Jean-François Lalonde

Bonjour!

I am a PhD candidate in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, working under the supervision of Profs Alexei (Alyosha) Efros and Srinivasa Narasimhan. I am interested in computer vision and graphics, and especially at the intersection of the two. With my advisors, I am exploring data-driven techniques that exploit the large amount of available image data to "learn, understand, and resynthesize our visual world". Have a look at my publications for more details.

I spent the summer of 2006 working in a cool startup company in Pittsburgh named Penthera Technologies. It was a great opportunity for me to discover how things work in the "real world". I got to play around with PDAs, cell phones and high-bitrate streaming video. The feature I developed became an important part of their flagship product.

Prior to that, I was a Master's student at the Robotics Institute, working under the supervision of Prof. Martial Hebert and Dr. Nicolas Vandapel on outdoor mobile robots. I designed an efficient data structure that enables very fast processing of 3-D features computed from laser data on-the-fly. It is now a core component of the CTA project.

I come from the beautiful city of Québec, Canada, and graduated in May 2004 from Laval University in computer engineering. I spent three years as a research assistant in the Computer Vision Lab.

I enjoy spending time with my wife Barbara and baby girl Héloïse. My wife is a computer engineer and also teaches adult ballet at Absolute Ballroom Pittsburgh.

Email: jlalonde at cs dot cmu dot edu