Cyril Crassin

Cyril Crassin

Contact
ARTIS
INRIA Rhône-Alpes
655, avenue de l'Europe
38334 Saint Ismier Cedex
FRANCE
Phone:(+33) 4 76 61 5580
Fax:(+33) 4 76 61 54 40
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About me

I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Grenoble University at INRIA in France in July 2011. My thesis document can be found here. Previously, I was a PhD student in the ARTIS team of INRIA under the supervision of Fabrice Neyret, working on very large and detaild voxel scenes rendering on the GPU for video game applications. I developed the GigaVoxels pipeline that proposed the use of pre-filtered voxel representations to efficiently render very large and detailed scenes as well as complex objects. During this thesis, I also did 2 summer internship at NVIDIA and I was also research visitor at Weta Digital.

I now joined NVIDIA Research in September 2011 as a postdoctoral research fellow. My NVIDIA research page
My research interests include realistic rendering, voxel-based representations, real-time ray-tracing and out-of-core data management, sparse voxel octree, GPU algorithm and complex GPU data structures.

My PhD thesis: Cyril Crassin PhD Thesis
My personal blog:
Twitter: @Icare3D

News

I presented GigaVoxels as a talk at Siggraph 2009. The talk presented our GigaVoxels pipeline now fully implemented in CUDA as well as new results we got. I especially demonstrated a new cache mechanism fully implemented on GPU, as well as ray-traced soft shadows and depth-of-filed effects implemented very efficiently thanks to cone tracing taking advantage of our full 3D MipMapping approach. More information in the sketch there: GigaVoxels Siggraph 2009 Sketch. The slides can be downloaded there: GigaVoxels Siggraph 2009 Slides.

Publications

Publications in 2011

Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2011), Volume 30, Number 7 - sep 2011

Poster ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D). Best poster award. - feb 2011

 
Publications in 2010
 
Publications in 2009



Crytek Conference Talk - nov 2009
 
Publications in 2008
Technical Report , INRIA Technical Report - june 2008

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games - febuary 2008
 
Publications in 2007
AFIG '07 (Actes des 20èmes journées de l'AFIG), page 183-195 - November 2007



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GPU Working Group

I am particularly interested in GPU hardware and I am managing an INRIA working group on the topic.

Teaching

In 2007/2008, I give a Computer Graphics course on image synthesis and real-time rendering for Master students at Grenoble University/INPG. This course include OpenGL advanced features, texture synthesis and CUDA programming.
More informations here (in french).

Curriculum Vitae

PDF version : here

Personal website

I am maintaining a technical website, containing various computer graphics projects I made during my studies or my free time.
It also contains a GPU blog with up to date news about various GPU related stuff and experiments I make.