Francois Pitie
Assistant Professor
electronic & Electrical Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
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 40 publications, with a combined total of 670+ citations. He has attracted over 400,000 euros in research funding and is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. He has participated in the writing of 7 successful research proposals and was PI of a EI commercialisation fund project and the TCD research lead for a 3 year FP7 EU project. He has supervised 1 postdoc, 4 Ph.D. students and 13 M.Sc. students. 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 Interest
Computer Vision and Image Processing; Signal, Video & Audio Processing; VIDEO PROCESSING
Publications
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M. Ahmed, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram, Reflection Detection in Image Sequences, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011
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M. Ahmed, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram, Motion Estimation for Regions of Reflections Through Layer Separation, IEEE European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, 2011
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D. Corrigan, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram. , Restoration of Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Inter-View Gradient Interpolation, European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain., Eurasip, 2011
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Advances in automated restoration of archived video in, Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks, CRC Press, 2011, pp299 - 322, [Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François and Corrigan, David and Vitulano, Domenico and Bruni, Vittoria and Crawford, Andrew]
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Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. , A ground truth bleed-through document image database, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7489 LNCS, 2012, p185-196
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F. Raimbault, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, Stereo Video Completion for Rig and Artefact Removal, Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 2012
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Pitié, François and Baugh, Gary and Helms, John, Depthartist: a stereoscopic 3d conversion tool for cg animation, 9th European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, United Kingdom, ACM, 2012, pp32 - 39
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Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. , Nonrigid recto-verso registration using page outline structure and content preserving warps, M International Conference Proceeding Series, M International Conference , 2013, pp8-13
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Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitie, F., Kokaram, A. , A non-parametric framework for document bleed-through removal, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 6619224, 2013, pp2954-2960
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Elgharib, M.A., Pitite, F., Kokaram, A., Saligrama, V. , User-assisted reflection detection and feature point tracking, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM International Conference, 6-7 Nov, 2013, ppa13-
