Prof. Gauthier Lafruit has worked for 25 years in the domain of visual data analysis and compression, participating to compression standardization committees. In 2014, he joined the LISA department - Laboratories of Image Synthesis and Analysis - of l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, the French wing of Brussels University. In 2018, LISA's Virtual Reality research unit - LISA-VR - has actively contributed to part of the immersive video reference software used in MPEG for the 2020 MIV standard.
Université Libre de Bruxelles
LISA's Virtual Reality research unit studies real-time video processing technologies covering many aspects of volumetric imaging, including depth estimation/sensing, view synthesis, light field acquisition, compression and rendering, as well as digital holography.