Research

I am currently working on interactive-time physically-based animation, applied to virtual reality environments. Interactivity is a major issue in this domain since virtual reality environments prohibit the use of off-line computations.

I also work on distributed animation within the European PAVR project.

During my PhD I designed an articulated solid simulator for computer animation, Tabule. Its main feature is the ability of efficiently trading-off physical accuracy for computation time. It handles articulated solids as well as collision and contacts.

Studies

• since 1997 Postdoc on interactive physically-based computer animation at the Vienna University of Technology.
• 1993-1997 Ph.D on physically-based image synthesis at iMAGIS, Grenoble, under the direction of Professor Claude Puech. Ph.D completed on september, 1st, 1997.
• 1992-1993 University Teaching Diploma for Secondary Education in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, prepared at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
• 1991-1992 DEA d'informatique (Masters equivalent) at the University of Paris XI, Orsay. Course: Languages, Complexity, Parallel Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics, Neural Networks, Machine Learning.
• 1988-1991 Maitrise de Mecanique (Bachelor equivalent) at the E.N.S. Cachan. Main courses: Kinematics, Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis, Lagrangian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Signal Processing, Production Science.
• 1986-1988 University level courses preparing admission to Grandes Ecoles, based on extremely selective national competition.
• 1986 High-School diploma with emphasis on Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Science.

Publications

• François Faure, Fast refinable solution of articulated solid dynamics, to appear in IEEE TVCG, 1999.
• François Faure, Chris Faisstnauer, Gerd Hesina, Amaury Aubel, Marc Escher, Frederic Labrosse, Jean-Christophe Nebel, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, Collaborative animation over the network, to appear in the proceedings of Computer Animation'99, Geneva, 1999.
• Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, François Faure, Occlusion in virtual environments, to appear in the proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Vienna, 1999.
• François Faure, Interactive solid animation using linearized displacement constraints, 9th Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation, Lisbon, September 1997.
• François Faure, Gilles Debunne, Marie-Paule Cani-Gascuel, Franck Multon, Dynamic analysis of human walking, 8th Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation, Budapest, September 1997.
• François Faure, An Energy-based Approach for Contact Force Computation, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS'96), vol. 15, no. 3, 1996
• François Faure, A Kinematic Contact Model for Articulated Structures (in French), Revue Internationale de CFAO et d'Informatique Graphique, vol. 11, no. 4, 1996
• François Faure, Inverting the Reflectance Map with Binary Search, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 970, 1995, pp 814--819