Robin Courant

I am a Computer Vision PhD student in the VISTA team (formerly GeoViC) at LIX, École Polytechnique, under the supervision of Vicky Kalogeiton and Marc Christie. Previously, I was a visiting PhD researcher at University College London (UCL), hosted by Iasonas Kokkinos.

My research interests are the generation of camera trajectories and human motion, as well as video models more broadly. My work lies at the intersection of generative models, multimodality and, more recently, reinforcement learning (RL).

I will be defending my PhD on September 17, 2026.

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News

Aug 19, 2026 I will defend my PhD on September 17, 2026!
Nov 1, 2025 I started a six-month research visit with Iasonas Kokkinos at UCL!
Jul 9, 2023 I attended the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) 2023!
Dec 22, 2022 Our paper FunnyNet received a Best Student Paper Honorable Mention at ACCV 2022!
Nov 1, 2022 I started my PhD in the VISTA team at École Polytechnique!

Selected publications

2026

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    Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
    Robin Courant, Xi Wang, David Loiseaux, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    PDF Website

2025

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    AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for optical video generation
    Xi Wang, Robin Courant, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
    PDF Website

2024

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    E.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: Text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness
    Robin Courant, Nicolas Dufour, Xi Wang, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
    PDF Code Data Website

2023

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    JAWS: Just A Wild Shot for Cinematic Transfer in Neural Radiance Fields
    Xi Wang*, Robin Courant*, Jinglei Shi, Eric Marchand, and Marc Christie
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
    PDF Code Website

Misc

Awards Reviewer
  • 2026: ICML
  • 2025: CVIU, CVPR, ICCV, WACV
  • 2024: ACCV, ECCV, WACV
  • 2023: CVIU, ICCV, ICCV-W (AI3DCC, CVEU), NeuNet, WICED, WACV
  • 2022: ACCV, CVIU, ECCV-W (CVEU)