Christine Guillemot

Christine Guillemot studies image and video compression, with later work on deep learning for low-light satellite imaging and neural plenoptic scenes. She earned a PhD at ENST in Paris in 1992, worked at France Telecom, and joined Inria as a director of research in 1997. Her 2015 ERC Advanced Grant supports a computational light-field imaging project that includes a SIROCCO light-field editor. She became an IEEE Fellow in 2013 and a EURASIP Fellow in 2026. As of October 2026, she is an Inria senior researcher in the COMPACT team and co-supervises research on dynamic 3D-scene compression.

Now at: Inria and Université de Rennes
Works: 611
Citations: 9,886
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

1985–1997

Image and video coding

She works at France Telecom on image and video compression for multimedia and digital television from 1985 to 1997. She earns a PhD at ENST in Paris in 1992 and visits Bellcore as a scientist from 1990 to 1991.
Since 1997

Research director at Inria

In November 1997, she joins Inria as director of research and leads a team that designs algorithms for image and video processing, representation, compression, and editing.
2013

An IEEE Fellowship

IEEE names her a Fellow in 2013 for contributions to image and video compression.
2015–2021

A plenoptic imaging project

She receives a 2015 ERC Advanced Grant for computational light-field imaging, a project that runs from 2016 to 2021. In 2017, her SIROCCO team develops a light-field editor.
2020–2023

Deep learning for satellite imaging

From 2020 to 2023, she contributes to an Airbus-backed project on deep-learning methods for low-light satellite imaging.
2025

Neural plenoptic scene pruning

In 2025, she co-authors work on visibility-based geometry pruning for neural plenoptic scene representations.
2026

A EURASIP Fellowship

EURASIP names her a Fellow in 2026 for contributions to video compression and computational imaging.
As of October 2026

Research at Inria COMPACT

As of October 2026, she is an Inria senior researcher in the COMPACT team in Rennes. She co-supervises doctoral work on compression of dynamic 3D scenes with Gaussian splatting.