Bio

Contact	blogrodolphe-vaillant.fr
Location	Tokyo
Interests	Real-time character animation, skinning and rigging. Mesh processing / deformation. Implicit surface (distance field) modeling. Game Dev.

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Papers

	2021 - "Automatic shape adjustment at joints for the Implicit Skinning" Olivier Hachette, Florian. Canezin, Rodolphe Vaillant, Nicolas Mellado & Loïc Barthe. Computer & Graphics, proc. of SMI, 2021. [ bibtex ]
	2015 - PhD - "Implicit Skinning: Character Skin Deformation Guided by 3D Scalar Fields", Rodolphe Vaillant. University of Victoria, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). [ pdf ] [ Talk slides ]
	2014 - "Robust Iso-Surface Tracking for Interactive Character Skinning" Rodolphe Vaillant, Gaël Guennebaud, Loïc Barthe, Brian Wyvill, Marie-Paule Cani. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(6), proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2014. [ project page ] [ pdf ] [ bibtex ] [ video ] [ Talk slides ]
	2013 - "Implicit Skinning: Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling" Rodolphe Vaillant, Loïc Barthe, Gaël Guennebaud, Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rhomer, Brian Wyvill, Olivier Gourmel and Mathias Paulin. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32(4), Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2013. [ project page ] [ pdf ] [ bibtex ] [ video ] [ Talk slides ]
	2012 - "Déformation de la peau d'un personnage avec prise en compte des contacts" Rodolphe Vaillant, Loïc Barthe, Gaël Guennebaud, Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rhomer and Brian Wyvill. Revue Electronique Francophone d'Informatique Graphique - AFIG 2012, 6(2), Best paper award AFIG/EGFR.
	2010 - Fast Instruction-Accurate Simulation with SimNML Hugues Cassé, Jonathan Barre, Rodolphe Vaillant, Pascal Sainrat. (regular paper). Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools (RAPIDO 2010), Heraklion, Crète, Grèce, 22/01/2010, January 2011. [ pdf ] [ bibtex ]