Laurent Blondé Email & Phone Number

Brittany, France

Finding solutions for Energy Aware Media

Rennes, Brittany, France

Cancale, Brittany, France

Rennes Area, France

Addressing the multiple challenges of Augmented Reality with currently a focus on a disruptive local light deviation technology exploiting core expertise in optics and light management.

Rennes Area, France

At Technicolor we have the great possibility to initiate and develop Exploratory Projects, taking the form of high risk forward looking research initiatives. I could recently start a passionnating initiative mixing optics and electromagnetics with perspectives in AR / VR and Light Field. I could recruit top grade talents and form an efficient team on this subject. We expect to demonstrate outstanding results in the year to come. Stay tuned!

Rennes

Principal Scientist, Research & Innovation at Technicolor & High Potential Inventor for InterDigital

Topics of interest: Color, Light Field, 3D Perception in cinema and TV content

Mission & Activity:Identify and develop processing components improving 3DTV experience based on human vision understandingState of the Art, contacts with academic experts in this fieldIdentification of potential architecture and modules to develop. Psychovision.

Mission & ActivityRecruit, then advise and support a PhD student investigating human variability in color perception State of the art and analysis work resulted in several publications on aspects not covered in the CIE-2006 standardExperiment prepared and run to confirm inferences Observer categories derived and publishedConference and journal papers, intellectual property producedStudent obtained Phd with very positive comments from reviewersResults to be exploited in AntiCamcorder, Color Management or other projects

Mission & Activity:Develop models and tools to supports color management in the media industryProject initialization in 2003 in collaboration with Technicolor experts. Knowledge acquisition about content production and management Design and development of a color measurement and processing tool to compute color transforms between different screens and projection systems. Viper digital camera calibration in a scene to screen color calibration framework. Contribution to IEC 61966-12 « Gamut ID » standard proposal about color gamut representation

Mission and Activity:Study solutions to damage illegal camcorder copies in theatres, preserving legal audience experienceInitial demonstrator development, based on temporal color modulation, Concept demo shown at Cannes Festival - 2005 (Exploratory mode, working with trainees)Establishment of the Digital Experimental Cinema in Cesson-Sévigné town theatre, research, test and demonstration facility with a 4 years agreementStudy of observer variability in color vision, with support from academic experts (incl. two CIE-2006 standard authors)Development of a multi-observer psychovisual test application to be used in cinema environment Identifying deployment partnership and associated services (content mastering)

Mission & ActivityResearch Engineer in the "Visual Processing & Compression" lab.Algorithmic development to take into account human visual system in video compression. Work on MPEG-4, system part. Contribution to video over IP multicast European Project: freeform video Correction of distortion on slim cathode ray tubes. Physics and display aware algorithms

Trends & Forecast Mission & ActivityContribute to technical analysis of start-ups or companies in order to supporting acquisition and/or collaboration decisionsCase analysis, investigation of independent data sources, patent portfolio analysis. Cases studied in the following domains: new displays, video coding, stereo.

Project Leader of the EU supported MONA LISA Project (MOdelling NAturaL Images for Synthesis and Animation). Collaborative project, pioneer in image Anlysis and Synthesis and Virtual Studio. First Virtual Studio demonstration in IBC'94, Amsterdam.

Mission & ActivityPremises management role to assist the center manager in a multi-lab refurbishment and reorganization contextProject owner representative: project follow-up in terms of costs and delivery in relation with architectsPlanning, organizing and running the moving of 300 persons of the labs in the context of regrouping the Strasbourg site with Rennes site

Mission & ActivitySetting up and management of the European project R2052 MONA LISA, pioneer in Image Analysis/Synthesis and Virtual StudioProject management and follow-up of 9 industrial and academic partners across Europe including VAP, DVS and BBC Research.The project presented the first Virtual Studio prototype in IBC 1994

Infrared image processing. Introduction of the principle of sensor simulation and IR image synthesis as a test tool for algorithmic development. Principle applied for target tracking on FLIR cameras and panoramic IR systems as well as on Anti-Balistic Missiles simulations.

Infrared image processing and synthesis Mission & ActivityImage processing for defense applications (target tracking on real or simulated images)Introduced and developed the use of Infrared scene and sensor simulation, creating or adapting image synthesis programs

Application Engineer developing Industrial Vision solutions Allen Bradley Robotronics / Servovision is now part of Rockwell Automation

Mission & ActivityDevelopment of image processing and automation applications in manufacturing contexts on the basis of a proprietary image processing platform

Assistant engineer in the development and testing of Infared (IR) cameras. IR system simulation and IR image processing.

Ingénieur (Msc), Optics, Light Physics, Vision

Studied optics, lights physics and vision just at the prehistory of Image Processing. This background proved to be a very strong asset.

Phd / Doctorat, Signal Processing

Msc, Optics / Light Management

Msc, Optics / Light Management

Institut d'Optique is a founding member of ParisTech ParisTech, is a research and higher education cluster of excellence, is composed.

Classes Préparatoires Hx 3 & Xp' 1, Classes Prépa

Activities and Societies: Absolutely none, ... guess why, ... way too busy studying

Baccalauréat, C - Science

Education record