Robin Courant

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I am a Computer Vision PhD student in the VISTA team (formerly GeoViC) at LIX, École Polytechnique, under the supervision of Vicky Kalogeiton and Marc Christie. My research explores the intersection of deep learning and cinematography across two primary axes: extracting cinematic features and generating multi-modal cinematic content.

Currently, I am a Visiting PhD Researcher at University College London (UCL) hosted by Iasonas Kokkinos, where my work focuses on RL for human–human interactions.

News

Nov 1, 2025 I am visiting Iasonas Kokkinos at UCL (London) for 6 months!
Jul 9, 2023 I attended to ICVSS 2023!
Dec 22, 2022 Honored that our paper received the best student honorable award at ACCV 2022!
Nov 1, 2022 I have started my PhD in the VISTA team at Ecole Polytechnique!
Nov 1, 2021 I have joined the VirtUs team at INRIA!

Publications

2026

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    Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
    Robin Courant, Xi Wang, David Loiseaux, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    PDF Website

2025

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    AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for optical video generation
    Xi Wang, Robin Courant, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
    PDF Website

2024

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    E.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: Text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness
    Robin Courant, Nicolas Dufour, Xi Wang, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
    PDF Code Data Website

2023

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    BluNF: Blueprint Neural Field
    Robin Courant*, Xi Wang*, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV-W), 2023
    PDF Code Website
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    JAWS: Just A Wild Shot for Cinematic Transfer in Neural Radiance Fields
    Xi Wang*, Robin Courant*, Jinglei Shi, Eric Marchand, and Marc Christie
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
    PDF Code Website
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    Transformers and Visual Transformers
    Robin Courant, Maika Edberg, Nicolas Dufour, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In Machine Learning for Brain Disorders, 2023
    PDF

2022

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    FunnyNet: Audiovisual Learning of Funny Moments in Videos
    Zhisong Liu*, Robin Courant*, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2022
    [Oral] [Best student honorable award]
    PDF Code Website
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    Smart Motion Trails for Animating in VR
    Jean-Baptiste Bordier, Anthony Mirabile, Robin Courant, and Marc Christie
    In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), 2022
    PDF

2021

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    High-level features for movie style understanding
    Robin Courant, Christophe Lino, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV-W), 2021
    [Best paper award]
    PDF

Misc

Awards Reviewer
  • 2026: ICML
  • 2025: CVIU, CVPR, ICCV, WACV
  • 2024: ACCV, ECCV, WACV
  • 2023: CVIU, ICCV, ICCV-W (AI3DCC, CVEU), NeuNet, WICED, WACV
  • 2022: ACCV, CVIU, ECCV-W (CVEU)