Current Research
I am a PhD researcher in computer vision and machine learning at Université Laval, focussing on deep neural network (DNN) approaches to generating photorealistic and physically accurate sky models for artistic, scientific and engineering communities. This work is being pursued through Project Deep Sky, which has produced key publications including AllSky: Towards Physically-Based Sky-Modeling For Image Based Lighting and Icarus: Full Dynamic Range Sky-Modelling For Image Based Lighting.
Biography
I accomplished a great deal during my undergraduate degree at Queen’s, however it does not compare to how much I learned, accomplished, and enjoyed my time spent completing my Masters of Engineering (M.Eng). I believe that my studies allowed me an excellent opportunity to explore a range of topics far greater than could have been accomplished through a Masters of Applied Science (MASc). This included opportunities to take classes in diverse and unrelated fields, including Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, Software Re-Engineering, Software Design Recovery, Bioinformatics and Computer & Network security.
Though taking M.Eng courses greatly contributed to my own knowledge, my MASc allowed me to focus my efforts on the research of PROCAM systems and contribute my own ideas to the academic community. This led me to pursue PhD research in PROCAM Systems under Dr. Michael Greenspan in the RCVLab, where it was our goal to enable a new generation of interactive projector technology.
Focusing on machine vision and learning, I pursued a PhD under Jean-François Lalonde at Laval University, where we started Project Deep Sky in an effort to apply DNNs to Sky-Modelling. This work allowed me to grow as an independent researcher and, with the project’s emancipation from Professor Lalonde, to independently pursue Project Deep Sky and push the state-of-the-art in sky modelling and sky image understanding. This independent work has produced Deep Sky’s key publications, including AllSky: Towards Physically-Based Sky-Modeling For Image Based Lighting and Icarus: Full Dynamic Range Sky-Modelling For Image Based Lighting.
