Lighting

…and separating geometry, materials and lighting in Gaussian-splatting representations. The engineer will train and evaluate models and integrate them into visualization tools. This five-month contract in Sophia Antipolis has a stated start date of 1 December 2026. Gross monthly salary starts at EUR 2,692. Applications close on 15 November 2026.

…episode examines material choices for lighting, approaches to improving environmental performance and the use of luminescence to measure temperature.

Humans are very good at visually recognizing materials and inferring their properties. Without touching surfaces, we can usually tell what they would feel like, and we enjoy vivid visual intuitions about how they typically behave. This is impressive because the retinal image that the visual system receives as input is the result of complex interactions between many physical processes. Somehow the brain has to disentangle these different factors. I will present some recent work in which we show that an unsupervised neural network trained on images of surfaces spontaneously learns to disentangle