Eric Galin Institut de la Communication Université Lumière Lyon 2 France

Phone: (33) 4 72 71 60 74 (Gamagora) Fax: (33) 4 72 71 08 52 (Gamagora) e-mail: eric.galin@liris.cnrs.fr

UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2

Research Projects

Overview Natural Phenomena	The aim of my research encompasses procedural modeling and generation of complex natural objects, simulating ecosystems and natural phenomena such as aging and weathering. Applications include generating landscapes, modeling plants and simulating their growth within complex ecosystems, simulating cracks and fractures, modeling large scenes with many details.
Project DEREVE Région Rhône Alpes (2001-2003) and (2004-2006)	I have been involved in the Région Rhône Alpes project DEREVE, which aimed at designing real time algorithms for modeling and visualizing virtual worlds. We participated in developping automatic techniques for simulating lichen growth and for creating cracks and fractures on a variety of objects with a view to obtaining weathered and more realistic objects.
Project DNA ANR CONTINT (2007-2010)	I am involved in the ANR project DNA (Details in NA tural scenes) that aims at creating complex realistic natural scenes with a high level of detail by taking into account the life cycle of plants and the influence of fallen leaves, lichens, small stones and rocks, branches, muchrooms.
Project GENAC 2 Pôle de Compétitivité (2007-2009)	I'm involved in the project GENAC 2 (AUtomatiC GENeneration of procedural content) supported by Pôle de Compétitivité Imaginove of Rhône Alpes region which aims at designing procedural techniques for generating natural sceneries with a high level of details for Next Generation video games.

Teaching and Administration

Teaching

Computer Graphics Real time rendering (Licence 2000-2004, Licence 2006-2008, Ecole Centrale de Lyon 2004-2008) Digital image synthesis (Master 2000-2004, 2006-2008) Modeling and Simulating Natural Phenomena (Masters 2003,2007-2008) Algorithms and data structures Algorithms and data structures, Object oriented programming (M2 CCI Réseaux Apprentissage 2000-2004, M2 CCI 2006-2008)

Administration

Responsible for the Master IGI (Computer Graphics) (2007-2008), and for the Master CCI Réseaux Apprentissage (2000-2004) Commission de spécialistes en 27ème section Titulaire à l'Ecole Centrale de Lyon en 2004-2008 (suppléant en 2002-2003) Titulaire à l'Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (2002-2008) President of the French Chapter of Eurographics (2005-2009), member of the committee of Association Française d'Informatique Graphique (2004-2008)

Educational background

2008	Full professor position (computer graphics) Université Lumière Lyon 2.
2006	Habilitation à diriger la Recherche : Modeling Complex Shapes.
1998	Assitant professor position (computer graphics), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
1997	PhD Thesis in computer science, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Metamorphosing and Rendering Soft Objects
1993	Computer engineering degree award at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (computer science)

Eric Galin is Professor in Computer Science at the University Lumière Lyon 2, France since september 2008. A graduate from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, he recieved a PhD in Computer Science from UCBL in 1997. His main interests cover modeling, simulating and animating natural phenomena and modeling with implicit surfaces. Recent applications in natural phenomena include aging and weathering, simulation of lichen growth, modeling of cracks and fractures, terrain modeling. Recent research in implicit surface modeling came to the development of a hierarchical modeling system (the Hybrid Tree) which combines implicit surfaces and triangle meshes in a coherent and unified system. Eric Galin co-chaired the Short Papers of Eurographics 2004, and is the organizer and co-chair of the Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena (Dublin 2005, Vienna 2006, Prague 2007, Munich 2009) and Shape Modeling International (Lyon 2007). He served in the program committees of Eurographics 2004, 2006, 2009, Pacific Graphics 2003, and Shape Modeling International 2002, 2004-2009. He is been the secretary of the French Chapter of Eurographics in 2003-2005 and president in 2006-2009.

Graduate Students and Colleagues

Colleagues	Samir Akkouche (Professor) Raphaelle Chaine (Researcher) Pierre-Marie Gandoin (Researcher) Eric Guerin (Researcher)
Ph.D. Students	Antoine Leclercq (1998-2004) : Surfaces for video games Aurélien Barbier (2001-2005) : Modeling and animating complex implicit surfaces Brett Desbenoit (2003-2006) : Modeling Details in Complex Natural Scenes Nicolas Maréchal (2007-) : Procedural Generation of Details in Computer Games Adrien Peytavie (2007-) : Modeling Complex Natural Scenes