Research engineer in 3D computer graphics at Adobe Research. Prior to this, I was a post doctoral researcher at Adobe. I completed my PhD in the GraphDeco team at Inria Sophia Antipolis.

Publications

RMIP: Displacement ray-tracing via inversion and oblong bounding

Théo Thonat, Iliyan Georgiev, François Beaune, Tamy Boubekeur, SIGGRAPH Asia 2023.
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MIPNet: Neural Normal-to-Anisotropic-Roughness MIP Mapping

Alban Gauthier, Robin Faury, Jérémy Levallois, Théo Thonat, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.
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Tessellation-Free Displacement Mapping for Ray Tracing

Théo Thonat, François Beaune, Xin Sun, Nathan Carr, Tamy Boubekeur, SIGGRAPH Asia 2021.
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Video-Based Rendering of Dynamic Stationary Environments from Unsynchronized Inputs

Theo Thonat, Yagiz Aksoy, Miika Aittala, Sylvain Paris, Frédo Durand, and George Drettakis, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), Volume 40, Number 4 - June 2021.
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sibr: A System for Image-Based Rendering

Sebastien Bonopera, Peter Hedman, Jerome Esnault, Siddhant Prakash, Simon Rodriguez, Theo Thonat, Mehdi Benadel, Gaurav Chaurasia, Julien Philip and George Drettakis, 2020, Publicly released research framework.
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Thin Structures in Image Based Rendering

Theo Thonat, Abdelaziz Djelouah, Frédo Durand, and George Drettakis, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), Volume 37, Number 4, page 12 - 2018.
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Multi-View Inpainting for Image-Based Scene Editing and Rendering

Theo Thonat, Eli Shechtman, Sylvain Paris, and George Drettakis, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) - 2016.
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Projects

C++ integrated Shading Language

CSL is a C++ header-only library, self-transpiling into GLSL at runtime, allowing to write OpenGL shaders directly inside computer graphics applications code.
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