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

Publications

Evaluating and Sampling Glinty NDFs in Constant Time

Pauli Kemppinen, Loïs Paulin, Théo Thonat, Jean-Marc Thiery, Jaakko Lehtinen, Tamy Boubekeur
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
Paper Video Web page

Sphere Carving: Bounding Volumes for Signed Distance Fields

Hugo Schott, Theo Thonat, Thibaud Lambert, Eric Guérin, Eric Galin, Axel Paris
SIGGRAPH 2025
Paper Video Code Web page

Triangle Rejection Sampling for Density-Equipped Meshes on GPU

Jérémie Schertzer, Théo Thonat, Tamy Boubekeur
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. HPG) 2025
Paper Supplemental Video Presentation Code Web page

Lipschitz Pruning: Hierarchical Simplification of Primitive-Based SDFs

Wilhem Barbier, Mathieu Sanchez, Axel Paris, Élie Michel, Thibaud Lambert, Tamy Boubekeur, Mathias Paulin, Théo Thonat
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics) 2025
🏆 Best paper Honorable Mention
Paper Video Slides Web page

RMIP: Displacement ray-tracing via inversion and oblong bounding

Théo Thonat, Iliyan Georgiev, François Beaune, Tamy Boubekeur
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Paper Video Web page

MIPNet: Neural Normal-to-Anisotropic-Roughness MIP Mapping

Alban Gauthier, Robin Faury, Jérémy Levallois, Théo Thonat, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
Paper Video Web page Code

Tessellation-Free Displacement Mapping for Ray Tracing

Théo Thonat, François Beaune, Xin Sun, Nathan Carr, Tamy Boubekeur
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Paper Video Web page

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 (Proc. EGSR) 2021
Paper Video Web page

Thin Structures in Image Based Rendering

Theo Thonat, Abdelaziz Djelouah, Frédo Durand, and George Drettakis
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EGSR) 2018
Paper Video Web page

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
Paper Video Web page

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
Publicly released research framework. 2020
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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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