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Curriculum vitae of Sarah Dury.

Contact Information

Name Sarah Dury
Professional Title Plenoptic Cameras & Image-Based Rendering
Email sarah.dury@ulb.be
Phone
Location Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 165/56, Bruxelles, 1050
Website https://lisa.ulb.be

Professional Summary

FNRS Chargée de Recherche at LISA, Université libre de Bruxelles. Research on plenoptic camera systems, depth image-based rendering, and free-viewpoint navigation. Lead developer of the open-source Reference View Synthesis (RVS) software, adopted as the MPEG-I view synthesis reference tool; active contributor to MPEG Immersive Video standardization since 2017.

Experience

  • 2023 - Present

    Bruxelles, Belgium

    FNRS Chargée de Recherche
    LISA, Université libre de Bruxelles
    Leading research on plenoptic 2.0 camera systems: multi-camera calibration, depth estimation, free-navigation rendering, and micro-lens design.
    • Supervising 3 PhD students and 2 Master thesis students on plenoptic rendering and light-field systems
    • Extending RVS and neural methods (NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting) to focused plenoptic cameras
    • Research stays at Nagoya University (3 months, 2024-2025) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (3 months, 2024)
  • 2017 - 2023

    Bruxelles, Belgium

    Doctoral Researcher (FNRS Fellowship)
    LISA, Université libre de Bruxelles
    Developed the open-source Reference View Synthesis (RVS) software and its GPU acceleration, adopted as the official MPEG-I view synthesis tool.
    • Extended RVS to General Linear Camera models using Geometric Algebra
    • Created high-quality holographic stereograms from sparse RGBD inputs
    • Developed image-based rendering methods for non-Lambertian (refracting, diffracting) objects with open-source datasets
    • Designed a pattern-free calibration method for plenoptic 2.0 cameras
    • Active contributor to MPEG-I standardization (LVC, MIV, DLF subgroups), 40+ submitted documents
  • 2016 - 2016

    Paris, France

    Computer Vision Engineer (Internship)
    Iconem
    Semi-automatic registration of archive images in 3D environments for cultural heritage digitization.
  • 2015 - 2015

    Tokyo, Japan

    Finance Systems Support (Internship)
    Sanofi K.K.
    Finance systems support and controlling.
  • 2013 - 2014

    France

    Software Developer (Internship)
    French Air Force
    Software development for pilot flight preparation systems.

Education

  • 2017 - 2023

    Bruxelles, Belgium

    PhD
    Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
    Graphics and Image Processing
    • Supervised by Prof. Gauthier Lafruit and Prof. Mehrdad Teratani
    • Research on depth image-based rendering, holography, non-Lambertian rendering, and plenoptic 2.0 camera calibration
  • 2016 - 2017

    Dublin, Ireland

    MSc (Distinction)
    Trinity College Dublin
    Computer Science
    • Interactive Entertainment Technologies
    • Master’s thesis: 3D Reconstruction of Reflective Surfaces
  • 2013 - 2017

    Paris, France

    MSc Engineering
    École Polytechnique
    Mathematics & Computer Science
  • 2011 - 2013

    Paris, France

    MPSI-MP* Preparatory Classes
    Lycée Sainte Geneviève
    Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

Awards

  • 2018
    Lead developer, RVS (MPEG-I view synthesis reference tool)
    MPEG Immersive Video

    Open-source reference software officially adopted for the MPEG-I standardization of immersive video.

  • 2017
    Contributor, MPEG-I Immersive Video Standardization
    ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11

    Active in the LVC, MIV, and DLF subgroups with more than 40 submitted MPEG documents.

  • 2021
    Curator, 10+ public multi-view and plenoptic datasets
    Zenodo

    Publicly available datasets for multiview, plenoptic, and non-Lambertian scene acquisition.

Publications

Skills

Programming (Expert): C++, Python, CUDA, JavaScript, Functional programming
Graphics & GPU (Expert): OpenGL, Real-time rendering, GPU-accelerated view synthesis (CUDA)
3D Imaging (Expert): Depth image-based rendering (DIBR), Holographic stereograms, View synthesis
Plenoptic Systems (Expert): Lenslet camera calibration, Plenoptic 2.0, RVS / RLC / RPVC toolchains
Computer Vision (Expert): 3D reconstruction, Reflective surface estimation, Non-Lambertian rendering
Neural Methods (Advanced): NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting, Adaptation to plenoptic cameras
Software (Expert): Open-source development, Git, Linux, Scientific computing workflows

Languages

French : Native
English : Fluent (TOEFL iBT 92)
Spanish : Conversational
German & Japanese : Basic

Interests

Research: Plenoptic and light-field camera systems, Depth image-based rendering (DIBR), Non-Lambertian object acquisition, Holographic stereogram generation, Geometric algebra for General Linear Camera models, MPEG Immersive Video standardization, Neural rendering for plenoptic cameras

Projects

  • 2018 - Present
    Reference View Synthesis (RVS)

    Official MPEG-I view synthesis reference software, extended to plenoptic cameras.

    • Open-source
    • MPEG-I reference tool
  • 2021 - Present
    RLC — Reference Lenslet Content Convertor

    Conversion of plenoptic 2.0 lenslet images to multiview.

    • Open-source
  • 2021 - Present
    RPVC — Reference Plenoptic View Calibration

    Pattern-free calibration tool for multi-plenoptic camera systems.

    • Open-source