François Pitié

Grants

Competitive research funding, technology commercialisation, and industry partnerships.

AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media (EMERALD)

2023 – 2026
European Commission — Horizon EuropeCo-Principal Investigator

Developing green media AI algorithms and neural processing pipelines for sustainable video production, live broadcast, and virtual studios.

European Commission — Horizon Europe

SYZE: Computer Vision for 3D Body Measurement from Smartphone Imagery

2019 – 2020
Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation FundLead Principal Investigator

Pioneered neural reconstruction and metric scale estimation for apparel sizing; subsequently spun out as Swan AI.

Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund

SFI Research Centres Programme (Huawei Industry Collaboration)

2018 – 2020
Huawei Technologies / SFILead Principal Investigator

High-performance video analysis, perceptual coding, and computer vision systems.

Huawei Technologies / SFI

SFI Research Centres Programme (Huawei Phase 1)

2017 – 2018
Huawei Technologies / SFILead Principal Investigator

Intelligent video processing algorithms for next-generation mobile hardware.

Huawei Technologies / SFI

eBay Image Processing and Machine Translation Project

2017
eBay / SFI ADAPTLead Principal Investigator

Visual search and product image quality enhancement.

eBay / SFI ADAPT

Advanced Video Debanding

2013
Google Research AwardLead Principal Investigator

Development of statistical debanding algorithms for compressed internet video.

Google Research Award

3DScam: 2D-to-3D Video Conversion

2011 – 2013
Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation FundLead Principal Investigator

Developed stereoscopic depth estimation systems; led to the formation of TCD campus company PixelPuffin.

Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund