Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M DIPTYQUE project: acquisition and rendering of animated furniture for realistic museographic reproduction

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Type de contrat : Fixed-term contract

Niveau de diplôme exigé : PhD or equivalent

Autre diplôme apprécié : Doctorate in Computer Science, specializing in Computer Graphics or Computer Vision

Fonction : Post-Doctoral Research Visit

A propos du centre ou de la direction fonctionnelle

The Inria center at the University of Bordeaux is one of the nine Inria centers in France and has about twenty research teams.. The Inria centre is a major and recognized player in the field of digital sciences. It is at the heart of a rich R&D and innovation ecosystem: highly innovative SMEs, large industrial groups, competitiveness clusters, research and higher education players, laboratories of excellence, technological research institute...

Contexte et atouts du poste

24-month post-doctoral contract in the Inria Manao team in Bordeaux.

Contact : romain.pacanowski@inria.fr

 

As part of the “CMN Numérique” program, which aims to standardize the production of
3D models and reuse them in various contexts (mediation, maintenance,
research, etc.), the National Monuments Center (CMN) has produced a collaborative 3D
experience, including an ultra-realistic reproduction of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, in the Centre Val de Loire region of France. Developed in Unreal Engine 5, it
includes a 3D model of the château's exterior. Today, the park has been reconstructed
including the water mirror, the staircase and four Renaissance rooms. The
next step is to virtually furnish these rooms using
with around 10 pieces of furniture (beds, chests, chests of drawers).

CMN is also seeking to restore diptych shutters from Le Corbusier's cabanon
located on the Cap Moderne site in the PACA region of France. They consist of a mirrored side and a painted side.


Rather than resorting to manual computer graphics work, the general aim of the project is to
to develop the lightest, most automatic digital acquisition method possible
and a real-time rendering method.

This work will be carried out in conjunction with the Centre des monuments nationaux, and travel
both sites and at headquarters (Paris).


Principales activités

 The successful candidate will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Develop a lightweight, calibrated acquisition method that can be easily used by
museum and heritage site professionals.
- Develop a representation and rendering method associated with the acquisition
acquisition method in order to
- render furniture under different lighting conditions (artificial, outdoor) and from different
different points of view
- Animate furniture (e.g., drawers opening)
- Implement the rendering method in an Open-Source protype
- Study the feasibility of integrating the rendering method developed into a commercial
such as Unreal Engine.

Compétences

 Skills in AI applied to graphical computing are a plus, particularly in terms of
notions of Gaussian Splattings or NERF.

Avantages

Subsidised catering

Public transport partially reimbursed

Leave: 7 weeks' annual leave + 10 days' RTT (full-time basis) + possibility of exceptional leave (e.g. sick children, moving house)

Possibility of partial teleworking and reorganisation of working hours

Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of IT equipment, etc.)

Social, cultural and sports benefits (Association de gestion des œuvres sociales d'Inria)

Rémunération

Gross monthly salary of €2,788 (before taxes)