Raoul de Charette

48 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France.

Welcome. I’m a Research Director in computer vision at Inria Paris, where I lead the Astra-Vision group, within the ASTRA team. My Habilitation (HDR) was completed in 2022, and my PhD in 2012 from Mines Paris. I worked in Carnegie Mellon Uni. (2011), Mines Paris (2013), and Uni. of Makedonia (2014). Beside research, I serve in most venues of the field as area chair (CVPR, ECCV, WACV, IROS) and co-organized or co-founded events like ACVSS, CVPR workshops, WSCV, Indaba, etc. I am also an ELLIS member and a PR[AI]RIE-PSAI Fellow.

My research interest lies in robust and interpretable visual scene understanding.

Email: R.C@inria.fr (replace R with raoul, C with de-charette)

New PR[AI]RIE PhD position on Simulatable Physics-aware World Models (deadline: 17/05/2026)

Soon opening a PostDoc. Got a strong record track in top-tier venues (CVPR,ICCV,ECCV,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR)? Contact me.

New PR[AI]RIE PhD position on Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models.

I'm always looking for talented students, and have regular PhD, Postdoc or intern positions opened. Feel free to email me with a resume + 2 references.

news

2026.04	Happy to have Seamie Hayes for a 6-month PhD visit. Welcome Seamie.
2025.11	Welcoming new members in the group: Fatima Baldé and Antonios Tragoudaras starting a PhD, Radu Beche for a PhD visit and Sebastian Cavada as visitor and collaborator.
2025.07	Organizing the 2nd African Computer Vision Summer School in Kigali, Rwanda from July 13th to 23rd, with an amazing lineup of speakers.
2025.06	MatSwap was awarded 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention at EGSR 25. Huge shout out to Ivan and team, it was a great collaboration.
	Organizing PixFoundation at CVPR 2025, the 1st Workshop on Pixel-level Vision Foundation Models.

Students

Fatima Balde
PhD student
co-supervised with Alexandre Boulch (Valeo.ai)

Mohammad Fahes
PhD student
co-supervised with Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc (Valeo.ai) and Patrick Pérez (Kyutai).
2025: Intern at Google DeepMind.

Tetiana Martyniuk
PhD student
co-supervised with Alexandre Boulch, Gilles Puy, Renaud Marlet (Valeo.ai)

Antonios Tragoudaras
PhD student
co-supervised with Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc (Valeo.ai)

Radu Beche
PhD visit

Seamie Hayes
PhD visit

Sebastian Cavada
Visitor

Selected publications

PaSCo: Urban 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Uncertainty Awareness

Anh-Quan Cao, Angela Dai, and Raoul de Charette

In CVPR, 2024

Oral, Best paper award Candidate

Bib Project page PDF Code

Oral, Best paper award Candidate

@inproceedings{cao2023pasco,
  author = {Cao, Anh-Quan and Dai, Angela and {de Charette}, Raoul},
  title = {PaSCo: Urban 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Uncertainty Awareness},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  year = {2024},
}

Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image

Ivan Lopes, Fabio Pizzati, and Raoul de Charette

In CVPR, 2024

Bib Project page PDF Code

@inproceedings{lopes2023material,
  author = {Lopes, Ivan and Pizzati, Fabio and {de Charette}, Raoul},
  title = {Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  year = {2024},
}

PODA: Prompt-driven Zero-shot Domain Adaptation

Mohammad Fahes, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, and Raoul de Charette

In ICCV, 2023

Bib Project page PDF Code

@inproceedings{fahes2022poda,
  author = {Fahes, Mohammad and Vu, Tuan-Hung and Bursuc, Andrei and P{\'e}rez, Patrick and {de Charette}, Raoul},
  title = {PODA: Prompt-driven Zero-shot Domain Adaptation},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  year = {2023},
}

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