{"id":922,"date":"2026-04-17T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/?p=922"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:08:18","slug":"922-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/922-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Vision &amp; AI Researcher, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine and a researcher in computer vision at LORIA (UMR 7503). Since the early 2000s, my work has focused on augmented reality, in particular on visual localization and real-time tracking at the intersection of robotics and perception. I have worked on SLAM, multimodal data fusion, and automatic reconstruction in complex environments. This research was distinguished by a 10-Year Lasting Impact Award at ISMAR.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMore recently, I have been exploring the contribution of artificial intelligence methods \u2014 deep neural networks, Gaussian Splatting, and multimodal vision models \u2014 across a range of applications. Part of my work now lies in the field of digital humanities, where I apply these approaches to questions in art history, in particular regarding perspective practices and optical techniques among the Early Flemish painters. I am also co-author, with the art historian Ludovic Balavoine, of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepols.net\/products\/IS-9782503615066-1\">book published in February 2026 by Brepols<\/a> on these topics.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSince January 2026, I have been Scientific Coordinator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cluster-ia-enact.ai\/\">ENACT Grand Est AI Cluster<\/a>, an initiative supported by France 2030 that aims to structure a regional AI ecosystem by fostering synergies between research, education, and innovation. I am also co-facilitator of the \u201cMuseums and Heritage\u201d sector of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pepr-iccare.fr\/\">PEPR ICCARE<\/a>, a national programme funded under France 2030 and dedicated to research projects at the intersection of digital technologies and the cultural and creative industries.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI teach in the Computer Science Department at the Faculty of Science and Technology in Nancy, where I am involved in courses on computer vision and artificial intelligence within the Master\u2019s programme in Computer Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine and a researcher in computer vision at LORIA (UMR 7503). Since the early 2000s, my work has focused on augmented reality, in particular on visual localization and real-time tracking at the intersection of robotics and perception. I have worked on SLAM, multimodal data fusion, and automatic reconstruction in complex environments. This research was distinguished by a 10-Year Lasting Impact Award at ISMAR.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, I have been exploring the contribution of artificial intelligence methods \u2014 deep neural networks, Gaussian Splatting, and multimodal vision models \u2014 across a range of applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/GSimon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}