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Dr. Francois Pitie

Ussher Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 pitief@tcd.ie

 3531896 2254


Biography

François Pitié is an Ussher Assistant Professor in Media Signal Processing, Trinity College Dublin. Ussher professors are part of Trinity's strategy to recruit excellent academics in areas where Trinity has proven strengths. He has made several key contributions in the field of Video Processing and Computer Vision and published over 60 publications, with a combined total of 1100+ citations. He has attracted over 1.5M euros in research funding and is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. He has participated in the writing of 8 successful research proposals and was PI of two EI commercialisation fund projects and the TCD research lead for a 3 year FP7 EU project. He has supervised 4 postdoc, 4 Ph.D. students and 13 M.Sc. students. In 2018, François Pitié received the 'Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year' award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2018. He is a reviewer in first tier conferences and journals such as Siggraph and IEEE Transactions in Image Processing, co-chair of IMVIP 2015 and CVMP 2017, organised a number of workshops. Dr François Pitié is holder of 3 patents and developed algorithms and software that are used by companies such as Google, Disney, The Foundry and Weta Digital, and by post-production artists all over the world. He is also the founder and director of PixelPuffin, a TCD Campus company for commercialising media post- production technology.

Research Tags

  Computer Vision and Image Processing   Signal, Video & Audio Processing   VIDEO PROCESSING

Research Projects

 Advanced Video Debanding
 3DScam

Languages

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Marco Forte, Brian Pricey, Scott Coheny, Ning Xuy, François Pitié, Interactive Training and Architecture for Deep Object Selection, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, London, 2020, Conference Paper, IN_PRESS
S. Dev, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. Nautiyal, C. Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitié, The CASE Dataset of Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation , 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA) , 27-3, , ( ), 2019, pp1 - 4 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
S. Dev, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. N. Clare Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitie, The ALOS Dataset for Advert Localization in Outdoor Scenes , 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) , 5-7, , ( ), 2019, pp1 - 3 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
S. Dev, H. Javidnia, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. Nautiyal, C. Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitié, Identifying Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation , IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT) , , ( ), 2019, pp503 - 507 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Domijan Katarina, Bloomfield D. Shau, Pitié François, Solar Flare Forecasting from Magnetic Feature Properties Generated by the Solar Monitor Active Region Tracker, Solar Physics, 294, (1), 2019, p6-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Wu Hao, Jones Gareth J. F, Pitié François, Lawless Séamus, A Two-stage Transfer Learning Approach for Storytelling Linking., 2018 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, TRECVID 2018, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 13-15, 2018, 2018, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Soumyabrata Dev, Matthew Nicholson, Murhaf Hossari, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié, ADNet: A Deep Network for Detecting Adverts, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Atul Nautiyal, Killian McCabe, Murhaf Hossari, Soumyabrata Dev, Matthew Nicholson, Clare Conran, Declan McKibben, Jian Tang, Xu Wei, François Pitié, An Advert Creation System for Next-Gen Publicity, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Buggy, R., Forte, M., Pitié, F., Neural net architectures for image demosaicing, 10752, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Ringis, D.J., Singh, D., Pitie, F., Kokaram, A., Using modern motion estimation algorithms in existing video codecs, 10752, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
  

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Steve Woods, John Scott, Philip Connaughton, Michelle Boulé, François Pitié, Matt Porter , 'iDuet', 2015, -, Film production, PUBLISHED
PixelPuffin, 'DepthArtist', 2012, -, Software, PUBLISHED
Sophie Merry, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, Trevor Whelan, Chris Timms, 'Clockhead', 2011, -, Film production, PUBLISHED
The Foundry, 'Deflicker2, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2008, -, Software, PUBLISHED
The Foundry, 'MatchGrade, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2007, -, Software, PUBLISHED
GreenParrotPictures, 'FilmFix', 2004, -, Software, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
ADAPT Industry Impact Award 2019
'Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year' award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2018 2018