Bruno Vallet

LASTIG, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG

73 avenue de Paris · 94165 Saint-Mandé CEDEX · (+33)1 43 98 80 81 · bruno.vallet@ign.fr

Senior researcher in Geographic information science, Computer Vision, Teledetection, Lasergrammetry, and 3D City Modeling.

Head of the ACTE research team


Research Interests


Image/Lidar georeferencing and registration
Surface reconstruction and texturing
Structured reconstruction
Analysis of 3D data: object detection, semantisation and change detection

News

Experience

Head of ACTE research team of the LASTIG lab

LASTIG, IGN France

Coordination of a team of 30+ researchers and research engineers on remote sensing data acquisition and processing

January 2019 - Present

Senior researcher, head of GEOM4D research team of the MATIS lab

LASTIG, IGN France

Coordination of a team of 6-8 researchers and research engineers on registration, analysis and reconstruction from images and Lidar data

September 2015 - December 2018

Junior researcher, head of ARECOS research team of the MATIS lab

MATIS, IGN France

Coordination of a team of 6-8 researchers and research engineers on analysis and reconstruction of urban areas from images and Lidar data

September 2011 - August 2015

Junior Researcher

MATIS, IGN France

Leading research on building reconstruction and texuturing of 3D city models

September 2008 - August 2011

PhD student

ALICE team, INRIA Nancy

PhD on function bases on manifolds (Geometry Processing)

September 2005 - July 2008

Experience

  • 01-09-2005

    PhD student

    My PhD obtained in July 2008, was supervised by Bruno Levy and dealt with function bases on manifolds.

  • 01-09-2008

    Junior researcher

    After my PhD, I start working at IGN France as a permanent junior researcher.

  • 01-09-2011

    Head of ARECOS research team at MATIS lab, IGN

    I took the responsibility of a small research team (6-8 people) on urban scene analysis and reconstruction.

  • 01-09-2015

    Head of GEOM4D research team

    I take the head of a new team working on 4D data processing

  • 12-2016

    Habilitation defense

    Defense of my habilitation (HDR) ( slides manuscript ) in GI science, which allows in France to be the main supervisor of PhD students.

  • 01-09-2018

    Head of ACTE research team

    I become the coordinator the ACTE research team of the new LASTIG lab on remote sensing data acquisition and processing.


Education

Habilitation (HDR)

Université Paris-Est
Habilitation (HDR) ( presentation manuscript ) in geographic information science
December 2016

PhD in Computer Science

Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
Function bases on manifolds (geometry processing)
September 2005 - July 2008

Master's degree in computer science

Telecom ParisTech
Computer vision, image processing, artificial intelligence
September 2003 - May 2005

Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

IARFA Research master's
Artificial Intelligence and shape recognition
September 2003 - May 2004

Master's degree in Engineering

Ecole polytechnique (X)
Specialization in mechanics and computer science
Majeures en mécanique et informatique
September 2000 - May 2003

Publications

[ACL] Journals
[ACLN] Journals
[ASCL] Others
[ACTI] Conferences
[ACTN] Conferences
[COM] Conferences
[OS] Books and Chapters
[DO] Books and Chapters
[AFF] Posters
[AP] Preprints
[TH] Dissertations
[INV] Invited Talks
[PV] Popularization

Projects

On-going research projects

AI4GEO

Artificial Intelligence for geospatial data
PIA

Past research projects

BIOM

Building Inside/Outside Modeling
ANR AAPG 2018-2021

Volta

innoVation in geOspatiaL and 3D daTA
EU MSC RISE H2020

Time Machine

The Big Data of the past for the Future of Europe
CSA H2020 2019-2020

pLaTINUM

Long Term MappINg for Urban Mobility
ANR AAPG 2015-2019

Terra Mobilita

3D mapping of urban roads and public spaces, accessibility and soft traffic
FUI 2011-2015


Supervisions

PhDs
  • Jérôme Demantké (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD, 2014), co-supervised with Nicolas Paparoditis (MATIS, IGN): Photorealistic 3D models façade models reconstruction from terrestrial images and Lidar, defended 28/02/14
  • Fabrice Monnier (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD, 2014), co-supervised with Bahman Soheilian and Nicolas Paparoditis (MATIS, IGN): Automatic registration of mobile mapping point clouds to 3D city models, defended 19/12/14
  • Wen Xiao (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD, 2015), co-supervised with Nicolas Paparoditis (MATIS, IGN): Change detection from mobile laser scanning point clouds, defended 12/11/15
  • Miloud Mezian (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD, 2019), co-supervised with Bahman Soheilian and Nicolas Paparoditis (MATIS, IGN): Trajectography registration by combined data-model deformation for geometric enriching of existing city models, defended 08/11/19
  • Mohamed Boussaha (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2016), co-supervised with Loïc Landrieu (STRUDEL, LASTIG, IGN): Hybrid urban scene analysis from mobile mapping images and laser scan, defended 05/06/20
  • Stéphane Guinard (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2017), co-supervised with Loïc Landrieu (STRUDEL, LASTIG, IGN): Simplicial complexes reconstruction, defended 19/06/20
  • Rahima Djahel (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2018), co-supervised with Pascal Monasse (Imagine, LIGM, École des Ponts ParisTech): Hybrid data registration, defended 22/06/22
  • Raphael Sulzer (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2018), co-supervised with Renaud Marlet (Imagine, LIGM, École des Ponts ParisTech) and Loïc Landrieu (STRUDEL, LASTIG, IGN): Structured 3D city reconstruction from heterogeneous data, defended 17/10/22
  • Yanis Marchand (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2019), co-supervised with Laurent Caraffa: Large scale Watertight Surface Reconstruction
  • Damien Robert (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2020), co-supervised with Loïc Landrieu (STRUDEL, LASTIG, IGN): Deep learning methods for multimodal, multi-task learning on large-scale point clouds, defended 24/01/24
  • Grégoire Grzeczkowicz (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2021), Towards a mesh based, structured 3D representation of cities, defended 13/01/25
  • Florent Geniet (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2022) co-supervised with Mathieu Brédif (GEOVIS, LASTIG, IGN): Interactive 3D city modeling
  • Camille Billouard (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2023) co-supervised with Dawa Derksen and Alexandre Constantin (CNES): Modeling the Earth in 3D with Implicit Representation Learning
  • Pierre-Loïc Queffelec (Université Paris Est-MSTIC PhD since 2024) co-supervised with Nicolas Trouvé and Stéphane Roussel (DEMR, ONERA): 3D modeling from Lidar data for Radar simulation
Post docs
  • Jean-Pascal Burochin, 2012
    Detecting blind building façades from highly overlapping wide angle aerial imagery.
  • Pierre Rolin advised by Cyrielle Guérin, 2017
    Watertight surface reconstruction from satellite imagery
  • Teng Wu, pLaTINUM project, 2018
    Mesh update
  • Teng Wu, AI4GEO project, 2020
    Deep Learning for dense matching
  • Amine Boussik , projet GENESE, 2024
    Building footprint registration on Lidar HD
Internships
  • Fabrice Monnier (EGID, Université Bordeaux III), 2011
    Vegetation reconstruction from mobile Lidar scans
  • Triomphant Koyame-Linga (Institut d'Optique), 2015
    Trajectographic registration based on 3D landmarks
  • Mourad Miled (Master 2 : Sciences pour l’Ingénieur (Intelligence artificielle, Image et son pour les systèmes intelligents), Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6), 2015
    Joint image/Lidar data registration
  • Xin Wang (M2 Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique, UMPC), 2016
    Visual servoing for precise image localisation
  • Stéphane Guinard (Mastère spécialisé PPMD, ENSG), 2016
    Mobile Lidar scans segmentation by multivariate total variation and metric learning
  • Zoumana Mallé , projet BIOM, coencadré avec Pascal Monasse (IMAGINE) et Stéphane Guinard, 2019
    Landmarks extraction for Inside/Outside registration

Other research activities

Other