Publications

Journals

• Global Tracking and Quantification of Oil and Gas Methane Leaks from Recurrent Sentinel-2 Imagery., T. Ehret, A. De Truchis, M. Mazzolini, J.-M. Morel, A. d'Aspremont, T. Lauvaux, G. Facciolo. arXiv 2021.

• Fast, nonlocal and neural: a lightweight high quality solution to image denoising., Y. Guo, A. Davy, G. Facciolo, J.-M. Morel, Q.Jin. IEEE SPL, 2021.

• A Generic Bundle Adjustment Methodology for Indirect RPC Model Refinement of Satellite Imagery., R. Mari, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, J. Anger, G. Facciolo. IPOL, 2021. code&demo

• A contrario dip picking for borehole imaging., J. Costes, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone von Gioi, J. Kherroubi, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, and J.-M. Morel. SEG Geophysics, 2021. web page

• A Mathematical Analysis and Implementation of Residual Interpolation Demosaicking Algorithms. Q. Jin, Y. Guo, J.-M. Morel, G. Facciolo. IPOL, 2022. code&demo

• Video denoising by combining patch search and CNNs., A. Davy, T. Ehret, J.-M. Morel, P. Arias, and G. Facciolo, JMIV, 2020.

• A Study of Two CNN Demosaicking Algorithms., T. Ehret and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2019. code&demo

• Blind Image Deblurring using the l0 Gradient Prior., J. Anger, G. Facciolo, and M. Delbracio, IPOL, 2019. code&demo

• Improvements of the Inverse Compositional Algorithm for Parametric Motion Estimation., T. Briand, G. Facciolo, and J. Sánchez, IPOL, 2018. code&demo

• Estimating an Image's Blur Kernel Using Natural Image Statistics, and Deblurring it: An Analysis of the Goldstein-Fattal Method., J. Anger, G. Facciolo, and M. Delbracio, IPOL, 2018. code&demo

• An Analysis and Implementation of Multigrid Poisson Solvers With Verified Linear Complexity., M. Di Martino and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2018. code&demo

• Conservative Scale Recomposition for Multiscale Denoising (The Devil is in the High Frequency Detail)., G. Facciolo, N. Pierazzo, and J-M Morel, SIIMS, 2017. pdf, supplementary materials

• Multi-Scale DCT Denoising., N. Pierazzo, J-M Morel, and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2017. code&demo

• Data Adaptive Dual Domain Denoising: a Method to Boost State of the Art Denoising Algorithms., N. Pierazzo and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2017. code&demo

• Improving wavefront sensing with a Shack-Hartmann device., M. Rais, J-M Morel, C. Thiebaut, J-M Delvit, and G. Facciolo. OSA Applied Optics, 2016. pdf

• Poisson Image Editing, M. Di Martino, G. Facciolo, and E. Meinhardt, IPOL, 2016. code&demo

• Improving the accuracy of a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor on extended scenes., M. Rais, J-M Morel, C. Thiebaut, J-M Delvit, and G. Facciolo, IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2016. pdf

• Attitude Refinement for Orbiting Pushbroom Cameras: a Simple Polynomial Fitting Method, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, D. Greslou, and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2015. code&demo

• Variational Framework for Non-Local Inpainting, V. Fedorov, G. Facciolo, and P. Arias, IPOL, 2015. code&demo

• Linear Multiscale Analysis of Similarities between Images on Riemannian Manifolds: Practical Formula and Affine Covariant Metrics. V. Fedorov, P. Arias, R. Sadek, G. Facciolo, and C. Ballester, SIAM SIIMS, 2015.

• Reliable multi-scale and multi-window stereo matching, A. Buades and G. Facciolo, SIAM SIIMS, 2015. pdf,demo

• Multiscale Analysis of Similarities between Images on Riemannian Manifolds, C. Ballester, F. Calderero, V. Caselles, and G. Facciolo, SIAM MMS, 2014. pdf

• Images for Block Matching, G. Facciolo, N. Limare and E. Meinhardt, IPOL, 2014. code&demo, slides pt1, pt2

• TV-L1 Optical Flow Estimation, J. Sánchez, E. Meinhardt and G. Facciolo, IPOL, 2013. code&demo

• A Variational Model for Gradient-Based Video Editing, R. Sadek, G. Facciolo, P. Arias, and V. Caselles, IJCV, 2013. web page, pdf, datasets&code

• Analysis of a Variational Framework for Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting, P. Arias, V. Caselles, and G. Facciolo, SIAM MMS, 2012.

• Nonlocal variational models for inpainting and interpolation, P. Arias, V. Caselles, G. Facciolo, V. Lazcano, and R. Sadek, M3AS, 2012.

• A Variational Framework for Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting, P. Arias, G. Facciolo, V. Caselles and G. Sapiro, IJCV, 2011. web page

• Anisotropic cheeger sets and applications, V. Caselles, G. Facciolo, and E. Meinhardt, SIAM SIIMS, 2009.

• Irregular to regular sampling, denoising, and deconvolution, G. Facciolo, A. Almansa, J. F. Aujol, and V. Caselles, SIAM MMS, 2009.

Conferences

• Self-supervised multi-image super-resolution for push-frame satellite images. N. L. Nguyen, J. Anger, A. Davy, P. Arias, G. Facciolo. Earth Vision CVPRW, 2021. web page (Best Student Paper Award)

• Detection of methane plumes in hyperspectral images from Sentinel-5P by coupling anomaly detection and pattern recognition. E. Ouerghi, T. Ehret, C. de Franchis, G. Facciolo, T. Lauvaux, E. Meinhardt, J.-M. Morel. ISPRS Annals, 2021.

• Proba-V-ref: Repurposing the Proba-V challenge for reference-aware super resolution. N. L. Nguyen, J. Anger, A. Davy, P. Arias, G. Facciolo. IGARSS, 2021. web page

• Parallax estimation for push-frame satellite imagery: application to super-resolution and 3D surface modeling from Skysat products. J. Anger, T. Ehret, G. Facciolo. IGARSS, 2021.

• Robust Rational Polynomial Camera Modelling for SAR and Pushbroom Imaging. R. Akiki, R. Mari, C. de Franchis, J.-M. Morel, G. Facciolo. IGARSS, 2021.

• Automatic Stockpile Volume Monitoring using Multi-view Stereo from SkySat Imagery. R. Mari, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, G. Facciolo. IGARSS, 2021.

• Detection of methane emissions using pattern recognition. E. Ouerghi, T. Ehret, C. de Franchis, G. Facciolo, T. Lauvaux, E. Meinhardt, J.-M. Morel. IGARSS, 2021.

• A review on Contrastive Learning methods and applications to Roof-type classification on Aerial Images. A. Ben Saad, S. Drouyer, B. Hell, S. Gavoille, S. Gaiffas, G. Facciolo. IGARSS, 2021.

• A comparative study of deramping techniques for Sentinel-1 TOPS in the context of interferometry. R. Akiki, R. Grandin, C. de Franchis, G. Facciolo, J.-M. Morel. IGARSS, 2021.

• A CNN cloud detector for panchromatic satellite images. M. Rodriguez, J. Anger, C. de Franchis, C. Hessel, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone, J.-M. Morel. IGARSS, 2021

• A global registration method for satellite image series. C. Hessel, C. de Franchis, G. Facciolo, J.-M. Morel. IGARSS, 2021.

• Self-supervised training for blind multi-frame video denoising. V. Dewil, J. Anger, A. Davy, T. Ehret, G. Facciolo, and P. Arias. WACV 2021. pdf code web page

• CNN-assisted Coverings in the Space of Tilts: Best Affine Invariant Performances with the Speed of CNNs. M. Rodriguez, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone, P. Musé, J. Delon, and J.-M. Morel. ICIP 2020.

• A Review of an Old Dilemma: Demosaicking First, or Denoising First? Q. Jin, G. Facciolo, and J.-M. Morel. CVPR, NTIRE Workshop, 2020. pdf web page

• Fast and Accurate Multi-Frame Super-Resolution of Satellite Images. J. Anger, T. Ehret, C. de Franchis, and G. Facciolo. ISPRS Annals, 2020. pdf

• Stockpile monitoring using linear Shape-from-Shading on PlanetScope imagery. M. d’Autume, A. Perry, J.-M. Morel G. Facciolo, and E. Meinhardt. ISPRS Annals, 2020.

• Circular-shaped object detection inlow resolution satellite images. A. Tadros, S. Drouyer, G. Facciolo, and R. Grompone von Gioi. ISPRS Annals, 2020.

• Relative Radiometric Normalization Using Several Automatically Chosen Reference Images for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Temporal Series. C. Hessel, R. Grompone von Gioi, J.-M. Morel, G. Facciolo, P. Arias, and C. de Franchis. ISPRS Annals, 2020.

• Robust estimation of local affine maps and its applications to image matching. M. Rodriguez, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone von Gioi, P. Musé, and J. Delon. WACV 2020.

• Depth Map Quality Evaluation for Photographic Applications. E. Zalczer, F.-X. Thomas, L. Chanas, G. Facciolo, and F. Guichard. IS&T EI 2020.

• Joint demosaicing and denoising by overfitting of bursts of raw images. T. Ehret, A. Davy, P. Arias, and G. Facciolo. ICCV 2019. pdf

• To Bundle Adjust or Not: A Comparison of Relative Geolocation Correction Strategies for Satellite Multi-View Stereo. R. Marí, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, and G. Facciolo. ICCV (3DRW) 2019. pdf web page

• Efficient blind deblurring under high noise levels. J. Anger, M. Delbracio, and G. Facciolo. ISPA 2019. pdf code demo

• A Non-Local CNN for Video Denoising. A. Davy, T. Ehret, J.-M. Morel, P. Arias, and G. Facciolo. ICIP 2019. pdf, code

• SIFT-AID: Boosting SIFT with an Affine Invariant Descriptor based on Convolutional Neural Networks. M. Rodriguez, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone von Gioi, P. Muse, J.-M. Morel, and J. Delon. ICIP 2019. web page, pdf, code

• AID : Un descripteur invariant affine pour SIFT., M. Rodríguez, G. Facciolo, R. Grompone von Gioi, P. Musé, J.-M. Morel, J. Delon. In ORASIS, 2019.

• Model-blind Video Denoising Via Frame-to-frame Training. T. Ehret, A. Davy, J.-M. Morel, G. Facciolo, and P. Arias. CVPR 2019. pdf, code

• 3D Modeling of Earth’s Surface: Study of the Antarctica. P. Chiberre, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, C. de Franchis, and G. Facciolo. IGARSS 2019. pdf

• Assessing the Sharpness of Satellite Images: Study of the Planetscope Constellation. J. Anger, C. de Franchis, and G. Facciolo. IGARSS 2019. pdf

• Modeling Realistic Degradations in Non-Blind Deconvolution. J. Anger, M. Delbracio, and G. Facciolo. IEEE ICIP 2018. pdf, web page, code

• A Comparison of Patch-Based Models in Video Denoising. P. Arias, G. Facciolo, and J.-M. Morel. IEEE IVMSP 2018. pdf

• Quantitative measurement of contrast, texture, color, and noise for digital photography of high dynamic range scenes. G. Facciolo, G. Pacianotto, M. Renaudin, C. Viard, and F. Guichard. IS&T EI 2018. (IQSP Best Paper Award.)

• Straight Subjective Contour Detector, B. Rajaei, R. Grompone, G. Facciolo, and J.-M. Morel, ISPA, 2017. pdf

• Automatic 3D Reconstruction from Multi-Date Satellite Images, G. Facciolo, C. de Franchis, and E. Meinhardt, Earth Vision CVPRW, 2017. pdf, web page

• Towards a quantitative evaluation of multi-imaging systems. M. Renaudin, A.-C. Vlachomitrou, G. Facciolo, W. Hauser, C. Sommelet, C. Viard, and F. Guichard. IS&T EI 2017.

• Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting using an Affine Invariant Similarity Measure., V. Fedorov, P., Arias, G. Facciolo, and C. Ballester. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. VISIGRAPP 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2017.

• Improving the accuracy of a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor on extended scenes., M. Rais, J-M Morel, C. Thiebaut, J-M Delvit, and G. Facciolo, NCIMP 2016. pdf

• Affine Invariant Self-Similarity for Exemplar-Based Inpainting., V. Fedorov, P., Arias, G. Facciolo, and C. Ballester, VISAPP 2016.

• Optimizing the Data Adaptive Dual Domain Denoising Algorithm., N. Pierazzo, J.-M., Morel, and G. Facciolo, CIARP 2015. pdf

• Iterative Gradient-Based Shift Estimation: To Multiscale or Not to Multiscale?., M. Rais, J.-M., Morel, and G. Facciolo, CIARP 2015. pdf

• MGM: A Significantly More Global Matching for Stereovision, G. Facciolo, C. de Franchis, and E. Meinhardt, BMVC 2015. web page,code,demo,pdf

• DA3D: Fast and Data Adaptive Dual Domain Denoising, N. Pierazzo, M. Rais, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo, ICIP, 2015. web page,demo,pdf

• An automatic and modular stereo pipeline for pushbroom images, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, J. Michel, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo, ISPRS Annals, 2014. web page,demo

• Non-local Dual Image Denoising, N. Pierazzo, M. Lebrun, M. Rais, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo, ICIP, 2014. web page,demo,code,pdf (★ Top 10%)

• On stereo-rectification of pushbroom images, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, J. Michel, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo, ICIP, 2014. web page,demo

• Automatic sensor orientation refinement for Pléiades stereo images, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, J. Michel, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo, IGARSS, 2014. web page,demo

• A mathematical perspective of image denoising, M. Colom, G. Facciolo, M. Lebrun, N. Pierazzo, M. Rais, Y.-Q. Wang, and J.-M. Morel, pp 1061, in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul, 2014. pdf

• A gradient based neighborhood filter for disparity interpolation, V. Lazcano, P. Arias, G. Facciolo, and V. Caselles, ICIP, 2012.

• Temporally Consistent Gradient Domain Video Editing, G. Facciolo, R. Sadek, A. Bugeau, and V. Caselles, EMMCVPR, 2011. web page

• Relative depth from monocularoptical flow, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, O. D'Hondt, G. Facciolo, and V. Caselles, ICIP, 2011.

• Geodesic neighborhoods for piecewise affine interpolation of sparse data, G. Facciolo and V. Caselles, ICIP, 2009. web page, pdf, slides, poster

• Exemplar-based interpolation of sparsely sampled images, G. Facciolo, P. Arias, V. Caselles, and G. Sapiro, EMMCVPR, 2009. web page, pdf, slides, code

• Simulation and real-time visualization of changing baseline in a stereo pair, M. Rodríguez, J. Preciozzi, G. Facciolo, and A. Almansa, VIIP, 2008. pdf

• Constrained Anisotropic Diffusion and some Applications, G. Facciolo, F. Lecumberry, A. Almansa, A. Pardo, V. Caselles, and B. Rougé, BMVC, 2006. pdf, poster

• Variational approach to interpolate and correct biases in stereo correlation, G. Facciolo, A. Almansa, and A. Pardo, GRETSI, 2005. pdf

Workshops, Talks and Presentations

• Jun 2018. Invited Minitutorial on Automated 3D reconstruction from satellite images, at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Bologna - Italy. June 5-8 2018. Material available here

• Mar 2018. Invited speaker at the RISKS 2018 conference, March 26-27, 2018.

• Invited talk the 'Huawei Future ISP Technology Workshop’, Nice, September 22, 2017.

• Invited talk at the CNES CCT 3D Reconstruction Workshop at Toulouse, June 22-23, 2017.

• How to win the IARPA Challenge, C. de Franchis, G. Facciolo, E. Meinhardt-Llopis. Meeting MISS, December 6 2016, CMLA

• IPOL: Image Processing On Line, Dagstuhl Seminar #16462: Inpainting-Based Image Compression. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, November 17 2016

• MGM: A Significantly More Global Matching for Stereovision, Séminaire Images Optimisation et Probabilités, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, October 13 2016

• A perspective on image denoising, Encounter on space imaging science - between Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics & Electricity (BISME), Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Dept. of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology and, CMLA ENS-Cachan with the participation of CNES, July 15 2015, CMLA

• Data Adaptive Dual Domain Denoising, Séminaire de Mathématiques Appliquées au Traitement d'Images (SMATI Seminar). March 5 2015, LTCI, Telecom ParisTech

• S2P: a new open-source stereo pipeline for satellite images, J. Michel, C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, and G. Facciolo. Geomatics Workbooks n° 12 – “FOSS4G Europe Como 2015”, Como, Italy 2015.

• ICE: lightweight, efficient rendering for remote sensing images, J. Michel and G. Facciolo. Geomatics Workbooks n° 12 – “FOSS4G Europe Como 2015”, Como, Italy 2015.

• Multi-Scale Multi-Window 'our last’ word on stereovision presented at the Rencontre de Technologies Spatiales (RTS): “Extraction d'informations des images”, CNES, July 3 2014, Toulouse. slides

• On the performance of block matching for stereovision presented at the 2014 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Mini-Symposium: “High Precision Stereo Vision”. May 12-14 2014, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. abstract, slides

• Reproducible Research, IPOL, and Satellite Stereo Image presented at the UPF-DTIC Research Seminar. Jan 9 2014, Barcelona, Spain. slides

• IPOL: Image Processing On Line; Beyond Traditional Articles presented at the Oxford Future of Science conference “Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science”. Apr 11-12 2013, Oxford, UK. slides

• Analysis of a Variational Framework for Exemplar Based Image Inpainting presented at the 2012 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Mini-Symposium: “Recent Advances in Patch-based Image Processing”. May 20-22 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA. abstract, slides

• Temporally consistent gradient domain video editing presented at the “Santalo's Summer School on Mathematical Models in Image Processing and Computer Vision”. August 8-12, 2011, UIMP, Santander, Spain.

Phd Thesis

Phd Thesis: Irregularly sampled image restoration and interpolation (pdf)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Image Processing Group, March 2011. Advisor: Vicent Caselles.

Awards

• Best Student Paper Award for the conference paper: Self-supervised multi-image super-resolution for push-frame satellite images. N. L. Nguyen, J. Anger, A. Davy, P. Arias, G. Facciolo. Earth Vision CVPRW, 2021.

• IQSP Best Paper Award for the conference paper: Quantitative measurement of contrast, texture, color, and noise for digital photography of high dynamic range scenes. G. Facciolo, G. Pacianotto, M. Renaudin, C. Viard, and F. Guichard. IS&T EI 2018.

• Winner of the IARPA Multi-View Stereo 3D Mapping Challenge (Master Contest). Team: C. de Franchis, E. Meinhardt, and G. Facciolo (user handle: “carlito”). Presented at the “IARPA’s Multi View Stereo 3D mapping Challenge Workshop”, Washington DC, Nov 30, 2016.

• Top 10% ★ Paper Award for the conference paper: Non-local Dual Image Denoising, N. Pierazzo, M. Lebrun, M. Rais, J.-M. Morel, and G. Facciolo Presented in the 21th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2014.

Patents

• J. Anger, T. Briand, S. Calisti, C. De Franchis, T. Ehret, G. Facciolo, G. Lostis, J.-M. Morel. Method, device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for increasing the resolution and dynamic range of a sequence of respective top view images of a same terrestrial location. US Patent Application 18/067,002, 2020.

• C. De Franchis, G. Lostis, H. Abdennadher, P. Arias, T. Madaule, A. Davy, S. Calisti, J.-M. Morel, R. Grompone, G. Facciolo. Method and system for remotely measuring the volume of liquid stored in external floating roof tanks, US Patent 10,672,139, 2020.

• J. Kherroubi, E. Meinhardt-Llopis, R. Grompone, J. Costes, G. Facciolo, J.-M. Morel. AUTOMATIC DIP PICKING IN BOREHOLE IMAGES, US Patent 10,121,261, 2018.