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.

Projects

• Digiplant (IDEX funding from the University of Strasbourg, more details to come soon)
• Crop3D (CIFRE PhD scholarship from ANRT with Arvalis)
• (H2020 project), as a member of Inria MOSAIC team

Still active projects from my time in Grenoble:

• ACHMOV (ANR project)
• Digitree (Université Grenoble Alpes' AGIR project)

PhD students

• Mélinda Boukhana (started March 2018). Topic: Organ characterization in a crop for phenotyping. Other advisors: Frédéric Baret (INRA Avignon) and Benoît de Solan (Arvalis)
• Katia Mirande (starting November 2018). Topic: 3D segmentation and growth tracking of plant point clouds in field conditions. Other advisor: Christophe Godin (Inria Lyon)

And in Grenoble:

• Romain Rombourg (started October 2015). Topic: Digital tree: from the acquisition to a high-level geometric model. Other advisor: Eric Casella (Forestry Commission, UK)
• Jinlong Yang (started October 2015). Topic: Learning shape spaces of dressed 3D human models in motion. Other advisors: Jean-Sébastien Franco (Université Grenoble Alpes) and Stefanie Wuhrer (Inria Grenoble). Defense planned in March 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)
• Data structures and algorithms for 2nd year bachelor students in computer science (Autumn 2017 and autumn 2018)
• 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)
• 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