab), University of Tokyo, Japan

Advisor: Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi
Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2010 PhD degree at RCV Lab, KAIST, South Korea

Advisor: Prof. Inso Kweon
Sept. 2005 - Sept. 2006 Master of Science (DEA) at UTC, France
Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2006     Engineering diploma in Computer Sciences at UTC, France

Contact

Computer Graphics Laboratory

ETH Zurich, CAB G 100.5

Universitatstrasse 6

8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)44 633 79 38
E-mail: jebazin _AT_ inf.ethz.ch


News
6-10. May 2013 Attending Eurographics 2013 in Girona, Spain, to present our paper

27. March 2013 Our paper about interactive image painting has been conditionally accepted at SIGGRAPH'13!!!

See you in Anaheim, California in July 2013


21. March 2013 Our work on gaze correction for video-conferencing has been nominated in the top 5 of the most promising ETH inventions of the year!!!


10. Jan. 2013 Our paper about music retargeting has been accepted at Eurographics'13!!!

See you in Girona, Spain in May 2013


9. Dec. 2012 Our paper about inlier correspondence set maximization has been accepted at PAMI!!!

28. Nov.-1. Dec. 2012 Attending SIGGRAPH Asia'12 in Singapore, to present our paper

20. Nov. 2012 Invited talk at VML Lab, KAIST, South Korea

19. Nov. 2012 Invited talk at SG Lab, KAIST, South Korea

5-9. Nov. 2012 Attending ACCV'12 in Daejeon, South Korea, to present our paper

13-17. Oct 2012 Attending 3DimPVT'12 and 3DTV-CON'12 in Zurich, Switzerland, to present our paper

7-12. Oct 2012 Attending IROS'12 in Vilamoura, Portugal, to present our paper

2. Oct 2012 Invited talk at AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland

25. Sept 2012 Our paper about inlier set maximization with a rotation model has been accepted in oral at ACCV'12!!!

See you in Daejeon, South Korea in November 2012


4. Sept 2012 Our paper about 3D video-conferencing has been accepted at 3DTV-CON'12!!!

See you in Zurich in November 2012


6. Aug 2012 Our paper about gaze correction has been accepted at SIGGRAPH-Asia'12!!!!

See you in Singapore in November 2012


2. July 2012 Our paper about 3-line RANSAC has been accepted at IROS'12!!!

See you in Vilamoura, Portugal in October 2012


16-21. June 2012 Attending CVPR'12 in Providence, USA, to present our paper





Book
  • Book "catadioptric vision for robotic applications", February 2011, 192 pages
    Contact me by email to get "OmniToolbox v2.1", the Omnidirectional Vision Toolbox for Matlab
Line clustering
  • Omni-video stabilization
    "Stabilizing Omnidirectional Videos Using 3D Structure and Spherical Image Warping", by Mostafa Kamali, Atsuhiko Banno, Jean-Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon and Katsushi Ikeuchi, MVA'11, MVA best paper award nominee.
Line clustering
  • 2-point algorithm
    "Motion estimation by decoupling rotation and translation in catadioptric vision", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Cedric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur and Inso Kweon, CVIU'10
Line clustering
  • Sensor Fusion for Navigation
    "Ground Vehicle Navigation in Harsh Urban Conditions by Integrating Inertial Navigation System, Global Positioning System, Odometer and Vision Data", by Seong-Baek Kim, Jean-Charles Bazin, Hyung-Keun Lee, Kyung-Ho Choi and Sang-Young Park, IET RSN'11
VP extraction
  • VP extraction
    - "3-line RANSAC for Orthogonal Vanishing Point Detection", by Jean-Charles Bazin and Marc Pollefeys, IROS'12
    - "Rotation Estimation and Vanishing Point Extraction by Omnidirectional Vision in Urban Environment", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Cedric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur and Inso Kweon, IJRR'12 (journal version)
    - "An Original Approach for Automatic Plane Extraction by Omnidirectional Vision", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Inso Kweon, Cedric Demonceaux and Pascal Vasseur, IROS'10 (2pt for H)
    - "A Robust Top-Down Approach for Rotation Estimation and Vanishing Points Extraction by Catadioptric Vision in Urban Environment", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon, Cedric Demonceaux and Pascal Vasseur, IROS'08 (orth VP)
    - "UAV Attitude Estimation by Vanishing Points in Catadioptric Images", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon, Cedric Demonceaux and Pascal Vasseur, ICRA'08 (bundles)
Skyline IR
  • Skyline extraction in IR-cata images
    "Dynamic Programming and Skyline Extraction in Catadioptric Infrared Images", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon, Cedric Demonceaux and Pascal Vasseur, ICRA'09

Research - optimization (selected)


Feature correspondence
  • "A Branch and Bound Approach to Correspondence and Grouping Problems" by Jean-Charles Bazin, Hongdong Li, Inso Kweon, Cedric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur and Katsushi Ikeuchi, PAMI, 2013

Rotation search
  • "Globally Optimal Consensus Set Maximization Through Rotation Search" by Jean-Charles Bazin, Yongduek Seo and Marc Pollefeys ACCV'12 (oral, 3.6% acceptance rate)

    Code to be released soon
Line clustering
  • "Globally Optimal Line Clustering and Vanishing Point Estimation in Manhattan World" by Jean-Charles Bazin, Yongduek Seo, Cedric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Inso Kweon and Marc Pollefeys, CVPR'12

    Code (line extraction and clustering) to be released soon

Research - telepresence (selected)

gaze correction
  • Gaze correction
    "Gaze Correction for Home Video Conferencing" by Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Popa, Jean-Charles Bazin, Craig Gotsman and Markus Gross SIGGRAPH Asia'12

3D teleconferencing
  • 3D teleconferencing
    "Towards Next Generation 3D Teleconferencing Systems" by Claudia Kuster, Nicola Ranieri, Agustina, Henning Zimmer, Jean-Charles Bazin, Chengzheng Sun, Tiberiu Popa and Markus Gross 3DTV-CON'12 (special session)

Research - fun projects (selected)







Image Painting
  • Digital image painting
    "Painting by Feature: Texture Boundaries for Example-based Image Creation", by Michal Lukac, Jakub Fiser, Jean-Charles Bazin, Ondrej Jamriska, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung and Daniel Sykora, SIGGRAPH'13, coming soon...
Music Retargeting
  • Music retargeting
    "Scalable Music: Automatic Music Retargeting and Synthesis", by Simon Wenner, Jean-Charles Bazin, Changil Kim, Alexander Hornung and Markus Gross, Eurographics'13
World Tour in 80 secs
  • Internet trip
    "Around the World in 80 Seconds", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Alexandre Richard, Yu-Wing Tai and Inso Kweon, SIGGRAPH'11 (poster session)
face modeling
  • 3D face modeling
    "2D/3D Virtual Face Modeling", by Soonkee Chung, Jean-Charles Bazin and Inso Kweon, ICIP'11
Virtual face sculpting
  • Virtual face sculpting
    "Virtual Face Sculpting", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Soonkee Chung, Roger Blanco Ribera, Quang Pham and Inso Kweon, SIGGRAPH'10 (poster session)
Virtual face sculpting
  • Eye opening
    "Automatic Closed Eye Correction", by Jean-Charles Bazin, Dang-Quang Pham, Inso Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon, ICIP'09
Robot dance


Publication


  cf My CV