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I am currently a Research Scientist at Adobe Research in the London lab. I previously was an Associate Researcher in the Realistic Graphics and Imaging group of Imperial College London hosted by Abhijeet Ghosh.
I received my PhD at Inria Sophia-Antipolis from the GraphDeco research group under the supervision of Adrien Bousseau and George Drettakis in collaboration with Optis, an Ansys affiliate. During my PhD, I spent 2 months under the supervision of Frédo Durand, at MIT CSAIL.
My thesis received the French Computer Graphics Thesis Award and UCA Academic Excellence Thesis Awards. I was elected as Eurographics Junior Fellow 2024.
My research focuses on inverse rendering/appearance generation, acquisition, authoring and representation for virtual environments and scene understanding.
My thesis received the French Computer Graphics Thesis Award and UCA Academic Excellence Thesis Awards. I was elected as Eurographics Junior Fellow 2024.
My research focuses on inverse rendering/appearance generation, acquisition, authoring and representation for virtual environments and scene understanding.
Internships
Adobe Research Internship: I will be looking for strong PhD students to collaborate with for the 2025 Adobe internship program. If you are interested in interning at Adobe with me (see my research interests above), don't hesitate to reach out (deschain@a***e.com) detailing what your research interests are, and what you would like to work on during the internship. Internships are usually discussed around November December of the year preceding it. It is important that your advisor is aware of your plans to do an intership.
Past Interns
In recent years, I was happy to act as main mentor for great students in the context of Adobe's PhD Internship program!
- Michael Fischer (University College London): 2024
- Julia Guerrero-Viu (Universidad de Zaragoza): 2023, 2024
- Ruben Wiersma (Delft University): 2023 (now postdoc at ETH)
- Prafull Sharma (MIT): 2022 (now postdoc at MIT)
- Yiwei Hu (Yale University): 2021, 2022 (Now at Adobe)
Publications
2024
Procedural Material Generation with Reinforcement Learning. Beichen Li, Yiwei Hu, Paul Guerrero, Miloš Hašan, Liang Shi, Valentin Deschaintre, Wojciech Matusik, Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph Asia proc.) 2024
Direct Manipulation of Analytic Implicit Surfaces. Marzia Riso, Elie Michel, Axel Paris, Valentin Deschaintre, Mathieu Gaillard, Fabio Pellacini, Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph Asia proc.) 2024
TexSliders: Diffusion-Based Texture Editing in CLIP Space. Julia Guerrero-Viu, Miloš Hašan, Arthur Roullier, Midhun Harikumar, Yiwei Hu, Paul Guerrero, Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia, Valentin Deschaintre, Siggraph 2024
RGB↔X: Image Decomposition and Synthesis Using Material- and Lighting-aware Diffusion Models. Zheng Zeng, Valentin Deschaintre, Iliyan Georgiev, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Yiwei Hu, Fujun Luan, Ling-Qi Yan, Miloš Hašan, Siggraph 2024
MeshLRM: Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality Meshes. Xinyue Wei*, Kai Zhang*, Sai Bi, Hao Tan, Fujun Luan, Valentin Deschaintre, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Hao Su, Zexiang Xu, Arxiv 2024
MatAtlas: Text-driven Consistent Geometry Texturing and Material Assignment. Duygu Ceylan, Valentin Deschaintre, Thibault Groueix, Rosalie Martin, Chun-Hao Huang, Romain Rouffet, Vladimir Kim, Gaëtan Lassagne, Arxiv 2024
MatSynth: A Modern PBR Materials Dataset. Giuseppe Vecchio, Valentin Deschaintre, CVPR 2024
ControlMat: Controlled Generative Approach to Material Capture. Giuseppe Vecchio, Rosalie Martin, Arthur Roullier, Adrien Kaiser, Romain Rouffet, Valentin Deschaintre, Tamy Boubekeur, Transactions on Graphics 2024 (presented at Siggraph Asia 2024)
2023
PSDR-Room: Single Photo to Scene using Differentiable Rendering. Kai Yan, Fujun Luan, Milos Hasan, Thibault Groueix, Valentin Deschaintre, Shuang Zhao, Siggraph Asia, 2023
Floaters No More: Radiance Field Gradient Scaling for Improved Near-Camera Training. Julien Philip, Valentin Deschaintre, EGSR, 2023
Materialistic: Selecting Similar Materials in Images. Prafull Sharma, Julien Philip, Michael Gharbi, Bill Freeman, Fredo Durand, Valentin Deschaintre, Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph proc.) 2023
Generating Procedural Materials from Text or Image Prompts. Yiwei Hu, Paul Guerrero, Miloš Hašan, Holly Rushmeier, Valentin Deschaintre, Siggraph, 2023
The Visual Language of Fabrics. Valentin Deschaintre*, Julia Guerrero-Viu*, Diego Gutierrez, Tamy Boubekeur, Belen Masia, Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph proc.) 2023
PhotoMat: A Material Generator Learned from Single Flash Photos. Xilong Zhou, Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nima Kalantari, Siggraph, 2023
A Semi‐Procedural Convolutional Material Prior. Xilong Zhou, Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nima Kalantari, CGF, 2023
2022
TileGen: Tileable, Controllable Material Generation and Capture. Xilong Zhou, Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nima Kalantari, Siggraph Asia 2022
Node Graph Optimization Using Differentiable Proxies. Yiwei Hu, Paul Guerrero, Miloš Hašan, Holly Rushmeier, Valentin Deschaintre, Siggraph, August 2022
Controlling Material Appearance by Examples. Yiwei Hu, Miloš Hašan, Paul Guerrero, Holly Rushmeier, Valentin Deschaintre, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Conference Proceedings), July 2022
Spectral Upsampling Approaches for RGB Illumination. Claudio Giuseppe Guarnera, Yuliya Gitlina, Valentin Deschaintre, Abhijeet Ghosh, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - Symposium Track, July 2022
An Inverse Procedural Modeling Pipeline for SVBRDF Maps. Yiwei Hu, Chengan He, Valentin Deschaintre, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier, ACM Trans Graph, April 2022 (Presented at SIGGRAPH 2022)
2021
Generative Modelling of BRDF Textures from Flash Images. Philipp Henzler, Valentin Deschaintre, Niloy J. Mitra, Tobias Ritschel, ACM Trans Graph (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)
- Our paper was accepted as CVPR Oral.
Deep polarization imaging for 3D shape and SVBRDF acquisition. Valentin Deschaintre, Yiming Lin, and Abhijeet Ghosh. Proc. of CVPR, June 2021. (Patent Pending)
2020
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Conference Proceedings), Volume 39, Number 4 - jul 2020
2019
- My thesis was awarded the French Computer Graphics and Geometry Thesis award 2020
- My thesis was awarded the UCA foundation Academic excellence thesis award 2020
- A 5 minutes video describing my work and contributions is available here: [english][french]
Université Côté d'Azur, Inria, PhD Thesis, Nov 2016-Nov 2019
Asia, Doctoral Consortium (Poster and Short Paper), Nov 2019
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Conference Proceedings), Volume 38, Number 4, page 13 - jul 2019
2018
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings), Volume 37, Number 128, page 15 - aug 2018
Community activities
Committee member
- Eurographics 2024 Doctoral Consortium co-chair
- Siggraph Thesis Fast Forward: Steering Committee, Co-chair 2023, Chair 2024
- SIGGRAPH Research Career Development Committee
- Industry Chair CVMP 2022
Technical Program Committee member:
Reviewer
- Conferences
- Journals
Others
- Website administrator and volunteer EGSR 2020