Valentin Deschaintre

Research Scientist - Adobe Research

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 great months in MIT under the supervision of Frédo Durand, at MIT CSAIL.
My Thesis received the French Computer Graphics Thesis Award 2020 and UCA Academic Excellence Thesis Award 2020
My research focuses on inverse rendering, with a special focus on appearance acquisition, creation, editing and representation for virtual environments.

Internships

Adobe Research Internship: I will be looking for strong PhD students to collaborate with for the 2024 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.

Past Interns

In recent years, I was happy to collaborate with great students in the context of Adobe's PhD Internship program!

Publications

ControlMat: Controlled Generative Approach to Material Capture

Giuseppe Vecchio, Rosalie Martin Arthur Roullier Adrien Kaiser, Romain Rouffet Valentin Deschaintre, Tamy Boubekeur,

ControlMat: Controlled Generative Approach to Material Capture. Giuseppe Vecchio, Rosalie Martin, Arthur Roullier, Adrien Kaiser, Romain Rouffet, Valentin Deschaintre, Tamy Boubekeur, Arxiv 2023

PSDR-Room: Single Photo to Scene using Differentiable Rendering

Kai Yan, Fujun Luan, Miloš Hašan, Thibault Groueix, Valentin Deschaintre, Shuang Zhao,

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,

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,

MIT News coverage

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,

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,

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,

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,

A Semi‐Procedural Convolutional Material Prior. Xilong Zhou, Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nima Kalantari, CGF, 2023

TileGen: Tileable, Controllable Material Generation and Capture

Xilong Zhou, Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nima Kalantari,

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,

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,

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,

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, Cheng'an He, Valentin Deschaintre, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier,

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)

Generative Modelling of BRDF Textures from Flash Images

Philipp Henzler, Valentin Deschaintre, Niloy J. Mitra, Tobias Ritschel,

Generative Modelling of BRDF Textures from Flash Images. Philipp Henzler, Valentin Deschaintre, Niloy J. Mitra, Tobias Ritschel, ACM Trans Graph (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)

Deep Polarization Imaging for 3D Shape and SVBRDF Acquisition

Valentin Deschaintre, Yiming Lin, Abhijeet Ghosh,

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)