Jean-François Lalonde
Full professor in ECE @ Université Laval
Associate scientific director @ Institute Intelligence and Data (IID)

Welcome! I am a Full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Université Laval, specializing in computer vision. Since 2022, I am also the associate scientific director of the IID (Institute Intelligence and Data). I grew up in Québec City, Canada, lived almost 10 years in the States and have been back in this beautiful city since 2013.
I obtained my Ph.D. in 2011 from the Robotics Institute, in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Alyosha Efros and Srinivas Narasimhan. I then spent a year as a Computer Vision Scientist at Tandent, Inc., followed by another year as a Post-Doc at Disney Research, Pittsburgh.
I do research in computer vision, machine learning, AR and VR. In particular, I am interested in exploring how physics-based models and data-driven machine learning techniques can be combined to better understand, model, interpret, and recreate the richness of our visual world. See here for a more “official” bio.
I’ve been fortunate to count this amazing group of people as my students. My group has captured some of the largest datasets of HDR illumination, both indoors and outdoors, freely available to academic researchers. Get them here.
Want to know more? Do one (or many, or all) of the following:
- En français : consultez l’article publié par ULaval Nouvelles sur nos travaux.
- have a look at my publications;
- read this short paper (best paper award at WIO 2018);
- watch the keynote presentation I gave at the OmniCV workshop @ CVPR 2020
news
Feb 26, 2025 | Je participe à un panel sur les NeRFs à l’événement E-AI à Montréal (co-organisé par Synthèse). Génial de parler de ce sujet avec mes co-panélistes de l’ONF et de Lab148 ! |
Feb 18, 2025 | Mention de nos travaux en collaboration avec le Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec dans Le Devoir ce matin ! |
Feb 18, 2025 | Today we had the pleasure of hosting Yang Wang from Concordia for a great seminar, lunch, and a bunch of meetings with the team. It was really great having you! |
Nov 1, 2024 | Contratulations Justine for winning the Best Poster Award at CIC32! It even came with a beautiful statue… |
Oct 29, 2024 | We have two papers accepted to WACV 2025: DarSwin-Unet: Distortion Aware Encoder-Decoder Architecture by Akshaya, Ichrak, and Émile, and ZeroComp: Zero-shot Object Compositing from Image Intrinsics via Diffusion by Zitian and Frédéric. Congratulations to my amazing students and colleagues! |
Jul 3, 2024 | Julie successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis today, congratulations, Dr. Buquet! |