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General Information

Full Name Thomas Besnier
Email thobsn1@gmail.com
Website https://tbesnier.github.io/

Employment History

  • 2026 - 2027
    Postdoc
    Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, DK
  • 2023 - 2023
    Visiting Scholar
    Center for Imaging Science (CIS), Johns Hopkins University, US
  • 2022 - 2025
    Ph.D.
    CRIStAL, University of Lille, FR
  • 2022 - 2022
    Research Internship
    DIKU, University of Copenhagen, DK
  • 2020 - 2021
    Data Scientist Intern
    Electro Depot (retail company)

Education

  • 2022 - 2025
    Ph.D.
    University of Lille
    • Thesis title: Reparametrization invariance in geometric deep learning: applications to human body and face motion synthesis.
  • 2018 - 2022
    M.Sc. Computer Science Engineering
    Centrale Lille Institut
    • Research internship title: On stochastic shape analysis and applications to phylogenetics.
  • 2018 - 2022
    M.Sc. Mathematics
    University of Lille
    • Thesis title: On reparameterization invariance and applications to geometric neural networks.

Research Publications

  • Preprint
    • F. Nocentini, T. Besnier, C. Ferrari, S. Berretti, and M. Daoudi, "Freetalk: Emotional topology-free 3D talking heads," 2026. arXiv: 2603.15512 [cs.CV]. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15512.
  • Journal Articles
    • F. Nocentini, T. Besnier, C. Ferrari, S. Arguillere, S. Berretti, and M. Daoudi, "Beyond fixed topologies: Unregistered training and comprehensive evaluation metrics for 3D talking heads," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 134, 2026. eprint: 2410.11041 [cs.CV]. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-025-02726-7.
    • T. Besnier, S. Arguillere, and M. Daoudi, "Scanmove: Motion prediction and transfer for unregistered body meshes," Computers & Graphics, vol. 132, p. 104409, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2025.104409.
    • T. Besnier, E. Pierson, S. Arguillere, and M. Daoudi, "Toward mesh-invariant 3D generative deep learning with geometric measures," Computers & Graphics, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2023.06.027.
  • Conference Proceedings
    • T. Besnier, E. Pierson, S. Arguillere, M. Ovsjanikov, and M. Daoudi, "Partial non-rigid deformations and interpolations of human body surfaces," in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. arXiv: 2412.02306 [cs.CV]. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02306.
    • F. Nocentini, T. Besnier, C. Ferrari, S. Arguillere, S. Berretti, and M. Daoudi, "Scantalk: 3D talking heads from unregistered scans," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
    • E. Baker, T. Besnier, and S. Sommer, "A function space perspective on stochastic shape evolution," in Image Analysis, R. Gade, M. Felsberg, and J.-K. Kamarainen, Eds., Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp. 278-292.
    • E. Pierson, T. Besnier, M. Daoudi, and S. Arguillere, "Parameterization Robustness of 3D Auto-Encoders," in Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, S. Berretti, T. Theoharis, M. Daoudi, C. Ferrari, and R. C. Veltkamp, Eds., The Eurographics Association, 2022. DOI: 10.2312/3dor.20221180.

Skills

Languages Strong reading, writing and speaking competencies in English and French (mother tongue).
Coding Python, C++, SQL, LaTeX, ...
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, SparkSQL
Web Dev HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Misc. Academic research, teaching, LaTeX typesetting and publishing.

Teaching

  • Time Series Analysis
    Teaching Assistant
    12h
  • Web Development
    Teaching Assistant
    32h
  • Machine Learning
    Teaching Assistant
    10h
  • Databases
    Teaching Assistant
    12h
  • Introduction to Deep Learning
    Lead Instructor
    20h

Professional Service

  • 2023
    3DOR2023
    Conference Event Organization
    • Local organizer for the Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval 2023 (3DOR'23).
  • 2024
    Joint CAP/RFIAP 2024
    Conference Event Organization
    • Local organizer for CAP (Conference sur l'Apprentissage automatique) and RFIAP (Reconnaissance des Formes, Image, Apprentissage et Perception), held on July 1st-3rd 2024.
  • 2025
    FG 2025
    Conference Event Organization
    • Web Chair for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2025).

Talks

  • Geometry for Statistics and AI (G-StAI) workshop. On robust learning of surface deformations.

Reviewing Experience

  • Computers & Graphics
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
  • IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)