I am currently a Maître de conférences (Associate Professor) at Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1, where I conduct research at the intersection of computer graphics, rendering, and perception.

My research focuses on real-time physically based rendering, with a particular interest in sampling, perceptual modeling, and efficient image reconstruction. I am especially interested in understanding how human visual perception can be integrated into rendering algorithms to improve the quality and efficiency of real-time graphics. My work also explores real-time denoising and reconstruction techniques for noisy Monte Carlo rendered images, with the goal of producing high-quality imagery under tight computational constraints.

My main research interests include:

• Real-time physically based rendering
• Monte Carlo sampling and variance reduction
• Applied perception for computer graphics
• Perceptual sampling and rendering
• Real-time denoising and image reconstruction
• Blue-noise error distributions and sampling correlations
• Multiple importance sampling
• Spatiotemporal sampling and reconstruction

Latest publications

Histogram Stratification for Spatio-Temporal Reservoir Sampling Corentin Salaün, Martin Bálint, Laurent Belcour, Eric Heitz, Gurprit Singh and Karol Myszkowski ACM Siggraph 2025 (Conference track) Published in SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers, 2025 Recommended citation: Salaun, Corentin. (2025). "Histogram Stratification for Spatio-Temporal Reservoir Sampling" SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers.

Online Importance Sampling for Stochastic Gradient Optimization Corentin Salaün, Xingchang Huang, Iliyan Georgiev, Niloy J. Mitra, Gurprit Singh ICPRAM 2025 (Full Paper) Best Student Paper Award Published in 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2025 Recommended citation: Salaun, Corentin. (2025). "Online Importance Sampling for Stochastic Gradient Optimization" ICPRAM 2025.

Multiple Importance Sampling for Stochastic Gradient Estimation Corentin Salaün, Xingchang Huang, Iliyan Georgiev, Niloy J. Mitra, Gurprit Singh ICPRAM 2025 (Short Paper) Published in 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2025 Recommended citation: Salaun, Corentin. (2025). "Multiple Importance Sampling for Stochastic Gradient Estimation" ICPRAM 2025.