François Pitié

François Pitié

Room 3-22, Áras an Phiarsaigh,

Trinity College Dublin,

Dublin 2, Ireland

I am an Ussher Assistant Professor in Media Signal Processing in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. I lead research within the Sigmedia Research Group, collaborate with the ADAPT Research Centre, and am an elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD).

My research develops applied mathematics and machine learning for visual media, with a particular focus on film and visual-effects production, image and video processing, and efficient video compression. I am interested in making pictures better while giving artists greater control and reducing the computational cost of AI. My work spans continuous optimal transport for automated colour grading, interactive image matting, and lightweight, energy-efficient neural video processing.

My research has translated into practical technology used by organisations including Google, YouTube and Foundry, with commercial licensing to visual AI platforms such as PhotoRoom. Sigmedia also represents Trinity in the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), contributing to the development of open video-compression standards.

News

2026 Awarded the University Excellence in Teaching Award and the Inspiring Educator Award by Trinity College Dublin.
2026 Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD).
2025 Paper on Demystifying the use of Compression in Virtual Production published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal.
2025 Released course lecture notes on Deep Learning and its Applications on Zenodo.
2024 Paper on Lightweight Video Denoising Using a Classic Bayesian Backbone presented at IEEE ICME 2024.
2023 Horizon Europe project EMERALD (AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media) commenced with European partners.
2023 Paper on Pushing the Limits of the Wiener Filter in Image Denoising presented at IEEE ICIP 2023.

Selected Publications

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  1. 2026
    Julien Zouein, Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2026
  2. 2025
    Bat-Erdene Ganbaatar, François Pitié
    CVMP '25: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2025
    DOI
  3. 2025
    Clément Bled, François Pitié
    ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2025
  4. 2025
    Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
    2025 IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, 2025
    DOI
  5. 2024
    Clément Bled, François Pitié
    2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024
    DOI
  6. 2023
    Clément Bled, François Pitié
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023
    DOI
  7. 2023
    Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Angeliki Katsenou, Yeping Su, Balu Adsumilli, Anil Kokaram
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023
    DOI
  8. 2020
    Marco Forte, B Price, S Cohen, N Xu, François Pitié
    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2020
    DOI
  9. 2020
    Marco Forte, François Pitié
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07711, 2020
  10. 2007
    François Pitié, Anil Kokaram, Rozenn Dahyot
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2007
    DOI