Antoine Toisoul, PhD
Work Experience
Senior Research Scientist at Meta GenAI (formerly Facebook AI) — London, UK.
Working with Andrea Vedaldi and Rakesh Ranjan on 3D generative AI.
Previously worked on diffusion models for image generation in the Monetization GenAI org.
Research Scientist at Samsung AI Center — Cambridge, UK.
Working with Maja Pantić and Tao Xiang on deep learning for action recognition and affect recognition from static images and videos.
Research Intern at Samsung AI Center — Cambridge, UK.
Working with Maja Pantić on deep learning models applied to affect recognition from static images.
Teaching assistant at Imperial College London.
- Course Support Leader in graphics: coded the open source OpenGL framework used for the coursework
- Personal tutor in mathematics for first year undergraduate students
- Lab helper in C programming
- Co-supervised MSc and BEng projects in computer graphics
Education
Imperial College London.
PhD student in measurement-based realistic computer graphics supervised by Prof. Abhijeet Ghosh. Centre for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (HiPEDS). First year MRes awarded with Distinction.
Imperial College London.
MSc in Advanced Computing awarded with Distinction.
Télécom ParisTech, formerly known as ENST – Paris, France.
One of France's top engineering schools in the “Grandes Ecoles” system. Equivalent to a top-tier University specializing in engineering. Awarded the French Diplôme d’Ingénieur.
Preparatory Classes: Marcelin-Berthelot, Saint-Maur-Des-Fossés, France.
Advanced Mathematics and Physics class. Preparation for the competitive entrance examinations to French Engineering Schools in the “Grandes Ecoles” system.
Publications
For a detailed list of my publications, please see the publications page.
Awards
- Second prize at the 2018 PhD Google Poster competition of Imperial College London
- Second prize at the 2016 PhD Google Poster competition of Imperial College London
- Best HiPEDS MRes 2015 individual project with 91%
Peer Review
Reviewer for:
- CVPR (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
- SIGGRAPH (2021, 2020)
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
- ECCV 2022
- ICCV 2021
- Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- Image And Vision Computing journal.
Media Coverage
- October 2023: Our work on using Generative AI for Ads creation at Meta has been featured in Bloomberg and TechCrunch!
- January, 29th, 2021: Our Nature Machine Intelligence paper entitled “Estimation of continuous valence and arousal levels from faces in naturalistic conditions” has been featured in the Chinese media!
- January, 26th, 2021: Our paper Estimation of continuous valence and arousal levels from faces in naturalistic conditions has been featured in TechXplore!
- November, 14th, 2018: Our paper Acquiring Spatially Varying Appearance of Printed Holographic Surfaces has been featured in the Japanese media Seamless.
- October, 31st, 2018: Our paper Acquiring Spatially Varying Appearance of Printed Holographic Surfaces has been featured in an episode of Two Minute Papers called Real-Time Holography Simulation!