Loïc Lachiver

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Contact: loic (dot) lachiver (at) gmail (dot) com

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Using deep learning for texture synthesis

30 September 2023/

Introduction This small project aims to present how can we leverage Deep Learning capabilities for 2D texture synthesis, a subdomain...

Improving the appearance of wet materials

15 August 2023/

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Let’s say you’re developing your video game. You have the assets for all the materials, but then you want some...

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Skills

Languages / Frameworks 💻

AI 🧠

Project management 🚧

Misc

Clean Code methodology (Robert C. Martin)
Electronics: I have a 2-years technical diploma in electronics and various student projects in embedded systems (atmega328, stm32…).
Cybersecurity: 35 challenges completed on root-me (https://www.root-me.org/munch_33), webserver management
Game design: with a team, development and music composition of several games: https://ldjam.com/users/mooyett/games
I maintained my PhD network website (https://prime-itn.eu) and designed this website following an order: https://gardopoil-petsitting.fr
Music🎵: check out here my musical side.

Human languages

French (native)
English (C1, scientific english)
Spanish (fluent)
Swedish, Czech (learning)

Projects 🚧

2023: Extension of Mitsuba 3, an open source spectral renderer coded in C++, to take fluorescent materials into account. Keywords: C++, CUDA, spectral rendering, optics.

2022: Expanding Malia Rendering Framework (an open source renderer) to multi-layered materials. Keywords: C++, real-time spectral rendering, CUDA, optics.

2022: Expanding BRDFExplorer (a Disney software for visualizing BRDFs) to BSDFExplorer (to observe BSDFs). Keywords: C++, Qt, OpenGL, GLSL, optics.

2021: Adding a plugin to Ossia-score, an open-source sequencer, to write electroacoustic sheet music. Repo: https://github.com/Pnixys/score-addon-acousmoscribe. Keywords: project management, C++, Qt, MVP pattern.

2020: IRC chat in Python. Repo: https://github.com/llachiver/IRC_python. Keywords: network, socket, file transfer.

2019: INRIA internship: Improving the appearance of wet materials. Details here. Ended in a chapter of a CNRS book. Keywords: Substance Designer, real-time rendering, GLSL, shading.

2019: Photo editing app on Android implementing advanced effects (Contrast-Limited Adaptative Histogram Equalization, convolutions, etc.). https://github.com/picachoc/pimp-android. Keywords: android, UX, Renderscript, image processing, Java.

2019: Strategy game with AIs coded in JavaFX

Publications 📖

Tomáš Iser, Loïc Lachiver, Alexander Wilkie, Affordable method for measuring fluorescence using Gaussian distributions and bounded MESE, Optics Express, Vol. 31, Issue 15, pp. 24347-24362 (2023). Source code available.

Pascal Barla, Loïc Lachiver, Gaël Guennebaud, Radiometry of wet surfaces. When water matters, IOGS – Institut d’Optique Graduate School Textbook (2023, first chapter).

M. Kolářová, L. Lachiver, A. Wilkie, An empirically derived adjustable model for particle size distributions in advection fog, Computer Graphics Forum Volume 43, Issue2 (May 2024)